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Assessing The Effectiveness Of Title Vi Requirements On Tennessee's Local Transportation Planning : A Comparison Among Metropolitan Planning Organizations (Mpos), P'Ersides Zambrano Dec 2000

Assessing The Effectiveness Of Title Vi Requirements On Tennessee's Local Transportation Planning : A Comparison Among Metropolitan Planning Organizations (Mpos), P'Ersides Zambrano

Masters Theses

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 enforced non-discrimination on programs receiving federal financial assistance. Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) as federally-funded agencies are subject to observe Title VI. In this research, the way in which Title VI provisions are being addressed within the local transportation planning process are analyzed, focusing in particular on Tennessee's MPOs. A comparison at the different strategies used to address Title VI was offered based on an analysis of the information from the 1999 MPOs Title VI Assessment Reports, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) letters of response to MPOs concerning the reports, and …


Environmental Sociology: An Analysis Of Trends, Gregory M. Fulkerson Apr 2000

Environmental Sociology: An Analysis Of Trends, Gregory M. Fulkerson

Masters Theses

This thesis describes the current status of environmental sociology, and presents an invitation to the reader to engage in the topic of the environment. It begins with a review of the literature, focusing on the origins of sociology and the theory of ecology, and presents the framework for the content analysis. The content analysis investigates the content and number of environmental sociology articles in mainstream sociological journals. In addition to the articles themselves, it analyzes the schools and authors of these articles. This analysis is supplemented with an analysis of environmental journals, enumerating the total number of environmental journals in …