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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Unsheltered"”.
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Safe Haven Leveling the Playing Field by Creating a Home for the Unsheltered, Homeless, Water, and Native Plants
… designers actively create landscapes to keep the unsheltered and homeless out of public spaces, keep water in storm drains, and keep native plants on the periphery of the public landscape, my project, Safe Haven, is about creating an inclusive public landscape for people, water, and native plants. …
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An Examination of Cultural Repertoires and Social Ties Related to Surviving, Navigating, and Exiting Chronic Unsheltered Homelessness in Asheville, NC
As rates of unsheltered homelessness grow nationwide, understanding the social lives of people experiencing homelessness becomes increasingly imperative. This study examines how cultural repertoires learned in adolescence influence the daily lives of people experiencing chronic unsheltered …
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Reimagining an American City where People without a House can Subsist
… to develop urban design ideas that can aid unsheltered individuals with their daily needs and make the city more hospitable. This research is not intended to solve the issue of homelessness in American cities; rather, it aims to highlight the needs of those impacted and propose possible …
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Evaluating Los Angeles Homelessness Policy Using System Dynamics Modeling
… that can effectively address the challenge of unsheltered homelessness. Using a case study of Los Angeles homelessness, I evaluated policies aimed at easing homelessness using scenario analysis, employing system dynamic (SD) modeling. This study primarily focuses on the evaluation of the …
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Empirical Analyses on Public Safety
… modest but statistically significant decline in unsheltered homelessness that emerges four years after the initial expansion but does not persist; within 3 years after treatment, assaults, rapes, robberies, and burglaries increase. In contrast, among CoCs that reduce lease-based funding, …
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Liberalizing Democracy: Property, Citizenship, and the Constrained Promise of Self-Governing Houseless Communities
… in the U.S. continue to experience increases in unsheltered houselessness, houseless encampments are becoming far more common throughout urban landscapes. Along with the increase of encampments there has been new rights-claims by houseless communities, claims for rights to organize communities on …
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Extending the Geographic Information Systems Research Agenda by Studying the Spatial Dimension of the Complex Real-World Problem of Homelessness
… between physical climate and both sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in across the United States. The sixth, concluding chapter in this dissertation offers a roadmap to research on complex real-world problems such as homelessness by surveying the literature on homelessness that uses big data, …
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Exploring Constructions of Self and Identity amongst South Africa s Homeless Population
… to determine the various identity discourses unsheltered individuals drew on as well as the subject positions they occupied and lastly to discern the agentic possibilities available to participants within these positions. Of the seven discourses identified, the two most prominent related to …
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Nest site selection by common eiders : relationships with habitat features, microclimate and incubation success
… body weight during late incubation than did unsheltered females. However, few eiders nested at naturally-sheltered sites, possibly because nest concealment increases susceptibility to mammalian predators. My results suggest that eider nest choices likely reflect trade-offs among selective …
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Using ecological concepts to restore the drylands of Namaqualand, South Africa
… play an important role in restoration success, unsheltered control plots were compared to plots sheltered with brush packs, square boxes or a pioneer nurse plant. Results supported this hypothesis, as box and brush pack treatments were successful in increasing seedling numbers. In the Hardeveld, …