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Institutional Barriers To Sustainable Urban Development: A Case Study Of Civano In Tucson, Arizona, Kelly Turner

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Sustainable urbanism attempts to curtail the negative environmental consequences of urban sprawl through best practices in urban design, yet there is a perception among experts that many developments may fall short of ideals in practice. Studies have enumerated multiple implementation barriers as evidence of shortcomings, yet few studies have empirically linked barriers to environmental impact. To address this gap, this study asks: how do institutional structures constrain the capacity to implement design alternatives and achieve the environmental goals of sustainable urbanism? The study presents interview, document, and environmental performance data in an institutional analysis of a case study, Civano, a …

Social Desire Paths: A New Theoretical Concept To Increase The Usability Of Social Science Research In Society, Laura Nichols

Sociology

Social scientists are well-trained to observe and chart social trends, but less experienced at presenting scientific findings in formats that can inform social change work. In this article, I propose a new theoretical concept that provides a mechanism by which social science research can be more effectively applied for proactive policy, organizational, and program development. The approach is to use the metaphor of “desire paths” from landscape architecture to show how social scientists can identify and analyze social desire paths that appear on the social structural landscape. Social desire paths usually emerge because existing formal structures do not meet individual …

Faculty Research Interest Database, David Owerbach

Office of Research Institutional Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Guarding The Subjective Premium: Condemnation Risk Discounts In The Housing Market, Sebastien Gay, Nadia Nasser-Ghodsi

Articles

No abstract provided.

Social Workers As Social Change Agents: Social Innovation, Social Intrapreneurship, And Social Entrepreneurship, Monica Nandan, Manuel London, Tricia Bent-Goodley

Faculty Articles

This article explores and describes social innovation, social intrapreneurship, and social entrepreneurship practiced by social workers within human service organizations. Each year, the nature and complexity of clients’ problems and challenges experienced by communities continuously evolves and grows. These challenges call for social workers to lead and facilitate social change that can have a lasting impact on communities and people. The authors report findings from an exploratory, descriptive study conducted with ten social workers on these practices. The findings point to the need to develop and integrate these contents within social work education and further promote dual-degree graduate programs.

Teaching Health Advocacy To Medical Students: A Comparison Study., Julia Belkowitz, Lee M Sanders, Chi Zhang, Gauri Agarwal, Daniel Lichtstein, Alex J Mechaber, Esther K Chung

Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers

CONTEXT: Many encourage service learning and health advocacy training in medical student education, but related evaluation is limited.

OBJECTIVES: To assess (1) impact of a required community health advocacy training for medical students on student attitudes, knowledge, and skills; (2) student characteristics associated with higher advocacy knowledge and skills; and (3) perspectives of community-based organizations (CBOs).

DESIGN: Cross-sectional surveys.

SETTING: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (UMMSM) Regional Medical Campus and main campus.

PARTICIPANTS: Medical students at both UMMSM campuses.

INTERVENTION: Required community health advocacy training for first- and second-year students including classroom experiences and hands-on project in partnership …

Fourteenth Annual Garrett Morgan Sustainable Transportation Symposium, Mti Report S-14-01, Mineta Transportation Institute

Mineta Transportation Institute

On March 27, 2014, the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) continued its support of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Garrett A. Morgan Technology and Transportation Futures Program by conducting the Fourteenth Annual National Garrett Morgan Symposium and Videoconference on Sustainable Transportation. The ongoing mission of this national videoconference is to stimulate the minds of young people and to encourage them to pursue challenging academic programs including mathematics and science – an education course that will prepare students for tomorrow’s challenging transportation careers. Participating schools were: Cardozo Middle School, Washington DC; Findlay Middle School, North Las Vegas NV; Juan Crespi Middle School, …

Today - October 31, 2014, Loma Linda University Health

TODAY

Inside this issue:

-- School of Medicine alumni share their stories of being on the front lines of the war against Ebola
-- Heart surgeon Ellsworth Wareham celebrates his 100th birthday with nearly 200 friends and colleagues
-- Paralympics bronze medalist shares personal journey at PossAbilities luncheon
-- Loma Linda University Health recognized for transplantation and organ donation
-- Shark survivor Mike Coots fights to save sharks and help amputees
-- Innovation seminar speaker explains novel approach of spiral thinking
-- 'A Walk to Remember' draws grieving families
-- Loma Linda University Health works to create strong healthcare leaders in …

Dare To Care: Teaching Leadership To Gifted Students, Sarah E. Fox

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This thesis details the creation and execution of the class “Dare to Care: Teaching Leadership to Gifted Students,” which was offered through a Saturday enrichment program to gifted middle school students. The class combined the study of leadership skills with the idea of being a change agent—a leader who uses his or her abilities to make a positive difference. This thesis documents the lesson plans of the class and students’ reactions to each lesson.

Etruscan Trade Networks: Understanding The Significance Of Imported Materials At Remote Etruscan Settlements Through Trace Element Analysis Using Non-Destructive X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry, Patrick T. Woodruff

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Etruscan civilization was rich in local and interregional trade. Its exchange networks were vital in establishing relationships with other societies, importing exotic materials and goods, as well as disseminating and assimilating information. However, there is little understanding of the participation of smaller inland settlements in the act of exchange. This research answers questions pertaining to the purpose of trade within these self-sustaining communities, the reliability of identifying geographic locations of the clay used in ancient ceramics through the use of non-destructive X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry without sampling current regional clay sources, and the materiality of the ceramics being exchanged …

Unh Research: School Districts Continue To Restrain And Seclude Students With A Disability, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Restraint And Seclusion Of Students With A Disability Continue To Be Common In Some School Districts Patterns Remain Relatively Consistent Despite Recent Policy Changes, Douglas J. Gagnon, Marybeth J. Mattingly, Vincent J. Connelly

Carsey Publications

In 2013, Carsey released a brief that analyzed rates of restraint and seclusion using a large, nationally representative data set of U.S. school districts. This brief, which analyzes a more comprehensive data set and the most current Civil Rights Data Collection, serves as a follow-up to the pre­vious brief. Authors Douglas Gagnon, Marybeth Mattingly, and Vincent Connelly report that, despite numerous states with revised policies related to seclusion and restraint in schools between 2009 and 2012, trends in the rates of restraint and seclusion of students with a disability in the United States remained relatively consistent between survey years. Low-poverty, …

An Examination Of Coalition Functioning And Use Of Evidence-Based Practices: A Case Study Of Four Community Substance Abuse Coalitions, Nichole M. Snyder

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

There has been a recent expansion of community-based coalitions to address issues related to youth substance use. Research on their overall effectiveness, however, has produced mixed results. Recommendations to improve coalition success have emphasized the high-quality implementation of evidence-based programs targeting specific community needs. Coalitions vary extensively, however, in their organization and functioning. In addition, the lack of a universally accepted theoretical framework to understand coalition functioning has led to inconsistencies in the coalition research and the specific constructs used to describe coalition functioning.

Purpose of the Study: To address these gaps, the current study used a case study approach …

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol 5 Issue 7, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

No abstract provided.

After Rio: The Sustainable Development Concept Following The United Nations Conference On Environment And Development, Rebecca A. Hoelting

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Introduction To The M-Group, Geoff I. Bradley

Focus

No abstract provided.

Design Codes In England - New Urbanist Inspiration?, Ivor Samuels

Focus

No abstract provided.

Health Insurance Among Young Adults Rebounds Post Recession: More Become Dependents On A Parent's Plan After Aca Extends Coverage To Adult Children, Michael J. Staley, Jess Carson

Carsey Publications

While much of the existing research explores young adults' insurance only in the post-recession period (that is, 2010 to present), authors Michael Staley and Jessica Carson assess young adults' rates of coverage within and beyond the context of the recession by examining changes across the entire 2007 to 2012 period.

2014 October 6

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Kids Count The State Of The Child In Tennessee 2013, Tennessee. Commission On Children & Youth.

The State of the Child in Tennessee

No abstract provided.

Feasibility Of A Mangrove-Based Carbon Business In Makoba Bay, Unguja, Zanzibar, Janice Liang

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Mangrove ecosystems, along with other coastal vegetation, have tremendous potential to be abundant carbon sinks. With the prospect of carbon sequestered in coastal ecosystems starting to be explored in carbon credit markets, this study attempts to assess the feasibility of a mangrove-based carbon business in Makoba Bay, Unguja, Zanzibar. An aboveground carbon estimation demonstrates that the mangrove forest of Makoba Bay is a recovering ecosystem, but has the potential to be initiated into a program such as REDD+ in the future. Social surveys in both Makoba Bay and Chwaka Bay also indicate that a number of improvements would have to …

Improving Social Resilience In Response To Climate Change In Far North Queensland And Torres Strait, Katie Costantini

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Currently, most approaches to decision-making in response to climate change have been based on biophysical knowledge, even though climate change is an inherently social dilemma. Social resilience involves communities’ ability to mitigate and prepare for the effects of climate change and recover to an improved state. Professor Allan Dale and his colleagues at the Cairns Institute at James Cook University developed a framework for social resilience based on four attributes: (1) Economic Viability, (2) Community Knowledge, Aspirations, and Capacity, (3) Community Vitality, and (4) Governance. They are using this framework to evaluate and monitor Far North Queensland and Torres Strait …

Health Law As Social Justice, Lindsay F. Wiley

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Cyberspace Knowledge Gaps And Boundaries In Sustainability Science: Topics, Regions, Editorial Teams And Journals, Stanley D. Brunn

Geography Faculty Publications

The scholarly world of sustainability science is one that is international and interdisciplinary, but is one, on close reading of research contributions, editoral teams, journal citations, and geographic coverage, that has much unevenness. The focus of this paper is on the cyberspace boundaries between and within fields and disciplines studying sustainability; these boundaries separate knowledge gaps or uneven patterns in sustainability scholarship. I use the volume of hyperlinks on Google Search Engine and Google Scholar to illustrate the nature and extent of the boundaries in cyberspace that exist and also the subject and geographic gaps in the home countries of …

Native American Studies 2014 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Native American Studies APR self-study report, review team report, and initial action plan for Fall 2014, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

2014 October, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for October of 2014.

Beyond Sustainability: A New Conceptual Model, Molly Kerby, Gayle Mallinger

eJournal of Public Affairs

Over the last few decades, the notion of sustainability has become an interdisciplinary buzz word. Sustainability has been an integrative concept that includes three constructs or pillars: a) social; b) economic; and c) ecological. Until recently, theoretical approaches based on the three pillars approach have operated in silos rather than exploring the interconnectedness of the constructs. Few models have moved beyond the idea that logical relations exist among the constructs (social, economic, and ecological) to consider factors external to communities, nor have they examined the internal socio-economic factors that influence positive outcomes. While this conceptualization has raised awareness about the …

The Structural Wall Of Separation And The Erroneous Claim Of Anti-Catholic Discrimination, Robert D. Goldstein

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal

No abstract provided.

Still Seeking Justice: The Marshall Inquiry Narratives

UBC Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Energy Conversion Playground (Ecp) Design Task: Assessing How Students Think About Technical And Non-Technical Considerations In Sustainable Community Development, Andrea Mazzurco Ph.D., James L. Huff Ph.D., Brent K. Jesiek Ph.D.

Faculty Research and Publications

Students in global service-learning and similar programs frequently encounter substantial social, cultural, political, and ethical differences when working with project partners in different countries and regions. Neglecting such differences can lead to project failures and/or disempowered communities. In response to these challenges, educational resources have been developed to teach students to think about how the people, social structures, and other contextual factors associated with projects can affect, and be affected by, students’ designs. Yet, there remains a scarcity of valid and reliable instruments to evaluate the effectiveness of such interventions. The purpose of this study is create a theoretically and …