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Speaker Biographies, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Brookings Mountain West Oct 2010

Speaker Biographies, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Brookings Mountain West

The Political Demography and Geography of the Intermountain West Conference

The Intermountain West region, including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, is the new swing region in American politics. Many national observers and commentators have only a superficial understanding of the profound economic, political, and social changes that continue to reshape this region. Brookings Mountain West is pleased to offer a collection of contemporary research papers on recent demographic trends that alter this region and its politics. These studies, including a public opinion survey that explores attitudes on state and national politics, alternative energy, education, deficits, health care, immigration, and other topics illuminate the political landscape of this …


Panelist Biographies, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Brookings Mountain West Oct 2010

Panelist Biographies, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Brookings Mountain West

The Political Demography and Geography of the Intermountain West Conference

The Intermountain West region, including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, is the new swing region in American politics. Many national observers and commentators have only a superficial understanding of the profound economic, political, and social changes that continue to reshape this region. Brookings Mountain West is pleased to offer a collection of contemporary research papers on recent demographic trends that alter this region and its politics. These studies, including a public opinion survey that explores attitudes on state and national politics, alternative energy, education, deficits, health care, immigration, and other topics illuminate the political landscape of this …


Conference Schedule, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Brookings Mountain West Oct 2010

Conference Schedule, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Brookings Mountain West

The Political Demography and Geography of the Intermountain West Conference

The Intermountain West region, including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, is the new swing region in American politics. Many national observers and commentators have only a superficial understanding of the profound economic, political, and social changes that continue to reshape this region. Brookings Mountain West is pleased to offer a collection of contemporary research papers on recent demographic trends that alter this region and its politics. These studies, including a public opinion survey that explores attitudes on state and national politics, alternative energy, education, deficits, health care, immigration, and other topics illuminate the political landscape of this …


Nshe And Nirec: Strengthening Ties To Increase Impact, Li Han Chan Aug 2010

Nshe And Nirec: Strengthening Ties To Increase Impact, Li Han Chan

Nevada Renewable Energy Consortium Meeting

The second annual Nevada Renewable Energy Consortium meeting took place at UNLV on August 20. The meeting focused on the current three NVREC program areas: Solar, Biomass and Geothermal. Presentations were made by participating entities and a poster session followed.


Gis In Redistricting, Jack Dohrman Aug 2010

Gis In Redistricting, Jack Dohrman

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: Redistricting - Nebraska, Timeline, U.S. Census Bureau; U.S. Census Bureau Redistricting Program Phase; Phase 2 - VTD, Voting Tabulation Districts, VTD North Central Nebraska, VTD Omaha Precincts; Redistricting - Data; Nebraska Population Trends; Congressional Districts; Reapportionment; Redistricting; Gerrymandering; There is no place like Nebraska…; Evolving Redistricting Technology; and Redistricting – Technology Today and Software.


Health, Health Insurance And Income/Poverty Data, David J. Drozd Aug 2010

Health, Health Insurance And Income/Poverty Data, David J. Drozd

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: Data sources; Description of key variables; ACS health-related data; and Charts and various findings.


Information For Grant Writers And Data Users, Sara Woods Aug 2010

Information For Grant Writers And Data Users, Sara Woods

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: Statistical Information for Grant Writing; Good Data in Grant Applications…; Good Data: Where to Focus; National/State Level Data; Making national data relevant to your proposal; National Data Sources; State Data Resources; Local Data; Local Data Sources; Organizational (Primary) Data; Organizational Data: Basic Items to Collect; Surveys; Types of Surveys; Design of Surveys; Gap Analysis; Best Practices Surveys; Other Data Considerations; Identifying Your Target Population; Presenting Data in a Proposal; Presenting Data in a Grant Proposal:Charts and Graphs; and Descriptive Text.


Nebraska’S Population And Economic Trends, Jerry Deichert, David J. Drozd Aug 2010

Nebraska’S Population And Economic Trends, Jerry Deichert, David J. Drozd

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: Nebraska Population and Economic Trends; Population and Population Change; Natural Change; Net Migration; Cities and Towns; Age Structure; Race and Hispanic/Latino Origin; Migration Focus; and Employment and Per Capita Personal Income.


The 2010 Census—What Your Community Needs To Know, Larry Mugler Aug 2010

The 2010 Census—What Your Community Needs To Know, Larry Mugler

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: The Magnitude of the 2010 Census; Nebraska Effort; 2010 Census Key Dates; The Questionnaire; Questionnaire Content; Type of Enumeration; Nebraska Type of Enumeration; Participation Rate Feedback Program; State/Local Participation Rates; Partnership Activities; 2010 Census --Why It Matters; The Use of Census Bureau Data is About…; Census Data and Federal Funding; 2010 Census Data Can Help Your Community Answer Questions Like…; Brief Data Overview; 2010 Census Geography; Small Area Hierarchy Census Tracts, Block Groups, Blocks; 2010 Census Data Products; 2010 Census Data Release Schedule; Redistricting Data File; Demographic Profile; American Factfinder Data Retrieval System; ACS and 2010 Census; …


Census Overview: Basics, Decennial, Acs, And Estimates, David J. Drozd Aug 2010

Census Overview: Basics, Decennial, Acs, And Estimates, David J. Drozd

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation discusses: Terminology & Definitions; Decennial Census Datafiles; Geography; Geography vs. Data (A Duel); Relationship between Data/Datafiles and Geography; PUMA geography; The American Community Survey: What is it?; ACS Goals; ACS History and Timeline; ACS Methodology in Brief; ACS Methodology in Brief; Differences between Census 2000 and the ACS; ACS New Subject Areas; Changes for the 2008, 2009 ACS; ACS Subject Areas: #1 Demographic; ACS Subject Areas: #2 Social; ACS Subject Areas: #3 Economic; ACS Subject Areas: #4 Housing; Nebraska ACS Data: Current Time Series; ACS Data Release Schedule (full implementation in 2005); 2009 ACS Data Release; Multi-year Aggregate …


The U.S. And Local Economy: Stats To Know, Kenneth A. Kriz Aug 2010

The U.S. And Local Economy: Stats To Know, Kenneth A. Kriz

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation features: Conflicting News & Opinion; Where is the Economy Now and Where is it Going?; Characteristics of a Good Economic Indicator; Survey Indicators; Single Indicators; Composite Indicators; Aruoba-Diebold-Scotti Business Conditions Index; ISM Purchasing Managers’ Index; Conference Board Index; Chicago Fed National Activity Index; State Coincident Indices; So…Where Are We?; And Where Are We Going?


The Bolivian State In Transition, Fernando García Phd, Associate Academic Dean For Latin America Aug 2010

The Bolivian State In Transition, Fernando García Phd, Associate Academic Dean For Latin America

Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium

This paper will look into some structural features of the Bolivian state-society complex, highlighting the changes now taking place under the government of Evo Morales. Particular attention will be paid to the degree to which the older Liberal-Prebendary state form is actually been replaced by a new state form. Utilizing a framework that looks at long-term historical and structural changes, the author will explore the actual content and current course of the Bolivian transition toward a “socialist horizon”, as Vicepresident Alvaro García Linera recently announced. While still preliminary, the results of this macro-analysis of Bolivian reality will serve as a …


Reconciling Post-Genocide Rwanda, Stefanie Pollender Ma, Academic Director Aug 2010

Reconciling Post-Genocide Rwanda, Stefanie Pollender Ma, Academic Director

Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium

My presentation is a case study of Rwanda and will circle around different approaches to reconciliation and the role of memory. Following a brief overview of the situation at the end of the genocide in 1994, I will introduce the different approaches the Rwandan government has undertaken to build unity and reconciliation amongst its citizens in order to lay the foundation for a strong nation. In my presentation I will also touch upon the role of memorials, the necessity to remember and the challenges of divisionism and denial of the genocide.


The Central America Peace Accords, Demobilization And Reconciliation: Experiences In Nicaragua And El Salvador, Aynn Setright Ma, Academic Director Aug 2010

The Central America Peace Accords, Demobilization And Reconciliation: Experiences In Nicaragua And El Salvador, Aynn Setright Ma, Academic Director

Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium

In 2010 Nicaragua is commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Peace Accords the end to a previous twenty years of violence in the struggle to overthrow the Somoza family dictatorship and then the contra war against the Sandinista Revolutionary government (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional –FSLN) in the 1980s. In El Salvador the Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberación Nacional (FMLN) is celebrating their 2009 electoral victory over the ARENA party. What shapes these national liberation parties today? How have these processes of reconciliation been realized? What are the lessons to be learned and applied in other war torn societies? …


The Anatomy Of Conflict, Lahcen Haddad Phd, Academic Director Aug 2010

The Anatomy Of Conflict, Lahcen Haddad Phd, Academic Director

Fostering Multicultural Competence and Global Justice: an SIT Symposium

The need for peace in today’s world has become an existential issue for humanity. Without a sense of shared earth and its resources and a shared humanity governed by universal and local values, the human race seems to be more threatened with a crippling propensity for self-destruction than ever before. Some theories, systems of thought even religious currents like Marxism, fascism, jihadi Islam, crusading Christianity, expansionist Zionism think that conflict is fundamental to History inasmuch as it allows for justification of the self through the use of power. For Marxism, struggle as conflict between classes is the engine that drives …


Corruption In Metropolis, Josie Gatti Apr 2010

Corruption In Metropolis, Josie Gatti

Graduate Research Symposium (GCUA) (2010 - 2017)

Corruption may be one of the most elusive phenomena in government. We may know it when we see it, but it is subject to individual perceptions shaped by a myriad of influences. The federal system of American governance was indented to impede the gross misuse of power; however, corruption is as much a part of our system today as it is around the world. While the study of the micro and individual level factors that inspire corruption are relevant, governance and business studies have long shown that structure and systems can affect behavior. This research reflects on those institutions and …


Measuring Spillover Effects Of Residential Amenity Improvement Using Spatial Hedonic Approach, Shruti Tandon Apr 2010

Measuring Spillover Effects Of Residential Amenity Improvement Using Spatial Hedonic Approach, Shruti Tandon

Graduate Research Symposium (GCUA) (2010 - 2017)

Spillover externalities can be explained as influences of the prices of neighboring properties on the price of a given one. Suppose there is a price change or changes in the amenity levels in a neighborhood. The effect of this change would be experienced by properties in a close proximity and the prices of the properties in close proximity might help explain the price of the property of interest. In the context of welfare valuation, this feature of spatial price interdependence or spillover effects has only recently received attention. Spatial lag models are one of the many spatial econometric methods used …


Local Land Use Scenario Formulation Using The Ipcc Sres Climate Change Scenarios Within Nevada, Scott Bassett Feb 2010

Local Land Use Scenario Formulation Using The Ipcc Sres Climate Change Scenarios Within Nevada, Scott Bassett

2010 Annual Nevada NSF EPSCoR Climate Change Conference

23 PowerPoint slides Convener: Darko Koracin, DRI Session 5: Climate Modeling Abstract: -Develop a methodology for downscaling SRES for use in land use drivers at a regional scale (metropolitan city scale) -Integrate land use drivers into urban growth models (UGMs) and land use change models -Link land use based demand models with river operations to assess potential future water allocations


Business Stakeholders, Mary Riddel, Alan Sanders Feb 2010

Business Stakeholders, Mary Riddel, Alan Sanders

2010 Annual Nevada NSF EPSCoR Climate Change Conference

6 PowerPoint slides Convener: William Smith, UNLV Session 3: Policy, Decision Making, and Outreach Abstract: -Understand the current attitudes about climate change in the Nevada business community -Help develop an advisory board that can serve as an ongoing link between the university and business community on climate change issues and policies -Provide an understanding about the information needs of different industries with respect to climate change -Develop channels to disseminate relevant climate change research to the business community -Develop a channel for business leaders to convey their concerns about climate-change policy costs


Non-Governmental Organization (Ngo) And Government Stakeholders, Derek Kauneckis, Orion Cuffe Feb 2010

Non-Governmental Organization (Ngo) And Government Stakeholders, Derek Kauneckis, Orion Cuffe

2010 Annual Nevada NSF EPSCoR Climate Change Conference

12 PowerPoint slides Convener: William Smith, UNLV Session 3: Policy, Decision Making, and Outreach Abstract: -Identify relevant policy and organizational stakeholders in Nevada -Examine climate change efforts within NV state government and other western states -Collect empirical data on stakeholder perceptions and priorities in climate change research


Research Poster: Climate Change Survey Of Public Agencies And Organizations, Derek Kauneckis, Orion Cuffe Feb 2010

Research Poster: Climate Change Survey Of Public Agencies And Organizations, Derek Kauneckis, Orion Cuffe

2010 Annual Nevada NSF EPSCoR Climate Change Conference

Research poster


Research Poster: Downscaling The Ipcc Sres Emissions Scenarios Into Future Local Land Use Scenarios, Michael R. Dolloff Feb 2010

Research Poster: Downscaling The Ipcc Sres Emissions Scenarios Into Future Local Land Use Scenarios, Michael R. Dolloff

2010 Annual Nevada NSF EPSCoR Climate Change Conference

Research poster


Research Poster: Vulnerability To Climate Change And Policy Support In Rural Nevada, Ahmad Safi Feb 2010

Research Poster: Vulnerability To Climate Change And Policy Support In Rural Nevada, Ahmad Safi

2010 Annual Nevada NSF EPSCoR Climate Change Conference

Supervisor: Dr. William James Smith, Jr. Research poster


Research Poster: Nevada System Of Higher Education College Student Climate Change Survey, Jenna Zulauf, Robert Futrell Feb 2010

Research Poster: Nevada System Of Higher Education College Student Climate Change Survey, Jenna Zulauf, Robert Futrell

2010 Annual Nevada NSF EPSCoR Climate Change Conference

Research poster