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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Social Equity"”.
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Social Equity in Public Administration
… provide a review of the literature regarding social equity and a place within Public Administration. Social equity is a value that informs theory and practice. The manner in which value informs theory and practice will be included to provide a theoretical basis. Tensions between New Public …
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Social Equity and Urban Resilience: Investigating the capability of urban resilience theory and planning to address social equity
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Supporting Social Equity Through Informal Spaces on an Urban Campus
… health/wellness, family responsibilities, psychosocial identity formation, and structural racism. These challenges were compounded by the events of the spring of 2020, when a heightened awareness of anti-Black racism, combined with the hardships of COVID-19, brought college campuses to a close …
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Social Equity for the Long Haul: Preparing Culturally Competent Public Administrators
… and to work towards achieving the goals of social equity? The core curricula of 123 National Association of School's of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) accredited MPA programs were examined and the analysis focused on the following question: To what extent do NASPAA accredited …
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Beyond the illusion of inclusion: A new vision for cannabis social equity
This work is a reflexive thematic analysis of race and gender on High Times Magazine covers from 1974-2019. The study analyzed the images on 500 covers of High Times, encoding them for race, gender, and profession, which revealed patterns of tropes. The study finds that the commodification of …
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Increasing social equity in transport planning: a case study in Fortaleza, Brazil
DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11191 on 2017-09-29 at 11:25:57
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Social equity in urban sustainability initiatives : strategies and metrics for Baltimore and beyond
… Theoretically, sustainability encompasses social equity, as well as ecological and economic systems. In practice, many cities are unsure about the role of equity in sustainability planning. With greater knowledge of how urban sustainability initiatives affect social equity, public officials …
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Raise the roof : can location efficient mortgages increase social equity, compact development, and transit ridership?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003.
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Evaluating ecological integrity and social equity in national parks : case studies from Canada and South Africa
… diversity and ecosystem processes, are socially unjust in their relations with Indigenous communities, or both. This dissertation asks: can national parks protect ecological integrity and concurrently address social equity issues? It presents empirical results of a systematic evaluation …
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Social Equity in Public Administration: The Work of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund
… is more relevant today when poverty and other social disparities are increasing in rural America. The work that the FSC/LAF does is tireless and never ending, because civil right issues still exist in the United States. By providing its members legal assistance, technical assistance, education …
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Social equity and sustainability considerations in the planning of Nature-based solutions in Southern African Water Towers
… on natural resources given the potential for social, economic, and environmental trade-offs. This research aimed to address these concerns by exploring: i) whether and how social equity has been considered in NbS project design, particularly in relation to vulnerable groups; and ii) whether …
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Interpreting global justice : variations in perspectives of U.S. environmental organizations on environment, human rights, and social equity
… the extent to which they view human rights and social equity issues as part of their environmental work. These organizations, influenced by their organizational history and their work with international groups and coalitions, appear to view these issues and engage with the movement in distinct …
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Spatializing social equity through place-based policies : lessons from the Green Impact Zone of Missouri, in Kansas City, MO
… promote the three Es of sustainability (equity, the environment, and the economy) and to understand the challenges to organizing and implementing such initiatives. The thesis first reviews the people vs. place debate in urban policy, and introduces into that debate literature on spatial …
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Analysis of Social Equity in Transportation in Washington DC Region Considering Sea Level Rise Using Advanced Travel Demand Models
… measures for flooding while also considering social equity. As a result, the results of this optimization function is not only financially optimum but also equitable to all. The second manuscript proposes a novel framework for analyzing equity in terms of access to opportunity, rather than …
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Local management of a global tension : cost recovery and social equity in urban water and sanitation provision in Durban, South Africa
Conventional wisdom in the water and sanitation sector holds that it is difficult to make simultaneous headway towards both cost recovery and serving the poor. The case of Durban, South Africa, is often held to be one of the few examples where significant progress towards both of these ends has …
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New Urbanism and Neighborhood Revitalization: A Case Study Analysis of Urban Design, Economic Development and Social Equity in HOPE VI Neighborhood Revitalization Projects
… is the assumption that urban design facilitates social economic development. Multiple cross-site analyses and case study research evaluate the ability of new urbanism principles to initiate meaningful neighborhood revitalization. Critics of new urbanism inevitably find fault in outcomes while new …
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Searching for knowledge in the belly of the beast: diversity, social equity and the African graduate student mother's experience in US higher education
Diversity has become a buzz word in public discourse and in educational circles. Higher education institutions in the US have increasingly used this word as a cornerstone of their mission statements and have made increasing efforts to attract students from different backgrounds. As part of the …
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Bridging the Gap: Bringing Preservation to the People
… the intersection of preservation practices and social equity. It looks at how organizations communicate about preservation and how those methods may help or hinder the advancement of social equity. The focus is on practices of Philadelphia-based non-profit preservation groups, community …
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Pathways to Sustainable Housing
… policies and practices that concurrently promote social equity and preserve economic viability? To answer this question, I explore five sustainable housing goals: climate protection, policy innovation, environmental protection, social equity, and economic growth. I use data and empirical analysis …
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Equitable energy for Massachusetts : how can climate policy reduce inequality?
… as a climate leader and a state that prioritizes social equity. However, existing Massachusetts climate policy does not effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions and has limited support for marginalized communities. The state's annual $730 million of investment in energy efficiency is governed …
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