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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"community change"”.
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Community change in the Northern forest
… quantitative data I chronicle a century change, focusing on how the industry has shaped the community and its present ability to reinvent itself. I analyze the ways in which patterns of change and redevelopment are structured by the local social, economic, and environmental contexts, …
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Immigration in rural Newfoundland: Individual and community change
… to rural Newfoundland and what, if any, changes the communities themselves have made. I am particularly interested in what role communication plays in these change processes. To investigate this topic I conducted interviews and focus groups with both immigrants and native-born …
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Belowground Fungal Community Change Associated with Ecosystem Development
… however, there are no studies describing fungal community change associated with long-term ecosystem development. To understand ecosystem development, the organisms responsible for shaping and driving these systems and their relationships with the vegetation and soil factors, it is critical to …
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The Dynamics of Community Change in Rural India: A Causal Model
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Vegetation community change over decadal and century scales in the North Carolina piedmont
This thesis examines vegetation community change at two temporal scales in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Using long-term plots in the Duke Forest, I examine decadal-scale changes in community composition of the forest understory and shed light on the potential drivers of that change. Using …
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Appalachian Alter-Natives: The Back-to-the-Land Migration and Community Change in Appalachia, 1970--2000
… eventually became involved with broader community initiatives that addressed economic, educational, and environmental problems. Through various campaigns they forged bonds with like-minded natives, although disputes sometimes occurred as their "cosmopolitan" visions for local development …
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Exploring capacities and skills to generate youth adult partnerships for community change : three community case studies
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Educational Administration, 2010
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Bee diversity in Angola and community change along an altitudinal gradient at Serra da Chela (Bruco)
… important to estimate effects of climate change on an important ecosystem service such as pollination. Bees being ecologically important insects with close links to plants, high richness and abundance are well-suited as terrestrial habitat bioindicators. The group is sensitive to …
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Community Change And Residents' Perceptions Of Industrial Driven Impacts On A Small Town: A Study In Methodology
… examines the perceptions of the effects of community change by residents in a small town. Industries are more frequently locating in smaller communities. The research presented here explores how residents of a small town perceive the effects of selected types of change, including the …
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Music, mind and health : how community change, diagnosis, and neuro-rehabilitation can be targeted during creative tasks.
… provide the structure to facilitate clinical change without losing the communicative and expressive power of music. This thesis will demonstrate how new music technologies are the ideal interfaces to address the issues of scale, assessment, and structured intervention that plague the ability …
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The Supper Effect: Community Engagement as a Path to School and Community Change in a Small Rural Town
… the local wisdom and unique needs present in the community each school serves. The United States Department of Education has endorsed school reform methods that engage schools and community in simultaneous school-community change processes, framing communities and schools as partners in …
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Power and change: examining individual and setting level characteristics in relation to perceived influence in council settings and collaborative outcomes
… settings, in turn, is related to perceived community change has not been explored. The present study examined data collected from Family Violence Councils (FVC) to examine ways in which member- and council-level characteristics of these collaborative efforts are associated with members’ …
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Carbon storage in grasslands : the impact of atmospheric nitrogen pollution
… carbon storage is an essential form of climate change mitigation. However, there is a lot of uncertainty regarding the impact of nitrogen accumulation on terrestrial carbon storage. Determining the impacts of nitrogen addition on soil carbon is crucial to our understanding of how soil can be …
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An exploration of the relationship between applied theatre and community building practice, with specific reference to a teenage pregnancy project in Delft
… ages, races and classes together. In doing so, a community is formed, dynamic and multidimensional in nature. This is a divergence from conventional understandings of community as a single static, objective entity. Community building practice centres around this reconceptualisation of community, …
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“Peace to kids and listen to them!” a case study in a summer art program for teens
… study investigates how teens in a low-income community center summer art program expressed their perspectives on their identities and their communities. Constructivist and advocacy paradigms guided the research methodology. The summer art program utilized an emergent asset-based curriculum …
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