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Bibliography For Work In Ecocriticism, Zümre Gizem Yılmaz

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Resilient Cities: Plan Evaluation For Floods, Hwayoung Kim, Ryuji Kakimoto

International Institute for Infrastructure Resilience and Reconstruction (I3R2) Conference

A local hazard mitigation plan (LHMP) is the fundamental base to protect individual properties and citizens’ lives from the local chronic and unexpected, overwhelming natural disasters. Each community prepares their own LHMP based on their specific features and conditions since regions are different by geographical features, social norms, and cultural backgrounds. Of those differences, this study focuses on how the developed countries in hazard mitigation consist of LHMP and which part of the plan is strong or weak. This research presents comparisons for the LHMPs communities in three different countries: USA, Japan, and Korea. Indicators used in the research are …

Scholarly Collaboration In Engineering Education: From Big-Data Scientometrics To User-Centered Software Design, Hanjun Xian

Open Access Dissertations

Engineering education research has grown into a flourishing community with an-ever increasing number of publications and scholars. However, recent studies show that a significant amount of engineering education knowledge retains a clear disciplinary orientation. If the gaps in scholarly collaboration continue to be prevalent within the entire community, it will become increasingly difficult to sustain community memory. This will eventually inhibit the propagation of innovations and slow the movement of research findings into practice.

This dissertation studies scholarly collaboration in the engineering education research community. It provides a clear characterization of collaboration problems and proposes potential solutions. The dissertation is …

Center For The Environment, Leigh Raymond

Changing World Conference

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The Arab Spring And Western Societies: Fraternity And Collective Leadership, Paolo Giusta

Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture

This article uses the principle of fraternity to read some recent evolutions of the concept of leadership both in research and in practice (for instance, the Arab revolutions) from individual, to shared, to collective leadership. In particular, it explores how some fraternal characteristics of collective leadership can provide an effective practice, underpinning both successful participation and transformation. The fraternity principle, indeed, can help collective leadership evolve from a “neighborly choice” to a full-fledged “civic duty”: a duty, however, which like leadership itself cannot be enforced or imposed from outside, but must result from an inside-out movement.

Building On And Honoring Forty Years Of Pbl Scholarship From Howard Barrows: A Scientometric, Large-Scale Data, And Visualization-Based Analysis, Hanjun Xian, Krishna Madhavan

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

Over the past forty years, Howard Barrows’ contributions to PBL research have influenced and guided educational research and practice in a diversity of domains. It is necessary to make visible to all PBL scholars what has been accomplished, what is perceived as significant, and what is the scope of applicability for Barrows’ groundbreaking findings. As more disciplines recognize Barrows’ efforts and adopt PBL in education, it becomes crucial but challenging to sustain community memory so that PBL scholars are kept well informed of research innovations in various domains. In this paper, we review Barrows’ scholarly efforts in PBL and reveal …

Leed Neighborhood Development: The Mapleton-Fall Creek Experience, Tyson Domer, Doressa Domer

Purdue Road School

This session will look beyond rain gardens and pervious pavement to examine different ways that effective planning can create competitive, sustainable communities.

Livability, Joyce Newland

Purdue Road School

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Collection Development And Sustainability At The University Of Florida, Merliyn Burke

Against the Grain

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Evaluation Of Energy Savings For Buildings With Green Roofs Having Different Vegetation, Serdar Celik, William A. Retzlaff, Susan Morgan

International High Performance Buildings Conference

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Best Management Practices For Effective Urban Forestry Management, Jennifer Gulick

Purdue Road School

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A Community-Based Information Technology Services Determination Of Gis User Information Needs, Barrett S. Caldwell

Journal of Terrestrial Observation

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A Social Ecological Approach Of Community Efforts To Promote Physical Activity And Weight Management, Elizabeth Richards, Mary E. Riner, Laura P. Sands

School of Nursing Faculty Publications

Obesity and physical inactivity are major public health problems in the United States. Campus-Community partnerships have the potential to address the community health and quality of life issues at the local level. The purposes of this study were: 1) to identify groups who are at risk for being overweight and physically inactive; 2) to identify a relationship between broad social ecological layers and weight and exercise levels; and 3) to identify community features that are associated with weight and exercise levels. Interventions for physical activity and weight reduction should consider the social ecological framework including environmental and social influences.

Lessons From The Trails In Indianapolis, Ray Irvin

Purdue Road School

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