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  • Community leaders' perspectives of a rural community college's impact on community development

    Creator:
    Thomas, Reine M.
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    The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine the role a rural community college plays in the development of its community, using a holistic, community-based lens that considered college and community context, interactions and results to answer the question: How does the rural community college impact the development...
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    Dissertation
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    ' Perspectives of a Rural Community College's Impact on Community Development Abstract approved

  • The effects of alternative future development scenarios on ecological processes and social-ecological resilience in Central Oregon

    Creator:
    Duncan, James A.
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    This research sought to explore the implications of different tenure regimes for both landscape-level ecological processes and the overall resilience of a social-ecological system in Central Oregon. The purchase by an investor of former industrial timberlands known as the Bull Springs tract raised the specter of dispersed residential development on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ...................................................................................................1 1.2. Linkages between forest ecology, land tenure and rural residential development

  • Assessing the impact that professional development training has on the self-efficacy of school counselors, including rural school counselors

    Creator:
    Millmore, Patrick J.
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    Boyd and Walter (1975) identified the need to provide supervision for school counselors almost forty years ago. Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States (2014), in her address at the American School Counselor Association Conference stated that school counselors needed to be provided with professional development opportunities designed...
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    Dissertation
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    professional development needs of school counselors in rural America. There is also a paucity of research

  • The impact of social capital on well-being in rural communities

    Creator:
    Harrison, Jane L.
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    This study seeks to explore the relationship between social capital and well-being in the rural Western United States. Mixed methods were employed to understand the concepts from multiple angles, using both profile and process indicators. An econometric approach used profile indicators and relied on data from 414 counties in the...
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    Dissertation
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    development practitioners, rural community leaders, and public land managers that interface with rural

  • Essays on land-use change, carbon sequestration and emissions in China

    Creator:
    Li, Man
    Abstract:
    China has experienced rapid economic growth in the last twenty years, accompanied by large-scale land conversion, severe environmental degradation, and rising carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. Designing policies for sustainable development requires a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between economic growth, land-use change, carbon sequestration and emissions in China. This dissertation...
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    Dissertation
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    degradation, and rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Designing policies for sustainable development