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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"community action"”.
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Co-created citizen science for community action
‘Co-created citizen science for community action’ explores how co-created approaches to citizen science practice can be utilised to support communities to take action on the issues that matter to them. Co-created citizen science is the participation of citizens in the whole of the research process, …
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A Comparative Study of Community Action Programs
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Community Action: A Case Study in Racial Cleavage
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Increasing public awareness: a community action group case study
The purpose of this study was to determine how a community action group raised public awareness for its cause, and to show the importance of acknowledging the many ways in which people of all ages learn in a variety of settings and circumstances. The research question asked "How are knowledge and …
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A plan for comprehensive community action in Lincoln, Nebraska
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1948.
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The Integration of Community Organizational Fields and The Community Action Program
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The effectiveness of community action plans of farmer's livelihood in the Caprivi Region, Namibia
… in the Caprivi Region introduced the concept of Community Action Plan (CAP) in 2005 as a tool for implementing the Farming Systems Research and Extension (FSRE) approach. The Directorate’s main aim is to have functional Community Action Plans (CAP) in all communities in the Caprivi Region. …
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Collective leadership for community action: A case-based inquiry into supporting digital literacy initiatives
… efforts, as well as increased understandings of community-based initiatives. One challenge faced by communities is how to support the development of digital literacies in their citizens for not just long-term success in an increasingly technology-reliant life but also to meet social and economic …
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Passionate about social change: an IPA study exploring the experiences of young people engaged in community action.
… difficulties, there is a shift in favour towards community psychology interventions which work at multiple levels to improve well-being and to challenge the status quo, addressing the systemic and social conditions which contribute to psychological problems occurring. Following a systematic …
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Examining a Community Action Planning Process to Mobilize a Coalition to Prevent Youth Violence: A Case Study of the ThrYve Initiative
… cause of death for Black youth. Comprehensive community approaches may address risk factors across socio-ecological levels to prevent youth violence. Community coalitions can serve as a mechanism for implementing a comprehensive community approach. Based on the Framework for Collaborative …
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From the Civil Law Doctrine to the reasonable use theory and from the frontier thesis to community action: Flood control in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1905-1976
… and replaced it with a new spirit of communal action. The legal revolution, along with a series of events tied to the valley's mushrooming urbanization energized the long dormant Las Vegas Valley Flood Control District which quickly won support in 1986 for implementing the flood control agenda. …
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Landscape Aesthetics in Practice: A critical enquiry into the development and use of an arts practice as a constructive intervention within the context of landscape change, community action, Green Infrastructure planning and delivery and Landscape Character Assessment processes.
… included in decision-making processes. This action research adopts a hopeful, participatory and auto-ethnographic inquiry into the potential for developing and applying a relational and environmental walking-art practice to overcome this disconnect; an approach which attempts to reconnect art …
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Healthy and Livable Pittsburg Initiative: Master of Public Health Culminating Experience
<p> Contra Costa Health Services Department of Community Wellness and Prevention sole purpose is to improve the environmental, social and economic conditions that contribute to poor health, and support a quality of life that promotes the health and well being of all residents within the county, …
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Iraq's housing crisis : upgrading settlements for IDPS (internally displaced persons)
… other settlements are becoming more durable. Community action can be a solution for the problems addressed in semi-durable settlements that have exhibited enough solidarity through incremental processes to reach a semi-durable state. This thesis examines the solution through three methods. …
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Promoting an Equitable Eating-Out Food Environment through the Application of a Food Justice Frame: A Case Study
… material and perception data, culminating in a community action meeting to generate interventions. Findings show that a five-dimensional definition of access is appropriate and effective. The dimensions of accessibility and affordability were less important factors of eating-out behavior (EOB) …
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Politics of poverty in Arkansas : a decision-making study.
… Act of 1964 proposed solutions to poverty. Community Action Agencies, a creation of the Act, were charged with the responsibility of mobilizing local resources to combat poverty. Since the inception of the poverty program, there have been challenges to its continued existence. President …
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Advocacy and Community Based Organizations: How to Achieve Policy Development
This study questions if the advocacy efforts of community based organizations, like community development corporations, voluntary member associations, and community action agencies, can achieve policy development. Policy development is defined as the proposal of a policy by a community based …
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“During the pandemic, the sense of Ubuntu was fantastic”: a participatory research study commemorating community mobilisation
… the effects and learn from the experiences of a community organization in a pandemic, the research question for this study was ‘What are the experiences and perceived effects of a community organisation engaging in a commemorative arts-based process for social innovation during a pandemic?'. The …
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