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Exploring The Health Implications Of Mixed-Income Communities: Mariposa, Denver, Co, Emily Miller

Faculty Scholarship

This site profle is part of a series that spotlights mixed-income community transformations that emphasize health and wellness in their strategic interventions. The Mixed-Income Strategic Alliance produced these profles to better understand the health implications of creating thriving and inclusive communities with a socioeconomically and racially diverse population. This site profle, which focuses on Mariposa, was developed through interviews with local stakeholders as well as a review of publicly-available and internal documents.

Analysis Of A Twitterfeed Community Of Practicing K-8 Reform-Minded Science Teachers, Susan P. Unger

Open Access Dissertations

Authors of Next Generation Science Standards suggest that to improve student learning in science, there should be an emphasis on “figuring out” science ideas rather than “learning about” science content. Teachers may likely need support in their attempt to implement these standards. Moreover, changes in pedagogy and classroom culture that facilitate implementation of NGSS could challenge science teachers’ identities. Research shows that professional development should be contextually based, sustained, and relevant. Recently, online platforms of professional development (PD) have emerged with affordances that can accommodate many of the aspects of effective PD. Twitter has been shown to be an effective …

Combining The Iad And Ses Frameworks, Daniel H. Cole, Graham Epstein, Michael D. Mcginnis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Employee Retention Strategies In Nonprofit Organizations, Ann Laing

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The nonprofit sector is faced with the business problem of low employee retention rates. Low employee retention rate presents various business challenges, which includes the inability to offer community members much needed social service programs as well as providing a competitive compensation package to their employees. The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to explore the evidence-based best practice strategies in employee retention used in the nonprofit sector. The research included a conceptual framework focusing on Herzberg's Motivation - Hygiene Theory. The conceptual framework utilized in this study included segmentation of different employee retention strategies in nonprofit organizations. Data …

Public Health Workforce Perceived Impact Of Emerging Issues In Public Health, Kristie C. Waterfield

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Background: In an era where public health has been viewed as a global, multi-disciplinary field, the public health workforce has remained united to unfailingly holding fast to the mission of protecting, promoting, and improving the health of the public. However, the practice of public health is consistently evolving, and the workforce is continually facing a mirage of challenges. In order to overcome these challenges, practitioners need to be up-to-date on the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively deliver the core public health services.

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to explore the perceived impact of emerging trends in public …

The Delivery Of Mixed Communities In The Regeneration Of Urban Waterfronts: An Investigation Of The Comparative Experience Of Plymouth And Bristol, Daniel Thorning, Christopher Balch, Stephen Essex

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The raison d’être of spatial planning is to secure public benefits or goods through the regulation of private development. Under neoliberalism, where economic growth is privileged over community interests, the ability of planning to deliver public goods can be compromised. The aim of this research was to investigate the delivery of mixed communities in the regeneration of waterfront sites in two outwardly comparable, but in detail, rather different port cities, namely Plymouth and Bristol. The range of dwelling types, extent of affordable housing and associated practicalities of delivery were evaluated using planning application data, 2000–2017 and semi-structured interviews with key …

Energy Lesson Design, Jessica Lyons

ENgaging Educators in Renewable enerGY (ENERGY): Lesson Plans & Slideshows (2017-2019)

No abstract provided.

Exploring Knowledge And Awareness Of Social Entrepreneurship, Barry Tishler

Theses and Dissertations

Exploring knowledge and awareness of social entrepreneurship is a study created to identify business students’ awareness and knowledge of social entrepreneurship in a business degree program. The social entrepreneurship survey is a descriptive quantitative research instrument that was created to measure students’ knowledge and awareness of social entrepreneurship. The results of this study could be used to identify a potential need for social entrepreneurship academic programs or degrees within the business school. The study used the web-based survey to investigate business students enrolled in a degree program to determine and report if any correlation existed between business graduate students and …

Why Csas Matter: (Re)Localizing For People-Based Food Networks, Gretchen Alexander

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis details the history of Claremont Market Shares, a Community Sourced Agriculture (CSA) project based out of Claremont, California. By using this project as a jumping off point for discussing local food networks, buzzwords such as "organic" and "local" are analyzed and re-defined. I argue for a people-based food network model over the currently popular 'place-based' that prioritizes producer-consumer relationships. The CSA functions as a sustainable model of this ideology.

Digging Up The Past: Archival Issues With Found Time Capsules At Illinois State University, April K. Anderson-Zorn

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

During the demolition of an Illinois State University dormitory in the spring of 2016, workers discovered two time capsules. Tasked with their care, the university archivist looked for archival guidance on the safe handling of time capsules, best practices for working with their contents while balancing public demand for access. This case study examines the time capsule as an object of collective memory, how it fits into an institutional collection, the archivist’s work to document and recover materials in two recently discovered time capsules, and how to work with multiple institutional departments to make them accessible. It suggests best practices …

Engineering Skills Requirements For Sustainable Development And Achieving The Sdgs - Outcomes Of Focus Groups Held In Ireland, France, Denmark And Finland As Part Of A-Step 2030 Project Activity 1: Task 2, Una Beagon, Brian Bowe

Reports

No abstract provided.

The Changing Lives And Relationships Of Young Children And Older Adults: Implications For Intergenerational Learning, Carmel Gallagher

Books/Book chapters

Based on innovative global practice, Intergenerational Learning in Practice presents a unique contribution to the field of intergenerational learning. Drawing on the Together Old and Young (TOY) programme, this book provides a comprehensive background to intergenerational learning, along with tools and resources to help develop and improve your own intergenerational practice. Experienced international authors from Europe, North America and Australia provide a broad array of perspectives on intergenerational learning, ranging from pedagogy to planning and community development.

The Relationship Of Walkability, Social Capital And The Built Environment In A Blue Zones® Demonstration Site Community, Thomas Manford Flack

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Today, communities throughout the world seek to design, develop, and organize their natural and manmade features to promote a higher quality of life and community livability. The term “built environment” includes both natural and manmade areas, facilities, and structures but also social and cultural factors which are unique to a given community; this term is used to frame a dialog around this topic (Flack et al., 2013). Increasingly, greater attention has focused on crafting the built environment to promote more walkable streetscapes, and opportunities for community engagement and social capital have become more prominent in the minds of citizens, community …

Welcome To The Peoples Of The Mountains And The Sea: Evaluating An Inaugural Indigenous Cultural Festival, Robin Ryan, Uncle Ossie Cruse

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

No abstract provided.

A Gis-Based Modeling Approach To High-Resolution Anthropogenic Heat Flux And Building Energy Demand In Los Angeles, Yuanfan Zheng

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Anthropogenic heat flux (Q f ) originates from energy consumption in buildings, industrial plants, vehicle exhaust, and human metabolism. Q f is an important component of the urban Surface Energy Balance (SEB) system and a key to understanding many urban environmental issues. Climate change affects building energy consumption in many ways, and building energy consumption is the largest contributor to Q f in many cities. One of these contributions comprises changes in heating and cooling demands in buildings. The increase in annual energy use in cities results in more carbon emissions and constitutes a great challenge to urban sustainability because …

Ecopsychology Revisited, Jorge Conesa-Sevilla

Trade & Scholarly Monographs

Ecopsychology Revisited is a critique of and deconstructive approach to several trends termed “ecopsychology.” This work attempts to bring light to some of the misconceptions that have hardened as “ecopsychology,” as these ideas have been reinterpreted and sometimes oversimplified by the general public and some professionals outside mainstream psychology. Part of the confusion arose when “ecopsychology” became inadequately amalgamated with other ideas. Nevertheless, within the social and behavioral sciences, at least, there is great value in devising and applying evidence-based strategies that track the normative ramifications dealing with cognition, emotion and behavior, exploring how or why humans relate to natural …

Communities Towards Social Sustainability: A Case Study Of La'akea Permaculture Community And Lost Valley Education And Event Center, Richard Brett Olson

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

In this research, I explore social practices that members of two intentional communities identified as contributing positively to their experiences and the functioning of their communities. Specifically, I examined the social practices that deal with conflict resolution/prevention, the decision making processes of consensus and sociocracy, and how knowledge about these practices is shared within the ecovillage context. The intention is to present how community members develop and use these social practices to live together more harmoniously and authentically by utilizing activities and techniques to help mediate and resolve conflicts and make decisions collectively.

In order to investigate these questions I …

Through The Looking Glass: Viewing First-Year Composition Through The Lens Of Information Literacy, Alexandria Chisholm, Brett Spencer

Communications in Information Literacy

This paper presents a case study of how librarians can situate themselves as pedagogical partners by bringing their unique information literacy perspective and expertise to the programmatic assessment process. This report resulted from the Thun Library and the Penn State Berks Composition Program's collaboration to assess the institution’s first-year composition (FYC) course. From previous programmatic assessments of their students’ work, the faculty had a sense that students struggled with source use in their rhetoric but found it difficult to pinpoint students’ exact source issues. By adapting a rubric theoretically-grounded in the ACRL Framework to deconstruct the concept of source use …

Mitigating Climate Change Through Transportation And Land Use Policy, Alejandro E. Camacho, Melissa L. Kelly, Nicholas J. Marantz, Gabriel Weil

Scholarly Works

A number of U.S. state and local governments have adopted strategies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation and land development. Although some have made significant progress in reducing GHG emissions from the power sector, transportation emissions in most states continue to rise. This Article details the range of existing and proposed state interventions to reduce transportation sector GHG emissions, analyzes the trade offs of these strategies, and offers recommendations to improve and supplement such initiatives, including strategic use of planning mandates and funding and technical assistance. Additionally, regulating land use, shifting transportation spending, removing barriers to implementing road …

Environmental Law. Disrupted, David Takacs

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Whose Voices Count In Biodiversity Conservation? Ecological Democracy In Biodiversity Offsetting, Redd , And Rewilding, David Takacs

Faculty Scholarship

Ecological democracy seeks environmentally sustainable ends through broad, active democratic participation. What happens when laws fostering participation in environmental decision-making and biodiversity preservation lead to differing results? What is best for biodiversity may not be what for local citizens believe is best. I examine conflicts and congruencies in the context of Biodiversity Offsetting, REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), and the Rewilding movement. I ask questions that are legal (Who has what legal rights to speak for or against programs that enhance biodiversity?), epistemological (Whose expertise and knowledge matters when scientists and non-scientists don’t agree?), axiological (Are some …