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Portable Housing For Mexican Migrant Workers, Janet Corzo

Theses

A capable migrant labor force is critical in sustaining the United States' agriculture industry. Yet, migrant farm workers are among the most economically disadvantaged people in the United States (NCFH). The housing available to migrant workers in the United States is typically substandard and subject to other factors, such as local availability, social stigmas and legal status. While housing is usually provided by a grower (on-the-farm) or acquired by the migrant worker himself (off-the-farm), there seem to exist no examples of portable housing that a worker can transport from job to job. This study seeks to explore the viability of …

Cal Poly Slo Plays Major Role In California Disaster Planning, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

The Asbury Theological Seminary Herald, Asbury Theological Seminary

ATS Digital Resources

No abstract provided.

The Death Of The Freedom Lie In The Graduate And The Mutation Of The American Dream In Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Daryl Axelrod

Open Access Theses

The type of commentary a narrative is able to make is fully dependent on the type of narrator who is relating it. The visual elements present in a film are the true narrational forces which guide it. The presence of the camera, the use of lighting, the architecture, and the objects present in the film each have their own meaning. These elements come together to make a greater commentary than the dialogue. How these meanings interact with each other is what defines what type of narrator is present in the film. By analyzing what type of narrator is relating the …

23. Archeology And Civic Engagement, Barbara J. Little, Nathaniel Amdur-Clark

United States National Park Service: Publications

In the United States and elsewhere, efforts to strengthen communities and democratic processes, as well as promote public dialogue, rely upon active citizen engagement in community and civic life through the creation of social capital. Archeology can play a role in these efforts, particularly as archeological projects increasingly involve the communities in which they occur and as archeologists recognize their ethical responsibilities to involve multiple stakeholders. This technical brief provides explanations of civic engagement and social capital as well as case studies and suggestions for ways that archeologists can participate and contribute to the creation of social capital.

What is …

Young People And Social Inclusion: Challenges For Teaching, Terri Seddon

2008 – Touching the Future: Building Skills for Life and Work

The Crounulla riots were a wake-up call for Australia. With a booming economy and an assertive government, the violence at Crounulla was a stark reminder that nations have to be made and remade culturally, as well as economically. An identity as citizen is as important as an identity as worker in forming sustainable imagined communities that can transcend and ameliorate socio-cultural divisions and conflicts. Yet being a citizen means more than simply belonging to a community. It means using power responsibly to further community (collective) action in pursuit of preferred goals. This paper examines the changing context of skill-building for …

The Charity Ecosystem, Willie Cheng

Social Space

The non-profit sector is slowly moving from an era of ‘Just Doing Good’ to one of ‘Doing Good Well’. Willie Cheng argues that this new era requires the various components of an effective and self-sustaining charity ecosystem – regulator, capacity builders, charities, beneficiaries and the community (individuals, corporations, media and government) – to be in place and functioning properly.

Collaborative Learning Guide For Ecosystem Management, Christine Baumann Feurt

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

Community-based ecosystem management is an approach to getting things done. It manifests as actions that collectively maintain or restore nature’s ability to provide clean water, clean air and support for living systems. Sustaining the earth’s natural capital requires integration within the system of social capital. Through collaboration, people can accomplish the first step toward sustainability – the development of a collective vision of desired future outcomes for the places where they live, work and play. The individual perspectives that shape these visions take many forms. They are present in town Comprehensive and Open Space plans, in mission statements for organizations …

Mountain-Prairie Region Fisheries Program Strategic Plan

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

This Mountain-Prairie Regional Fisheries Strategic Plan outlines where, within our Federal role, we will focus our efforts. It provides guidance to partners and the public about our priorities, mandates, and opportunities and to Congress and the Administration on future budgeting decisions.

Navigating The U.S. Transition To Sustainability: Matching National Governance Challenges With Appropriate Legal Tools, John C. Dernbach

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Entrepreneurship As Social Change, Lori W. Snyder

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship

Book review by Lori Wagner Snyder.

Steyaert, Chris and Daniel Hjorth, eds. Entrepreneurship as Social Change. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006. ISBN 9781847206275

Ua12/13 Wku Sustainability Report 2007-2008, Christian Ryan-Downing

Sustainability Publications and Resources

No abstract provided.

The Impact On Rural Illinois Communities When The Local High School Is Closed, Cynthia Waldman Rich

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Rural Illinois communities are experiencing declining enrollment and population shifts resulting in the closure of local schools and community changes. This research explores the occurrence of changes in community well-being following the loss of the local high school when compared to similar communities with schools that enrolled the students and communities with unchanged schools. Community well-being is defined as attributes categorized as social, economic and housing characteristics measured by United States Census Bureau data. The sample was comprised of communities designated as rural distant or rural remote urban-centric locale codes, having comparable populations and a local high school recognized by …

Black Labor At Pine Grove & Caledonia Furnaces, 1789-1860, Troy D. Harman

Adams County History

Black labor operating under various degrees of freedom found a suitable working environment, if not a safe haven, in several iron forges of South Central Pennsylvania, from the late 1790s through the 1850s. Primary accounts indicate that two in particular, Pine Grove Furnace of Cumberland County, and Caledonia Furnace of Franklin County, harbored runaway slaves to augment their work force. Pine Grove records, dating from 1789 – 1801, specify names of “negro” employees, verifying that black labor coexisted with white, but day books, journals, and ledgers do not denote status.1 Whether they were free men, or slaves rented out by …

Ecosystem Co-Management Agreements: A Study Of Nation Building Or A Lesson On Erosion Of Tribal Sovereignty?, Marren Sanders

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Students And Their Contributions Towards A Greener Campus, Windy Gonzalez Roberts

Spanish Publications

For the last several years, UMM has been positioning itself as a national leader in use of renewable energy. The students will discuss their awareness about the efforts of their university campus to be energy self-sufficient by the year 2010. They will reflect about their responsibility to implement changes that will create a more sustainable campus, community and world around them. The students will be able to convey to others in the campus and in the community the need to increase involvement in the process. They will also compare green efforts of their university with similar efforts in the Hispanic …

2008 Annual Report: From Blueprint To Action, Southern Rural Development Center

SRDC Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Endeavors 2007-08

Endeavors: Highlights of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Agricultural Research Division Research

CONTENTS:

New approach delays soybean irrigation, maintains yields
New group focuses on bioenergy crops in the Midwest
Sandhills dunes more stable than once thought
Take ‘may contain food allergen’ labels seriously
Advanced infrared camera expands hydrology research
UNL-based Drought Mitigation Center has new leadership
Carbohydrates in milk can help block bacteria
Tending human tendons using ultrasound
Research studies effect of one-time tillage on no-till
IANR, cattle feeders partners in cattle research
Medical, animal researchers to collaborate
Rural Nebraskans not the retiring type, poll shows
IANR returns 15 to 1 benefit for each tax dollar
New components of plant immunity being …

A Model For Experiential Learning And Community Engagement In Marketing Research, Maria M. Ryan, Gary Marchioro

Business Conference Papers

This paper outlines a model developed in a partnership between a university business school and a state government education department. The model is based on an environment of experiential learning within a marketing research unit for university students and provides market information for primary and secondary school principals to facilitate the development of their school marketing plans. The paper also discusses the development of expertise in the researching of local educational needs, by a community’s education sector, with a view to establishing long term, mutually beneficial relationships.

Form-Based Codes: Measured Success Through Both Mandatory And Optional Implementation Note, John M. Barry

Connecticut Law Review

The conventional zoning practices that became widely accepted in the later part of the twentieth century have drastically changed the way American cities and towns have been physically planned and developed. Conventional zoning has encouraged suburban sprawl through its promotion of low density and single use development. The consequences of this type of zoning are not limited to the physical design of the neighborhoods in which we live and work. Sprawl has also changed the way in which Americans conduct their daily lives as we increasingly rely on the automobile to commute to school and work or run errands. Not …

Panel: Water Ethics And Commodification Of Freshwater Resources, Stephen Diamond

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Panama City Reflections: Growing The City In The Time Of Sustainable Development, Ileana Porras

Articles

No abstract provided.

Our Place In The Urban Age Summary Report, Kathryn W. Hexter, Molly Schnoke, Cathryn Greenwald

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Since its inception in 2000, the Levin College Forum has encouraged the type of broad based community dialogue that leads to serious public and private actions to tackle difficult issues that cut across the governmental, business and civic sectors of our region. The Forum is the place where people come together to learn, connect and envision a better future for themselves and for Northeast Ohio. In March 2007, the Levin College kicked-off Our Place in the Urban Age, a year-long series of ten forums and one photography exhibit celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban …

Focus Emu, March 4, 2008, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

Sepas, Climate Change, And Corporate Responsibility: The Contribution Of Local Government, Catherine J. Lacroix

Faculty Publications

Municipalities in the United States are increasingly active in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Data suggest that the physical layout of communities and the buildings they contain make significant contributions to greenhouse gas emissions and thus to climate change. One useful tool for municipalities could be the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), pioneered in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) at the federal level and subsequently adopted as a policymaking guide in the State Environmental Policy Acts (SEPAs) of many states. A SEPA requires state governments - and, in six states, local governments as well - to consider the …

Law And Religion In Colonial America, Mark Mcgarvie, Elizabeth B. Mensch

Contributions to Books

Published in Cambridge History of American Law, Volume 1: Early America (1580-1815), Michael Grossberg & Christopher Tomlins, eds.

Brownfields And Brac: A Surprising "Compatibility", Joel B. Eisen

Law Faculty Publications

In Part I of this Article, I describe the BRAC process and compare it to the process for remediating abandoned or underused sites in state brownfields programs. I find that while the two systems are different in many significant respects, these differences do not overwhelm the commonalities inherent in comparing two systems that focus on remediating sites and transferring them to their new owners. In Part II, I describe the environmental remediation process of BRAC and positive "surprises" in terms of the statutory preference for finality in remedial actions and for public participation at sites being closed and the more …

Panel: Water Ethics And Commodification Of Freshwater Resources, Stephen F. Diamond

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Virtue Of Judicial Statesmanship, Neil S. Siegel

Faculty Scholarship

Some of America’s most important judges have emphasized or embodied the practice of judicial statesmanship. Yet from the examples they set, it is not particularly clear what judicial statesmanship is or why it matters. In this Article, I conceptualize the elusive phenomenon of judicial statesmanship, and I defend statesmanship as a core, if underappreciated, dimension of judicial role. I argue that judicial statesmanship defines a virtue in the role of a judge. Statesmanship charges judges with approaching cases so as to facilitate the capacity of the legal system to legitimate itself—over the long run and with respect to the nation …

Assuring Accessible Housing: The Visitability Code Of The Village Of Bolingbrook, Katherine Fuller

SPNA Review

As an ever-increasing population continues to age and develop disabilities, community needs are changing as well. Housing is a major consideration for local government officials in terms of planning and community development. With this in mind, it is expected that there will be an increasing demand for more accessible housing in communities all over the nation. It will be up to local government officials to ensure they implement programs that serve to create inclusive, diverse, and sustainable communities that will address the long-term needs of the citizens. Visitability programs for the construction of single-family homes are being utilized by local …