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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Island communities"”.
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Deploying collaborative artistic co-creative methods to strategically promote eco-social regeneration for small island communities
… each other, and our non-human companions, in our communities. <br/><br/>At a time of crisis, this practice-led thesis presents how collaborative and co-creative eco-social art practices can contribute to ecological and social regeneration within communities. It addresses three specific questions: …
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Improving Maternal Health Care Accessibility and Utilization in Remote and Island Communities: An Explorative Study in Ghana
… of women and newborns in Ghana’s remote and island communities.</p> <p>Objective: This study aims to explore the factors affecting maternal health care accessibility and utilization in Ghana's remote and island communities, identifying barriers and proposing recommendations for …
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Impact of climate change on youth in small island communities: The case of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
… challenge faced by policymakers in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Climate Change is already impacting negatively on youth and their communities, their enterprises and their overall wellbeing, especially in locations exposed to seasonally intense climatic events. Little progress has …
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HRES and DHN application in remote island communities: the case study of the Eye Peninsula in the Outer Hebrides
… and elevated fossil fuel consumption on the islands of the Outer Hebrides.<br/>A literature review of the state of the art of HRES and DHN technologies is provided, together with a local analysis of the current communities’ energy status and building energy performance indexes. The research …
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There is no other land, there is no other life but this : an investigation into the impact of gender on social capital and resilience in four rural, island communities of British Columbia.
… resilience in four of British Columbia’s rural, island communities. Each community’s unique circumstances provide a distinctive context in which to study the interaction between these concepts. This study utilizes quantitative data from several sources, including Statistics Canada, BC Stats, and …
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Materials Recovery Facilities in the United States Virgin Islands: A Regional Facilities Location Model Study
… solid waste processing facilities is an example. Island communities, however, surrounded by miles of ocean, are constrained to a fragmented approach to the facilities location solution. This research was conducted to determine if the regional paradigm suggested in the literature is applicable to a …
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Conservatism in Transition: American Conservative Social Thought, 1860 - 1920.
… to 1860, as Wiebe put it, Americans lived in "island communities:" small, isolated, relatively homogeneous populations comfortable in their assumptions about the world and confident of their universal applicability.
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Centering peripheries : warning systems and disaster risk reduction planning on the island city
… play a crucial role in disaster events on islands. They enable timely communication of risk, bolstering capacity and counterbalancing the negative force exerted by hazards, exposures, and vulnerabilities that threaten island communities. Disasters frequently result in the breakdown of …
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Archipelagoes of Aftermaths: Survivance, Imperialism, and Climate Change in New Orleans, Puerto Rico, and Hawai´i
… aftermaths, and the strategies of marginalized communities to survive and resist. Archipelagos of Aftermaths: Survivance, Imperialism, and Climate Change in New Orleans, Puerto Rico, and Hawai´i investigates climate change vulnerability and adaptation praxis in Afro-Indigenous, coastal and …
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Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Work-Life Balance Among Female Public School Teachers (K-12) In The Cayman Islands
… public-school teachers (K-12) in the Cayman Islands experienced and managed work-life balance within the intersecting contexts of gender, culture, and institutional demands. Guided by phenomenological principles and framed through role theory, the study examined how participants defined …
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Manx English: a phonological investigation into levelling and diffusion from across the water
… and change. Stigmatised features of speech on island communities are often cited as examples to discuss accent levelling (the loss of traditional features), in addition, the research into geographical diffusion (the inclusion of features from outside) on islands demonstrates the extent of …
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Small island developing states, sustainability and the Caribbean Sea
… These are (a) how land use activities on the islands are affecting the Sea (b) the effects of coastal and marine based activities on this marine area (c) the influences of natural events on the Caribbean Sea and the SIDS (d) how the region is responding to minimise the pressures on the sea via …
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The art of Kula : an analysis of the Vakutan artistic system and the rituals of Kula
… Today, Kula is even expanding beyond the island communities of the Massim to Port Moresby and other urban centres where the exchange of mwari (Kula armshells) and vaiguwa (Kula necklaces) has become a tool in the hands of the politically ambitious urban Trobriand elite. In this thesis I …
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The art of Kula : an analysis of the Vakutan artistic system and the rituals of Kula
… Today, Kula is even expanding beyond the island communities of the Massim to Port Moresby and other urban centres where the exchange of mwari (Kula armshells) and vaiguwa (Kula necklaces) has become a tool in the hands of the politically ambitious urban Trobriand elite. In this thesis I …
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Energy resilience on a local level : inclusive planning for disaster
… maintenance and cheap materials selection. For islands' electricity systems especially, shocks could also come in the form of physical shortages of imported fuel, or other supply chain issues stemming from severe weather. Islands in the Caribbean tend to have a confluence of unfortunate factors …
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Mapping of Digital Connectivity and Island Governance: A Comparative Study of the Scottish Archipelagos and Irish Islands.
Aim:<br/>To map digital connectivity in rural island contexts; to understand island communities, their relationship with digital connectivity and the governance framework operating in island contexts; to map island communication ecologies (ICEs) in specific island contexts.<br/>Research …
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Insularity and Interaction: Investigating the role of exchange and inter-island interaction in the Banda Islands, Indonesia
… force in the historic and protohistoric past of Island Southeast Asian communities. Exchange and interaction are also hypothesized to have played an important role in the spread of new technologies and lifestyles throughout the region during the Neolithic period. Although it is clear that …
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The siting of renewable energy developments in a crowded marine space
… mapping. Socio-economic values of remote and island communities may be overshadowed by higher intensities of socio-economic activity in densely populated areas. In response, this thesis developed novel fuzzy standardisation techniques for marine suitability mapping, to improve local …
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Spatial models of plant diversity and plant functional traits : towards a better understanding of plant community dynamics in fragmented landscapes
… research needs to provide predictions of communities' responses to fragmentation as a prerequisite for the effective mitigation of further biodiversity loss. However, predictions of communities' responses to fragmentation require a thorough understanding of ecological processes, such as …
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