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Governing The Right To Water, Matthew P. Moschell

Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Phe 302 Social And Environmental Determinants Of Health, Tailisha Gonzalez

Open Educational Resources

This course is an introduction to the social, behavioral, and commercial factors that influence health. Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of these determinants will be discussed from a social ecological perspective. Social determinants cover five domains: economic stability, education access and quality, health care access and quality, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context. Behavioral determinants include such factors as smoking, physical activity, and alcohol use. Commercial determinants include economic and political domains with examples such as cigarette marketing and the placement of toxic waste sites in low-income communities.

Imparting The Skills Employers Seek: Community-Engaged Learning As Career Preparation, Elizabeth Otto, Elizabeth Dunens

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper explores the potential for postsecondary community-based educational experiences to impart the skills employers most desire from new college graduates. We gathered one U.S. university’s community-engaged learning (CEL) stakeholders to collect detailed descriptions of the behaviors students practice during CEL. Students, faculty, and community partner participants had at least one semester of service-learning or nonprofit internship experience coordinated by the university’s Center for Community Work and Learning. Qualitative responses generated from 46 participants were coded and then compared to the top skills business executives and hiring managers reported in 2018 as priorities for new college graduates. Data analysis yielded …

Unfurling Your Community-Engaged Work Into Multiple Scholarly Products, Diane M. Doberneck, Christine Carmichael

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Navigating academic publishing challenges community-engaged scholars and practitioners, many of whom have mastered disciplinary writing but are unsure of how to write about community engagement experiences. The Unfurling Tool helps authors co-envision products with community partners, identify scholarly products for both academic and public audiences, and consider how to disseminate multiple products from a single community-engaged project. By unfurling a project, authors may communicate the rich complexity of their community engagement experiences to multiple audiences.

Pursuing Reciprocity In Engaged Scholarship Partnerships Using Community Sustainability Certification Programs, Elyzabeth W. Engle, Michele W. Halsell

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of sustainability certification programs at the local, state, and national level to highlight the use of policies, programs, and infrastructure to achieve sustainable development outcomes within communities. In this paper, we use examples from Penn State’s Sustainable Communities Collaborative to demonstrate how institutions with community-engaged scholarship programs can use these certification programs to enhance program operation and reciprocity by identifying projects, engaging new disciplines, and improving relevance.

Volume 56-2 Complete Issue, Steven M. Schnell

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 56-2 Complete Issue

Growing Local Food Movements: Farmers’ Markets As Nodes For Products And Community, Martin Aucoin, Matthew Fry

The Geographical Bulletin

Throughout the United States, there is a fast growing movement centered on locally produced food . Consumers, farmers, and farmers’ markets are central components of this local food movement . In this study, we examine the local food movement in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW) and use farmers’ markets to understand DFW’s developing local food system and foodsheds . We also analyze how notions of place and community are manifest in DFW’s local food system . Research methods include interviews with farmers, customers, and farmers’ market coordinators and an analysis of the spatial distribution of three farmers’ market networks in …

Current And Emerging Trends In The Management Of International Disasters, Laura M. Phipps, David A. Mcentire

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

This edited book examines major problems facing the international disaster community as well as innovative solutions to global emergency management, focusing on the current and emerging trends in disaster management that cross geographic, social, and political borders.

Front Matter, Tribal Law Journal

Tribal Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Environmental Justice Is A Civil Rights Issue, Secretary Deb Haaland

Tribal Law Journal

No abstract provided.

An Assessment Of Drinking Water Equity In South Carolina: Access, Affordability, Quality, And Private Well Resources, Catherine Lippert Min

Theses and Dissertations

Universal access to good quality, affordable drinking water is a goal that has not yet been reached in the United States. Recently, national studies have investigated drinking water burdens including lack of access to complete plumbing, unaffordability, and poor quality individually. However, no study has examined all of these drinking water burdens together to identify communities facing multiple burdens. This study addresses this gap by analyzing disparities in access to complete plumbing, affordability of public water sources, and drinking water quality of community water systems in South Carolina and identifying communities that face multiple burdens. This study also provides the …

“The Winner Takes It All:” The Public Use Doctrine’S Disparate Impact On Impoverished Communities In Natural Gas Production, Alana Siock

Lincoln Memorial University Law Review Archive

The interpretation of the public use doctrine in Takings jurisprudence has evolved on both the federal and state level, and this evolution has had a disparate impact on impoverished communities. This note proposes that the persistent poverty and economic decline plaguing northeastern Pennsylvania on the microcosmic level are a product of distributive injustice, which is exacerbated and perpetuated by the expansion of the Takings Clause’s public use doctrine. This note links these exacerbations to the continuance of the boom-and-bust economies set up in regions like northeastern Pennsylvania, finding that the Takings Clause, which was enshrined in the U.S. Constitution as …

Master Of Social Work Portfolio, Bradley Herman

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

Welcome to the grand capstone, the top of the heap, Where my journey in social work isn’t just a small leap. It's a compendium, a collection, oh, what a view, Of all that I’ve learned and all that I do. It’s a culminating circus of knowledge so vast, From the first class I took to the very last. Ethics, practice, and justice, oh my, All woven together under one big sky.

Up For The Challenge: Advancing Social Justice, Dominique P. Mcmurray

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

MSW Portfolio: A Comprehensive Showcase of Academic Work and Achievements

This paper demonstrates the professional development during the Master of Social Work program at the University of Montana. It illustrates the mastery of 5 elements of integrated practice, 9 competencies outlined by the Council on Social Work Education, and one University of Montana-specific competency.

Msw Portfolio, Tasha Clark

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.

Three Years Of Advanced Integrative Practice, Tyra Rose Klein

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

MSW Portfolio: Narratives and Appendix

Msw Portfolio, Olivia Calvi

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.

Msw Professional Portfolio, Nicholas Caron

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

This paper demonstrates my experience gained through the Online MSW program at the University of Montana.

Professional Portfolio: A Social Work Journey Through The 10 Competencies, Tessa Rae Nelson

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

The Professional Portfolio demonstrates Tessa Nelson's work through the 10 competencies of social work. This portfolio emphasizes what the student has learned and how it has impacted their social work practice.

Msw Portfolio, Kandice C. Mitchell

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

Social Work Portfolio for Masters Program

Msw Portfolio From The Lens Of A Clinical Social Worker, Madeliene Hamilton

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

My portfolio is an in-depth exploration at the journey that has led me here to my MSW with a comprehensive outline of my practicum and work experiences alongside coursework. My hope to anyone who reads this is that you can see my passion for this work and truly understand how each competency was learned and practice.

Msw Portfolio Narrative, Katherine P. Blaedow

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

The Council on Social Work Education and University of Montana School of Social Work require the mastery of ten competencies before graduates are awarded their Master of Social Work degree. In this paper, I share my experiences in mastering these ten competencies and reflect on my graduate degree experience.

Msw Portfolio, Briar Gaither

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

A look at my personal journey through the MSW program, what I experienced and learned, and what I gained. Features my many papers and projects from the program

Staying Curious, Stephanie Voisine

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.

Toxic Discretion: Environmental Inequality And The Discretionary Function Exception, Sarah E. Barritt

Notre Dame Law Review Reflection

Environmental racism is far reaching and insidious, and each of these devastating instances and the institutional factors that led to them could and should be the subject of entire books in their own right. The EPA and other agencies of the United States government are complicit in multiple ways, not least of all through their abject failures to properly regulate private industry pollution in BIPOC communities. However, this Note has cabined its analysis to the government’s failure to warn these communities of environmental contamination, and what happens when it hides behind the discretionary function exception in ensuing litigation. To provide …

Taking The Road Less Traveled: My Journey Toward Healing, Megan Herman

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

The following portfolio is a compilation of work spanning the entirety of my time in the Master of Social Work program. The portfolio speaks to my growth as an advanced integrated practitioner and social worker and exemplifies the process of self-reflection and evaluation. I discuss several areas of improvement and introduce completed works that provide evidence of learning and knowledge acquisition. This portfolio is a reflection of my work toward mastering the social work competencies and the core processes of the Just Practice Framework. I present specific examples from the MSW program that highlight my learning experience concerning the elements …

Liz Witter Msw Portfolio, Liz Witter

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.

Msw Portfolio, Rylie Shade

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

MSW portfolio, practicing Social work in Missoula, San Francisco, and Oakland.

Reading Ecogothic Memory In Contemporary Southern Swamp Novels, Megan Caroline Brockhard Knight

Theses and Dissertations

The ecogothic is a lens through which to engage memory, southern constructivism and identity, environmental intervention, and the literature of the American Southeast. This project establishes a framework of literary criticism that defines the ecogothic, interprets memory as truth imagined, and identifies the position of memory in the environment as a construction with which it is necessary to grapple to understand identity. This framework, compiled of existing and original scholarship, is then applied to three contemporary swamp narratives written by three different southern women writers. The swamp setting creates a unique microcosm of gothic liminality, neither fully land nor water, …

Housing Buyouts At The Intersection Of Flooding And Toxins: A Case Study Of Cheraw, South Carolina, Victoria Ponds

Theses and Dissertations

As climate change increases extreme weather events, efforts of managed retreat will also increase, particularly through housing buyout programs. The largest scale housing buyout programs are run through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). These buyout programs focus primarily on flood hazards and exclude anthropogenic hazards. This policy is problematic in the modern technological age where compound hazards, including those involving toxin releases, are occurring more frequently. In this thesis, I investigate how disaster policies account for the intersection of these hazards in Community Development Block Grant-Mitigation buyouts in Cheraw, South …