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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Community Sustainability"”.
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Policy reconciliation methodology to create an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan (ICSP) for Canadian municipalities
… and led to a new way of thinking within the community-planning realm and has grown in use due to the increasing and changing awareness of environmental issues and their connection to growth within communities. As part ofthe Canadian Federal Gas Tax Fund requirement, municipalities must …
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Examining the Relationship Between Social Capital and the Built Environment: A Case Study in Measuring Community Sustainability
<p>The concepts of sustainability and sustainable development are frequently described as having three main components, sometimes referred to as the three pillars or the triple bottom line: environmental, economic, and social. Because the origins of sustainability come from a desire to right …
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Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study
… the study was to explore how environmental and community sustainability can be promoted for informal settlement communities in Namibia and South Africa. The study employed an exploratory sequential mixed methods research design, which as such combined qualitative and quantitative research …
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A Gender and Development (GAD) implementation evaluation: Testimonios reveal the successes, challenges, and unpredicted results for women's equality and community sustainability
… and implemented by BIC (Baha'i International Community), was an innovative, non-economic approach to change gender attitudes and behaviors by including men in a consultative process using traditional media. This study responded to criticism that GAD ignored the environment, was lodged squarely …
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Policy conflicts among local government officials: How does officials' engagement with regional governance relate to their position divergence on sustainability policy?
… among local and regional officials over community sustainability policy, with a focus on affordable housing, which is a major concern of community sustainability. This research examines if, and how, local government officials' engagement with regional governance can play a role in shaping …
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Peace Corps Service to Develop Community Capacity for Sustainability Planning: The Experience of Areguá, Paraguay
This paper examines an effort to develop community capacity to engage in sustainability planning as part of a Peace Corps Municipal Services Development project in Areguá, Paraguay. It sketches the context in which the initiative occurred, outlines relevant academic research on community …
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Implementing sustainable development : a case study of New Brunswick municipalities
… Brunswick have incorporated the imperatives of sustainability within their planning processes to varying degrees. These processes may not be as formal as an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan framework, template or toolkits would advocate, signifying a more relevant solution to advancing …
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City of Patterson Sustainability Plan
This Master’s Thesis / Professional Project is a Sustainability Plan developed for the City of Patterson, California. The Patterson Sustainability Plan (PSP) was developed concurrently with the General Plan Update, and will be presented to the City for adoption within a year. The Sustainability …
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The role of nonprofits as administrators in municipal sustainability planning: An exploration of four cities
… across the United States have been integrating sustainability into their planning and economic development strategies for more than a decade. Despite this, forging a consensus on exactly what a “sustainable city” is—or how communities can pursue sustainability in financially and politically …
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The case for more American tiny home communities
… afford a high level of design, accessibility, community, sustainability and affordability.
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Re-defining Toronto's collective housing: an architectural model for floating communities in the Don River Watershed
… in Toronto pose many issues in terms of sustainability, land use, community, stewardship and public access to the waterfront. This thesis will address these issues and serve as a kick starter to the development of similar communities in the future. Toronto is a large waterfront urban …
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Investigation into a future policy landscape to achieve sustainability in the Scottish coastal region
… and civil society efforts for Scottish coastal community sustainability. This was informed by a review of the marine and coastal estate, policy and planning in addition to sustainable economics, behaviour, innovation and governance. The four policy themes of low carbon economy, marine renewable …
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Channel erosion projections for threatened Alaska-Native communities along the Kuskokwim River
… on AN villages, threatening infrastructure and community sustainability. Current trends in precipitation and warming in the Arctic indicate that the magnitude and regularity of these events may increase. The cost-prohibitive nature of building hardening structures like seawalls means that these …
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Creating sustainable communities in 'NewcastleGateshead'
… with the concepts of space, governance, community, sustainability and materiality to develop a relational understanding of urban regeneration. Starting with an understanding of ‘spaces of regeneration’ as spaces in the process of becoming this perspective moves beyond normative, …
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The Role of Private Landownership in Facilitating Sustainable Rural Communities in Upland Scotland
… in rural areas, its impact on landowner-community dynamics has received little attention. Discourse on the contemporary ‘estate community’ and factors determining its ‘sustainability’ has also been minimal. The research reported here, involving in-depth<br/>case studies on six, upland, …
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A model for the complex assessment of sustainable housing affordability
… extends to larger issues of social wellbeing and community sustainability. This thesis provides an original contribution to new knowledge by developing and applying a complex model for the assessment of sustainable housing affordability. The model is holistic and is capable of considering a broad …
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The community loses when it loses farmers: impacts of a changing local farmland market
An ethnographic community case study was conducted to document the impact of recent farmland-market changes on the social fabric of a small, typical Central Illinois rural community of 1,000. Using a multi-method research design, data were obtained from: 1) extensive participant-observation of …
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Geospatial Technology/Traditional Ecological Knowledge-Derived Information Tools for the Enhancement of Coastal Restoration Decision Support Processes
… of current and historical ecosystem change to community viability. The primary goal was to provide resource managers with a comprehensive method of assessing localized ecological change in the Gulf Coast region that can benefit community sustainability. Using Remote Sensing (RS), Geographic …
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Sustainability in Disaster Operations Management and Planning: An Operations Management Perspective
… emergency of the disaster event, to that of the sustainability of the community. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to address three key issues in regard to sustainability in disaster operations and planning. The first study of this dissertation (Chapter 3) focuses on describing disaster …
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A human-centric artificial intelligence approach towards equality, well-being, and responsibility in sustainable communities
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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