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Jacob Massoud

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Chapter 10: Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Tigua Tribe Of El Paso, Texas, Jacob Massoud, J. A. Peterson Dec 2014

Chapter 10: Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Tigua Tribe Of El Paso, Texas, Jacob Massoud, J. A. Peterson

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A collection of papers commissioned by the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy addresses the social, environmental, and economic problems of Indian tribes in the Mexican-American border region.

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Chapter 7: Determining Environmental Values: Storytelling At Bp., Jacob Massoud, David M. Boje Dec 2014

Chapter 7: Determining Environmental Values: Storytelling At Bp., Jacob Massoud, David M. Boje

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To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit. Values in Sustainable Development introduces and compares worldviews and values from multiple countries and perspectives, providing a survey of empirical methods available to study environmental values as affected by sustainable development. The first part is methodological, looking at what values are, why they are important, and how to include values in sustainable development. The second part looks at how values differ across social contexts, religions and viewpoints demonstrating how various individuals may value nature from a variety of cultural, …

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A Mathematical Decision-Making Procedure To Assist In The Development Of Sustainability Plans Based On The Stars Framework, Yu-Ti Huang, Vania R. Coelho, Jacob Massoud, Susan Briski, Ana Toepel, Marcia Silva Dec 2013

A Mathematical Decision-Making Procedure To Assist In The Development Of Sustainability Plans Based On The Stars Framework, Yu-Ti Huang, Vania R. Coelho, Jacob Massoud, Susan Briski, Ana Toepel, Marcia Silva

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Purpose
The purpose of this study was to establish an objective mathematical decision-making procedure to help universities prioritize credits, while using the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) framework developed by the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), when pursuing their sustainability goals in the short-, medium- and long-term. The authors used the assessment data from Dominican University of California (DUofC), as our case study.

Design/methodology/approach
Two criteria, the number of possible points available and overall priority, were developed to classify credits in the STARS version 1.2 framework into six groups from lowest to highest level …

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