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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate and Airborne Pollutants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Pamphlet describing climate projections based on emission scenarios for long-lived and short-lived radiatively active gases and ...
Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
core  

Towards Human‐Centered Intelligent Inhabitable Spaces: A Review

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This review introduces Robot‐Rooms as a new category of architectural‐scale robots that do not operate within a space but actively form and reconfigure the space around their occupants. Drawing from robotics, HCI, architecture, and the arts, an interdisciplinary framework is proposed that maps the enabling technologies and integration challenges ...
Nithesh Kumar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Open Classroom Climate in International Large-Scale Assessments: Individual Construct or Climate Construct?

open access: yesSAGE Open
This study examines the conceptualization and operationalization of the open classroom climate construct in existing empirical works. Open classroom climate is a classroom environment where adolescents can freely discuss political issues and express ...
Eunjung Myoung, Pey-Yan Liou
doaj   +1 more source

Thirsty country: climate change and drought in Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This report argues that climate change is likely making drought worse in the southeast and southwest of Australia, which are some of our most populous regions. Introduction Drought has deeply affected Australia throughout its history.
Climate Council
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Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Midwestern Regional Climate Center [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
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Midwestern Regional Climate Center
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Transitioning to nonpunitive school policies for addressing student substance use: Qualitative interviews with key school administrators

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent policy change in Massachusetts encourages schools to limit their use of exclusionary discipline to “extraordinary circumstances,” but little work has explored the opportunities and challenges of transitioning to nonpunitive practices after student substance use infractions in schools.
Kristina Conroy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seasonal Climate Forecasts and Risk Management Among Georgia Farmers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Recent increases in the scientific robustness of seasonal climate forecasts have not led to substantial changes in farmers’ risk management strategies of actors, largely because there is poor integration of scientific forecasting into farmers’ decision ...
Hoogenhoom, G.   +13 more
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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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