The Role Of Career Services In Facilitating Local Economic Growth - Opening Doors To Students Understanding Of Local Opportunities, 2011 Baylor University
The Role Of Career Services In Facilitating Local Economic Growth - Opening Doors To Students Understanding Of Local Opportunities, Jennifer Massey, Yolande Chan, Sean Field
Jennifer Massey
This study discusses opportunities for municipal governments and university administration to work together to support local economic development in mid-sized university cities. It identifies the largely-neglected, but valuable, labour market that literally surrounds the campus in these cities, as places of opportunity. The paper suggests that the university campus provides a place in which effort to retain creative workers can emerge in cities that typically struggle to attract this workforce. It highlights an important role for Career Services in supporting local economic developmnet by opening doors to students' understanding of local opportunities. The empirical data presented in this paper was …
Queen’S & Kingston…Working Creatively Together To Connect Students And Local Employers, 2011 Baylor University
Queen’S & Kingston…Working Creatively Together To Connect Students And Local Employers, Jennifer Massey
Jennifer Massey
No abstract provided.
Spatial Effects In Energy-Efficient Residential Hvac Technology Adoption, 2011 Georgia Institute of Technology
Spatial Effects In Energy-Efficient Residential Hvac Technology Adoption, Douglas S. Noonan, Lin-Han Chiang Hsieh, Daniel Matisoff
Douglas S. Noonan
This study identifies the factors that affect the adoption behaviors for residential heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, including spatial effects and other contextual characteristics. This study draws on an original data source of detailed single-family house sale records in the Greater Chicago area, spanning from 1992 to 2004. The data are analyzed at the block-group level to focus on neighborhood-level adoption patterns and highlight neighbor effects. Using spatial lag regression models, we show that spatial dependence or “contagion” exists for neighborhood adoption of energy-efficient HVACs. This result has significant implications from a policy perspective. According to our estimation …
Immigration And Integration Religious And Political Activism For/With Immigrants In Los Angeles, 2011 Columbia University
Immigration And Integration Religious And Political Activism For/With Immigrants In Los Angeles, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
Although the role of religion in the lives of immigrants has recently been a subject of interest by scholars, there has not been much focus on the importance of the religio-political activism of faith-based and community organizations in favour of immigrants. This article focuses on a religious congregation, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, and a community-organizing network, the Salvadoran American National Association, to demonstrate how religion is actively promoting and aiding political engagement on behalf of and with immigrants in Los Angeles, with a particular, although not exclusive, focus on immigrants of Latino origin, who comprise the lion’s share of immigrants in …
Transforming Subjectivities: Service That Expands Learning In Urban Planning, 2011 Columbia University
Transforming Subjectivities: Service That Expands Learning In Urban Planning, Clara Irazabal, Susan C. Harris
Clara Irazabal
In a recent service-learning course we taught at the University of Southern California (USC), our goal was the 'transformation of subjectivity", as students traversed their own paths from students to professionals, learners to doers and coeducators, and from experts to collaborators. Our intent was to minimize the boundaries separating classroom and community. We encouraged students to bridge the gap between disciplines (urban planning, public policy, public management, public administration, and real estate) and sought to help them become collaborative and socially responsible professionals. We also tried to change the role that community partners usually play in service-learning partnership. Many public …
Development And Cooperation At A Crossroads: Between Shattered Dreams And A Just World, 2011 Columbia University
Development And Cooperation At A Crossroads: Between Shattered Dreams And A Just World, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
The preface of the book "Reflections on Development and Cooperation," published by the Program of Development and Cooperation at Universitat Internacional de Calalunya.
Review Of Taming The Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape Of Johannesburg After Apartheid, By Martin J. Murray, 2011 Columbia University
Review Of Taming The Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape Of Johannesburg After Apartheid, By Martin J. Murray, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
Murray has produced a mesmerizing account of Johannesburg as an iconic neoliberal city of despicable inequality and polarization. According to his portrayal, the blatantly racist spatial regime of apartheid Johannesburg has given way, in the post-apartheid era, to a classist spatial war against the poor.
Ethnoscapes, 2011 Columbia University
Ethnoscapes, Clara Irazabal
Clara Irazabal
Although the urban planning and design literature extensively explores the intersection of race and space, much less work has been done on the study of ethnicity and space, an interrelation I refer to as producting ethnoscapes. This chapter discusses the emergence of ethnoscapes as contemporary spatial typologies, heightened by the new global socio-economic order. The chapter analyzes different processes of ethnicization of space, particularly focusing on Latina/o ethnoscapes in the United States. Latina/os have distinctively used processes of territorializing, regulating, and symbolizing place to sustain distinctive communities flavored by ethnic business and social associations (Arreola 2002; Aguilar San Juan 2005; …
Golden Geese Or White Elephants? The Paradoxes Of World Heritage Sites And Community-Based Tourism Development In Agra, India, 2011 Columbia University
Golden Geese Or White Elephants? The Paradoxes Of World Heritage Sites And Community-Based Tourism Development In Agra, India, Clara Irazabal, Surajit Chakravarty
Clara Irazabal
This study examines the relationship between World Heritage Sites (WHSs) and local community development in Agra, India. We investigate two interrelated themes: the role of planning in developing the tourism potential of the Taj Mahal and other WHSs in Agra, and the impact of the WHS framework on the development of the city. We analyze the weaknesses of the institutions and agencies responsible for Agra’s inability to convert the development potential created by its three WHSs into significant economic, community and infrastructure improvements. The Agra case reveals a set of developmental paradoxes, whereby the restructuring of the tourist industry induced …
Adaptive Responses To Flooding Incidents In Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, 2011 University of Ilorin
Adaptive Responses To Flooding Incidents In Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, Habiba I. Jimoh, Kayode A. Iroye
Confluence Journal Environmental Studies (CJES), Kogi State University, Nigeria
Incidents of floods which are mainly caused by changes in landuse is fast becoming a city life experience in Ilorin as in most urban centres in Nigeria causing untold hardships and sometimes loss of lives. This extreme hydro-meteorological event is also being exacerbated by climate change which thus calls for adaptive response by residents towards reducing its risks, hence this study. Data used were generated from direct field measurements and questionnaire administration. Descriptive statistics and cross tabulations were used in analyzing the data. Results obtained indicate that most respondents use a wide range of non-structural adaptive response to flood. The …
An Assessment Of Socio-Economic Impact Of Waste Scavenging As A Means Of Poverty Alleviation In Gwagwalada, Abuja., 2011 University of Abuja
An Assessment Of Socio-Economic Impact Of Waste Scavenging As A Means Of Poverty Alleviation In Gwagwalada, Abuja., John Yakubu Magaji, Samuel Panse Dakyes
Confluence Journal Environmental Studies (CJES), Kogi State University, Nigeria
Waste scavengers are usually perceived as being among the poor, and scavenging is considered a marginal activity. They tend to have low incomes, but can obtained decent earning when they are not exploited by middlemen. This study was conducted in Gwagwalada town with the aim of assessing the socio-economic impact of scavenging on the people. A structured questionnaire was constructed to capture the demographic characteristics of the scavengers, their experiences, types of items scavenged, the economic gains and the challenges being faced. The target pollution is waste scavengers and a random sampling technique was adopted in selecting the respondents for …
Strategic Environmental Assessment And Regional Infrastructure Planning: The Case Of York Region, Ontario, 2011 University of Waterloo
Strategic Environmental Assessment And Regional Infrastructure Planning: The Case Of York Region, Ontario, Denis Kirchhoff, Daniel D. Mccarthy, Debbe D. Crandall, Graham S. Whitelaw
Denis Kirchhoff
Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is seen as an instrument that is essential to realizing sustainability goals that transcend project-level undertakings (e.g. policies, plans and programmes). The purpose of this case-based, collaborative research was to extend practical and theoretical understanding of SEA to the related, but in practice poorly coordinated, processes of project-level environmental assessment (EA), master planning and regional land use planning. Semi-structured key informant interviews and review of policy documents were used as the main sources of qualitative data to explore the key events that have led to an emerging strategic approach to planning and EA in York Region. …
¿Qué Viene Para La Policía Después Del 30 De Septiembre?, 2011 FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Sede Ecuador
¿Qué Viene Para La Policía Después Del 30 De Septiembre?, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.
Fernando Carrión Mena
Conferencia de apertura del Diplomado en Seguridad Ciudadana, ofertado por el Programa de Estudios de la Ciudad de FLACSO sede Ecuador
¿Prevenir O Gobernar La Violencia?, 2011 FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Sede Ecuador
¿Prevenir O Gobernar La Violencia?, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.
Fernando Carrión Mena
Un fantasma se cierne sobre América Latina: el fantasma de la violencia. Contra este fantasma se han conjurado en santa unión todos los organismos de cooperación internacional, los gobiernos de nuestros países, los partidos políticos de todos los signos, los medios de comunicación y las sociedades victimizadas. Es un fantasma porque es la imagen de las personas muertas que, según dice, se les aparece permanentemente a los vivos; y se les aparece com percepción porque existe un aumento significativo de las tasas de homicidio, que en 25 años se han duplicado: se pasó de los 12 homicidios por cien mil …
¿Prevenir O Gobernar La Violencia?, 2011 FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Sede Ecuador
¿Prevenir O Gobernar La Violencia?, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.
Fernando Carrión Mena
Un fantasma se cierne sobre América Latina: el fantasma de la violencia. Contra este fantasma se han conjurado en santa unión todos los organismos de cooperación internacional, los gobiernos de nuestros países, los partidos políticos de todos los signos, los medios de comunicación y las sociedades victimizadas. Es un fantasma porque es la imagen de las personas muertas que, según dice, se les aparece permanentemente a los vivos; y se les aparece com percepción porque existe un aumento significativo de las tasas de homicidio, que en 25 años se han duplicado: se pasó de los 12 homicidios por cien mil …
Relaciones Fronterizas: Encuentros Y Conflictos, 2011 FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Sede Ecuador
Relaciones Fronterizas: Encuentros Y Conflictos, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq., Johanna P. Espín Msc.
Fernando Carrión Mena
La inseguridad se ha convertido en uno de los temas más relevantes en las ciudades latinoamericanas, en parte debido al incremento de su magnitud, a las nuevas formas que asume y a los impactos sociales, económicos y ambientales que produce. Sin embargo, en las zonas de frontera, las cuales generalmente se encuentran alejadas de los centros urbanos principales, la situación tiene características aún más particulares y complejas. Ante esto, se hace necesario posicionar dicha problemática en el debate público, con la finalidad de conocer la realidad cotidiana de las poblaciones fronterizas, definir políticas públicas certeras y, además, reducir la distancia …
Violence Research In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Literature Review, 2011 FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Sede Ecuador
Violence Research In Latin America And The Caribbean: A Literature Review, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq., Manuel Dammert Guardia
Fernando Carrión Mena
Latin America has long been a violence-prone continent. No other region of the world knows higher homicide rates nor has such a variety of violence. Political violence, guerilla movements and civil wars, bloody revolutions, brutal dictatorships, domestic violence, criminal violence, and youth violence are all well known throughout history. This article gives an overview of the historical development of violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, examining its specificities and changes. The focus is on the recent explosion of violence and crime since the 1980s. As a literature review, it summarizes the main findings of academic research on violence in …
Quito ¿Metrópoli Mundial?, 2011 Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Quito ¿Metrópoli Mundial?, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq., Manuel Dammert G. Soc.
Fernando Carrión Mena
Las ciudades no pueden existir por sí mismas; originalmente la relación con el campo fue su razón de ser y hoy en día es imposible comprenderlas –por la constitución de una ciudad en red– por fuera de su esencia relacional interurbana. Si la revolución industrial de mediados del siglo XIX generalizó la urbanización a nivel mundial, la globalización –sustentada en la revolución científica tecnológica en el ámbito de las comunicaciones– ha provocado que el vínculo y la articulación entre las ciudades del mundo sea un elemento constitutivo de su existencia. Por eso hoy el planeta es más interurbano que internacional. …
Fútbol Y Violencia, Las Razones De Una Sin Razón, 2011 FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. Sede Ecuador
Fútbol Y Violencia, Las Razones De Una Sin Razón, Fernando Carrión Mena Arq.
Fernando Carrión Mena
El conflicto es consustancial al fútbol, porque encarna una disputa entre dos bandos que buscan la victoria por todos los medios a su alcance. Pero esta disputa no siempre es pacífica, tanto que el juego esta impregnado por la incorporación de los principios, categorías y lenguajes de la guerra. Allí la estrategia y la táctica como organizadores pacíficos del conflicto. El disparo de misiles, la existencia de bombazos, el cobro de tiros libres y la falta máxima de un penal. Un jugador potente es el Tanque Hurtado, si tiene un tiro fuerte será el Cañoncito Peñaherrera o si el defensa …
Climate Change, Adaptation And Formal Education: The Role Of Schooling For Increasing Societies' Adaptive Capacities, 2011 Associate Professor at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS)
Climate Change, Adaptation And Formal Education: The Role Of Schooling For Increasing Societies' Adaptive Capacities, Christine Wamsler
Christine Wamsler
No abstract provided.