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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Community ownership"”.
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(Re)envisioning Land and Power: A Fight for Community Ownership + Control in Massachusetts
… (HNSRC) to help them develop a toolkit for community ownership + control. The toolkit explores what it takes to carry out community-led transformation for collective spaces. The toolkit came together through a participatory action research (PAR) process that built on years of …
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A Social Network Perspective on Ownership and Self-Determination in Participatory Research
… PR utilises strategies intended to create community ownership over the research process, particularly when the research idea originates from outside the community. However, little is understood about the range of strategies employed or how community stakeholders perceive their utility in …
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Reconfiguring housing governance in Glasgow post-stock transfer: regulatory and liberatory possibilities
… was underpinned by the political rationale of community ownership: an ideal that aspired to empower citizens by devolving both ownership and control of council housing from the state to local communities. This ambition was to be achieved through a two-tier stock transfer process: firstly, by …
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… M.S., Autumn 2006 Environmental Studies Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area Chairperson: Dr. Jill Belsky The Blackfoot Community Project is a partnership among the Blackfoot Challenge, a landowner-based watershed organization in the …
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… M.S., Autumn 2006 Environmental Studies Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area Chairperson: Dr. Jill Belsky The Blackfoot Community Project is a partnership among the Blackfoot Challenge, a landowner-based watershed organization in the …
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Writing Lawa: Stimulating indigenous ownership of vernacular literacy through action research
… and methods in response to the Eastern Lawa community. I was also able to document practical language development issues in the context of an ancient but rapidly changing indigenous Mon-Khmer community in Northern Thailand. I began with the traditional linguistic assumption that building a …
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Understanding Climate Change through a Community Definition of Resilience: Qualitative Analysis of Interviews and Implications for Practice
… racism, and trauma, and they see strong community ties as a key piece of resilience. Based on this research, responses to climate change need to consider the root causes of unjust systems, respond to the co-stressors in people’s lives, and have community ownership and control in order to …
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The winds of change: the political ecology of renewable energy transition in Vermont
… elements of this analysis include the ways that community groups form a vital link between citizens and the State, the unique opportunities and challenges presented by Vermont's pastoral land perception and activist heritage, and the way that community support is contingent on broadly defined, …
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The Heritagization of Africville: Tourism, Racism, and the Politics of Commemoration
… heritagization of Africville, a historic Black community in Halifax, Nova Scotia, through the theoretical framework of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Utilizing qualitative methodologies - including critical race methodology (CRM) and netnography, and methods such as semi-structured interviews with …
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Seeding Trust, Sustaining Equity: Funding and Financing Relationships in the Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network
Interest in community land trusts (CLTs) as one tool for stable, affordable housing and local autonomy over urban planning processes is growing rapidly—particularly in the past decade, in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis and the destruction of wealth and housing security that foreclosure …
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Investigating alternative funding sources for community equity ownership in renewable energy projects in South Africa
… rate at which energy can be readily supplied. Community Equity Ownership (CEO) or local community ownership is a unique feature of the REI4P that has recently come under close scrutiny due to its requirement for project companies to offer a minimum of 2.5% to 5% shares of their companies to …
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The Community Retrofit Trust: Incentivizing Deep Energy Retrofits in Massachusetts' Triple Deckers
… project proposes a practical framework for a “Community Retrofit Trust” which uses systems of distributed energy savings, community ownership of DER assets, and cooperative governance to ensure tenants, building owners, and neighbors in environmental justice communities share benefits from DERs …
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CommunAir: Building Low-cost Community Data Infrastructure with Sensors, Spreadsheets, and Open Datasets
… storage systems, it is difficult to both build community awareness and drive policy with air quality measurements alone. Furthermore, while investigations into poor air quality and its adverse effects have been conducted in resource-poor areas, the results of such studies rarely engage local …
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A blueprint for building a multi-generational movement for social transformation in Boston
… connect young people to efforts that grassroots community-based organizations are taking to foster economic democracy and transform the political economy of society in Boston. Using a mixed methods approach of participant observations, interviews, and an academic literature review, this thesis …
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Towards a critical understanding of community anchors and a community sector theory and practice
… to support the longer-term development of the community sector in Scotland, the United Kingdom (UK) and further afield, through consideration of a community sector theory and practice (CSTP): where, such a theory and practice is assumed to involve elements of both theorising as to actual, …
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Minimum built form for maximum urban impact: exploring the minimum built form that generates the greatest urban impact through architecture of closed-loop material systems
… (Krause, 2011). Through exploring ideas of community ownership of space and flexibility of social inhabitation, the design dissertation aims to understand the minimum built form that generates the greatest urban impact through architecture of closed-loop material systems. The inquiry focuses …
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Focus groups as a method for accessing stakeholder voice in public sector community mental health
… groups addressing the topic of public sector community mental health services. These groups were conducted with four designated constituency groups (Consumers and Advocates, Children's Service Providers, Health and Social Service Providers, and Justice Service Providers) in three geographic …
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Exploring the Efficacy of the Community Organization Health Model as a Tool for Evaluating Sport-for-Development Programs: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Three Model Programs
… in regards to cultural relevance, level of community ownership, and sustainability through partnership resources. In order to address this problem, this analysis used qualitative content analysis to examine the promotional documents of three best practice football-for-development …
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Mobile retrospective : shrinking the digital divide
… do not. The resultant outcome is a marginalized community left behind - a polarized urban system socially, spatially, and technologically. Low-income communities become devalued, disadvantaged, and dis-empowered. Left behind is a community that is not computer literate, lacks skills to attain …
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The degree of community participation in managing School Finances in selected schools in Mansa District
Title: The Degree of Community Participation in Managing School Finances in Selected Schools in Mansa District. The Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study was to look at school improvement. This was seen in terms of enhancing efficiency in dispensing and managing school finances. What was …
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