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Social Work And The Environment, Stephanie Rendall

Thinking Matters Symposium Archive

The purpose of this study is to explore how social work students, faculty, and staff, understand environmental justice and their perceived level of environmental engagement in their respective programs. It is an exploratory study that employed purposive, convenience sampling to select individuals with different roles within their social work programs. The basic research question guiding this study is, “How do participants perceive their environmental education or engagement within their social work program?”

Agrarian Reform In Sumber Klampok, Emma Trainor

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Agrarian reform in Indonesia is part of a movement beginning after independence was gained in 1945. Farmers have been fighting to obtain rights to their land from a government that has a history of violence, repression, and corruption for decades. Environmental, indigenous peoples’, peasant, and agrarian movements were given a legitimate, legal framework to work within after 1960 when the Basic Agrarian Law was passed, protecting the rights of the people to their land. However, during both the Old Order and especially New Order regimes, the law was often ignored by the government, and many grassroots organizations had to work …

Final Project: Ignatian Pedagogy Certificate, Elisabeth R. Bayley

Ignatian Pedagogy Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Parks, People, And Property Values: The Changing Role Of Green Spaces In Antebellum Manhattan, Catherine Mcneur

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

The role that parks played in Manhattan changed dramatically during the antebellum period. Originally dismissed as unnecessary on an island embraced by rivers, parks became a tool for real estate development and gentrification in the 1830s. By the 1850s, politicians, journalists, and landscape architects believed Central Park could be a social salve for a city with rising crime rates, increasingly visible poverty, and deepening class divisions. While many factors (public health, the psychological need for parks, and property values) would remain the same, the changing social conversation showed how ideas of public space were transforming, in rhetoric if not reality.

Beyond Sanctioned Activism In Carl Hiaasen’S Flush: Sacrifice Zones In Realistic Fiction, Alexandra Panos

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

This literary analysis considers realistic children’s literature as a powerful means of exploring children’s futures within the challenge of environmental and economic degradation today.

College Connections Newsletter, Spring 2017, Cahs Dean's Office Staff

CAHS College Connections Newsletter

In this issue:

• 2017 Commencement
• Alumni Notes
• CAHS Announces Dean
• Libra Professorship: Molded by the Flow
• News from Academic Programs
• Scholarship Awards Event
• Student Notes

Editorial: Critical Perspectives On Deviance And Social Control In Rural Africa, Biko Agozino

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

There is an urban and western bias in criminology as a sub-field of sociology compared to the preoccupation of colonial anthropology with rural cultures in search of ‘intelligence’ that would facilitate the colonization of the natives. This papyrus surveys the efforts by scholars to critically account for the phenomena of deviance and social control in Africa from the distant past to the present. There is a consensus that human life originated in Africa and that Africans pioneered the building of cities before this form of human settlement spread to other parts of the world. Hence, the study of deviance and …

Factors That Determine Civil Action In Opposition To Hydroelectric Development Along The Chiriquí Viejo River In The Chiriquí Province Of Panamá, Nora Sawyer

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Hydroelectric development has increased rapidly throughout Latin America in the late 20th and early 21st centuries (del Mar Rubio et al. 2014). In 2014, Latin America represented 20 percent of the world’s hydropower (del Mar Rubio et al. 2014). It is also the main source of power generation throughout Latin America, accounting for roughly 65 percent of all electricity generated (Wheeler 2012). Within Panamá, significant hydroelectric development has been happening in the Chiriquí province. Local peoples’ dissatisfaction with the actions of the hydropower companies has increased with time, resulting in civilians and organizations taking action in opposition to these companies …

Crisis Communication, Socio-Economic Inequalities, And Governmental Risk Management: Analysis Of The 2016 Baton Rouge Floods, Joan Crockett Lyons

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Usage Of Green Spaces At The University Of Cape Coast By Non-African Foreign Students, Yaw Asamoah, Ishmael Mensah, Osman Adams, Paul Baidoo, Akosua B. Ameyaw-Akumfi, Collins Adjei Mensah Dr.

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

Universities all over the world have green spaces (GS) as an integral part of their campuses because of the significant benefits derived from them. Aside enhancing the image of universities, GS influence the academic performance of students by reducing stress. This paper examines the preferences and uses of green spaces on UCC campus by Non-African foreign students (NAFS). Data was collected through in-depth interviews, observations and by the use of Arc-GIS 10.1 software. Sixteen NAFS were interviewed during the second semester of the 2013/2014 academic year. It was found out that the usage of GS was influenced by factors such …

Ngo Organizing For Environmental Sustainability In Brazil: Meaningful Work, Commonality, And Contradiction, Marlene Marchiori, Patrice M. Buzzanell

Communication Faculty Publications

Through our case study of a Brazilian not-for-profit focused on sustainability initiatives, we expand knowledge about communicative labor in different Brazilian organizational environments, especially in the third (nonprofit/nongovernmental) sector. Based on a case study for which thematic analyses of in-depth interviews with the entire nongovernmental organization (NGO), including its board and staff, were conducted, we found three communicative labor processes that displayed how members entered into, thought about, performed, embodied, and sustained interaction in ways that are considered to be a hallmark of the particular Brazilian third-sector organization that we studied. The three processes of communicative labor—depicting NGO work as …

The Wealth In Waste: America's Ability To Enter The Waste To Energy Market By Embracing European Landfill Diversion, Waste Framework, And Renewable Energy Laws And Waste To Energy Initiatives, Emilio Lamanna

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The note argues that the United States should adopt European Union (EU) strategies for waste management, particularly landfill diversion and waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies, to address its significant environmental and economic challenges. The EU's success in reducing landfill use and increasing renewable energy production through directives and portfolio standards serves as a model for the U.S. The author proposes that the U.S. implement a Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Portfolio Standard and a national Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) to promote WtE and reduce reliance on landfills.

Civil Trials: A Film Illusion?, Taunya L. Banks

Fordham Law Review

As Judge Elrod’s comments suggest, the most well-known courtroom film classics, like 12 Angry Men, Anatomy of a Murder, or Witness for the Prosecution are about criminal trials. This fact may be unimportant because the distinction between criminal and civil trial films often is lost on the general public. Unanswered is whether the distinction between criminal and civil trials is important when determining the impact of the decline in real-life civil trials on American popular culture and courtroom films in particular. This question is the focus of this Article.

Gentrification And Displacement: An Environmental Justice Challenge For Social Work In Urban Environments, Eileen M. Brennan, Kevin Jones, Ryan Elizabeth Bender

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

This chapter presents a lesson which includes a case study highlighting the social, economic, and environmental injustices associated with the gentrification of Northeast Portland, Oregon, US. The reader will then engage in an exercise, which includes reviewing the suggested video clip and news article segment highlighting experiences of families caught up in gentrification in Northeast Portland. Finally, the reader will work through the associated questions and activities to achieve the learning outcomes.

Dipl 6140 International Human Rights, Zinaida Miller Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

What are human rights? What do they promise and how often is that promise achieved? This class will examine the law, politics, policy, and advocacy practices of human rights. Although much of our class will focus on human rights as law and through legal mechanisms and institutions, we will also analyze the political, policy, and philosophical implications of human rights. On the legal front, we will explore the role of international and domestic law in enacting and enforcing human rights claims, the institutions of international human rights law, and the relationships between different types or “generations” of rights. In the …

Civil Trials: A Film Illusion?, Taunya L. Banks

Fordham Law Review

As Judge Elrod’s comments suggest, the most well-known courtroom film classics, like 12 Angry Men, Anatomy of a Murder, or Witness for the Prosecution are about criminal trials. This fact may be unimportant because the distinction between criminal and civil trial films often is lost on the general public. Unanswered is whether the distinction between criminal and civil trials is important when determining the impact of the decline in real-life civil trials on American popular culture and courtroom films in particular. This question is the focus of this Article.

April 1, 2017 (Pages 1843-1990), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 47 (2017)

No abstract provided.

After Flint: Environmental Justice As Equal Protection, David A. Dana, Deborah Tuerkheimer

Northwestern University Law Review

This Essay conceptualizes the Flint water crisis as an archetypical case of underenforcement—that is, a denial of the equal protection of laws guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Viewed as such, the inadequacy of environmental regulation can be understood as a failure that extends beyond the confines of Flint; a failure that demands a far more expansive duty to protect vulnerable populations.

Transportation Cost Index: A Comprehensive Performance Measure For Transportation And Land Use Systems And Its Application In Or, Fl, And Ut, Liming Wang, Jenny H. Liu

TREC Final Reports

MAP-21 and state laws are placing increasing emphasis on using comprehensive transportation performance measures that include mobility, safety, economy, livability, equity, and environmental to guide transportation decision-making. One of the toughest challenges keeping DOTs and MPOs from adopting comprehensive measures in the decision process is the lack of performance measures allowing consistent comparison of multimodal performance over time and across geographic areas. This project advances a transportation cost index (TCI) initially proposed by Oregon DOT from a proof-of-concept stage to implementation and operational use at the state, MPO, and community levels. After pilot tests and early adoption in Oregon, we …

Designing Digital Literacy Programming For Transformative Social Engagement, Tim Miller

Online Northwest

Developing library programming that meets the needs of the organization and community but is also interesting and accessible to your audience often feels impossible. However, engaging with the community is not a sisyphean task. Spending time on social engagement and activism will allow you to understand what the community’s needs and interests are so that you can design digital literacy programming that has an audience. Learn how the Humboldt State Library has used the Salzburg Curriculum (http://salzburg.hyperlib.sjsu.edu/) to guide the role of the Digital Media Lab and how you can strategize to improve your programming.

On Morals, Markets, And Climate Change: Exploring Pope Francis’ Challenge, Jonas J. Monast, Brian C. Murray, Jonathan B. Wiener

Law and Contemporary Problems

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Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine

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Student Life E-Newsletter March 27, 2017, Seattle University School Of Law Student Life

Student Life E-Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Standing Up For Standing Rock: Environmental Racism In Modern America, Lizzy Lebleu

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

In this essay, I explore the implications of environmental racism among our national and global neighbors.

Curricular Report No. 2016-17-5 From The Graduate Council To The Faculty Senate., University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 51, No. 51, March 23, 2017, Grand Valley State University

Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Flyer News, Vol. 64, No. 11 (March 21, 2017), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

Food Access Narratives In Southeast Portland, Oregon, Gwyneth Genevieve Mckee Manser

Dissertations and Theses

Since the late 1990's, "food deserts" have dominated the academic and policy literature on food access and food security. Food deserts are defined as areas that lack easy access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food, and are typically measured using Geographic Information Systems and spatial data sets. However, while food deserts may provide a useful measure for identifying food insecurity at a broad scale, they fail to account for individual definitions and perceptions of food access (Barnes et al. 2015; McEntee 2009). Furthermore, the food desert model assumes a lack of agency on the part of low-income populations (Alkon et …

Rotunda - Vol 95, No. 19 - Mar. 20, 2017, Longwood University

Rotunda

No abstract provided.

The Faithful Flyer, 03-19-2017, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

No abstract provided.