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An Examination Of The Self-Perceptions Of The Physical Environment And Psychological Health Of Latina Women Living In The St. Columbia Neighborhood Of Newark, New Jersey, Veronica Maria Maya

Theses

A correlation between perceptions of environmental quality and psychological health has been established in a sample of Latina women. Three psychological scales exist to measure psychological constructs such as learned helplessness, hopelessness, and selfesteem. These three scales have been used in conjunction with an environmental survey designed to capture the perceptions of the sample to their physical environment.

The mean of scores for each psychological construct in the Latina sample were compared to the mean of scores for these constructs in independent samples of oncology, hemodialysis, and spinal cord injured patients being treated for depression. This comparison yields the following …

History Of Oxygenated Gasoline Use In New Jersey 1992-1998, Jean Niebuhr Borne

Theses

New Jersey has been required to use oxygenated gasoline from November 1 to March 30 since 1992 in order to reduce carbon monoxide from vehicles. This requirement was part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. For the past six winters, New Jersey has utilized gasoline with methyl butyl tertiary ether, MTBE, as the oxygenate. In New Jersey, and in many states across the country, health complaints were reported after oxygenated fuel started flowing from gas pumps.

Oxybusters is a grassroots organization dedicated to the removal of oxygenated gasoline off the market. The group has pressured Governor Whitman to …

Unlv Residence Hall Recycling & Reuse Program For Move-In And Move-Out, Angela Michelson

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The goal of this thesis was to develop a program for the UNLV Residence Hall Recycling & Reuse Program for Move-In and Move-Out that would collect unwanted and unneeded materials from the residents and put them to use. Move-In collected cardboard boxes for recycling while Move-Out collected usable items such as shoes, clothes, food, bedding, and school supplies for resale. In order to have a good collection turnout, a combination of advertising and resident and staff education was conducted. Letters were sent to Resident Assistants (RA’s) and Complex Coordinators and posters and other advertisements were placed in high traffic areas …

The South Coast Estuarine Fishery. A Discussion Paper., Rod Pearn, Tony Cappelluti

Fisheries management papers

This discussion paper proposes a way for the South Coast Estuarine Fishery to address issues relating to the long-term sustainable management and sharing of the fish resource.

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, May/June 1999

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletters (1993-2000)

Contents:

The Farmer and the Dean

University Role in Biotechnology: Who Owns Genes and Diversity?

CSAS Volume 9 Discusses Watersheds

SARE Appoints Paula Ford North Central PDP

Coordinator Policy Project Identifies Retention of Farms and Farmland as Top Priorities

Olson Heads to Kentucky

Organic Grain Farming Workshops

Two Alternative Agriculture Conferences in Midwest

Coordinated Water Resource Planning For The Sandia Basin - A Perspective Into Regional Water Planning Needs, Jeffrey L. Peterson

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Regional water planning, a strategy adopted by the State Legislature to protect New Mexico's scant water resources from depletion and mismanagement, is evident in various water planning efforts that draw upon the cooperation of interested and vested stakeholders at the local level. Regional water-planning efforts that are currently underway can be found in the Estancia Basin, portions of the Rio Grande Basin, and the Tularosa Basin. This project utilized these water-planning efforts in order to assist in developing the basis of a regional water plan for the Sandia Basin.

Globalization And The Sustainability Of Human Health: An Ecological Perspective, Robert Costanza, A. J. Mcmichael, Bert Bolin, Gretchen C. Daily, Carl Folke, Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling, Elisabet Lindgren, Bo Niklasson

Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations

The last half-century has seen momentous and accelerating changes in humankind's economic activities, political relations, and social and demographic profile. A prominent feature of this change is the increasing scale of human impact on Earth's natural biophysical systems: the climate system, stratospheric ozone, biodiversity, terrestrial and marine food-producing ecosystems, and the great cycles of water, nitrogen, and sulfur (Meyer 1996, Vitousek et al. 1997). These systems sustain the conditions on which life depends, and their weakening may therefore have profound long-term implications for human population health (McMichael 1993, Last 1997).

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, March/April 1999

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletters (1993-2000)

Contents:

We Came! We Saw! We Heard!

University Role in Biotechnology: Who Benefits From New Technologies?

Highlights of Upcoming Book: Under The Blade (Part 6)

Study Finds Consolidation Harms Nation's Consumers And Farmers

National Ag Biotech Meeting in Lincoln

Nordic Agroecology Course Welcomes Students

Agroecology Field Course Offered

Four Visions Of The Century Ahead: Will It Be Star Trek, Ecotopia, Big Government Or Mad Max?, Robert Costanza

Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations

Lays out different visions as to what the 21st century will be like. Where these visions are based; Default technological optimist vision; Technological skeptic's nightmare; War between public interest and private enterprise; Low-consumption sustainable vision; How society should decide among the visions; Challenges.

Arizona Source Water Assessment Plan Final Draft, Arizona Department Of Environmental Quality

Publications (WR)

The safe drinking water amendments of 1996 placed a strong emphasis on the goal to establish a nationwide effort to protect drinking water sources. As part of that goal, the legislation provided for a preliminary assessment of drinking water sources and an inventory of surrounding adjacent land use (ALUs). This nationwide effort will result in the first comprehensive look at the nation's drinking water sources from an assessment perspective. One of the outcomes of this nationwide assessment will be information that public water systems (PWSs) can use to help determine appropriate monitoring frequencies and to protect their sources of drinking …

Fire On The Plateau: Conflict And Endurance In The American Southwest, Charles F. Wilkinson

Books, Reports, and Studies

This digital resource contains only an abstract, cover image and table of contents information from the published book.

Print copy of book is available in the University of Colorado’s Wise Law Library: http://lawpac.colorado.edu/record=b235993~S0

Contents: Introduction : The Colorado Plateau -- PART ONE : BEDROCK: Route 66 -- Mexican hat -- Deseret -- Coyote -- Vishnu -- PART TWO : CONFLICTS AND CONQUESTS: Kykotsmovi -- Jack -- Uintah -- Phoenix -- Rosa -- Cretaceous -- Junction Dam -- PART THREE : ENDURANCE: Cedar Mesa Canyon -- Black Mesa -- Kachina -- Druid Arch -- Mount Blanca -- Afterword

From Reclamation To Sustainability: Water, Agriculture, And The Environment In The American West, Lawrence J. Macdonnell

Books, Reports, and Studies

This digital resource contains only an abstract, cover image and table of contents information from the published book.

Print copy of book is available in the University of Colorado’s Wise Law Library: http://lawpac.colorado.edu/record=b236740~S0

Contents: Introduction : Living in a land of limited water -- PART 1. THE LOWER ARKANSAS VALLEY : AFTER THE WATER IS GONE: Colorado's Arkansas River -- Watering and cultivating the prairie -- Stretching a limited water supply -- Irrigation water for sale? -- A hostile takeover? -- Looking ahead -- PART 2. THE GRAND VALLEY, COLORADO : WHERE FRUIT, FISH, AND GROWTH COLLIDE: Growing peaches in …

What Does Smart Growth Mean For Housing?, Karen A. Danielsen, Robert E. Lang, William Fulton

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications

Barely noticed amid the returns from the 1998 midterm elections was a quiet revolution that goes to the heart of how and where Americans live. While most news accounts focused on the high-profile candidate elections, voters across the nation-in Democratic and Republican areas alike-approved more than 160 state and local ballot measures intended to preserve open space and limit urban sprawl.

The coalition forming around the idea of limiting sprawl includes environmentalists, farmers, big-city mayors, and some developers. But perhaps most important, the so-called "smart growth" movement also includes many suburban voters who are fed up with growth. For example, …

A Woman's Field Is Made At Night: Gendered Land Rights And Norms In Burkina Faso, Michael Kevane, Leslie C. Gray

Economics

Gendered social norms and institutions are important determinants of agricultural activities in southwestern Burkina Faso. This paper argues that gendered land tenure, in particular, has effects on equity and efficiency. The usual view of women as holders of secondary, or indirect, rights to land must be supplemented by a more nuanced understanding of tenure. Women's rights are in fact considerably more complex than the simple right to fields from their husbands. First, women's rights to property obtained from men may be coupled with other rights and obligations. In many ethnic groups, women have share rights to the harvest of their …

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, January/February 1999

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletters (1993-2000)

A Question of Sustainability!

Highlights of Upcoming New Book: Under the Blade (Part 5)

Global Perspectives on Biotechnology (or) What's This Farm Boy Doing in Brussels?

NCR SARE Producer Grants Available

University Role in Biotechnology: How Do We Set Research Priorities?

Management Plan For Sustainable Tourism At The Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Le Provost Dames & Moore

Fisheries management papers

The combination of unique species of fish, coral reefs and other invertebrates, historical shipwrecks and the commercially valuable Western rock lobster makes the Abrolhos a unique area of Western Australia. In recognition of this the Minister of Fisheries is releasing the plan 'Management of Houtman Abrolhos System', following a period of public consultation. The islands are becoming increasingly popular destination for tourists that are attracted to the diving, fishing, bird watching, maritime history and other features of the Abrolhos. The draft Management Plan for Sustainable Tourism in the Houtman Abolhos Islands has been developed to provide a framework within which …

Future Directions For Tourism At The Houtman Abrolhos Islands - Draft For Public Comment, Le Provost Dames & Moore

Fisheries management papers

This paper discusses the constraints on tourism in the Abrolhos and key management strategies of the draft tourism plan. Discusses facilities required and recommending a broadening of air services to allow their use for tourism, establishment of boat moorings for commercial tourist operators, public moorings may be installed and rented for use by private boats, upgrading of facilites Dransfield House on Beacon Island, could be used as an interpretive centre.

Management Of The Houtman Abrolhos System., Kim Nardi, Abrolhos Islands Management Advisory Committee

Fisheries management papers

The Abrolhos System is the Houtman Abrolhos Islands and adjoing State Territorial Waters. It is an important part of the Western Australian environment. Has major significance in conservation of flora and fauna and also in geological terms. The waters adjoining State Territorial Waters contain some of the most highly valued marine systems in the State. These include sites of historical shipwrecks in Australia. The are of great interest to visitors and support a relatively small but growing recreation and tourism industy.

The area is integral to the Western rock lobster fishery, which is that State's premier primary industries. The Abrolhos …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 74, No. 23, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Fire Guts Kappa Alpha House
• Goetz, Kristina. Liver Recipient Relishing Chance at Life – Jim Marcotte
• Sutton, Lyndsay. Graduation Delay Equals Financial Turmoil
• Normal Crosswalk Bad Idea
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon re: Normal Crosswalk
• Wilkins, David. Student Government Association Self-Serving, Ignoring Debate
• E., Justin. Editorial Cartoon re: World Wrestling Federation Political Candidates
• Back, Shannon. Taking Out the Garbage – Recycling
• Goddard, Holly. Anne Lewis Explores Appalachian Life
• Goddard, Holly. Lengthy Debates Blamed for Student Government Association Dropouts
• Lucas, Fred. Stacey Coy Remembered Through Scholarship
• Parking …

Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing: The Development And Validation Of A Measurement Model, Sime Curkovic, Robert B. Handfield, Steven A. Melnyk, Frank L. Montabon, Robert Sroufe

Frank L. Montabon

Since the concept of Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing (ERM) is relatively new, it is not surprising to note the lack of theory-based, empirically-validated constructs and measures. Such constructs and measures are critical to the development and growth of rigorous research in this area. This paper develops and assesses such constructs and measures. Drawn from an exhaustive review of both the quality and ERM-related fields, this study uses the constructs and measures drawn from the Total Quality Management area to develop ERM-related constructs and measures. These are then evaluated using data from a survey of 526 plant managers in the U.S. automotive …

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, November/December 1998

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletters (1993-2000)

Contents:

Grants to Teach Sustainable Agriculture

Spring CSAS Seminar Series: Re-Integrating Agriculture and Community in the Midwest

Highlights of Upcoming New Book: Under the Blade (Part 4)

Watershed Information Flows Along the Internet

Nordic Agroecology Program Begins August 1999

Beef Home Study Courses Begin Fifth Year

Two On-farm Assessment Tools

Interagency Lake Mead And Las Vegas Wash Monitoring Program: Standard Operating Procedures Manual, Bureau Of Reclamation, City Of Henderson Water Reclamation Facility, City Of Las Vegas Water Pollution Control Facility, Clark County Sanitation District, Nevada, Southern Nevada Water Authority

Publications (WR)

A number of agencies sample Lake Mead and the Las Vegas Wash on a routine basis at several locations. In order to share and properly interpret the data, the Bureau of Reclamation, Southern Nevada Water Authority and the three Wastewater Treatment Facilities (City of Las Vegas, Clark County Sanitation District and City of Henderson) formed a committee to examine sampling and analytical protocols and to share information with the goal of maximizing the data quality. The group first met in April 1997.

It was agreed that an effort should be made to discuss and compare specific sampling and analytical techniques …

Water Conservation In The Las Vegas Valley, Judith M. Keir

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This thesis deals primarily with residential use of water in the Las Vegas Valley, an arid climate located in the Mojave Desert, and whether the education of people living here has any bearing on whether or not they conserve water. Many of the residents of the Las Vegas Valley have moved from other areas of the country, and perhaps are not aware of the fact that there is a limited supply of water available to the Valley. I believe that people are not necessarily wasteful, and that they would want to conserve water, if they were aware that conservation and …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 74, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Harper, Molly. General Education Requirements May Toughen
• Lanter, Charlie. Staff Left in Dark by Staff Advisory Council Committee
• Goddard, Holly. Reclaiming the Night – Sexual Assault
• Goetz, Kristina. Dropping Masks, Women Reveal Pain, Strength – Sexual Assault
• Karen, Mattias. Intramural Field Opens After 5-Year Delay
• Standing Up Takes Courage – Diddle Arena
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon: Big Red Pointing Way to Alumni Seating
• Durbin, Derek. U.S. Policy Invites Terrorism
• Ward, Teresa. Column on Grammar Mistakes Had Some Errors
• Chooljian, Cheryl. Hunting: Alternative to TV?
• Whitt, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 74, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Overstreet, Camille. A Show of Hands – Sign Language
• Mayo, Travis. Athletics Hope Success Means Fans
• Harper, Molly. University Adopts Harassment Policy
• Lanter, Charlie. Regents to Hear Post-Tenure Review Proposal
• Harper, Molly. Part-Time Faculty May Receive Pay Raise
• Strong Teams Won’t Last Without fans
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon re: Apathy for Sports, Big Red
• Hartz, Mike. Misplaced Crosswalks Are to Blame for Safety Problem – University Boulevard
• Wilder, Jerry. Students, Alumni Both Deserve Court Seating – Diddle Arena
• Magarian, Sharyn. Campus Holds Football Bash
• Stamper, …

Final Report: Future Management Of The Aquatic Charter Industry In Western Australia., Tour Operators Fishing Working Group

Fisheries management papers

The Tour Operator's Fishing Working Group (TOFWG) was established by the Hon Monty House MLA, Minister for Fisheries, in recognition of the growing importance of this element of the tourism industy and in recognition of the need to ensure that the development of this industry occurs in an ecologically sustainable framework across the Sate. The recommendations outlined in this report establish a management framework within which the aquatic charter industry may continue to develop, and which will ensure the long-term sustainability of the natural resources on which the industry is based.

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, September/October 1998

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletters (1993-2000)

Contents:

A Broader View and Challenge for the CSAS

Highlights of Upcoming New Book: Under the Blade (Part 3)

Integrated Farm Update: Will Grazing Crop Residues Hurt Next Year's Yields?

Honeybee Populations Lowest Levels in Decade

Socrates Network in Europe

New Course: Urbanization of Rural Landscapes, Offered Spring Semester

The Feasibility Of Transferring Clean Technology From The United States To China : A Case Study From The Paper Industry, He Ning

Theses

In their pursuit of economic development, many developing countries are causing pollution at an alarming rate. One solution to the problem is the use of clean technology. Some developed countries have created various manufacture technologies which result in pollution prevention. There is a need for the transfer of clean technology from the developed countries to developing countries. It is beneficial to study the feasibility of such transfer.

The manufacturing processes of the paper industry are selected for this study. An investigation and comparison was conducted in order to evaluate the feasibility of clean technology transfer from the United States to …

Center For Sustainable Agricultural Systems Newsletter, July/August 1998

Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Newsletters (1993-2000)

Contents:

Centers Propose Education on Conservation Buffers: The Rural/Urban Interface

Highlights of Upcoming Book: Under The Blade (Part 2)

Using Ecological Footprints to Define Sustainability

Integrated Farm Update: Accumulation of Residual Nitrate Beneath Corral Areas

CSAS Fall Seminar Series Schedule: Small Farming Systems for the Midwest

NOVA University: Regional Education Focus

Review Of: Leonard W. Doob, Sustainers And Sustainability, Courtney J. Merrill

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of: Leonard W. Doob, Sustainers and Sustainability (Praeger Publishers 1995). Bibliography, index, notes. LC 95-7982; ISBN 0-275-95314-9 [167 pp. $52.95 Cloth, .88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881.]