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Climbing The Adaptation Planning Ladder: Barriers And Enablers In Municipal Planning, Elisabeth M. Hamin, Nicole Gurran
Climbing The Adaptation Planning Ladder: Barriers And Enablers In Municipal Planning, Elisabeth M. Hamin, Nicole Gurran
Elisabeth M. Hamin
Local municipal governments have a crucial role in helping communities adapt to climate change. Recognizing different levels of climate preparedness, this chapter analyzes what steps communities tend to follow when they move forward on climate adaptation, including prerequisites for planning and the selection of policies. Drawing on content analyses of local climate adaptation plans from the United States (US) and Australia, as well as interviews with municipal planners in both nations, the chapter explores the adaptation policy choices communities are making and explains the range of strategies local governments have used to move forward on a ‘ladder’ of climate adaptation, …
Social Hierarchies And Public Distribution Of Food In Rural India, Deepankar Basu, Debarshi Das
Social Hierarchies And Public Distribution Of Food In Rural India, Deepankar Basu, Debarshi Das
Deepankar Basu
In this paper, we develop a simple model that shows that consumption of PDS food grains is significantly different between rich and poor households in states where the PDS functions relatively well; in places where the PDS is non-functional, the difference is not significant. Using household-level data from three recent thick rounds of the consumption expenditure survey (2004-2005, 2009-2010 and 2011-2012), we find evidence in support of the predictions from the model. This suggests that one way to make the PDS functional is to make it more accessible to poor and underprivileged households.
Non-Food Expenditures And Consumption Inequality In India, Amit Basole, Deepankar Basu
Non-Food Expenditures And Consumption Inequality In India, Amit Basole, Deepankar Basu
Deepankar Basu
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about economic inequality in India during the post-reform period. We analyze consumption inequality through the hitherto neglected lens of nonfood expenditure. Using household level consumption expenditure data from the quinquennial “thick” rounds of the NSS, we show that inequality within food and non-food groups has declined, even as overall expenditure inequality has increased over time. We suggest that the rise in overall expenditure inequality is due to the increased weight in the household budget of non-food spending, which tends to be more unequal than food spending. We also show that inequality is very …
Amalgamation And The Ideology Of White Supremacy In American Sport, Todd Crosset
Amalgamation And The Ideology Of White Supremacy In American Sport, Todd Crosset
Todd Crosset
Prepared for Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: 7th session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD)
Encouraging Openness At Your Institution: Trends In Open Education And Open Access, Marilyn S. Billings
Encouraging Openness At Your Institution: Trends In Open Education And Open Access, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Openness is a major trend that is reshaping scholarship, research, teaching and learning throughout the world. This session focuses in on innovative Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives being led by libraries that promote open access, and emerging opportunities for information professionals to play a critical role in supporting the adoption of open access through open education resources.
The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks, Marilyn S. Billings
The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This presentation provides background about open education, the OER movement, and givens information about the open education initiative at UMass Amherst as an example of how an institution can incorporate OERs in the curriculum.
Expanding Research Intelligence Expertise: Library Collaboration With A Faculty Department To Assess Research Performance [Poster], Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, Edwin Boudreaux
Expanding Research Intelligence Expertise: Library Collaboration With A Faculty Department To Assess Research Performance [Poster], Rebecca Reznik-Zellen, Edwin Boudreaux
Rebecca C. Reznik-Zellen
Academic libraries are expanding their service roles in all aspects of the research enterprise at their institutions, including the assessment of research outputs. Evaluation of research performance is necessary for the successful administration of academic departments and research institutions. Tools that facilitate evaluation are of interest to faculty, administrators, and librarians alike. SciVal, an Elsevier research intelligence product, enables libraries to provide in-depth support for evaluation projects that exceeds the standard fulfillment of requests for Journal Impact Factors and h-Indices. Operating on the cache of bibliographic information housed in the Scopus database, SciVal permits benchmarking of research productivity, impact, and …
Remembrance Of Things Past: Collective Memory, Sensory Perception, And The Emergence Of New Interpretive Paradigms, Neil A. Silberman
Remembrance Of Things Past: Collective Memory, Sensory Perception, And The Emergence Of New Interpretive Paradigms, Neil A. Silberman
Neil A. Silberman
This chapter will examine the historical roots of heritage interpretation from antiquity to its classic modern expression in Freeman Tilden’s Interpreting Our Heritage (1957). It will question the relevance of expert-driven presentation—even with the most politically correct intentions, interactive digital applications, and other mass communications media—in the midst of simultaneous processes of globalization and tribalization that have come to typify the early decades of the 21st century. What new narrative forms are emerging? What new relationships between past and present—between heritage sites and their associated modern communities—will compel a new paradigm of interpretation to emerge? This lecture will examine the …
The New Now: Institutional Repositories And Academia, Marilyn S. Billings
The New Now: Institutional Repositories And Academia, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
This keynote presentation provides a general overview of the changing digital landscape for scholarly communication with an emphasis on the role that institutional repositories play in these changes.
Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks: The Umass Amherst Example. Part 1 Of Oer And Libraries: How Can You Help? Webinar, Marilyn S. Billings
Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks: The Umass Amherst Example. Part 1 Of Oer And Libraries: How Can You Help? Webinar, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
As part of National Library Week, you are all cordially invited to "OER and Libraries: How Can You Help?," an Affordable Learning Georgia webinar featuring three leading OER librarians from across the nation. Details below: Marilyn Billings (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Kate Pitcher (SUNY Geneseo), and Cyril Oberlander (Humboldt State University) are three Open Educational Resources pioneers and leaders. All three of them are librarians! Join them in our Affordable Learning Georgia webinar, discussing their roles in OER projects, and how libraries and librarians can support the OER movement.
Building Your Fan Base: Promoting Your Repository On And Off Campus, Marilyn S. Billings
Building Your Fan Base: Promoting Your Repository On And Off Campus, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
Nearing ten years with their repository initiative, Marilyn Billings and her colleagues have made outreach and the formation of partnerships core to their activities. In her presentation, Marilyn will give a retrospective look at some of the major outreach initiatives and partnerships formed over the past decade, including whom they approached and how. She’ll also provide concrete tips and ideas that you can take back to your own campuses.
Data Informed Approach: Reinstating An Approval Plan, Leslie Horner Button
Data Informed Approach: Reinstating An Approval Plan, Leslie Horner Button
Leslie Horner Button
No abstract provided.
Uma's Open Education Initiative: Perspective After 4 Years In, Marilyn S. Billings
Uma's Open Education Initiative: Perspective After 4 Years In, Marilyn S. Billings
Marilyn S. Billings
ASERL webinar: Lib-OER Community: Lessons from the Field. In light of growing interest among librarians to support new modes of publishing and lowering the cost of higher education, ASERL is pleased to host a panel of scholarly communication leaders to discuss their experiences in the field of alternative textbooks, a.k.a. Open Educational Resources (OERs). Panel members include Steven Bell (Temple University), Marilyn Billings (UMass Amherst), William Cross (NC State), and Melanie Kowalski (Emory University)
Is Love (Color) Blind? The Economy Of Race Among White Gay & Straight Daters, Jennifer H. Lundquist, Ken-Hou Lin
Is Love (Color) Blind? The Economy Of Race Among White Gay & Straight Daters, Jennifer H. Lundquist, Ken-Hou Lin
Dr. Jennifer H. Lundquist
A drawback to research on interracial couplings is that it almost exclusively studies heterosexual relationships. However, compelling new evidence from analyses using the Census shows that interracial relationships are significantly more common among the gay population. It is unclear how much of this reflects weaker racial preference or more limited dating markets. This paper brings unique individual -level data rather than couple-level data to bear on what might be driving the difference. We examine the interactions of white gay and straight online daters who have access to a large market of potential partners by modeling dyadic messaging behaviors. Results show …
Linguistic Identity Among New Speakers Of Basque, Ane Ortega, Jacqueline Urla, Estibalitz Amorrortu
Linguistic Identity Among New Speakers Of Basque, Ane Ortega, Jacqueline Urla, Estibalitz Amorrortu
Jacqueline L. Urla
The increase in Basque speakers in the last 30 years has been due in large part to ‘new speakers’ or euskaldunberri, a term that will be used here to refer to those who have learned the language by means other than family transmission. While very significant in numbers, to date this group has not been the object of much study. Little is known about their attitudes and motivations, how they perceive themselves as Basque speakers, or their language use and transmission patterns. Acquiring answers to these questions is of strategic importance for developing an effective evidence-based language policy for the …
Interactional Sociolinguistics, Benjamin Bailey
Piropo As A Cultural Term For Talk In The Spanish-Speaking World, Benjamin Bailey
Piropo As A Cultural Term For Talk In The Spanish-Speaking World, Benjamin Bailey
Benjamin Bailey
No abstract provided.
Systematically Populating An Ir With Etds: Launching A Retrospective Digitization Project And Collecting Current Etds At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Meghan Banach Bergin, Charlotte Roh
Systematically Populating An Ir With Etds: Launching A Retrospective Digitization Project And Collecting Current Etds At The University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Meghan Banach Bergin, Charlotte Roh
Meghan Banach Bergin
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries established their institutional repository (IR), ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, in 2006, and we began by systematically populating it with electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). We currently have a little over 4,500 dissertations and theses in our IR, and they are some of the\ most highly used content in our repository. Through a partnership with the Graduate School, we collect and disseminate all of our current master’s theses and doctoral dissertations through ScholarWorks. We recently launched an ambitious project to scan all 24,000 of our print dissertations and theses and upload them to our IR. In this …