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Empowerment knowledge of elementary school teachers for supporting green schools

open access: yesJournal of Community Service and Empowerment, 2023
Environmental problems including in this case environmental pollution need to be overcome in various ways. Schools as educational institutions need to be examples and role models for the development of environmental-based schools or green schools.
Ilmi Zajuli Ichsan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heritage Community Resilience for sustainable and resilient human settlements

open access: yes, 2019
The value of cultural heritage for sustainable and resilient human settlements is recognized in international documents and agendas. These documents underline the importance of protecting and enhancing the identity values of the places to contribute both to the creation of a heritage community and to the strengthening of the community resilience. Small
Pinto, Maria Rita   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Participatory approach for integrated basin planning with focus on disaster risk reduction : the case of the Limpopo river [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper defends the idea that a participatory approach is a suitable method for basin planning integrating both water and land aspects. Assertions made are based on scientific literature review and corroborated by field experience and research carried
De Dapper, Morgan   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Considering Power in Community-Based Research: Shifting Toward New Pedagogical Approaches with a 'Public Work for Public Things' Framework

open access: yesGateways, 2021
One of the fundamental questions of power in the pedagogy of community-based research (CBR) is who gets to decide what is research worthy and what is the focus of CBR questions?
Susan Haarman, Patrick M Green
doaj   +1 more source

Complexity in action: Untangling latent relationships between land quality, economic structures and socio-spatial patterns in Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Land quality, a key economic capital supporting local development, is affected by biophysical and anthropogenic factors. Taken as a relevant attribute of economic systems, land quality has shaped the territorial organization of any given region ...
Bajocco, Sofia   +7 more
core   +3 more sources

Promiscuous Care in Movement-Based Research: Lessons Learned from Collaborations in Manhattan's Chinatown

open access: yesGateways, 2021
Decolonial and feminist studies scholars have long recognised the intricate ways in which the personal and academic are deeply interwoven and that the co-production of knowledge is essential for social transformation.
Diane Wong
doaj   +1 more source

Bird Communities Across Different Levels of Human Settlement: A Comparative Analysis from Two Northern Amazonian Ecoregions

open access: yesScience of The Total Environment, 2023
Urban ecosystems are increasingly dominating landscapes globally, so it is critical to understand the effects of human settlements on biodiversity. Bird communities are effective indicators because they are impacted by the size and expansion of human settlements, exemplified by changes in their habitat use, breeding and foraging behaviours, as well as ...
William M, Hayes   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

When Consensus Falters, We Co-create: Attending to Power in a Practitioner/Scholar Partnership to Amplify Newcomer Belonging

open access: yesGateways, 2021
This article interrogates the politics of belonging in scholar–practitioner collaborations by analysing and reflecting upon a group project that advocated for a more equitable approach to newcomer belonging and integration in an urban setting in the ...
Anita H. Fábos   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

'Midwife for Power': Towards a Mujerista / Womanist Model of Community Organizing

open access: yesGateways, 2021
In recent years, communities have responded to police violence in U.S. cities through confrontational models of community organising that evolved from patriarchal and male approaches. Very often, these approaches have not produced the hoped-for outcomes.
Alexandra Piñeros Shields
doaj   +1 more source

Prostitution or partnership? Wifestyles in Tanzanian artisanal gold-mining settlements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Tanzania, along with several other African countries, is experiencing a national mining boom, which has prompted hundreds of thousands of men and women to migrate to mineral-rich locations.
Abrahams   +25 more
core   +3 more sources

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