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Do biosphere reserves bolster community resilience in coupled human and natural systems? Evidence from 5 case studies in Spain
Our research provides evidence that critical junctures in coupled human and natural systems may stimulate the undertaking of sustainability...
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A theory of scaling for community-based fisheries management
Community-based approaches to fisheries management has emerged as a mainstream strategy to govern dispersed, diverse and dynamic small scale...
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Plantando Amor y Cultivando Unidad: A Story of Building and Sustaining an Immigrant-Led Community Garden in Partnership with a University
One project of the (H)ACER program outlined in the chapter prior is the Calabasas Community Garden (CCG). This chapter illuminates the process by...
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Connecting Communities Through Mobile Networks: A Case Study of Implementing Community Cellular Networks in the Philippines
Community networking can provide telecommunications in unserved and underserved areas where markets fail to deliver adequate Internet service due to...
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Examining the conditions that activate linking social capital to transition environmental governance: empirical insights from Chile’s coast
As socio-ecological systems undergo regional environmental change, there is a need to create adaptive governance that can manage uncertainty through...
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Traditional groundwater exploration method for pastoralist community water supply system in semi-arid region of Ethiopia: case of Tula Sallan Borana, Southern Ethiopia
Traditionally Borana people used to excavate a little depth in the stream alluvium, to collect the groundwater coming from side to side of outflow...
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Develo** a Praxis of Loving Relations: Lessons from a Community-University Partnership that Centers Undergraduate Research and Learning
This chapter outlines the Apprenticeship for Community Engaged Research or (H)ACER program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It explores...
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Urban safety, community healing & gun violence reduction: the advance peace model
Cities around the world continue to grapple with safety, security and the role for law enforcement in reducing gun crime. Recent calls for...
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Factors influencing community-led total sanitation (CLTS) implementation abandonment before achieving open defecation-free (ODF) status: case study of the Central-Western region of Burkina Faso
Access to sanitation has become an important element for improving the health of populations in develo** countries. In Burkina Faso, 12% of the...
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Community Participation in Urban Planning in Vietnam Toward Sustainable Development: Prospects and Challenges
The transition towards the open market economy in Vietnam since “Doi Moi” (Economic Reforms) in 1986 has triggered significant social...
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Individual and community perceptions of climate change in Lower Mustang, Nepal
Human perceptions and concerns about the implications of climate change have a profound importance for adaptation to and mitigation of the impacts of...
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Perilous Waters: Gendering Community-Based Disasters Management Practices from Floods—A Study of Majuli, Assam
When a hazard unfolds as a disaster, local communities are not only ‘first responders’ in the aftermath of disasters but also the ‘first...
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Factors Affecting Community Forest Management in Ha Giang Province, Vietnam
With the current deforestation in the world, to save the earth and forest resources, residents need to have a long-term strategy for their management...
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Advancing neighbourhood climate action: opportunities, challenges and way ahead
Cities are emerging as key sites for action on climate change. Within cities, urban neighbourhoods are increasingly taking leadership in addressing...
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Participatory rangeland management: A vehicle for pastoralist women’s empowerment in Ethiopia
Pastoralist tenure systems are highly complex. Where customary institutions are functioning well, pastoralist women access and use resources as a...
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Graduate ability to show workplace sustainability leadership: demonstration of an assessment tool
Information associated with the assessment of graduate attributes, in the workplace, is limited. Yet if the many environmental and social problems...
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Activating employee pro-environmental behavior in the workplace: the effects of environmental self-identity and behavioral integrity
Scholars have gradually turned their attention to ethical leadership within the develo** discussion of leaders’ influence on employee...
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From Women in Development to Women Entrepreneurs of the Countryside Community of Michiquillay: A Step to Social Inclusion
The participation of women in the development of people has been and is essential despite the fact that, due to their vulnerability and importance,...
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Sustainable Community Transformation Process. The Role of Capacity Building in Sumba, Indonesia
This chapter is about the role of capacity building of local NGOsNGO in Sumba, a poor island in the Eastern part of Indonesia. It is part of a larger...
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Community engagement in pastoralist areas: Lessons from the public dialogue process for a new refugee settlement in Turkana, Kenya
Large-scale development interventions have long failed to accommodate the needs and preferences of pastoralists or the systems of resource governance...
