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During the land division of 1848 (Great Mahele), both Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians were given the ability to make a formal claim to land in the Hawaiian Islands, 1 seemingly regardless of gender. While the West was a predominantly patriarchal society at this time, lineage purity and 'godliness' were the markers of Hawaiian society. While many scholars have pointed to the Mahele as a major turning point in the land distribution system (that is, land was taken from the Hawaiian people and 'redistributed' to non-Hawaiians), it may have also been an unusual opportunity for gendered resource distribution: namely formal, governmentally- recognized land ownership by women. Hawaiian society, while predominantly classbased within a patriarchal system, did allow females positions of power.

Survey data collected from participants in the Ahmedabad Slum Networking Project (SNP) is analysed to examine the importance of community participation in explaining respondent complaints about the project overall and with the specific public services provided. Logistic regression results suggest that community involvement matters when asking about overall SNP satisfaction, but is less important in explaining negative comments concerning water, sewerage and street lighting. For these specific services, contact with NGOs and municipalities and community characteristics matter more. The paper identifies policy implications and suggests further research questions based on these findings.

Conflict over facility siting has become increasingly common across facility types and neighborhoods throughout the United States. This article posits that the conflict about facility siting stems from the distinct roles played by the state (with a central role played by planners), the shadow state (consisting of voluntary and nonprofit organizations), and interest groups (primarily community residents). This article explores the similarities and differences in perception toward controversial facilities for two of these three actors: the state (represented by planning directors) and interest groups (in this case, community residents). To investigate the similarities and differences between resident and planner perceptions, this article analyzes the first national survey of resident attitudes, which included both environmental and human service facilities, and a recent national survey of planning directors. Implications of this analysis for understanding facility siting, community opposition, and planning responses are discussed.

This paper considers the case of Bangkok where, as in many Asian cities, the expansion of urban areas has outpaced the ability of public entities to manage and provide basic services. One potential way to improve the capacity of neighborhoods to assist in provision or improvement in environmental services is to enhance the positive contributions provided by local social networks and social capital. A conceptual framework is presented to explore the role of social networks in environmental management in polluted urban environments. This is followed by a brief description of the methodology and survey instrument used to collect information from a sample of community households in Bangkok and an analysis of the results from this survey regarding environmental practices, community action, and social networks. Some of the results suggest that increasing the number of social interactions that residents of a community experience is associated with increased community participation as, apparently, is increasing knowledge about what happens to waste or waste water after it leaves the community. Local public education efforts that focus on useful knowledge about environmental impacts may well be an effective way to encourage community participation.

This paper conducts a comparative analysis of social capital and environmental management in two rapidly growing regions in south-east Asia, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City. Theoretical and empirical triangulation are used to clarify the nature of social capital and the ways that gender, in particular, affects trust and co-operation. Theoretical triangulation is accomplished by drawing on conceptual arguments made in economics, geography and urban planning to develop a theoretical framework explaining social capital and environmental management in south-east Asia. Empirical triangulation is accomplished through a multimethod analytical approach, including survey methods and experimental games conducted with the same populations. The results of the comparative analysis among squatter residents in Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City are presented with a focus on gender differences in trust and co-operation and the paper concludes with a summary of the results and recommendations for policy and future research.

<p class="Default">Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP) contributes three functional elements to health equity studies: a race conscious orientation; an antiracism lexicon based on Critical Race Theory (CRT); and an integrat­ed, reflexive approach. Few big data studies employ all three functional elements. There­fore, this article describes the application of PHCRP to the <em>Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing, Linkage and Retention in care (HIV TLR) </em>study (N=3,476,741), which con­nects multiple large datasets to electronic medical records to examine contextual de­terminants of racial/ethnic disparities in HIV care continuum outcomes in southern Cali­fornia. As HIV TLR demonstrates, PHCRP's innovative tools and strategies help big data research maintain fidelity to CRT. <em></em></p><p class="Default"><em>Ethn Dis. </em>2018; 28 (Suppl 1):261-266; doi:10.18865/ed.28.S1.261</p>