Background
Mr. Carroll was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States, on February 18, 1955. He is a son of James J. (a telephone company construction supervisor) and Margaret (Healey) Carroll.
(In this book, Matthew Carroll examines the economic and s...)
In this book, Matthew Carroll examines the economic and social circumstances of northwestern U.S. loggers in the face of shifts in environmental politics, dramatic reductions in timber harvest levels on federal lands, and changing technology and market forces - among other factors that are rapidly transforming their industry, their livelihoods, and their communities. Drawing upon sociological fieldwork in logging communities that he conducted at various times over a period of nearly a decade and using the spotted owl-old growth controversy as a case study, Carroll provides a rich and detailed picture of life among northwestern loggers. He lays out the human dimensions and dilemmas of the timber crisis. Expanding it from the oversimplified owl-versus-logger confrontation, he puts these issues in a historical and policy context and suggests parallels to other controversies such as public grazing and federal or state river protection. Carroll's work revives the concept of occupational community and shows ways it can be used to understand the dynamics of rural occupations linked to resource extraction.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081338818X/?tag=2022091-20
Mr. Carroll was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States, on February 18, 1955. He is a son of James J. (a telephone company construction supervisor) and Margaret (Healey) Carroll.
Matthew Carroll graduated from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, receiving Bachelor of Science (cum laude) in 1977. In 1979 he finished West Virginia University with Master of Science. In 1984 he obtained Doctor of Philosophy from University of Washington, Seattle.
Since 1975 he worked as a seasonal forestry aide at Black Hills National Forest, Rapid City, SD. During the period of 1976-1977 Mr. Carroll held the post of a research technician at Forest Insect and Disease Laboratory at U.S. Forest Service, Northeast Forest Experiment Station, Hamden, CT.
In 1982 he was appointed instructor in forest resources at University of Washington, Seattle, Resources for the Future fellow in forest economics and policy, 1982-1983, research analyst in Cooperative Park Studies Unit, College of Forest Resources, 1983-1985. From 1985 to 1987 Matthew Carroll served at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, as a postdoctoral research associate. Since 1987 he held the position of an assistant professor of natural resource sciences at Washington State University, Pullman, since 1991 assistant resource sociologist. Later he served as a consultant to President Clinton’s Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team and Upper Columbia Basin Ecosystem Assessment Team.
He was a contributor to books, including Community and Forestry: Continuities in the Sociology of Natural Resources, edited by Robert G. Lee, Donald R. Field, and William R. Burch, Jr., Westview, 1990. Persistent Poverty in Rural America, Westview, 1993; and Search for a Solution: Sustaining the Land, People, and Economy of the Blue Mountains; A Synthesis of Our Knowledge, edited by Raymond Jaindal and Thomas Quigley, American Forests (Washington, DC), 1995. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Western Journal of Applied Forestry, Journal of the American Planning Association, and Journal of Forestry. Associate editor, Society and Natural Resources, 1991-1994.
(The contributors consider how social science perspectives...)
(In this book, Matthew Carroll examines the economic and s...)
Rural Sociological Society , United States
Consortium for the Social Values of Natural Resources , United States
chairperson of National Task Force on Community Stability
Society of American Foresters , United States
1987 - 1989
policy chairperson
Inland Empire Society , United States
1991 - 1992
Xi Sigma Pi , United States
Mr. Carroll married Denise Konetchy (a veterinarian) in 1992 (marriage ended in 1995).
