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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"alternative futures"”.
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A study of student affairs educators' and practitioners' perceptions of alternative futures for student affairs programs
The purpose of this study was to investigate alternative future developments or events for student affairs programs as perceived by chairpersons of preparation programs for student affairs workers (educators) and to compare these findings with the perceptions of a sample of chief student affairs …
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After Bin Laden: An Alternative Futures Analysis for Al-Qaida, Uncertainty in the Arab World, and U.S. Counterterrorism Policy
… through a structured analytic technique called alternative futures analysis. The assessments will be used to develop sound policy recommendations that advances U.S. interests in the region, particularly the targeting of terrorist organizations that threaten the United States.
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Assessing the future : the impacts of development on Steamboat Springs, Colorado
… options. In this thesis, I construct four alternative futures for Steamboat Springs, based on realistic potential growth trajectories. Using a visual survey technique and geospatial impact modeling, I then test the impacts of each scenario on five concerns that the community in Steamboat …
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A Systems Approach to Modeling and Impact Assessment in an Urbanizing Watershed
… from a holistic perspective. Analysis of alternative futures combined with spatially explicit watershed modeling provides a way to scope resource management problems and increase understanding of how current policies, regulations, and practices could play out in the future and impact both …
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Feeling the Squeeze: A Political Ecology of Development, Race, and Inequality On the South Carolina Coastal Landscape
… to `squeeze' out existing residents and render alternative futures impossible.</p>
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Breaking the Loop: Climate-Driven Urbanism for America's Climate Migration Hubs
… and communities a framework for evaluating alternative futures that transform population growth from a spatial challenge and emissions liability into a catalyst for sustainable urbanism.
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Such painful knowledge: hope and the (un)making of futures in Cape Town
… undertake in order to secure their children's futures in contemporary Cape Town. Based on ethnographic research conducted with Black mothers between March and October 2018, I argue that the supposedly private maternal hopes my interlocutors hold are in fact indexical of the ways in which social …
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How to wear utopia: A dress manual for a convivial future
… practice, using dress as a tool for imagining alternative futures. Situated at the intersection of visual art practice, dress and utopia, the thesis adopts utopia as a method to foster reflexive engagement, creating a dialogue between theory and practice. Within this framework, dress becomes a …
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Making Futures, Making Selves: The Future-Oriented Subject in Eco-Political Documentary Films
… position themselves as educators of climate futures, inspirers of environmental action and promoters of sustainable lifestyles – as conceptual and practical how-to guides for the future. Building on a grounded theory approach, my reconstructive analysis of feature-length documentaries …
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Co-Authoring Beyond the Human: Disordering Architectural Processes through Play and Multi-Agent Co-Existence
… play as a critical lens: a way to rehearse alternative futures, to listen differently, to embody other perspectives, and to surface the black-box logics embedded in architectural norms. It invites readers and players to participate in unbuilding these assumptions. And the games evolve—with …
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Lopsided, Scarred, and Squint-Eyed: Ugly Women in the Work of Southern Women Writers
… expected courtship or marriage plots to imagine alternative futures for southern women who fall out of the marriage market. As American culture often relies upon regionalism in order to bolster national identity, viewing the southern novel through the lens of the ugly plot reveals that texts …
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From aspiration to attainment: Exploring the university access pathways of first-generation graduates from a West Coast town
… challenged fatalistic pathways, thereby enabling alternative futures for access to higher education. Situated within an interpretivist paradigm, the study employed a retrospective and blended ethnographic design, described as ethnography on the move (Fataar, 2010, 2015, 2019), to explore how …
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Energy Crisis and Opportunity: Energy Development and Debate in Saskatchewan, 1969–1982
… security and interest in a wide array of energy alternatives was piqued. This dissertation examines the unfolding of the energy crisis in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, an energy producing jurisdiction that stood to benefit from increasing energy prices and a wide range of available …
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Living with Water: Re-Imagining Urban Hydrologies in Washington, DC
… landscape infrastructure can be used to develop alternative futures for the built environment, in which waterways can be woven into dense urban fabric, instead of being buried, in order to support ecological restoration and more resilient urban communities.
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Evolving Intentions: Support for Modeling and Reasoning about Requirements that Change over Time
… possible selections for task and dependency alternatives, but this treats models as static snapshots, where once the evaluation of the fulfillment of an intention is determined, it remains constant. Using these techniques stakeholders are unable to reason about possible evolutions, leaving …
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Re-Imagining America : rural futurism, speculative fiction, And reckoning with a new era
… them, more fully and clearly. By imagining alternative futures, and communicating them to a broader audience through fiction, I propose we may better understand, collectively, how to enact our agency in the present to address these challenges head-on. In this thesis, I argue for the practice …
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The Afterlife of Wells, from oil to soil in the Amazonia
… a range of spatial scenarios and conceptualizes alternative futures. It provides tools for remediation strategies working on a transitional timeline and different degrees of intervention. Together they demonstrate the possibility of the space in the after-oil condition. The scope of the research …
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Statemaking Through Distant Presence in the Urban Periphery. An exploration of Scaled Education Actors Negotiating Possible Futures in a Changing Sociopolitical Landscape in Chile.
… social demands, and reconfiguration of imagined futures that have occurred not only in Chile but worldwide in the last years. Therefore, it becomes imperative to address this new socio-political landscape in both education and the changing nature of Chile, including the political pressures that …
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Imagining and Navigating the Future: Educational Aspirations and Agency of Economically Disadvantaged Ethiopian Secondary School Students
… resources to move forward to their aspired futures. This dissertation examines how economically disadvantaged secondary school age youth in Ethiopia imagine and pursue their aspired future amidst supporting and constraining conditions. My study also explores how these students exercise their …
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Making worlds collide : using Tolkien’s fantasy literature to create a new leadership development framework
… skills, behaviour and thinking to create alternative futures, and find new ways to generate innovative solutions. Literature reviews reveal that leaders and leadership developers have generally not considered the possibility of using speculative fiction and fantasy literature as a source …
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