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  • Barriers to Community Involvement across Rural and Urban Communities

    Creator:
    Torgerson, Melissa
    Abstract:
    Many communities emphasize participatory involvement in local development or reinvention efforts. Recognizing barriers among specific groups could help community leaders identify what may be constraining underrepresented groups from joining in. Utilizing data from the Social Capital Benchmark Survey, this research examined identified “barriers” to community involvement among individuals in rural...
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    community involvement among individuals in rural and urban areas. Results indicated that while rurality

  • We Can Work it Out: Implementation and Collaborative Governance

    Creator:
    Knobloch, Jenna
    Abstract:
    Collaborative governance strives to address complex environmental problems by building cooperation and consensus among stakeholders. While there are many successful examples of collaborative governance, all too frequently collaborative groups come to an agreement in the meeting room only to struggle to bring their plans to fruition. What are the factors...
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    governance but for implementing policy in general (Wilson 1989). In fact, setting specific goals are so

  • International Mekong River Basin : Events, Conflicts or Cooperation, and Policy Implications

    Creator:
    Yorth, Bunny
    Abstract:
    “International river basin is defined as an area extending over two or more states determined by the watershed limits of the system of waters, including surface and underground waters, flowing into a common terminus” (Shapiro-Libai, 1969, p. 22). There are 276 international river basins providing almost 60% of global freshwater...
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     factors  found  in  either  conflicts  or   cooperation  of  the  events,  and

  • The poetics of water governance : differential language use in relation to water in El Salvador

    Creator:
    Ogden, Stephanie
    Abstract:
    The language of water policy both suggests and enforces the relationship that the public should have with water. Differences in language use between policy institutions and the public suggest that the understanding of water promoted through policy may be incongruent with the understanding of water held by the public. Semi-structured...
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water
policy
is
in
development,
and
the
role
of
policy
in
rural
water
governance
is
 emerging

  • Combined Collaborative Governance Approaches: A Case Study of the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area in Western Montana

    Creator:
    Sigmon, Abigail M.
    Abstract:
    The Blackfoot Community Conservation Area (BCCA) was created in response to a degrading natural environment coupled with a weakening community. The BCCA is a community owned 5,609-acre forest located in the heart of the Blackfoot watershed in Western Montana. Fearful of development and the creation of subdivisions, landowners banded together,...
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    become a recent impetus for establishing collaborative policymaking in rural landscapes (Belsky, 2008

  • Keeping state policy public : meeting accountability in commission governance

    Creator:
    Stauffer, Scott
    Abstract:
    Despite their widespread use and presence at all levels of government, public commissions and boards are rarely given much attention, by the general public, academia, or surprisingly by public policy and agency experts. As a state infrastructure governing entity transportation commissions often deal with controversy, but do we really understand...
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for
public
governance?


The
problem
of
 concentrating
power
in
one
man
is
that
no
one,
save
that
one

  • Balancing impact and efficiency in microfinance administration : the importance of attention to program design

    Creator:
    Kearney, Emily Q.
    Abstract:
    Microfinance, or the technique of lending small amounts of money to the world’s poor for productive activities, has become a popular strategy for poverty-alleviation, achieving legislative status as a development strategy in the U.S. in 2000 with the Microenterprise for Self-Sufficiency Act. However, microfinance has increasingly failed to achieve the...
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    supposed to be more creditworthy. Similarly, rural areas [will be marginalized] in favor of urban areas

  • No One Cares What Color The Fire Truck Is: A Case Study of Interagency Cooperation In Fire Management in Central Oregon

    Creator:
    Gregory, Sarah
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study is to identify the aspects of successful collaboration within an inter-organizational context. This essay is a case study of a tightly niched network of fire chiefs in central Oregon situated within multiple contiguous boundaries of federal and state agencies, county and municipal governments, industrial forests,...
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    urban interface where there is an increase in risk of wildfire aggravates the potential for disaster

  • Imagining the Future : A Qualitative Study of Community Visioning Processes in Rural Oregon Counties

    Creator:
    Warden, McKenzie
    Abstract:
    Community visioning processes offer communities the platform to identify common goals, indicate actions and measures of progress, and envision what they would like their political, economic, and social landscape to look like for years to come. Rural communities often face unique obstacles in terms of isolation, lack of resources and...
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    present in the counties that collaborative governance models deem necessary for successful

  • Evaluating the Social Equity Implications of Green Infrastructure for Urban Resilience

    Creator:
    Venable, Victoria
    Abstract:
    As the threat of climate change becomes more imminent and the role of cities in climate adaptation becomes clearer, urban resilience, the ability of a city or urban system to withstand a wide array of shocks and stresses, has gained increasing attention in climate adaptation policy and planning. Critics of...
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    attention in climate adaptation policy and planning. Common tools for building urban resilience include