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Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

Creator:: Bruno, Mark P.
Abstract:: This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: three such “waves” (p. 7) in the history of European-settled North America: a largely religious wave

To restore what once was : a mixed methods approach to understanding the shoe repair transaction

Creator:: Giulietti, Michael P.
Abstract:: The shoe repair transaction, as it occurs in the 5000 or so remaining shoe repair shops in the United States, is currently unexamined in academic literature for the significance it holds for either shoe repairers or their customers. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Shoe Repair Transaction by Michael P. Giulietti A THESIS

Recognizing and overcoming the critical cultural barriers to progress in the sustainability movement : from a human perspective

Creator:: Bestvina, Bodarc
Abstract:: This thesis seeks to better understand the most pressing cultural barriers to progress in the sustainability movement, and to offer suggestions for overcoming barriers. This research includes a two-year long case study of the sustainability movement at OSU, where the researcher coordinated projects encouraging behavior change. Despite increasing severity and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the Sustainability Movement: From a Human Perspective Abstract approved

Theoretical perspectives on Latin American indigenous development, with reference to a case study of Cebadas, Ecuador

Creator:: Ocana, Juan Carlos
Abstract:: This thesis presents a discussion of the main materialistic theories proposed to explain the process of development among the indigenous population of Latin America. Four theoretical approaches are presented and discussed. The first one deals with the social group referred to as peasants. The second one explains the process of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Perspectives on Latin American Indigenous Development, With Reference to a Case Study of Cebadas. Ecuador. A

Understandings of sustainability and the contributions of non-governmental organizations : a case study of Toledo, Belize

Creator:: Rosien, Jessica
Abstract:: This thesis reviews theoretical and local understandings of sustainability and examines the contributions which the NGO, the Toledo Institute for Development and Environment (TIDE), makes to achieving sustainability in the district of Toledo in Belize, Central America. The study focuses mainly on the Port Honduras Marine Reserve, which TIDE manages...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Ghanaian women, creating economic security : an analysis of gender, development, and power in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa

Creator:: Vickers, Katherine Elise
Abstract:: In June 1999, I was a volunteer for a United States non-governmental organization, Crossroads Africa. I joined six other American women traveling to Ghana, West Africa to participate in a collaborative program designed by the Ghana Red Cross Society and Crossroads Africa. Specifically our group was assigned to work on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , West Africa. Abstract Approved: A.Young In June 1999,1 was a volunteer for a United States non

Ecotourism, community development, and local autonomy : the experience of Shan-Mei aboriginal community in Taiwan

Creator:: Lee, Pei-Yao
Abstract:: Shan-Mei, a Tsou aboriginal village in Taiwan, is widely known as a legend of environmental conservation, where ecotourism has been successfully combined with integrated community development. Indigenous knowledge containing "ecological wisdom" and decision-making based on consensus are perceived to be the greatest contributors to this achievement. I conducted three months...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved:. John A. Young Shan-Mei, a Tsou aboriginal village in Taiwan, is widely known as a legend of

Pan, techo y libertad : women, gender and development in the Afro-Ecuadorian highlands

Creator:: Guerron-Montero, Carla Maria
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Libertad: Women. Gender and Development in the Afro-Ecuadorian Highlands. Abstract approved: John A. Young

An analysis of social relationships at a development site in Kenya

Creator:: Burke, Deborah A.
Abstract:: Both development and post-structuralist anthropologists have critiqued development. Development anthropologists are concerned that development does not take adequate account of the social and cultural factors of developing nations, while post structuralists question the ontology of development and assert that domination over developing nations is inherent in the concept of development....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Deborah A. Burke for the degree of

Socio-ecological vulnerability in a Tibetan village on the Lancang River, China

Creator:: Galipeau, Brendan A.
Abstract:: This ethnographic research examines socioeconomic vulnerabilities to resettlement from a large hydropower dam and agricultural commodification in a Tibetan village in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. After providing an initial background on the dynamics of the research region and hydrodevelopment on its rivers, the research framework of examining vulnerability through a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Brendan A. Galipeau for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on July 6, 2012

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

To restore what once was : a mixed methods approach to understanding the shoe repair transaction

Recognizing and overcoming the critical cultural barriers to progress in the sustainability movement : from a human perspective

Theoretical perspectives on Latin American indigenous development, with reference to a case study of Cebadas, Ecuador

Understandings of sustainability and the contributions of non-governmental organizations : a case study of Toledo, Belize

Ghanaian women, creating economic security : an analysis of gender, development, and power in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa

Ecotourism, community development, and local autonomy : the experience of Shan-Mei aboriginal community in Taiwan

Pan, techo y libertad : women, gender and development in the Afro-Ecuadorian highlands

An analysis of social relationships at a development site in Kenya

Socio-ecological vulnerability in a Tibetan village on the Lancang River, China

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