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Eric C. Jones

He graduated in 2002 with a Ph.D. in Ecological and Environmental Anthropology from University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia and received his B.A. in Political Science from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1992, where he graduated Magna cum laude and with honors. Jones' core interests are collective action and social networks in extreme (warfare, disasters, mass migration) and normal (clubs, resource management) settings. He has been a research scientist with the Department of Anthropology since 2006

There are 6 included publications by Eric C. Jones :

TitleDateViewsBrief Description
Chronic Hazard: Weighing Risk against the Effects of Emergency Evacuation from Popocatépetl, México. 2007 591 The global disasters of recent years have drawn worldwide attention to the number of people living in high-risk hazard zones that expose them to landslides, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. More than half the world's population, 3.4 billi...
Class-Based Social Networks in Regional Economic Systems. 2003 259 Does a village's location in a regional economic system predict the extent to which close interpersonal relationships are based on socioeconomic similarity? A comparison of sample social networks of four frontier villages in northwest Ecuador showed ...
Remarkable properties of human ecosystems. 2003 763 This paper explores some of the remarkable properties that set human ecosystems apart from nonhuman ecosystems. The identification of these properties provides a framework for bridging the theoretical and methodological divide between biological ecol...
Social Scientists Suggest a Disaster Research Agenda: Understanding Socio- Ecological Sustainability and Disaster Resilience Prioritized. 2006 167 In response to a perception that hazard and disaster research funding is sporadic in scope and focus, Duane A Gill organized and presided over a Katrina Summit held November 18-19 at Mississippi State University's Social Science Research Center, wher...
A Survey of Databases Covering Specific Water-borne Diseases and Water Contaminants in the US-Mexico Border Region. 2005 180 The contractor was asked to investigate databases that cover diarrhea/diarrhea-causing pathogens, hepatitis A, amebiasis/amebas, shigellosis/shigella, typhoid/typhoid fever, lead/lead compounds, arsenic, chromium, and all types of pesticides as eithe...
Wealth-Based Trust and the Development of Collective Action. 2004 531 Interpersonal trust is one possible mechanism by which wealth inequality affects the success of efforts in cooperation. Specifically, the presence of perceived economic differences between members of small agricultural cooperatives in northwest Ecuad...