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Stephen Polasky is among the world’s leaders in combining ecology and economics to quantify the benefits of nature to human society. He has assessed the impact of biofuels on agricultural landscapes, climate change, and food prices, and he has p...
Lawrence Shelton Welcomes Students to HDFS
Lawrence Shelton welcomes new students to the Human Development and Family Studies program at UVM, and introduces himself.
Professor Shelton discusses the concept of "the social context" of development and provides examples and raises questions about what aspects of the social context are important to children, families and others across the life span.
HDFS 161 Episode 7 Diversities & Ecosystems
Professor Shelton applies develecology to understand the effects of poverty, racism, and residential segregation on children and their development.
HDFS 161 Episode 10 Developing White Identity
Professor Shelton applies develecology to his own experience growing up in America, to illuminate the development and nature of white identity, and then to suggest approaches to understanding and reducing racism.
HDFS 161 Episode 18 Crime & Punishment
Professor Shelton Outlines a develecological understanding of crime and punishment. He describes the development of criminal behavior and thinking, the developmental and ecological ingredients that go into a criminal developmental trajectory, the...
HDFS 060 Episode 26 Family Diversity
Professor Shelton discusses the diversity among families, the many types of families and the diversity even within types. He argues that the type or form of a family is not as important as its functions and how its ecosystem facilitates or hinder...
For our podcast we wanted to talk exactly about that. Growth. What facilitates growth? Is it physical activity that causes children to sprout out of the ground like a beanstalk shooting for the sky? Or is it nutrition that produces the ideal envir...