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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Sustainable Community Development"”.
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Resettlement & Namibian San communities: prospectives for sustainable community development through empowerment
… to San people as the most marginalised Namibian community. A critical evaluation of the resettlement process, however, reveals that this is simply rhetoric. Project planning and design is centralised and is undertaken on an ad hoc basis. Resettlement is enabled by rigid, prescriptive and …
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Partnership as a strategy in implementing sustainable community development in Mandeni Municipality
Community development in rural areas is under stress due to numerous setbacks such as theft, neglect, and lack of skills from the community to support development initiatives. The municipality remains the only relevant government institution that could deal with this unsustainable nature of …
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Urban Design Workshops: A System Model of Engagement for Sustainable Community Development
… to test the proposed model and applicability to sustainable land use at a site selected for the potential of transit-oriented development. The research addresses cities’ future growth and resilience, leveraging local and lived experience with professional and technical expertise. Keywords: Urban …
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A bottom-up participatory governance institutional framework for sustainable community development in a Malaysian sub-urban area
… in governance institutional framework for a sustainable community development has been recognised as being a major social, economic and environment concern which has been a focal point of the United Nation and deliberated in Rio+20 summit. The UNEP (2012) report recognised that the present …
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Exploring the Role of Rural Community–College Partnerships in Sustainable Community Development: A Case Study of Selkirk College, British Columbia, Canada
This study examines how rural community–college partnerships contribute to sustainable community development in rural Canada through an explanatory, embedded case study of Selkirk College, located in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. Three embedded units were investigated: the School …
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Sustainable Community Development in Boom and Bust Economies: A Comparative Case Analysis of Institutional Stakeholder Interaction in Four Appalachian Natural Resource Dependent Locales
… work to restore local environments through sustainable community development, the research is grounded in sustainable community development literature. I continue the trend that juxtaposes its considerations of environmental protection, economic development, and social justice with the …
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Social Design, Field Studies, Sustainable Development: How Design Research Methods have been Applied to Fieldwork Study and Enable Sustainable Community Development in Three Case Studies
… and seek ways in which design can bring about sustainable community development. In the process of conducting the research, some key elements leading to sustainability were identified that helped to create a “Design Model for Sustainable Community Development.” Through in-depth research of …
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Contesting sustainable community development through the Olympic Games in the era of globalization: The case of Daegwallyeong-myeon, host community of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games
This study examines community development of a small town in South Korea, PyeongChang, host community for the 2018 Winter Olympics, focusing on the global and local interaction between the Olympic Games and Daegwallyeong-myeon, the local host community. Using qualitative method, namely critical …
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Harmony
… of harmony in architecture, design, and sustainable community development.
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Urban facilities management as a systemic process to achieve urban sustainability in South Africa
… management (UFM) is to identify ways to promote sustainable urban development at a community/precinct level. One potential approach is via the application of sustainable community assessment/rating tools which have seen increased popularity amongst urban planners and developers over the past …
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Examining the role of social capital in community development: How the creation of a land trust set a small town on the path to sustainability
<p>Theoretical constructs of social capital and sustainable community development are examined through the lens of the lived experience of a small Vermont town. A case study of the community's land use planning history from the 1960's through to the present assesses the actions and relationships …
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Alternative Pathways to Peace and Development in Rural Chiapas, Mexico
… seeks to identify strategies for building sustainable peace through sustainable community development and democratization. Using a qualitative metasynthesis of five ethnographies conducted in Chiapas Mexico, this dissertation develops mid-range theories, or strategies, for building peace in …
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The Retrofit and Regeneration of local vernacular
… in the unbalanced urban growth and the future development of these towns. Because of the dynamic nature of our cities, current urban development is a mounting threat to the survival and preservation of the historical towns’ unique urban environment, cultural landscape, place, architecture and …
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Mapping Connectivity: Integrating Ecological Landscape Analysis into Urban Planning in the City of Nanaimo
… and management are essential for promoting sustainable community development. One of the most significant impacts of urbanization to biodiversity is land conversion, which reduces natural habitats and disrupts ecosystem functionality. Ecological networks, including corridors and green …
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Explaining consumer perspectives on mobile news services: a study in South Africa
Access to news supports the development of democratic societies. News can promote sustainable community development and encourage healthy social, political, and economic engagement. Mobile news services (MNSs) are one means to reach out to citizens to share news and provide citizens with a forum to …
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Building communities through communication: Understanding community development success and failure using a narrative approach
… to investigate public communication efforts of community development groups to provide a richer understanding of the indicators of group success or failure in this context. The subjects are participants of the Indiana HomeTown Competitiveness program, an initiative that seeks to develop local …
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The Governance of Waste in Iqaluit, Nunavut
… that was differently framed and responded to by community members and government officials; while government risk management practices privileged neoliberal epistemologies and governance, active participation by Iqaluit residents placed community understandings of health, wellbeing, and …
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Literacy for livelihoods: A case study of the impact of formal and informal literacy programs in Nangi Village, rural Nepal
… strategies and outcomes of households and the community of Nangi village, central west Nepal. The importance of the research lies in the understanding of the influence of this Magar ethnic group’s community decision to mandate formal education for all primary-aged children. In addition, the …
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