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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"race and place"”.
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Exploring the Role of Race and Place in Residential Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Adoption
The urgency of addressing climate change and grid decarbonization in the United States necessitates the rapid deployment of clean energy technologies at scale. Residential solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies have emerged in the past decade as one such technology as a result of substantial cost …
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Race and place : green collar jobs and the movement for economic democracy in Los Angeles and Cleveland
… of growing economic inequality in America and the threat posed to democracy, a number of planning scholars have put forth the idea of building progressive civil society capacity in the economic sphere to broaden stakeholder control and accountability of capitalist markets. Yet actual …
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The well-being and identities of 14- to 26-year-old intercountry adoptees and their non-adopted migrant peers in Western Australia
… transplantation to a markedly different country and culture, often into families with racially different parents, negatively affects the children ' s well-being and identity. Although empirical intercountry adoption research has increased elsewhere, Australian-based research has lagged behind. …
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Between the Rural and Suburban: The Social, Political, and Economic Dynamics of Policing Forsyth County, GA
… County is policed by the local sheriff’s office and how the residents come to police themselves and each other. Using historical analysis and ethnographic methods, this thesis explores the county’s racial history and shifts in political economy that shape perceptions of crime and their subsequent …
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Serving Through Adversity: Community-Based Nonprofits Negotiating Race, Place, and a State Budget Crisis, 2007-2011
… study examines the ways in which the leadership and staff of four community-based organizations in a high-poverty African American community in Chicago perceived and were impacted by economic, political, and social changes in their community from 2007 to 2011. During a time of economic hardship …
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Gleaned, grown and gifted : the significance of social food economies in productive cities
… a focal point for concerns regarding sustainable and equitable futures, with the environmental consequences of consumerism and food insecurity being of particular concern. Rather than believe that cities are the cause of all that is unsustainable, this dissertation tenders the concept of the …
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Gleaned, grown and gifted : the significance of social food economies in productive cities
… a focal point for concerns regarding sustainable and equitable futures, with the environmental consequences of consumerism and food insecurity being of particular concern. Rather than believe that cities are the cause of all that is unsustainable, this dissertation tenders the concept of the …
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Health Equity Through Spatial Justice: A Critical Phenomenology of Urban Trail Makers
<p>Research has increasingly demonstrated that race, class and place are powerful predictors of health and social justice. This study was conducted to identify the lived experiences of individuals who were hired and trained as part of a green job program that created trails within a city park in …