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  • Institutionalizing sustainability in community colleges : the role of the college president

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    Williams, Peter G.
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    The purpose of this research study was to describe and improve understanding of the meaning of institutionalized sustainability and the role that a college president plays in institutionalizing sustainability on a community college campus. The following questions guided the research: (a) What does it mean to have sustainability “institutionalized” at...
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    : The Role of the College President Abstract approved: George H. Copa The purpose of

  • Collaboration Challenges: Stakeholder Perceptions of Managing a National Forestry Program. A Case Study of the Multi Stakeholder Forestry Program in Nepal

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    Maskey, Stuty
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    Increasing calls from stakeholders for a greater role in public decision making has led to the rapid world-wide adoption of multi stakeholder collaboration for policymaking. In line with this emerging trend the Government of Nepal with support from its long-time development partners and bi-lateral donors initiated a policy level experiment...
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    : _____________________________________________ Denise H. Lach Increasing calls from stakeholders for a greater role in public

  • Transboundary river floods : vulnerability of continents, international river basins and countries

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    Bakker, Marloes H. N.
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    Floods are the most frequent and damaging of all types of natural disasters and annually affect the lives of millions all over the globe. However, researchers seem to have overlooked the fact that floods do not recognize national boundaries. Therefore, the phenomena of shared, or transboundary floods occurring in international...
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    . ©Copyright by Marloes H. N. Bakker December 06, 2006 All Rights Reserved Transboundary River Floods

  • Seed quality and plant establishment studies of seashore paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum Sw.)

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    Baker, Stanley D.
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    Seashore paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum Sw.) is an important warm-season perennial turfgrass, known for its tolerance to salinity. Turfgrass is used for homes, municipalities, sod farms, resorts, and sports fields. Seashore paspalum has historically been planted in sub-tropical and tropical climates because of its heat tolerance. Seashore paspalum could become an...
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    that given this dormancy, an alternating temperature regime of 20/30⁰C (16 h dark/8 h light) provided

  • Essays on Public-Private Contracting

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    Gultom, Yohanna M. L.
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    In this work, I address foundational concerns at the interface of institutions, governance structure, transaction costs, and efficiency in public-private contracting. Following transaction cost economic perspective, I build and justify the theoretical models explaining that institutions may affect the economic performance of public-private contracting through the effect of transaction costs....
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    Yohanna M. L. Gultom for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy presented on June 6, 2018

  • Macro Stories: Policy Process Dynamics of Presidential Environmental Ideas

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    Peterson, Holly L.
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    Public policy narratives and stories are often referenced by the media, politicians, advocacy groups, and across many disciplines in academia. Studies of social and political narratives support the notion narrative matters, but often lack systematic design capable of producing generalizable findings. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has responded to this...
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    policy agenda within policymaking institutions, time series analysis of climate change narratives and

  • Resilience of large river basins : applying social-ecological systems theory, conflict management, and collaboration on the Mekong and Columbia Basins

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    MacQuarrie, Patrick R.
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    River basins provide essential services for both humans and ecosystems. Understanding the connections between ecosystems and society and their function has been at the heart of resilience studies and has become an increasing important endeavor in research and practice. In this dissertation, I define basin resilience as a river basin...
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    resilient, 3) are the Mekong and Columbia River Basins resilient across multiple scales, 4) can conflict

  • Community Resilience to Climate Change in Rural Java, Indonesia

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    Utami, Arini Wahyu
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    Climate change increases weather unpredictability, threatens communities whose livelihoods depend on natural resources, such as rural communities. Utilizing a Community Capital Framework (Flora and Flora, 2013) and Governance of Complex Adaptive Systems (Duit and Galaz, 2008), this study concentrated on the role of cultural and political capital in supporting rural...
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    for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Policy presented on March 6, 2017

  • An Exploration of Used Fuel Sharing in Multi-Reactor Power Plants

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    Lilley, Benjamin C.
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    Nuclear fuel management is an optimization problem on many levels. Finding “viable” solutions for the core reload design problem is difficult without expert knowledge and software automation. Small modular reactors with a shared used fuel pool demonstrate a novel opportunity for fuel cycle optimization. A Python package was developed and...
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    that might correspond to rates that public (4%) and private (10%) utilities might secure for fuel

  • Higher Education Diversity Work and its Discontents: Theorizing Student Social Media Activism as Counter-hegemonic Network of Practice

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    Robertson, Rebecca
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    Diversity and inclusion represent central challenges and opportunities in the transnational field of higher education, as the number of students enrolled in higher education has expanded exponentially over the past century and universal access to tertiary education has emerged as a development imperative. Within this context, diversity has emerged as...
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    . Philosophical Explorations, 4(3), 223–239. Bernard, H. R. H. R. (2011). Research methods in anthropology