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The University Of San Francisco Fact Book And Almanac 2012 Mid-Year Edition, University Of San Francisco Office Of Institutional Research

USF Fact Book and Almanac

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Collaborative Leadership Strategies: A Look Into The Funding Models Of Alternative Service And Nonprofit Organizations, Charles H. Pratt

Theses and Graduate Projects

This project will address the current issues of the funding environments of Alternative Service and Nonprofit Organizations. The material highlights major components of a healthy organization. This includes, but is not limited to, attracting and maintaining the interest of donors, volunteers, and staff as well as collaborating through knowledge, expertise, and resources and sharing successes that both organizational types may cooperatively lead their respective missions into the future. The overall approach was to discover organizational problems and enable both organizational types to develop and sustain through organizational tips that strengthen vital processes inside and outside of the workplace. The findings …

Sowing Seeds Of Tradition! Applying Traditional Family Values And Adaptive Reuse To Resurrect A Community., O B Aaron Harris Jr

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

There are problems in every community, including South Memphis, Tennessee. Issues that need to be addressed include teen pregnancies, school drop-outs, crime, childhood obesity, and lack of parental guidance. Traditional family characteristics such as spiritual life, caring and appreciation, commitment, flexibilty and openness to change were once guiding forces that have been lost in our current culture. The response has been to provide community centers, which have often failed because they do not teach the basic skills necessary for a productive life. One solution is to convert the Turner Dairy Warehouse on South Bellevue into a facility that will provide …

A Case Study Of Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station: Perception And Power In Environmental Assessment, Tara E. Dolan

Open Access Theses

The Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station (TPNGS) is a nuclear power plant situated on the shores of Biscayne Bay, FL. The fringing mangrove shoreline of Biscayne Bay provides essential habitat for a variety of ecologically and commercially important species of fish. There is concern among stakeholders that proposed expansion at TPNGS may pose environmental risks. The goal of this thesis was to investigate current status of knowledge of environmental risk to the nearshore fish communities inhabiting the mangroves adjacent to TPNGS. Specific objectives included: 1) examining perception of environmental risk from TPNGS by stakeholder groups in the environmental regulatory arena; …

Access To Recreation In San Francisco, Ca, Robert Graham

Geography and the Environment: Graduate Student Capstones

This research presents an assessment of the equity of access to public recreation facilities among communities of San Francisco, California using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), database programming, and open sources of data. Urban parks and the recreation facilities contained therein are valuable public resources that contribute to healthy and well-adjusted citizenry and have significant positive impacts on the shared urban experience. This project utilizes the network analysis and spatial processing capacities of GIS alongside web technologies and open data sources to delineate pedestrian and transit service areas around each of over 300 documented recreation facilities and community centers in the …

5.701 Honorary Degree Policy

5.700 Awarding of Degrees (Academic)

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Cumulative Risk And A Call For Action In Environmental Justice Communities, H. P. Hynes, Russ Lopez

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

Health disparities, social inequalities, and environmental injustice cumulatively affect individual and community vulnerability and overall health; yet health researchers, social scientists and environmental scientists generally study them separately. Cumulative risk assessment in poor, racially segregated, economically isolated and medically underserved communities needs to account for their multiple layers of vulnerability, including greater susceptibility, greater exposure, less preparedness to cope, and less ability to recover in the face of exposure. Recommendations for evidence-based action in environmental justice communities include: reducing pollution in communities of highest burden; building on community resources; redressing inequality when doing community-based research; and creating a screening framework …

Limitations Of Nuclear Power As A Sustainable Energy Source, Joshua M. Pearce

Department of Materials Science and Engineering Publications

This paper provides a review and analysis of the challenges that nuclear power must overcome in order to be considered sustainable. The results make it clear that not only do innovative technical solutions need to be generated for the fundamental inherent environmental burdens of nuclear energy technology, but the nuclear industry must also address difficult issues of equity both in the present and for future generations. The results show that if the concept of just sustainability is applied to the nuclear energy sector a global large-scale sustainable nuclear energy system to replace fossil fuel combustion requires the following: (i) a …

Civil Justice In The Mountains: The Bolivian Andes As Grounds For Climate Reform, Jena Akin

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

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Ten Years Of The Aarhus Convention: How Procedural Democracy Is Paving The Way For Substantive Change In National And International Environmental Law, Mariane Dellinger

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

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Environmental Justice Issues In Sustainable Development: Environmental Justice In The Renewable Energy Transition, Uma Outka

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Review Of The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage : Key Indicators Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

Indigenous Education Research

In May-June 2012, the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) conducted a review of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage (OID): Key Indicators report on behalf of the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision. Stakeholder feedback was invited through several different means: an email survey, telephone interviews, participation in small group discussions and written submissions. Public sector users of the OID report made up a large proportion of the stakeholders who contributed to the review. Indigenous and non-Indigenous stakeholders across a wide range of organisations participated in the consultations.

The review found a range of different stakeholder views in …

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Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Sustainability As A Means Of Improving Environmental Justice, John C. Dernbach, Patricia E. Salkin, Donald A. Brown

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Environmental Law, Civil Rights And Sustainability: Three Frameworks For Environmental Justice, Eileen Gauna

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Wasted Places, Kate Golden

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

Wasted Places is a collaborative investigation by six nonprofit newsrooms into federal and state programs designed to cleanup and redevelop polluted tracts known as brownfields. The project was coordinated by the Investigative News Network, and reported and written by the Connecticut Health Investigative Team, City Limits, Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and INN.

Allocating Pollution, Arden Rowell

University of Chicago Law Review

Law can often be used to reduce or even eliminate the harm from pollution by manipulating "exposure allocation," or how pollution is allocated across a target population. Opportunities for exposure allocation arise whenever the relationship between exposure to a pollutant and harm is nonlinear, as is the case for many pollutants. For these pollutants, exposure allocation presents the potential for reducing the harm from pollution even when it is not possible to reduce either the total amount of pollution emitted or the total amount of exposure. After identifying the conditions under which changing exposure allocations can improve health and save …

The Perils Of Participation: The Effect Of Participation Messages On Citizens’ Policy Support, Geneviève Risner, Daniel Bergan

Journal of Public Transportation

While scholars have found several benefits to citizens, government, and society resulting from participatory policy processes, other research suggests that citizens are apathetic and uninterested in participating in policy-making. Also, in some cases, knowing that similar others participated in making a decision can decrease support for the result. The current research attempts to determine whether knowledge that similar citizens participated in public transportation policymaking or elites designed a transit policy affects support for the policy as well as general support for the policy process. Results from a survey experiment suggest that who participates matters. Citizens do not want “people like …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet June 2012, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The June 2012 Monthly packet includes the June agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held May 2012

Food For Thought: Sustainability, Community-Engaged Teaching And Research, And Critical Food Literacy, Dianna Winslow

Writing Program – Dissertations

Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation. Marion Nestle's Food Politics. Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. The films Food, Inc. and The Future of Food. Debates over the industrialized food and farming system currently circulating in nonfiction books, documentaries, and public forums have immediacy for college students--and for anyone who eats. Food for Thought: Sustainability, Community-Engaged Teaching and Critical Food Literacy argues that fostering the development of critical food literacy is necessary for college students to have a voice in current and future public conversations on food politics and environmental sustainability, and the social …

Climate Action Grant For Street Improvements In Santa Paula, Lorien E. Clark

City and Regional Planning

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Locating Keith Aoki: Space, Geography, And Local Government Law, Rick Su

Journal Articles

The late legal scholar Keith Aoki wrote on a wide range of legal issues, from intellectual property and genetic engineering to immigration and racial politics. This retrospective highlights his work on space, legal geography, and local government law. Aoki not only began his legal career exploring these issues, he also continuously drew upon their insights to frame legal inquiries in other fields as the scope of his research expanded. This essay shows Aoki to be more than an innovator in the study of space, legal geography and local government law. Indeed, he was one of their most important ambassadors.

Identifying Risk Factors For Disparities In Breast Cancer Mortality Among African-American And Hispanic Women, Nancy Tian, Pierre Goovaerts, T. Benjamin Zhan, T. Edwin Chow, J. Gaines Wilson

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Chemistry)

Background: This study evaluated the risk factors associated with racial disparities in female breast cancer mortality for African-American and Hispanic women at the census tract level in Texas from 1995 to 2005.

Methods: Data on female breast cancer cases were obtained from the Texas Cancer Registry. Socioeconomic and demographic data were collected from Census 2000. Network distance and driving times to mammography facilities were estimated using Geographic Information System techniques. Demographic, poverty and spatial accessibility factors were constructed using principal component analysis. Logistic regression models were developed to predict the census tracts with significant racial disparities in breast cancer mortality …

Using Single-Case Participatory Action Research As A Methodology To Explore Appalachian Summer Camp Communities, Barry Garst, Nancy K. Franz Dr., Brian Peters, Chris Smith, Sarah Baughman

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

Community educators have long known the value of direct experience in the learning process. Participatory action research extends this philosophy to the realm of research. This article examines the value of involving front line camp staff, members of the camp community in Appalachia as practitioner researchers with university scientists in studying the type and conditions of transformative learning in young adult camp staff. A young adult who was a camp community member assisted the researchers with methodology, data analysis, data interpretation, and dissemination of findings. This resulted in a more accurate, richer, and thicker description of the camp community member’s …

Engaging Rural And Urban Appalachians In Research Using A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach, Laureen H. Smith, Jessica Valenzuela, Robert L. Ludke

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

Appalachians are particularly vulnerable to chronic diseases as documented by recent national studies that have identified disproportionally higher rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and premature mortality for this population. Evidence-based interventions to reduce rates of diabetes and obesity among adults and children have been ineffective among Appalachians where multiple factors including poor living conditions, limited health information, lifestyle behaviors, and lack of access to health care interact to increase the prevalence of these problems. However, there is growing evidence that Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) conducted through community-academic partnerships can lead to significant health and social impact in communities faced …

Mother Nature And The Heavenly Father: Christianity And The Environment In A Globalized World, Wouter Hammink

Macalester International

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Energy-Based Economic Development: Mapping The Developing Country Context, Sanya Carley, Sameeksha Desai, Morgan Bazilian

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national economic development and sustainable growth activities. As both policy and research interests in responsible mechanisms for economic development grow, EBED benefits are becoming increasingly attractive to planners in both developed and developing countries. The incentives, trade-offs, and payoffs for developing countries, however, are not well documented. To help address that gap, this paper identifies the general scope and role of EBED in a developing economy context, and outlines opportunities and challenges for decision-makers.

A Mighty Wind: The Turbulent Times Of America's First Offshore Wind Farm And The Inverse Of Environmental Justice, M.W. Marinakos

Environmental and Earth Law Journal (EELJ)

In 2001, Cape Wind Associates announced its proposal to construct America’s first offshore wind farm in the federal waters of Nantucket Sound. This declaration touched off a storm of law suits, fund raising, and protests in the press that still rages to this day. Political pundits and environmental groups of every stripe have taken some surprising positions, based solely on the location of the renewable energy source. The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, posing as an environmental concern, has risen as the archrival to the wind farm. Interestingly, a closer look under the surface of this group reveals a financial …

Taking The Law Into Their Own Hands: Fence Line Fighting And Environmental Justice, A Journalist's Point Of View, Ronnie Greene

Environmental and Earth Law Journal (EELJ)

An investigative journalist describes how grassroots environmental struggles in three different communities—in Oklahoma, Florida, and Louisiana—contain similarities that reveal larger patterns about the long path communities must follow to achieve environmental justice. Residents living near industry fence lines cannot depend on regulators or industry to protect them, the author concludes, but must gather their own evidence of pollution’s effects. Environmental justice—in the form of reduced pollution or relocation from dangerous plants—is possible. But, as the case studies show, such resolution is achieved only after years of struggle and persistence.