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AIR “It has been another go-go year in CDAE. I want to make particular note of our hard working stu-

dents, faculty and staff. With over 400 undergraduate majors who are all required to have a service learning experience, we have had students out in “the field” all over Vermont, the region, and even the globe. This edition’s piece on the Cabot Marketing Challenge points to the extent of student real world experiences in CDAE. But real world experience at a University stems from the creation and application of new knowledge. CDAE faculty move almost seamlessly from the field to scholarship. This year they published 66 papers and book chapters. And our Alums! They continue to find gainful employment in which they are “the change they want to see in the world.”

-Jane Kolodinsky, Chair, CDAE, April 30, 2012

Partnering with Cabot, CDAE’s “Cabot Market-ing Challenge” Helps Local BusinessesUniversity of Vermont alumnus John Dewey once said that “education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” Students in the Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE) course, “The Cabot Marketing Challenge,” are

experiencing just how “life itself” education can be.

By sponsoring the course, Cabot Creamery Cooperative has provided the opportunity for students in the course to gain hands-on marketing experience in a learning environment. Student groups have teamed up with local businesses over a two-semester period. The students found this two-semester arrangement to be beneficial; “The fact that the class was split into two semesters was really helpful for both the students and the business owners. It gave each of us a significant amount of time to learn the business inside and out, and vice versa,” notes senior Natalie Clement. The students’ task: to create a marketing plan that meets each business’s needs or desires for the future. The course grew forth from a proposal from Cabot that was shaped into its current form with input from the Business School as well as CDAE.

“This course exemplifies both the Land Grant mission and the reciprocity of Service-Learning: students will gain real-world, hands-on experience. Local businesses gain from the expertise of UVM and Cabot to improve their marketing practices and contribute even more to the state’s sustainable community economic development. We have a great set of bright, motivated students and a great set of locally-owned, socially responsible firms,” said

Students in CDAE’s Cabot Marketing Challenge course work with Sugarsnap owner Abbey Duke this spring at Sugar Snap’s Riverside Ave. location

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Two CID alums help head up the effort for mobile home residents in VTCut from a similar academic cloth--both with the same major, but graduating different years--Resident Organizer for the Mobile Home Project at the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO), Sarah Woodward CID ‘10, and Project Director, Shaun Gilpin CID ‘09, bring skills that they garnered in their undergraduate years each day to their jobs. Beyond the hard skills, though, they bring their abilities to adapt, and take a systems thinking approach - methods they attribute to the service learning and project development experiences while in CDAE.

The work that Gilpin and Woodward have pursued is a paragon of how experiences that link the classroom with applied work in communities or with community organizations--be these connections internships or service learning courses--can propel a student into a full time position after graduation.

“The way I learned about [CVOEO] was through Dan Baker’s CDAE 273: Project Development and Planning course. The project work I was doing as a student around developing a community plan for one specific mobile home park is what exposed me to some of the skill set that I use at work,” remembers Woodward.

“I literally graduated and walked into the interview for the Mobile Home Project Resident Organizer position,” recounts Gilpin “with the report we’d written in CDAE 273 in hand. When I was asked what qualifies me for this position, I was able to put the report down on the table and say ‘I’ve been working on this stuff for two and a half years now.’ That was huge.” Even the two directors before Shaun were CDAE alums: Corey Beach, and Sarah Weintraub.

The Mobile Home Project is “...pictured as a ‘first-stop’ resource: we are the first stop for people in in mobile home parks, even though our role has changed drastically in the last few years. We work with so many levels in the state: people in the Governor’s Office, both the Vermont House and Senate branches in Montpelier, and also with someone whose landlord is getting on them about the color of the skirting on their home.” Since Tropical Storm Irene, Gilpin and Woodward’s definition of a “typical week” has changed quite a bit. “Our weeks are becoming less and less typical!” says Woodward. Gilpin agrees, “I dont think there is a ‘typical week’ anymore.”

One of their most recent projects is dealing with mobile home parks who have recently taken over ownership of the parks’ land and cooperatively own the land upon which they live. “It’s a rocky road when you’re not used to governing yourself,” Woodward highlights of the difficulties these parks face--not to mention difficulties she faces in her role helping these parks. “It’s a skill set that people aren’t used to having, and I’m learning as I go, too.”

“I literally still pull up PowerPoints from my time in CDAE and use them in developing my work” says Gilpin of his time at UVM. “More than anything, as a student being able to get out into the community in Vermont and other communities like Honduras and Belize, being able to see different perspectives of individuals regardless of their situation really threw away a lot of the inherent biases for me that I think many college students grow up with. Being able to walk into a community and understand that they have their unique perspective and that you understand their needs, that is what’s most valuable. It took more than a single class, but the knowledge of understanding that when you walk into a community, you need to be welcomed into that community--you’re not there to be the savior, you’re there to help them help themselves. I think that’s a really big aspect of the success that we have at the mobile home project and I think the perspective we gained in CDAE allowed us to have this success.”

“The experience from CDAE--being able to adapt, being able to be quick on your feet--help us immensely in our day-to-day operations. Many times it’s a matter of ‘How can you solve this today? This is new, I dont know how to handle it, but I have to figure out a way to problem solve it.’“ Reflects Woodward “It takes time to build trust in these communities too, as an outsider. That’s something I learned to recognize while still a student. How I talk to these community members today is much different than how I talked to them a year ago, but I am able to do that because they’ve had the time to work with me and know that I am here to help, with no ulterior motives.”

“One of the most important lessons for a CDAE major to learn is that your purpose is to make plans, not promises,” when working with communities, Gilpin notes. “And you can cut your teeth doing this in school, or you can cut your teeth doing this after you graduate. It’s definitely better to get started and test yourself while you’re an undergraduate. It helps you begin to understand yourself and how you work--finding a way to do this in school is invaluable.”

Shaun Gilpin (Class of 2009) working with a homeowner awaitingdeconstruction of his flooded mobile home at Weston’s Mobile Home Park.

Alumni Profile: Shaun Gilpin ‘09 and Sarah Woodward ‘10

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Faculty Spotlight: Bob Parsons and Qingbin Wang

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Bob Parsons and Qingbin Wang may seem an unlikely research partners. Dr. Parsons grew up on a dairy farm in State College, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Wang hails from China, where he grew up in an urban environment. Their different paths did, however, lead them to a similar desti-nation as agricultural economists, and they’ve become a great team: publishing on organic dairy and “cow power”—harvesting electricity from the methane off-gassing from manure—in Vermont.

Their research started in a way that all good research should: nobody really knew anything about organic dairy farms: how profitable they were, what their production levels were, how their financial accounting stacked up. So, a decision was made “We said to ourselves ‘Why don’t we just write the grant and go out and get the data?’” Parsons said about the research’s beginning. “We were funded through the national organic funding at the USDA and it turned out to be the number one ranked proposal that year,” a great honor. Since then they’ve worked with the Northeast Organic Farm Association (NOFA) and the University of Maine, and have been talking to farmers and analyzing the data. “A lot of the publications that have come out of this have been less journal-type research. We’ve mostly released these data to farmers who are transitioning from conventional to organic dairy,” Parsons said, “farm-ers have used this research to justify increases in their milk pay. It’s the only ongoing research—it has seven full years—that’s collecting organic dairy economic data,” which is largely important in today’s increasing demand for organic products.

“I think for the organic dairy industry, consumers understand that producers re-ceive a higher price for their milk, but farmers know that the cost is higher. Before our study this was all that was known, now we know the actual production cost. This study provided us with the data to know in which areas the costs are higher for organic, and by how much,” adds Dr. Wang. “Statistically we don’t have a large number of observations, so as academic publications go it is not ‘good enough,’ so to speak. But here, we get the information that’s really needed for farmers, policy-makers, and bankers.”

“It’s really applied: I present this information to the state legislature and agriculture committees every year,” said Parsons. Their other dairy-related research reaches “comes from the other direction,” Qing-bin starts—quite literally. “We know that Vermont has been a leader of the ‘cow power’ movement to use manure to generate electricity. We realized nobody has turned the practice into something academic to share with researchers… In our paper we did a financial analysis, looked at supply, demand, all the economics factors. The Journal of Dairy Science put out a press release highlighting our work, and our work received a lot of attention from that.”

“We work well together; I come from the farm background so I can really speak the language of the dairy farmers. But when it comes to our statistical analysis or regressions I happy pass that work on to Dr. Wang,” Parsons says in jest. “Bob has taught me a lot about farming in the US, which I had no idea about since I grew up in China. We’ve been working together for many years and make a great team,” concludes Dr. Wang.

Drs. Parsons and Wang make research impact for organic dairy farming in Vermont

Dr. parsons tests soils after the flooding from Tropical Storm Irene

Dr. Qingbin Wang

Thinking about joining the Peace Corps?CDAE hosts the Vermont Regional Office of the Peace Corps in 207 Morrill Hall. For more information about Peace Corps and to find open office hours, go to http://www.uvm.edu/~pcorps/.

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Growing Vermont invites vendors from across the state of Vermont to showcase their product at our location. We also hold a special place in our heart for members of the UVM community who recog-nize the value of this resource on campus to expand their business idea. This semester we welcomed several promising ideas from some of our entrepreneurial staff members, faculty, and students.

Within Organics: Founder Laura Smith works in the President’s Office with Gary Derr, and in her spare time manages to develop creative and beautiful designs for her company Within Organics. Her vision is to create comfortable, stylish clothing using sustainable fabrics with hidden messages that inspire wearers in their daily life.

Drop Prophet: Colin Arisman, a senior in CDAE, designs his own line of tees, prints, and stickers. Colin honed his sense of graphic design throughout his years at UVM, most recently as a marketing intern with the student activities office. His clothing line reflects an eye for seeing the unseen, and offers a different type of inspiration for the wearer.

Squirrel Pirate Apothecary: One of our most recent student vendors is senior Steven Maneely. His product is handmade soap in a variety of flavors from Lemon Tea Tree to Chocolate to Vetiver.

The excellent craftsmanship that goes into these products is clear to see and we are proud to be able to support such talented endeavors. We encourage other budding entrepreneurs to inquire about opportunities to work with Growing Vermont and to begin building this rewarding partnership.

“The biggest thing I’ve taken away from PCOM and CDAE is learning the big perspective and big picture. It’s not just the economic, profit-driven bottom line—it’s the triple bottom line,” reflects Michelle Searer, PCOM ’12, as she discusses her internship with People Making Good (PMG), a public relations firm in Burlington.

Michelle’s internship with PMG is a paragon of the type of career that the coursework and Service Learning experiences in CDAE’s Public Communication major prepare students for. PMG works with a variety of clients—many in Vermont, and several across the nation —who are “responsible to our environment, our cultures, and yes, our bottom lines, too,” according to their website. “When I was switching over to become a PCOM major, I did some research on compa-nies in the area that could be interesting places to intern and get experience and PMG popped up right away. I always thought that their concept and mission was really cool and it stuck with me. When an internship opened up, I applied and ended up getting the position.”

“I think internships are really important. CDAE does a great job with Service Learning and teaching concepts in the class-room, but taking the next step and applying what I learn on my own in my internship work really complements my on-campus experience.” As part of her work with PMG, Searer is exposed to the pulse and day-to-day operations of a small-scale organization promoting socially and environmentally responsible companies and groups. In typical intern fashion, gets to use her skills to help build pitches and timelines for clients—experience that will surely translate into her career should she pursue public relations. “Interning has improved upon many of the skills I have learned in class—taken them from the con-cept stage to the applied stage on the job. The classroom and the internship really build off of each other and complement each other well.”

Searer joined the PCOM major in her sophomore year, attracted by its uniqueness. “Public Communication isn’t like other Communications programs at other schools because it does look at the big picture. You still learn the same skills in many ways: writing, media studies, and the rest, but you learn the skills within a socially responsible context, it’s a systems-thinking approach.”

In addition to her work with PMG, Searer is developing a story on the Intervale’s perennial connection to UVM for the Office of Federal, State, and Community Relations. She also held internships with Fletcher Allen and Ben & Jerry’s last year.

To current students who are interested in embarking on their own internship journeys, Searer offers this advice, “I really feel like you have to advocate for yourself to get internships—especially in Burlington. I was emailing organizations directly before I went abroad in my junior year just so I could set something up for when I returned. I think that a proactive approach paid off and helped me land my current position with PMG.”

“I’ve learned more in this semester than I ever expected to, and it’s not even over.”

Michelle Searer PCOM ‘12

Current Student Highlight: Michelle Searer

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David Conner, Assistant Professor in the CDAE department and the course’s instructor. “I am excited and proud of the work we are doing for these students and for Vermont.” The reciprocity of the Service-Learning approach to this course has earned the group high accolades: it is one of the courses in the running to be selected as “Best Service-Learning Course” at UVM through the Community-University Partnerships & Service Learning (CUPS) office. “This is a valuable opportunity for the University and students to partner with us at Cabot and to leverage resources so that students obtain real-world marketing training. The course should promote connections between students and local businesses, encouraging businesses to hire students after graduation and students to stay and work in Vermont,” notes Roberta McDonald, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Cabot, who is involved with the course.

“Service-learning experiences like this provide a great learning laboratory grounded in real-world decision-making for the students, as well as benefits to local business and our local economy,” says Jane Kolodinsky, Chair of the CDAE Department. “We hope that this experience is something that Cabot will want to do with CDAE students well into the coming years.”The Burlington-area businesses selected to work with the Cabot Marketing Challenge class are Sugarsnap, a caterer and bakery in Burlington and Brown Dog Books and Gifts of Hinesburg.

“The students have been really great—very helpful,” says Natacha Liuzzi, owner of Brown Dog Books and Gifts. Students in the group working with Brown Dog helped create a store redesign and layout change. “We wanted new traffic in the store, and we have received lots of great feedback on the store’s new appearance,” Liuzzi said.

Naturally, as a caterer and bakery in Burlington, Sugarsnap’s needs were different than Brown Dog. The campaign designed for Sugarsnap aimed to increase awareness of their new location at the ECHO Center and to reach out to a new segment, one familiar to the class group: college-aged customers. To do this, the students and employees designed a parade float for Burlington’s mardi gras parade on Church Street (from which were thrown garden seed packets to the parade-goers), and helped the business install a CatCard reader at their Riverside Ave. location to aid in the appeal to the student population as an easy and local place to eat. Students also designed a print advertisement for local newspapers Seven Days and KidsVT—but in order to redeem the ad for a free cookie, one must successfully complete the connect-the-dots.

Students have garnered a deep appreciation for the service-learning experience this course has given them. “CDAE prides itself on its service-learning course offerings. I have participated in many service learning project-based classes and none have given me the experience or sense of accomplishment the way this one has. Not only are we learning firsthand and helping a community business, we are producing physical results that we can show to future employers. This course offers opportunities not found in any other course that I have taken,” said senior Allison Keller.

“We are ready and excited for next year,” mentioned Dr. Conner, “we will be considering all community partner groups who applied last year, and using networks and connections to invite those who would be a good fit.”

Parties interested in being a community partner for the Cabot Marketing challenge, contact Dr. David Conner at david.conner@uvm.edu or at 802.656.1965

CDAE by the Numbers

66 journal articles and book chapters authored by CDAE faculty members in 2011-2012

over 400 majors in the CDAE department...not to mention the 300+ minors

2 new faculty hired in the 2011-2012 year

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CDAE UpdatesPeople, Publications, Awards, Classes, Research

First year graduate students Laurel Valchuis and Chloé Wieland were introduced to the Compost Power Network in CDAE 295: Local Community Initiatives. The course, under instruction of Erin Buckwalter, formed partner-ships with community members in the Mad River Valley of Vermont to explore different, innovative approaches to creating and maintaining community-based initiatives like sourcing heat from materials close to home.

“Compost power” caught Valchuis and Wieland’s attention as a particularly creative tactic to address the challenges around developing a resilient regional food system and exploring alternative energy sources. Compost power harnesses the heat from a large mound of compost--com-posed primarily of woody biomass--to heat a greenhouse or other structure over the winter. This heating method of-fers not only an alternative to finite and costly fossil fuels, but has minimal emissions and produces organic matter for soil enrichment.

After working with Compost Power Network (CPN), a network of various experts on compost power, Valchius and Wieland developed the proposal to build a mound on campus. Their location? Slade Hall’s greenhouse. Slade’s residents strive to source and grow much their own food locally, but are inhibited by the winter making their unheated greenhouse unsuitable for growing. And in Vermont, the winter seems like it occupies most, if not all, of the school year. Using compost power, the students will not only increase the number of months of greenhouse use (maybe even extend usage through the entire calendar year), but will also gain a hands-on experience in implementing and using alternative energy for heat. Additionally, this mound will be an important site for data collection in working towards perfecting this method to make heat and power from compost more accessible for broad adoption.

The proposal was one of 25 voted on by UVM students, faculty and staff during the first phase of the grant application to the Clean Energy Fund at UVM. The Clean Energy Fund is supported by $10 from each student’s tuition. Its goal, “to advance renewable energy research, education, and infrastructure on campus,” this year granting over $100,000 to four student ideas. The Clean Energy Fund Committee awarded Valchuis and Wieland $14,780 to build, maintain, and monitor the project for three years, with plans to use that time to make the system self-sustaining.

Valchius and Wieland will work with faculty from UVM Greenhouses, CDAE, the Rubenstein School of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, students in Slade Hall and the Greenhouse Residential Learning Community, and members of the Compost Power Network.

“The implementation of this project promises multi-disciplinary engagement and it will be exciting to see it move forward,” said Valchuis.

The Slade Hall Greenhouse

Contributed by Laurel Valchuis M.S. ‘13

We are specifically looking for students who will be juniors next year so that you can grow in the position. We hope to find interns who are interested in the position for two academic years. We will also entertain applications from students who will be seniors next year and can stay in the position for the full aca-demic year. Outstanding sophomores may also be considered.

This is an opportunity to gain valuable experience in an entry level position as a communications coordinator for an organization. It will look great on your resume.

Earn up to $1000 for the semester! Or, if you prefer to choose credit for this internship, you will receive CDAE296 credit. If you are PCOM major, 3-6 credits will satisfy your “choose five” restricted electives.

To apply: Submit hard copies of your resume and cover letter to:

Professor Jane Kolodinsky, Chair, CDAE, 202 Morrill Hall, Burlington VT 05405

Graduate Students Awarded Nearly $15,000 to Heat Greenhouse with Compost

Looking to make some money and gain invaluable experience in communications?

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Baker, D. and D. Chappelle (accepted for publication July, 2012). Health Status and Needs of Migrant Farm Workers in Vermont. Journal of Agromedicine

Baker, D., K. Hamshaw, C. Beach. (2011). Facilitating Change in Rural Mobile Home Parks: A Collaborative Action Research Approach. Journal of Rural and Community Development

McMahon, E. (2011). Civil Society Operating Environment Best Practices Paper.

Conner, D., King, B., Kolodinsky, J., Roche, E., Koliba, C. and Trubek, A. (2012). You can know your school and feed it too: Vermont farmers’ motivations and distribution practices in direct sales to school food services. Agriculture and Human Values. Online first publication: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10460-012-9357-y

Conner, D., Montri, A., Waldman, K., Biernbaum, J. and Hamm, M. (2011). Hoophouse Contributions to Farm Profitability and Food System Sustainability: Lessons from Michigan. Journal of Extension 49 (1). http://www.joe.org/joe/2011february/tt9.php

Costanza, R., & Farley, J. (2011). Common Asset Trusts and the World Environmental Constitution. In Y. Tunytsya (Ed.), World Environmental Consitution. Methodological Basics. (pp. 224-225): Lviv: Publishing House of UNFU.

de Freitas, N. and J. Farley (in press) Restoring Ecosystem Services in Riparian Zones by Promoting Working Forests in São Paulo, Brazil. In D. R. Gallagher (Ed.), Environmental Leadership: A Reference Handbook. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA

Dunn, P. & Liang, C. (2011). A Comparison of Entrepreneur-ship/Small Business and Finance Professors’ Reaction to Selected Entrepreneurial and Small Business Financial Plan-ning and Management Issues. Journal of Entrepreneurship Education 14, pp. 93-106.

Dunn, P. & Liang, C. (2011). Finance Professors’ Reaction to Some Entrepreneurial and Small Business Financial Planning and Management Problem Issues, Small Business Institute Journal. Vol. 7, pp. 11-28.

Farley, J., A. Schmitt Filho, J. Alvez and N. Ribeiro de Freitas, Jr. (2012) How Valuing Nature Can Transform Agriculture. Solutions, 2:6, pp. 64-73. Jan 2012

Farley, J. (In Press) Reflections on a Life Lived Well and Wisely. Solutions

Farley, J., D. Batker and I. de la Torre (2012) Mangrove Ecosystems and the Tragedy of Private Property Rights. Solutions, 2:6, p. 48. Jan 2012

Farley, J. (in press). Building an Ecological Economy. Herman Daly Festschrift (e-book). J. Farley, D. Malghan and R. Goodland (eds.), Encyclopedia of Earth. Available online at http://www.eoearth.org/article/Herman_Daly_Festschrift_%28e-book%29.

Farley, J. (forthcoming) Ecological Economics. In C. Schwartz (ed.) Achieving Sustainability. The Gale Group, Delaware

Farley, J. and A. Schmitt (in press) Ecosystem Services, Agriculture, and Economic Institutions. In M. Brouwer (Ed.)

The Ecosystem Promise. Partner in communications and sustainable development. Bunnik, the Netherlands

Farley, J. , R. Costanza, and G. Flomenhoft (in press) Eco-system Services and Property Rights. In M. Brouwer (Ed.) The Ecosystem Promise. Partner in communications and sustainable development. Bunnik, the Netherlands

Farley, J. (forthcoming) Economics of Information in a Green Economy. In R. Robertson (Ed.) Building a Green Economy

Farley, J. (2011). Green Growth: Restorative Economics for a Post-Carbon Planet. Paper presented at the Green Korea 2011: Green Growth: Challenge, Strategy, and Cooperation, Korea.

Farley, J. and I. Kubiszewski (in press) The Economics of Information in a Post Carbon World, in Hepting, D. (Ed.) Free Knowledge, open source, on-line book

Farley, J. (in press) The Economics of Sustainability. In U. Diwekar and H. Cabezas (Eds.) Sustainability. Bentham Open E-books.

Farley, J. (in press) Natural Capital. In R. Anderson (Ed.) Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability. Berkshire Publish-ing

Heiss, S. N. & Carmack, H. J. (2012). Knock, knock; Who’s there?: Making sense of organizational entrance through humor. Management Communication Quarterly.

Heiss, S. N. (2011). ‘Healthy’ discussions about risk: The Corn Refiners Association’s strategic negotiation of author-ity in the debate over high fructose corn syrup. Public Understanding of Science.

Hirsch, P. D., Adams, B., Brosius, J. P., Zia, A., Bariola, N., and Dammert, J. L. (2011) Acknowledging Conservation Trade-offs and Embracing Complexity. Conservation Biology 25: 259-264.

Koliba, C. 2011. Administrative Strategies for a Networked World: The Educational Imperative for Intergovernmen-tal Relations in 2020. In Thurmaier, K. and Meek, (Eds.) Network Governance: Implications for Intergovernmental Relations in 2020. New York: Sage Publications.

Koliba, C., Mills, and Zia, A. (2011) Accountability in Governance Networks: An Assessment of Public, Private, and Nonprofit Emergency Management Practices Follow-ing Hurricane Katrina. Public Administration Review. 71(2): 210-220.

Koliba, C., Campbell, E. and Zia, A. (2011) Performance Measurement Considerations in Congestion Management Networks: Aligning Data and Network Accountability. Pub-lic Performance Management Review. 34(4): 520-548.

Koliba, C., Zia, A., and Lee, B. H.Y. (2011) Governance Informatics: Managing the Performance of Inter-Organi-zational Governance Networks. The Innovation Journal 16(1), Article 3.

Koliba, C., and Zia, A. (in press) Theory Testing Using Complex Systems Modeling in Public Administration and Policy Studies: Challenges and Opportunities for a Meta-Theoretical Research Program. Emergence: Complexity & Organization.

Kolodinsky, Jane (in press, 2012). Food Labeling, Market-ing Ethics and Regulatory Failure: Historical Perspectives and 21st Century Problems. Journal of Macromarketing.

Kolodinsky, Jane (forthcoming 2012). A Systems Ap-proach to Food Future Proofs the Home Economics Profes-sion. In Pendergast, D., McGregor, S., Turkki, K (Eds.). The Next 100 Years. Creating Home Economics Futures

Kolodinsky, J. (2011). Diet/Nutrition. In Robbins, P. Wehr, K. Golson, K., and J. Geoffrey, (Eds.) Green Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Liang, C. & Dunn, P. (2011). Satisfaction or Business Savvy – Examining the Outcome of New Venture Creation with Respect to Entrepreneurial Characteristics, Expectation, Optimism, Realism, and Pessimism, Academy of Entrepre-neurship, 17(2), 97-116 .

Liang, C. (2011). Dollar Enterprise – From Theory to Real-ity, 2nd Edition, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, USA. Liang, C. (2011) Chapter Volume III, Chapter 2: Conducting a Market Analysis for a Social Venture. In Lyons, T.S., Social Entrepreneurship (Four volume set), Baruch College, City University of New York.

Maddison, J. and R. Watts. (in press). Newspaper Source Prominence in News Media Coverage of Motor Vehicle Emissions 2000-2008. Newspaper Research Journal.

Maddison, J. and R.Watts. (2011). The Technological Fix as a Frame in Media Debates about Tailpipe Emissions. Technology in Society. 33, 294–303.

Parsons, R. (2012) “Now is the time to consider the future of your farm business.” Agriview. 4(7). 76

Parsons, R and McCrory, L. “Study Finds Declining Profitability of Vermont Organic Dairy Farms from 2006-2010.”Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Association News. November, 2011. http://www.nodpa.com/produc-tions_economics_parsons_declining_profitability_111311.shtml.

Parsons, R. (2011) “Dairy Livestock Gross Margin Insurance Available Again in October.” Agriview. 18(7), 75.

Parsons, R. “Crop Insurance: Bad Weather Reminders.” Agriview. 10(5), 75.

Patterson, T. and J. Leonard (2011). “Ten Years into the 21st Century Core Curriculum: Our Experience, Insight, and Future.” NACTA Journal, 55(2).

Reynolds, T., Kolodinsky, J. and B. Murray (in press). Consumer preferences and willingness to pay for compact fluorescent lighting: Policy implications for energy ef-ficiency promotion in Saint Lucia. Energy Policy.

Schmitt Filho, A., J. Farley, G. Alarcon, J. Alvez and P. Rebollar (in press). Integrating Agroecology and PES in Santa Catarina’s Atlantic Forest. R. Muradian and L. Rival (Eds.) Governing the provision of environmental services. Springer Verlag

Sun, T., & Wu, G.H. (in press). Traits, predictors, and con-sequences of Facebook self-presentation, Social Science Computer Review.

van den Belt, M., V. Forgie and J. Farley (2011) Valuation of Ecosystem Services. In: van den Belt M. and Costanza R. (eds) Volume 12, “Ecological Economics of Estuaries and Coasts”. In Wolanski E. and McLusky D.S. (Eds.) Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science. Waltham, MA: Academic Press.

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The Community Development and Applied Economics Department (CDAE) is part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Vermont. CDAE supports sustainable local, regional, and international communities through transdisciplinary research, education, and outreach that serve the public interest.

The department offers undergraduate students the following majors and minors: Community and International Development, Community Entrepreneurship, and Public Communication. Additional minors are also offered in Applied Design, Consumer Affairs, Consumer and Advertising, and Green Building and Community Design.

Two graduate opportunities are available within the department: Master of Science in Community Development and Applied Economics (more at: www.uvm.edu/cdae) and Master of Public Administration (more at: www.uvm.edu/mpa). Both graduate programs participate in the Peace Corps Fellows Program (more at: www.uvm.edu/~cdaepcf ).

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The CDAE Compass is edited by Dan Kirk and Jane Kolodinsky. To suggest a story or feature for the next newsletter, send an email to cdae@uvm.edu. Special thanks to contributors on this edition including David Conner, Michelle Searer, Shaun Gilpin, Sarah Woodward, Allison Keller, Bob Parsons, Qingbin Wang, Laurel Valchuis.

CDAE UpdatesPeople, Publications, Awards, Classes, Research

Wang, Q., E. Thompson, R. Parsons, G. Rogers and D. Dunn. “Economic feasibility of converting cow manure to electricity: A case study of the CVPS Cow Power program in Vermont.” Journal of Dairy Science 94 (2011): 4937–4949

Wang, Q., G. Zhang and R. Parsons. “Development and trends of China’s dairy market and implications for trade.” In Wang, H., Huang, S., and Guan, F. (Eds.) China’s Economic Growth and Environment. Shanghai People’s Press. 2011.Wang, Q., T. Sun, M. Li and Y. Zou. “Effectiveness of the “Made in China” TV advertisement: Evidence from a survey at an American university.” Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies. Accepted.

Wang, Q., and M. Li. (2012) “Home computer ownership and Internet use in China: Trends, disparities, socioeco-nomic impacts and policy implications.” First Monday. http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3767/3144

Wang, Q. (2011) “Development and trends of China’s auto-mobile market: Evidence from urban household ownership of cars, bicycles, motorcycles and motorbike.” International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management 11(2): 99-113.

Watts, R., K. Frick, J. Maddison (in press). Policy Making, Incrementalism And News Discourse: Gasoline Tax Debates In Eight U.S. States. Public Works Management & Policy.60Watts, R. (2012). Public Meltdown: The Story of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Center for Research on Vermont/White River Press.

Zvarova K, Ursiny M, Giebink T, Liang K, Blaivas JG, Zvara P (2011). Recording urinary flow and lower urinary tract symptoms using sonouroflowmetry. Canadian Journal of Urology. 18(3): 5689-5694

Zia, A., and Glantz, M. (2012) Risk Zones: Policy Learning from Flood Insurance Programs. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.

Zia, A., and Koliba, C. (2011) Accountable Climate Gov-ernance: Dilemmas of Performance Management Across Complex Governance Networks. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 13(5): 479-497.

Zia, A., Metcalf, S., Koliba, C. and Widner, M. (in press). Agent Based Models of Cross-Jurisdictional Governance Networks: Simulating the Emergence of Project Prioritiza-tion Patterns Under Alternate Policy Theoretical Frame-works and Network Structures. Emergence: Complexity & Organization.

Zou, Y., and Q. Wang. ““Impacts of direct government pay-ments on U.S. agriculture: Evidence from 1960-2010 data.” China Agricultural Economic Review. Accepted

Chelsea Davidoff successfully defended her thesis “Exami-nation and Summary of Findings in the Northeast United States: Dairy Farm Production and Creating Taste of Place for Vemont: A Analysis of Consumer’s Willingness to Pay”

Jennifer Colby successfully defended her thesis “Assessing How Management Decisions Affect Success on Vermont Grass-Based Livestock Farms”

Faye Conte successfully defended her thesis “Associaton of Food and Transportation Access on Meal Patterns and Obesity in Rural Northern New England”

Abby Smith successfully defended her thesis “Taste of Place and the Regional Audience: Origin Labels, Consumer Behavior, and the Spatialization of Quality.”

John Woodward successfully defended his thesis “Financial Stability and State and Local Government Fiscal Behavior: Towards a Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics of the Subna-tional Public Sector”

Noelle Sevoian successfully defended her thesis “Farm to Institution in Vermont: Constraints to progress and values of supply chain actors”

Marta Ascherio successfully defended her thesis “Latino/Hispanic Migrant Dairy Workers in Vermont: Toward a State-Wide Coalition of Service Providers”

Cristina Mastrangelo successfully defended her thesis “Green Transportation for Tourism: Assessing the Demand and Willingness to Pay for Eco-Labeled Services”

Krista Panosian attended the SEEED conference this spring at Brown University exploring social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, ecosystems and development.

Carolyn Levy is off to teach English in Chile through the UN Development Program, English Opens Doors, in conjunction with the Chilean Ministry of Education starting in July.

Maya Perry participated in a study on the role of entre-preneurship education towards rural community business enterprise start-up in Uganda. Since leaving Uganda a professor at Makerere University Business School in Kam-pala, Uganda has used her research and paper to conduct another academic paper in which she isa co-author. The paper is going to be presented at a conference in Quebec for Syracuse University entitled “Business and Entrepre-neurship in Africa” on May 17th.

Alyssa Kropp completed her honors thesis on service-learning and its effects on community partners in St Lucia and was awarded Distinguished Undergraduate Research approval.

Greg Ramey is heading to NYC as a Junior Agent at the NUE Agency, a renowned boutique talent agency based in Manhattan.

Brian Hamel Received the Outstanding Senior Award--one of UVM’s highest student honors--he is also ranked 126/6000 in the United States for ROTC.

He also received the The George C. Marshall ROTC Award: A Cadre nominated award as the outstanding Army ROTC Cadet for the year; participates in the Marshall Seminar on the National Security of the United States in Lexington, VA and the ROTC Distinguished Honor Graduate Class 2012 highlighting his 1/20 Class Ranking, Battalion Performance and his 126/6000 National Performance

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