Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chronology -- One. North America -- Two. Latin America and the Caribbean -- Three. Europe -- Four. Middle East and North Africa -- Five. Sub-Saharan Africa -- Six. Central and East Asia -- Seven. South and Southeast Asia -- Eight. Oceania -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributing Authors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America through the Community Capitals Lens -- 2 Promoting Development and Conservation Practice in Latin America and the Caribbean through the CATIE Master's Program -- 3 Building Local Strategies for the Adaptation to Climate Change of Farming Livelihoods: Review of a Participatory Approach Applied in Mesoamerica -- 4 Bioculturality and Transdisciplinarity: Two Paths for Reaching Sustainability Through Community Capacity Building in Mexico -- 5 Bonds of Faith for Community Change: New Actors in Rural Community Development in El Salvador -- 6 Evaluation on a Shoestring: One International Development Organization's Experience Measuring Impact in Central America -- 7 Using Community Capitals to Adapt to Environmental Challenges in Rural Uruguay -- 8 Using the Community Capital Framework to Understand the Potential for Inclusive Innovation: Three Case Studies of an Energy Project in Peru -- 9 Youth Development in Northern Nicaragua: An Empowerment Perspective -- 10 Reflection on Building Sustainable Resilience Solutions to Achieve SDG 2 in Colombia -- Index.
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APPENDIX A. INVITATION LETTER TO UIC AND LOCAL STATE AGENCY DIRECTORSAPPENDIX B. INFORMED CONSENT FORM; APPENDIX C. TELEPHONE INTERVIEW GUIDE FOR UIC DIRECTORS; APPENDIX D. TELEPHONE INTERVIEW GUIDE FOR LOCAL STATE AGENCY DIRECTORS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: UNDERSTANDING URBAN INDIANS' INTERACTIONS WITH ACF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES: LITERATURE REVIEW; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BRIEF HISTORY OF URBAN AMERICAN INDIANS; 3. COMPLICATED CONCEPTS3; 4. CURRENT DEMOGRAPHICS OF URBAN AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKAN NATIVES; 5. SERVICES FOR URBAN AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKA NATIVES; CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
In Power from Powerlessness, Laura Evans looks at the successful policy interventions by a range of American Indian tribal governments and explains how disadvantaged groups can exploit niches in the institutional framework of American federalism to obtain unlikely victories. Tribes have also been adept at building productive relationships with governmental authorities at all levels. Admittedly, many of the tribes' victories are small when viewed on their own: reaching cooperative agreements on trash collection with municipalities and successfully challenging other localities for more control over fisheries and waterway management. However, Evans shows that in combination, their victories are impressive-particularly when considering that the poverty rate among American Indians on reservations is 39 percent. Not simply a book about American Indian politics, Power from Powerlessness forces scholars of institutions and inequality to reconsider the commonly held view that the less powerful are in fact powerless.
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Includes map of major Indian health facilities, objectives of the Indian Health Program, current health status and problems and program deficiencies. At end is a series of tables illustrating progress of the program in meeting stated objectives along with deficiencies This collection pertains to Public Health Nursing among Native American people, with emphasis on the Navajo Tribe. This collection consists of correspondence, a manuscript, a questionnaire and responses, personal reminiscences, articles, essays, government documents and pamphlets, as well as photographs (see Photographic Collection), which depict Reservation life through the eyes of Public Health nurses, Native Americans, and government officials, and includes a wealth of statistical material and government data. Spanning roughly sixty-five years, this collection offers insights into many facets of Public Health Nursing on Native American Reservations. One will find many personal reminiscences, interesting essays and stories, newspaper articles, and innumerable US Government documents, statistics, and memoranda pertaining to Reservation life
« Us » and « Them » : European and North American Attitudes to Immigration, by Massimo Livi-Bacci North America and what used to be known as « Western » Europe are two régions with comparable economie and demographie potential but whose immigration policies are very different. The article analyses historical reasons for this divergence which has lead in the last twenty-five years to a closed-door policy within the European Union and a progressive opening-up of the immigration regime in North America. The reason for this evolution lies in the differences between the simplistic European conception of immigration as a short-term solution to labour market problems and the American approach which treats immigrants as full members of the society.
This collection of essays by David Pion-Berlin examines civil-military relations in Latin America during a period of uncertain democratization. In this timely study, Pion-Berlin argues that scholars need to adopt new analytical perspectives because of changes in the international order, as well as trends in political science scholarship. Pion-Berlin states that the study of civil military relations in Latin America has been hampered by its isolation from comparative politics. He believes that the field has not taken advantage of "theoretical innovations from the outside that could have potentially valuable applications within. Instead, it has fallen back on itself, dredging up familiar ideas that have yielded diminishing returns over time" (p. 2). Pion-Berlin's critique of the state of the scholarship is convincing. Major changes --the end of the Cold War, the rising importance of anti-U.S. sentiment within some regional militaries, the ideological dominance of neo-liberalism, and the growing power of globalization-- call for scholars to rethink many shibboleths. Yet this volume is uneven. Despite some extremely good articles, some important issues are untouched and opportunities missed.
"November 1992." ; Shipping list no.: 93-0532-M. ; Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche. ; Sponsors: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon; Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Vandalism Alert, Inc., Seattle, Washington. ; "The first International Symposium on Vandalism in North America was held April 20-22, 1988, in Seattle, Washington."--Foreword. ; "Published in cooperation with the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Pacific Northwest Region and the University of Washington, Institute of Forest Resources, Seattle, Washington." ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.
Summary -- Introduction -- Report overview analysis -- Comments on the executive summary -- Overview of the global carbon cycle -- The North American carbon budget: past present future -- Energy systems -- Urban -- Agriculture -- Social science perspectives on carbon -- Tribal lands -- Observations of atmospheric CO2 and CH4 -- Forests -- Grasslands -- Arctic and boreal carbon -- Soils -- Terrestrial wetlands -- Inland waters -- Tidal wetlands and estuaries -- Coastal oceans and continental shelves -- Consequences of rising atmospheric CO2 -- Carbon cycle science in the support of decision-making -- Future of the North American carbon cycle -- References -- Appendix: committee biosketches.
