Social research specifically aimed at evaluating the efficacy of coastal zone management programs at the parish (county) level in building local capacities has been meager in academic literatures and absent from Louisiana Department of Natural Resources evaluative reports. This study addresses this deficiency by examining the effectiveness of Louisiana's Local Coastal Program (LCP) in building local coastal zone management capacity. Using levels of LCP development as a proxy for capacity-building, the study examines the influence of: 1) aggregate level social and demographic characteristics, 2) structural differences, and 3) different types of issue framing (i.e. "regulator" framing versus "regulated" framing). A multiple case design, using survey, interview, observation, and archival methods of data collection, produces two multi-layered data sets - one at the parish level (nineteen Coastal Zone parishes) and the other at the individual level (a target population of parish officials, CZM administrators and advisory panel members). Patterns in findings from quantitative and qualitative analysis are matched to rival theories, namely, resource mobilization theory and social construction theory. The analyses show that parishes with LCPs have a much stronger presence of "regulator" framing than do parishes without LCPs. The "regulator" frame is particularly strong among LCP/CZM advisory panel members, while agreement with regulator frames is lowest among parish council or police jury members. Coastal hazards vulnerability is highly salient to parishes both with and without LCPs, but the translation of hazard impacts to economic vulnerabilities, such as infrastructure damage, property loss and business interruption, is far weaker for non-LCP parishes. Themes prevalent in the data include contentions over wetland mitigation issues, disjunctions between the restorative and regulatory arm of LADNR, and disparate perceptions between non-LCP parishes and LCP parishes concerning the benefits of a parish LCP over developmental and maintenance costs. Overall findings indicate that while resource mobilization is necessary to programmatic participation and the building of capacity, social construction theory can explain the differences between respondent agreement with the regulator frame, and thus the presence of institutional capacity.

In the past several decades, social movements have spread all across Latin America, sparking hope for change. This thesis analyzes the well-organized mobilizations of the indigenous people of Bolivia and how they have been able to incorporate themselves in state apparatuses, including the election of its first indigenous president, Evo Morales of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party. The case studied her provides insight into the processes if how political representation was achieved by Bolivia's indigenous people who were for centuries excluded from the political, social and economic arena. It also analyzes the outcomes of Morales' policy changes from 2006 to 2009 as a way to examine how they have impacted the marginalized status of the indigenous people. Ultimately this thesis will trace the use of social movements, especially MAS, and how they transformed the Bolivian society from below.

Frühe postoperative Vollbelastung nach Sprunggelenksfrakturen Höde N, Ahrberg A, Josten C Fragestellung: Laut Leitlinien der DGU soll es nach einer operativ versorgten Sprunggelenksfraktur zur Frühmobilisation kommen. In Literatur und Lehrbüchern wird jedoch häufig eine p.o. Ruhigstellung im Gips oder Cast bis zu 6 Wochen empfohlen. Bei den eigenen Patienten erfolgt nach Versorgung einer Malleolarfraktur (AO 44 B oder C) ab dem 1. p.o. Tag eine schmerzorientierte Vollbelastung mit AirCast®-Schiene. Kommt es unter dieser frühen Vollbelastung zu einer erhöhten Komplikationsrate wie Materialversagen? Oder überwiegen die Vorteile durch das Vermeiden immobilisationsbedingter Komplikationen wie Thrombosen? Methodik Im Rahmen einer retrospektiven Studie wurden 82 Patienten (w:m = 47:35, 20-84 Jahre, Median 51 Jahre) eingeschlossen. Der Nachuntersuchungszeitraum betrug 5 - 68 Monate (Median 34,5 Monate). Nach der AO-Klassifikation lagen 46 (56,1%) B1-Frakturen, 15 (18,3%) B2-Frakturen, 12 (14,6%) B3-Frakturen und 9 (11%) C-Frakturen vor. Ausschlusskriterien waren Einschränkungen der aktiven Mobilisation durch Vorerkrankungen oder weitere Verletzungen sowie die Versorgung mit einer Stellschraube. Die Patienten wurden klinisch anhand des AOFAS-Scores nachuntersucht, es erfolgte eine radiologische Kontrolle und die Erfassung peri- und postoperativer Komplikationen wie Thrombosen, Infekte, Materialversagen und verzögerte Frakturheilung/Pseudarthrosen. Ergebnisse und Schlussfolgerung Der durchschnittliche Punktwert für den AOFAS Score beträgt für alle Patienten 89,38 Punkte (35-100, Median 98) und für den Score nach Olerud und Molander 85,24 Punkte (15-100, Median 95). Insgesamt traten neun (10,98%) Komplikationen auf: vier (4,88%) oberflächliche Wundheilungsstörung, vier Wundinfektionen (4,88%), darunter zwei Schraubenlockerungen (2,44%) und eine Redislokation nach erneutem Distorsionstrauma (1,22%). Weiteres Materialversagen oder Thrombosen traten nicht auf. Die frühe postoperative Vollbelastung führt nicht zu einer erhöhten Komplikationsrate, die beschriebenen Infekte sind mit der Vollbelastung zu assoziieren. Immobilisationsbedingte Komplikationen werden vermieden, der Patient kann schneller mobilisiert werden. Daher ist eine Ruhigstellung nach operativ versorgten Malleolarfrakturen nicht zu empfehlen.

This study examines the elements of collaborative research partnerships (CRPs) between university researchers and other organizations or individuals in the education sector whose mandate is to conduct and disseminate research for service delivery. Studying these partnerships for knowledge mobilization(KMb)includes understanding the roles partners take on; the tensions or facilitators they face when bringing research into practice; the structures to maintain the partnership; and the knowledge mobilization activities. Phase 1 takes an in-depth look at one partnership using key informant interviews and document analysis, while phase 2 utilizes a survey between four overarching university-community organization partnerships across Canada. Findings suggest that although difficult, when research producers and users work together, capacity is built at the organizational level to view research evidence as an important part of the organizational service delivery, with small impacts on individual knowledge development; that partnerships remain informal in their practice; that the mechanisms by which partners use to communicate within the partnership and the frequency of communication helps to build relationships between partners; and the ideal type of CRP, where they ought to always be an equal endeavour, is overstated in the literature. Not all useful partnerships are exact equal contributions from research producers and their user-based partners. Implications include that researchers gain access to practice expertise and insights into practice-based research rather than engaging in only theoretical research while community partners gain access to greater capacity for understanding and using research through exchanges with academics.

This study examines the elements of collaborative research partnerships (CRPs) between university researchers and other organizations or individuals in the education sector whose mandate is to conduct and disseminate research for service delivery. Studying these partnerships for knowledge mobilization(KMb)includes understanding the roles partners take on; the tensions or facilitators they face when bringing research into practice; the structures to maintain the partnership; and the knowledge mobilization activities. Phase 1 takes an in-depth look at one partnership using key informant interviews and document analysis, while phase 2 utilizes a survey between four overarching university-community organization partnerships across Canada. Findings suggest that although difficult, when research producers and users work together, capacity is built at the organizational level to view research evidence as an important part of the organizational service delivery, with small impacts on individual knowledge development; that partnerships remain informal in their practice; that the mechanisms by which partners use to communicate within the partnership and the frequency of communication helps to build relationships between partners; and the ideal type of CRP, where they ought to always be an equal endeavour, is overstated in the literature. Not all useful partnerships are exact equal contributions from research producers and their user-based partners. Implications include that researchers gain access to practice expertise and insights into practice-based research rather than engaging in only theoretical research while community partners gain access to greater capacity for understanding and using research through exchanges with academics.

After its abandonment in the 1980s, threat has re-emerged as an area of theoretical importance in understanding social movement mobilization (Jasper 1998). This case study examines the role of threat in mobilizing members of a movement to empower the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation (a small tribal community in NC). The study explores threats and the emotions that make them up, while also investigating the relevance of other prominent assumptions embedded in mobilization theories. The study employed mixed methodologies including focus groups, individual interviews, and participant observation. Findings supported the idea that threats may be partially responsible for creating mobilization, but also suggest that prominent threats faced by this community complicate the ways in which threat is understood. The findings also shed light on limitations of the prominent Weber-Michels model for movement growth/decline, and highlight potential areas of interest for future research with Indigenous communities.

This study explores how sustainability practitioners understand and engage with the subjective psychological dimensions of `social mobilization'. At this particular moment, there exists scant research into precisely how these dimensions are being theorized and incorporated into the practice of social mobilization, despite a growing recognition that environmental engagement necessarily involves the `inner life' of people--the complex and interconnected psycho-social influences on who we are and how we understand our world. Using a narrative methodology, I interviewed seven sustainability facilitators about how they are currently making meaning of social change and how subjectivity is represented within this. The analysis presents four distinct ways that psycho-social dimensions are being negotiated and related to in engagement work. This research indicates that being able to engage with subjectivity is not so much a technical skill that can be learned, but rather a new way of making meaning of the world, others, and oneself.

A wide use of social media and the development of digital communication channels have changed the game in grassroots activism. Embracing those new ways of communication gives a way to new forms of activism and raises questions about media’s shifting role in the sphere of social movements and collective action. The general aim of this study was to map the role of media in the Let’s Do It! (LDI) movement that fights against illegal waste by organizing clean-up campaigns and by building awareness about the problem among the general public. The purpose was to find out what role media plays in the mobilization of clean-up actions; in communicating with the whole LDI movement and in sustaining the global network. The research questions posed were: What communication channels are used, and how are they used by activists to reach general public and to engage the volunteers when organizing the local and the global clean-up campaigns in the LDI network? What is the value of the global Let’s Do It! network and how is global-local communication organized? To find out about the use of communication channels and the purpose of the global network, a web-survey and in-depth interviews with global and local members of Let’s Do It! were conducted. The results show that different communication channels have a different role in the process of coordinating clean-up campaigns and in sustaining the network. Traditional media is important for gaining wider visibility; digital channels of communication, especially social networking platforms, are multifunctional with combining the internal and the external communication; and face-to-face meetings and interpersonal relationships are deemed crucial in forming strong ties and sustaining the network both globally and locally. The actual media use is also strongly influenced by the cultural context and the resources available for the local teams.

The aim of this study was to estimate how different filling materials affect the mobilization of pollution residue in remediated soil. The aim was also to assess criteria that should be fulfilled for the soil properties of these filling materials. The study was partly based on target value calculations where the impact of varied TOC, hydraulic conductivity and porosity affected the mobility of toluene, trichloroethene, benso(a)pyrene and arsenic residue in the soil. An evaluation of the potential mobility of soil pollution residues where filling materials had been used was carried out for five different locations in Sweden. Soil samples were collected before remediation of contaminated soil, and afterwards when the fillings were restored. Sample analyzes were made for TOC and soil water. The results from the study show that the TOC and porosity content in filling materials has a significant impact on the mobility of soil pollution residues. Filling materials with less TOC than the remediated soil will contribute to an increased mobility of organic pollution residues to the air, surface water and groundwater, whilst lower soil porosity, or rather lower soil water content will contribute to an increased mobility of airborne pollution residues. The results also show that in Sweden the use of filling materials with both lower TOC and soil water content is common. To avoid an increased mobilization of pollution residues from remediated soils, filling materials should contain TOC and soil water equals the contents in the remediated soil.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University, 1965. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [351]-369).