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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 040, Number 07, October 12, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2015-2016, Volume 40

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

October 12, 2015, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Evaluating Faciltated Migration As A Climate Change Adaptation Approach In Southern Ontario's Sugar Maple Ecosystems, Kaitlyn Mcglade

Geography and Environmental Studies Major Research Papers

This research seeks to provide an explanation and evaluation of facilitated migration as an adaptation approach for improving the long-term resilience and sustainability of Acer saccharum (sugar maple) ecosystems and sugarbush production. The research concludes that faciliated migration is supported by producers and other industry stakeholders as a feasable adaptation approach for improving resilience and sustainability.

Meteorologist Alum Recounts Desperate Desire For A Snow Day, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Newsnotes

Vincentian Studies

No abstract provided.

If You Knew The End Of The Story, Would You Still Want To Hear It?: The Importance Of Narrative Time For Mental Health Care, Vicki Saunders, Juanita Sherwood, Kim Usher

The Qualitative Report

The origins of this paper lie in our experiences of having heard too many stories with the same outcome or ending in the field of inquiry and practice described as “Aboriginal Mental Health.” This paper was written in an attempt to make sense of these experiences. It does so by focussing on another type of outcome or story ending in mental health care/research contexts more widely known as [Recovery]. Not to be confused with the term recovery as it is used in addiction studies, the concept of [Recovery] currently underpinning mental health care policies and reform is at once a …

West Chester University Emerald Ash Borer Plan, West Chester, Pa, Kendra Mcmillin, Gerard D. Hertel

WCU Tree Campus USA Documents

No abstract provided.

Exploring South Dakota Data Online, Mary Killsahundred

South Dakota Demography Conference

Explore South Dakota data tools focusing on the Census’ interactive population feature On The Map and fun tips on how to use on the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the American Indian Labor Force Report online tool.

Understanding Census Data For Rural Areas, Kim Davis

South Dakota Demography Conference

ow is data for the American Community Survey collected and applied to rural places like South Dakota? Participants will be shown how to access multiple levels of ACS data.

Coupling Benefits: Strategies For Vacant Land Reuse Along Cleveland's Opportunity Corridor, Jeffrey Kruth

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

This paper discusses large scale planning efforts pertaining to vacant land reuse, economic development, and public participation along the Opportunity Corridor project in Cleveland, Ohio. The Corridor is a $331 million roadway project that will span 3.3 miles through some of Cleveland’s most blighted neighborhoods. Issues of distributional justice including underperforming public education, poor public health indicators, high rates of vacancy, and aging infrastructure contribute to neighborhood blight throughout the area. Stormwater management, access to multi-modal transportation, brownfield mitigation, and economic development are also prevalent issues throughout the project area. Advocacy work by the Kent State University Cleveland Urban Design …

Permanently Grassroots With Neighborspace, Ben R. Helphand

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

The history of community gardening in North America has followed a boom and bust cycle; expanding in times of crisis only to retract when a feeling of security returns. This jarring cycle is facilitated by a view of community gardens as a temporary, pop-up, land-use. By framing gardens from the onset as ephemeral it is assumed that they will one day be replaced by a “higher and better use.” In order to break out of this cycle and have a permanent place in the urban geography it is imperative that models are developed that provide both long-term land security and …

Cities, Gardening, And Urban Citizenship: Transforming Vacant Acres Into Community Resources, Matthew Delsesto

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

What does the urban gardener do, in the process of reclaiming and transforming previously vacant and abandoned land? What are the political, social, and ecological implications of creating community managed and owned spaces through urban agriculture? To address such questions, in the context of work that is being done across the world to transform vacant land into community resources, this article investigates the powerful potential of community managed gardening projects from the perspective of urban citizenship. First, the term “urban citizenship” is explored, with particular emphasis on the distinction between passive and active forms of citizenship. The article then explores …

Inventorying Land Availability And Suitability For Community Gardens In Madison, Wisconsin, Francis Eanes, Stephen J. Ventura

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Problem: Planners, politicians, organizations, and citizens in many cities recognize community gardens as a vital part of urban food production. To fulfill community or organizational goals, it is helpful to systematically identify and assess urban vacant land that could be used as potential garden sites.

Purpose: The technical purpose of this project was to demonstrate how stakeholder input could be combined with expert opinions and applied to available data to create an inventory of undeveloped land potentially available for community gardens. In the specific context of Madison, WI, it provided information relevant to the city's planning and land use goals. …

Transformation Of Urban Vacant Lots For The Common Good: An Introduction To The Special Issue, Peleg Kremer, Zoé Hamstead

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Vacant land is a common condition in urban areas across the globe. Individuals, organizations, government agencies and scholars across the world are advocating, transforming, and governing urban vacant land in many different ways. This special issue builds on the Vacant Acres Symposium that was hosted by 596 Acres and The Tishman Environment and Design Center in New York, NY in April 2014, to understand the multiple ways in which these activities are taking place and share the lessons they offer by tapping into the knowledge and experiences of practitioners and scholarship focused on the work of transformation.

Understanding Relative Incomes And Wages, Mark Boehm

South Dakota Demography Conference

Making the case for South Dakota gets easier with GOED’s national wage calculator.

Business Builder: The Newest Tool From The Us Census, Weiwei Zhang

South Dakota Demography Conference

With this new tool from the Census, business owners and entrepreneurs can design strategies for success.

Agenda And Reports, Juvenile Welfare Board, October 8, 2015, Juvenile Welfare Board Of Pinellas County

Juvenile Welfare Board Agendas, Minutes, and Historical Audits

Agenda for the October 8, 2015, meeting of the Juvenile Welfare Board. Also included are previous meetings' minutes and documents to review before the meeting.

Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, October 8-9, 2015

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on October 8-9, 2015.

Volume 53, Number 8: October 07, 2015, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Military Law: Time To Mandate Best Interests Of The Child To Restrict Deployments Of Parents That Affect Preschool Children, John A. Lynch Jr.

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2010s

No abstract provided.

Sea Level Rise Misconceptions In Broward County, Fl, Keren Prize Bolter

Coastal Resilience Workshop

No abstract provided.

Caribou, Petroleum, And The Limits Of Locality In The Canada–Us Borderlands, Jenny Kerber

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

his article discusses Karsten Heuer’s 2006 book Being Caribou in light of debates in ecocriticism and border studies about how to define the local in the context of environmental problems of vast range and uncertain temporality. It explores how Heuer’s book about following the Porcupine Caribou herd’s migration engages in multiple forms of boundary crossing—between countries, between hemispheric locations, and between species—and shows how insights from Indigenous storytelling complicate the book’s appeal to environmentalist readers by asserting a prior, transnational Indigenous presence in the transboundary landscapes of present-day Alaska and the Yukon.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 91, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Henderson, Andrew. Former Swim Team Member Files Federal Lawsuit Against University – Collin Craig
• Ares, Nicole. Straight Outta the Garden – Urban Farming, Agriculture
• Young, Alyse & Tommy Sullivan. Departments Move Into Honors College & International Center
• Mayo, Marcel. Consignment Store a Possibility for Students
• Mayo, Marcel. Baptist Campus Ministry Organizes Mission Trip to Southeast Asia – Baptist Student Union
• Pettway, Shantel. WKU Student Questions Presidential Candidate on Muslim Americans – Lillian Nellans, Donald Trump, Politicians
• Wright, Samantha. Changes to Refund System Push Back Disbursement – Student Financial Aid …

October 6, 2015, Faculty Senate

Minutes

No abstract provided.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session October 6, 2015, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Minutes of the WMU Board of Trustees meeting include appendices:

• State Capital Outlay
• Proposal- EUP Program Expansion
• Honorary Degree Policy

Using Future Benefits To Set Conservation Priorities For Wetlands, Samuel B. Merrill

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

In an era of rising sea levels, costal land managers including land trust representatives, municipal planners, and others contributing to decisions about whether to develop or protect coastal parcels do not have viable means of evaluating future values on wetlands that will be created when sea levels rise. This project develops and tests a software modeling approach to help address this issue, in combination with a novel, expert-opinion driven benefit-cost framework. The beta test used three parcels in Scarborough, Maine: Hampton Circle, Maine Audubon, and Pine Point. It used a group of experts to 1) allocate initial values to these …

Fluctuating Fire Regimes And Their Historical Effects On Genetic Variation In An Endangered Shrubland Specialist, Hernan Vázquez-Miranda, Kelly R. Barr, C. Craig Farquhar, Robert M. Zink

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The Pleistocene was characterized by worldwide shifts in community compositions. Some of these shifts were a result of changes in fire regimes, which influenced the distribution of species belonging to fire-dependent communities. We studied an endangered juniper–oak shrubland specialist, the black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapilla). This species was locally extirpated in parts of Texas and Oklahoma by the end of the 1980s as a result of habitat change and loss, predation, brood parasitism, and anthropogenic fire suppression. We sequenced multiple nuclear loci and used coalescence methods to obtain a deeper understanding of historical population trends than that typically available …

Curacao: Building On The Power Of The Past, Robertico R. Croes, Kelly J. Semrad, Manuel A. Rivera

Dick Pope Sr. Institute Publications

Curaçao faces hard choices in the upcoming years. High unemployment (especially among the youth), a stagnant economy, and low confidence levels may spiral the island into dangerous socio-economic waters. These domestic challenges are occurring in the midst of the global economic uncertainties that have been triggered by a shaky Chinese economy, a weakened European Union and Euro, and the deepening economic travails and budget problems of Brazil and Venezuela.

Yet, despite these challenges, Curaçao has made great strides in the tourism sector compared to other economic sectors on the island. The tourism sector demonstrated resilience against outside shocks and was …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 040, Number 06, October 05, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2015-2016, Volume 40

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.