Human Rights in the Context of Environmental Conservation on the US-Mexico Border

At Cabeza Priesta National Wildlife Refuge, a wilderness area on the US-Mexico border in Arizona, conflicting policies permit the provision of supplementary water for wildlife but not for undocumented immigrants passing through the area. Federal refuge environmental policy prioritizes active management of endangered and threatened species. Vast systems of water resources have been developed to support wildlife conservation in this extremely hot and dry environment. At the same time, humanitarian groups are not allowed to supply water to undocumented border crossers in the park. Human border-crossers must utilize non-potable wildlife water guzzlers for survival and face risk of illness or death by dehydration. This article analyzes human rights via an ethnographic lens. From this perspective, water policy at the wildlife refuge brings into question the value of human life in a border conservation context, especially for those entering the site illegally

Knowledge, Technology Adoption and Financial Innovation

Why are new financial instruments created? This paper proposes the view that financial development arises as a response to the contractual needs of emerging technologies. Exogenous technological progress generates a demand for new fi-nancial instruments in order to share risk or overcome private information, for example. A model of the dynamics of technology adoption and the evolution of financial instruments that support such adoption is presented. Early adoption may be required for financial markets to learn the technology; once learned, finan-cial innovation boosts adoption further. Financial learning emerges as a source of technological diffusion. The analysis identifies a causality link from technology to finance which is nonetheless consistent with empirical findings of a positive effect of current financial development on future growth

INCONSTANT UNITY: THE PASSION OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Essay appeared in FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: ARCHITECT edited by Terence Riley with Peter Reed

Oral History Interview, William Cronon (548)

Throughout his interviews spanning from 2000-2008, Bill Cronon discusses the inception of Chadbourne Residential College (CRC) and how his ideas about learning in community and his personal academic experiences brought him back to UW-Madison. He also discusses the process selling Chadbourne Hall to University Housing. To learn more about this oral history, download & review the index first (or transcript if available). It will help determine which audio file(s) to download & listen to.In his 3 May/June interview with Barry Teicher, Bill Cronon discusses the ideas behind, inception, and first years of the Chadbourne Residential College (CRC) from 1996-2000. Cronon relates how his own experiences at Oxford and Yale Universities influenced his ideas about learning in community and how his personal academic journey brought him back to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He then goes on to detail the challenges and rewards of articulating a vision for CRC, selling it to University Housing, choosing and changing the physical space of Chadbourne Hall, promoting the vision of community among students, and establishing CRC rituals. This interview was conducted for inclusion in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Oral History project