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Law Library Documentary Film Collection Brochure, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Public Interest Law Film Festival

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More Than A Citation Manager: Zotero For Scalable Embedded Librarianship And Instructional Assessment, Rebecca Kuglitsch

Library Instruction West 2014

Purpose – This paper aims to describe a new application of Zotero, a citation management system, for embedded librarianship and assessment. It explores student reception of this approach and maps Zotero’s capacities to represent citations to learning outcomes and information literacy frames that instruction librarians assess.

Design/methodology/approach – The librarian worked with a course using Zotero group libraries for collaborative work, used Zotero to communicate with students and assess their information literacy skills and surveyed the students to determine their perception of librarian participation via Zotero.

Findings – Using Zotero’s features made it possible to formatively and summatively assess student …

What Can Urbanism Be? Problematizing The Design Of Cities, Aseem Inam

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper, I highlight a number of different ways of defining and describing the field conventionally known as urban design, which I problematize by broadening, deepening, and calling urbanism and which I re-define as city-design-and-building processes and their spatial products. These ways include morphological definitions, as a default focus, as the keeper of the public realm, through lists of categories, as a map of bodies of knowledge, as a field of research, as different modes of practice, via models for understanding and making cities, and practical “how-to” approaches such as best practices. I describe and critique each of these …

The State Of The Upper Bay Of Panama Wetlands: Ecological Significance, Environmental Policy, Urbanization, And Social Justice, Madeline A. Price

Celebration

I conducted this research while studying abroad with SIT Panama: Tropical Ecology, Marine Ecosystems, and Biodiversity Conservation. This is a multidisciplinary investigation of the Upper Bay of Panama wetlands, a 49,000 hectare region east of Panama City that features mangrove, intertidal mudflat, and grassland habitat internationally recognized as a stopover site for two million shorebirds every migration season. However, with economic pressure to increase urban development in the area, this land’s protected status under the Ramsar convention was suspended for a year in April 2012. By compiling scientific studies, news articles, photographs, and interviews with local conservationists and community members, …

Human Dimensions Of Puget Sound Ecosystem Health And Recovery: Social Sciences Scale And Scope, Mary Rozance, Kathleen Wolf

Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference

The Puget Sound Basin is surrounded by human settlements that range from small resource-dependent communities, to metropolitan areas that are experiencing rapid population growth. Scientific studies in the biophysical disciplines have documented the Puget Sound's ecological decline, established baseline conditions for recovery, and identified human-based sources of ecosystem impacts. The Puget Sound region is a complex socio-ecological system thus making equal attention to human dimensions an important goal, even a necessity. Social scientists across a variety of disciplines (such as economics, geography, anthropology, sociology, and psychology) can contribute to large-scale ecosystem health and recovery in two general ways. First, studies …

Environmental Justice In The Us: Fracking And Nuclear Plant Site Location And Their Spatial Relationship To Low-Income Communities, Tianyang Zhou

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

In the United States, communities with a large percentage of minority or low-income household appear to be disproportionally exposed to environmental pollutants. The intersection of race and socioeconomic status may results in this inequality of rights to an adequate living standard and human health. This project intends to explore the extent to which underprivileged communities are disproportionally affected by environmental degradation problems. The environmental problems are represented by fracking sites location and nuclear plants location across the country. The spatial distribution of the most affected counties with various environmental problems will be mapped. Spatial analysis suggests that a large portion …

Environmental Justice & Hidroaysén: Pristine Waters To Power Santiago, Multinational Mining Interests In Chile, David Schaad

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

On May 9, 2011, the Chilean national government under President Sebastián Piñera approved HidroAysén, a controversial hydroelectric megaproject to be constructed in the Aysén region of southern Chile. With HidroAysén expected to flood 5,900 hectares (15,000 acres) of ecologically unique natural reserves and displace local indigenous and working class people, its development raises major environmental justice concerns among Chileans and the international community. The project stalled in 2012 and was placed on long-term hold due to widespread public protests in which tens of thousands of Chileans took to the streets unified by the motto “Patagonia Sin Represas” (Patagonia Without Dams). …

April Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda.

Examining Environmental Justice In Context Of Federal And State Lands In Illinois: A Gis-Based Case Study, Jennifer N. Newton, Rob Porter

National Environment and Recreation Research Symposium

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A Case For Reflexivity In Academic Parks, Recreation And Tourism Writing, Lisa Groshong, Sonja A. Wilhelm-Stanis

National Environment and Recreation Research Symposium

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Social Equity Concerns And Barriers To Access In Kentucky State Parks, Michael J. Bradley, Ryan L. Sharp, Stephen Sims, Hungling Liu

National Environment and Recreation Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

March Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting minutes.

Grants Resource Center 2014 Research Agenda, Richard Dunfee, Sandra George, Richard Wellons

Office of Research Integrity Workshops and Forums

No abstract provided.