Human Development & Family Website Review Form

This article provides a set of recommendations about how to evaluate human development and family life websites. There are two dimensions that need to be considered in judging the quality of web sites devoted to children and family issues-- information and delivery process. The most important aspect of the web site is the quality of the information. If the information is inaccurate and taken from biased or unreliable sources, then no amount of cleverness in delivery can make up for this problem. Determining the quality of information is a difficult and complex process, nevertheless, for professionals who are developing web sites it is important for them to develop critical evaluation skills as they review other web sites for possible links to their own work and as they make recommendations to other sources of information.unpublishednot peer reviewe

REASONABLE VALUE AND THE ROLE OF NEGOTIATION IN AGRICULTURE'S USE OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Social pressures to regulate agriculture's use of environmental resources have been building for many years and show no signs of abating. While the agricultural and environmental communities can react to these events in many ways, perhaps the most promising avenue for resolving joint agricultural and environmental disputes lies with negotiated regulations mediated by governmental agencies. When first conceived by Commons, negotiated regulation was seen as a way to achieve both efficient and equitable dispute resolution by directly using the preferences, skills, and operational knowledge of stakeholders. This approach should be attractive to the agricultural community because it provides an opportunity to educate environmental groups about the complexities facing modern agriculture. It also assures that private business interests are considered in the development of regulations, and should result in regulations that give dynamic flexibility to the way environmental standards are achieved. In today's litigious society, negotiated regulations may also reduce many transaction costs associated with agricultural and environmental issues, particularly those associated with contract development and enforcement. Ultimately, negotiated regulations may be the best hope for satisfying the dual social objectives of a clean environment and an economically viable agricultural sector.Environmental Economics and Policy,

Prediction

Adapted and extended from an address to the Military Applications Society of INFORMS delivered in Monterey CA on 27 March 2012

22 questions for streetfighter

Hughes attempts to answer 22 questions that pertain to the foremost task of a streetfighter battleship: The ability to fight in the "back alleys" of an enemy's home waters

Pacifist and Peacemakers

Some of my good Christian friends are pacifists. I have struggled to per­suade them that the heart of the Christian message is not that war brings evil but that evil brings war. Treating the symptom will not keep the disease from flourishing. They have not boon receptive to any view other than that war is intolerable. Being reluctant observers of our national participation in a decade of nasty, frustrating, killing war, they see the obvious: that war does generate pain and suffering. They set aside the possibility that a world without armies could also be intolerably chaotic, avaricious, and cruel