Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2003. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 186-193).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Siegen. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-191).

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-85).

The environmental justice movement emerged after the civil rights movement and began as an attack on environmental racism, when communities of color and low-income experience disproportionately high levels of exposure to air pollution, water pollution, and toxic facilities. The environmental justice movement is not unitary in practice, nor should it be—environmental racism and injustice are manifested in different ways and scales. However, those exposed to environmental racism are unified under an identity in solidarity, known as the people of color identity in environmental justice. As the environmental justice movement has grown and taken shape to better address injustices of a racialized landscape, it has connected more closely with movements for spatial justice and immigrant rights to combat a detrimentally narrow focus of activism. This thesis explores the rise of community-based activism in the Los Angeles’ labor social justice organizing after the civil unrest in 1992. By employing a spatial framework to environmental activism in urban settings, Los Angeles is a particularly provoking case study for analyzing the regional environmental justice movement as well as the multi-scalar social justice organizing movement. Contextualizing Los Angeles’ community-based activism in a historic context in the first section and then analyzing components of social justice organizing across movements, this project attempts to contribute to the ongoing discussion on the development of identity in justice-seeking activism.

abstract: With high potential for automobiles to cause air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, there is concern that automobiles accessing or egressing public transportation may cause emissions similar to regular automobile use. Due to limited literature and research that evaluates and discusses environmental impacts from first and last mile portions of transit trips, there is a lack of understanding on this topic. This research aims to comprehensively evaluate the life cycle impacts of first and last mile trips on multimodal transit. A case study of transit and automobile travel in the greater Los Angeles region is evaluated by using a comprehensive life cycle assessment combined with regional household travel survey data to evaluate first-last mile trip impacts in multimodal transit focusing on automobile trips accessing or egressing transit. First and last mile automobile trips were found to increase total multimodal transit trip emissions by 2 to 12 times (most extreme cases were carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds). High amounts of coal-fired energy generation can cause electric propelled rail trips with automobile access or egress to have similar or more emissions (commonly greenhouse gases, sulfur dioxide, and mono-nitrogen oxides) than competing automobile trips, however, most criteria air pollutants occur remotely. Methods to reduce first-last mile impacts depend on the characteristics of the transit systems and may include promoting first-last mile carpooling, adjusting station parking pricing and availability, and increased emphasis on walking and biking paths in areas with low access-egress trip distances. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Civil and Environmental Engineering 2016

O presente trabalho trata da representação de identidades femininas nos romances Arráncame la vida (1985) e Mal de amores (1996), de Ángeles Mastretta, a partir dos pressupostos da crítica feminista. Além disso, analisa de que modo o contexto social e histórico mexicano atua nesse processo de formação identitária das personagens Emila e Catalina, seja influenciando ou propiciando determinados movimentos, ou mesmo, alterando a percepção das personagens acerca de suas identidades e do universo em que transitam. Sendo recorrentes, nos romances latino-americanos de autoria feminina, questões ligadas à história e à sociedade, à autonomia e à emancipação dos sujeitos femininos, às suas múltiplas representações, ao questionamento das estruturas sociais que favoreceram, ao longo dos séculos, as representações de mulheres calcadas em uma visão androcêntrica, verifica de que forma essas questões se apresentam, nas duas narrativas de Ángeles Mastretta, em uma perspectiva de região literária formada pelas obras produzidas por mulheres na América Latina. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-07-03T17:46:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Aline Dalpiaz Troian.pdf: 1266432 bytes, checksum: d53481d40955e881665766438c096fbf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-03T17:46:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Aline Dalpiaz Troian.pdf: 1266432 bytes, checksum: d53481d40955e881665766438c096fbf (MD5) / Este trabajo trata de la representación de identidades femeninas en las novelas Arráncame la vida y Mal de amores de Ángeles Mastretta, con base en la aportación teórica de la crítica feminista. Además de eso, se analiza de qué modo el contexto social e histórico mexicano actúa en ese proceso de formación identitaria de las personajes Catalina y Emilia, sea influenciando o permitiendo ciertos movimientos, incluso alterando la percepción de las personajes acerca de sus identidades y del universo en que transitan. Siendo recurrentes, en las novelas latinoamericanas de autoría femenina, cuestiones relacionadas a la historia, a la sociedad, a los cuestionamientos de las estructuras que favorecieron, a lo largo de los siglos, las representaciones de mujeres a partir de una visión androcéntrica, se verifica de qué modo esas cuestiones se presentan en las dos obras de Ángeles Mastretta, en una perspectiva de región literaria formada por las obras producidas por mujeres en América Latina.

This thesis explores the shifting dynamics in low-income housing policy between the federal government and local stakeholders in Los Angeles from the early 1930’s to the end of the 1980’s. In particular, it examines the introduction and implementation of two of the federal government’s largest low-income housing programs: the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. Many analyses of low-income housing policy in Los Angeles focus mainly on local tensions and power dynamics. This thesis seeks to build on this literature by arguing that shifts at the federal level, such as the introduction of ideologies such as “new federalism,” have played an important role in shaping low-income housing policy in Los Angeles.

O presente trabalho trata da representação de identidades femininas nos romances Arráncame la vida (1985) e Mal de amores (1996), de Ángeles Mastretta, a partir dos pressupostos da crítica feminista. Além disso, analisa de que modo o contexto social e histórico mexicano atua nesse processo de formação identitária das personagens Emila e Catalina, seja influenciando ou propiciando determinados movimentos, ou mesmo, alterando a percepção das personagens acerca de suas identidades e do universo em que transitam. Sendo recorrentes, nos romances latino-americanos de autoria feminina, questões ligadas à história e à sociedade, à autonomia e à emancipação dos sujeitos femininos, às suas múltiplas representações, ao questionamento das estruturas sociais que favoreceram, ao longo dos séculos, as representações de mulheres calcadas em uma visão androcêntrica, verifica de que forma essas questões se apresentam, nas duas narrativas de Ángeles Mastretta, em uma perspectiva de região literária formada pelas obras produzidas por mulheres na América Latina. / Este trabajo trata de la representación de identidades femeninas en las novelas Arráncame la vida y Mal de amores de Ángeles Mastretta, con base en la aportación teórica de la crítica feminista. Además de eso, se analiza de qué modo el contexto social e histórico mexicano actúa en ese proceso de formación identitaria de las personajes Catalina y Emilia, sea influenciando o permitiendo ciertos movimientos, incluso alterando la percepción de las personajes acerca de sus identidades y del universo en que transitan. Siendo recurrentes, en las novelas latinoamericanas de autoría femenina, cuestiones relacionadas a la historia, a la sociedad, a los cuestionamientos de las estructuras que favorecieron, a lo largo de los siglos, las representaciones de mujeres a partir de una visión androcéntrica, se verifica de qué modo esas cuestiones se presentan en las dos obras de Ángeles Mastretta, en una perspectiva de región literaria formada por las obras producidas por mujeres en América Latina.

Southern California is the largest U.S. metropolitan area geographically, and demonstrates complex spatial relationships between county labor markets. This paper is interested in investigating the employment dependencies between the core city of Los Angeles its respective commuting sheds, such as San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Using time series data that includes labor demand shocks from the Great Recession, this analysis implements a vector autoregressive model to dissect the relationship between urban and suburban employment changes. The work finds a strong lagging-leading relationship between counties that varies by business cycle phase, and provides policy implications from this relationship.

L'étude se propose de mettre en évidence les nombreuses corrélations existant entre l'espace urbain de la ville de los angeles et le travail d'écriture de wanda coleman, femme noire-américaine originaire du quartier des watts à la carrière littéraire conséquente. l'essentiel de la matière littéraire de coleman se focalise et trouve son point d'ancrage dans la ville en elle-même et pour elle-même. ainsi, en considérant la production poétique de l'auteur dans sa globalité, qu'il s'agisse de recueils, d'ouvrages photographiques ou de supports audio, il s'agira de voir en quoi l'œuvre de coleman ayant pour point de départ un los angeles des années 70 a su retracer, au sein de la matrice poétique qu'elle met en place, l'évolution d'une mégalopole hors normes. qu'en advient-il alors de la totalité de la création littéraire de coleman, et comment peut-elle être considérée ? en effet, ayant fait le choix de cibler sa poésie sur un espace commun en perpétuelle évolution, ne deviendrait-elle pas par conséquent un moyen jusque là peu envisagé de créer un archivage social, culturel et historique d'une ville dont les mutations et développements fascinent. c'est cette fonction d'œuvre-mémoire d'un lieu duquel elle s'inspire associée à un processus de création littéraire que la ville semble elle-même motiver qui sera également un point central de cette étude. quels desseins le projet poétique sert-il alors ? cette union implicite, sorte d'entente cordiale entre la ville et l'auteur qu'elle abrite/ qui l'abrite, manifeste une interdépendance entre deux entités tangibles dans un réel que le mot poétique semble vouloir tantôt dénoncer, tantôt réaffirmer. ce réel sectoriel et imparfait avec lequel coleman fait office de lien, d'interprétateur et juge entre l'espace et les hommes, entre l'espace et sa mémoire deviendrait-il ainsi un objet poétique de l'intangible se servant de lieux communs afin de dénoncer une déshumanisation de la ville, un hyperréalisme, un simulacre que s'évertuait déjà à démontrer jean baudrillard. effigie poétique imprégnée d'un los angeles qu'elle comprend au regard d'une vie passée dans ses dédales, coleman est-elle la figure mémorielle presque prophétique porteuse d'une parole rédemptrice d'une ville infernale. dénonçant ainsi les maux de la ville comme pour en aspirer le venin, coleman de par ses mots serait alors détentrice d'une alliance poétique consubstantielle, servant un projet allant bien au-delà de la simple écriture poétique, comme si l'acte poétique renouvelé dans son aspect le plus primaire permettait de projeter les mots sur les maux passés et présents d'un espace urbain parcellaire, de servir une mémoire essentielle à la survie du réel dans une cité chaotique se tenant au bord du gouffre. / This study aims at shedding some new light upon the many correlations existing between the Los Angeles cityspace and Wanda Coleman’s writings. As an African American woman born in Watts, Los Angeles in 1946, Coleman is the author of a significant literary oeuvre. Whether regarding the urban evolution and construction of the city, its ethnic composition, its socioeconomic conditions or its cultural development, the megalopolis can be read explicitly and implicitly throughout the author’s work, which started in 1979 and ended with the posthumous co-publication of The Love Project in 2014.Post World War II Los Angeles and the great mutations that the territory has been undergoing are, for Coleman, an unending source of material that are both motivating her writing and influencing her craft. The privileged witness of a city under the firm grasp of postmodern ideology of which Los Angeles seems to be the epicenter, Coleman’s work shows the ever-growing gap between an everyday life that is getting more and more brutal and an idealized imagery of the city that imposes itself as the American Way of Life par excellence. That unreachable goal for a disadvantaged and disenfranchised portion of society (about to become the majority of the Los Angeles population), is projected in a perpetual renewal of the American Dream, maintained within reaching distance, as an obscene strategy serving social appeasement. Wanda Coleman thus intends to unsettle an illusion that has been perpetrated and widely distributed through and by Hollywood whose influences, in a mass-media transmission era, cannot be under-estimated. Because she has been able to consider and apprehend the overall dehumanizing process for as long as she can remember, that Coleman is able to assess the import of her art and thus sets its objectives: to rehumanize the dehumanized.