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Title: Choosing a Regional Resilience Partner: A comparative study of urban, suburban, and rural natural hazard preparedness conditions
Author: Danis, Christina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Government policy, Area studies
Description: Whether urban, suburban, or rural or from different United States (US) geographic regions, communities expect public officials to guide them to better prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and recurring natural hazard threats. Natural hazar...

Title: DISCOVERING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MATERIAL CONSUMPTION AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING
Author: Venkitasubramanian, Kailas
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Geography, Government policy
Description: This dissertation theoretically and empirically investigates how material consumption affects human happiness and life satisfaction in the urbanized societies around the world. In recent literature, happiness and life satisfaction is encapsulated ...

Title: HOT SPOTS IN THE CITY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS AND THE DEMAND FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY SERVICES
Author: Wodicka, Reid
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Government policy, Urban forestry
Description: There is a common understanding among members of local government emergency services professionals that some neighborhoods require a substantially larger amount of services than others. This phenomenon is primarily driven, it is believed, by the c...

Title: Municipal Voluntary Environmental Programs: The case of Swedish Eco-Municipalities
Author: Duma, Nathan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Environmental economics, Geography
Description: Over the space of three articles, we attempt to answer two broad questions related to public sector voluntary environmental programs (VEP) through a case study on the National Association of Swedish Eco-municipalities (SEKOM). The first question a...

Title: Receptivity in a New Immigrant Gateway: Immigrant Settlement Geography, Public Education, and Immigrant Integration in Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: McDaniel, Paul
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Government policy, Education and state
Description: Community receptivity expresses the degree of openness within a place to someone or something new. Receptivity is shaped by multiple components, institutions, and structures related to a community's political, economic, social, and cultural sphere...

Title: SPACE-TIME DYNAMICS OF SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL WATER CONSUMPTION IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Zhou, Yuhong
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Government policy, Water resources development--Management
Description: Water availability has become a more significant economic and policy issue in contemporary America. Although emerging as an attractive tool to water authorities, demand-side water management in urbanized areas is more complicated due to the high c...

Title: TONYA E. FARROW-CHESTNUT. Defining Multimorbidity Space: Structural characteristics, spatial variation of inpatient multimorbidity networks (IMN), and coronary heart disease.
Author: Farrow-Chestnut, Tonya
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health, Government policy
Description: Adults in the United States suffer from two or more chronic conditions at the same time (i.e. multimorbidity). Multiple chronic illnesses, such as coronary heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, dramatically shorten life expectancy and present the i...