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Sung, Hui-Yun. "An exploration of the essential elements of community engagement in public libraries." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9277.
Full textReed, Luke Terrence, and res cand@acu edu au. "The Effect of Participation in School-Facilitated Community Service Programmes on Students’ Self-Esteem, Sense of Community Engagement and Attitudes to Christianity." Australian Catholic University. School of Education, 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp142.17052007.
Full textRood, Jason Alexander. "Public Participation in Emergency Management." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/333.
Full textHarris, Wesley Brian David. "Expanding Planning Public Participation Outreach Through Social Networking." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2011. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/567.
Full textKhaleghi, Kerahroodi Mehraz. "Meaningful community engagement in public-private partnerships: a case study of Manhattan’s downtown redevelopment project." Diss., Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/20590.
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John W. Keller
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become a vehicle to deliver products and services internationally. It is a favored strategy widely adopted for implementing complex urban developments in the United States. However, the complex nature of such partnerships raises serious concerns about meaningful community engagement. Meaningful community engagement is a result of the presence and quality of transparency and public participation elements that are strongly correlated. The following research describes how the community was involved and contributed to an urban development PPP project in Manhattan, Kansas. The research goal is to understand the mechanism of the community engagement in a PPP project and to evaluate the quality of the process at the local level from a planning perspective. With an in-depth case study and an understanding of meaningful community engagement processes, this research will contribute to the body of knowledge in the area of PPPs and meaningful community engagement at the local level and evaluate local PPP policies and practices. The first objective is to evaluate the participation opportunities with a developed Community Engagement Attribute Evaluation System (CEAES) based on the recognized metrics of quality practices. Attributes are drawn from the identified characteristics of quality transparency and quality public participation of meaningful practices. The second goal is to interview the key stakeholders of the project from the public sector, the private sector, and the community and add depth to the findings that complements the overall evaluation. Through both technical evaluation and open-ended personal interview, this study attempts to describe the design and the process of public participation practices. Analysis will show whether or not the community was meaningfully engaged and if the technical aspects of a quality community engagement practice were present. Finally, this study aims to inform future similar planning practices. The result serves two local purposes of planning governance and policy. For the former, it will help those with no record of PPP to better design and implement the engagement process; and for the ones with PPPs’ experience, it will contribute to the quality of the future partnerships. For the latter, it will guide the local governments and policy makers to better address PPPs’ ongoing issue of community engagement.
Crutchfield, Nicole Boudreaux. "Multi-Disciplinary Review and Comparison of Project Management for Social Engagement Practices." Master's thesis, North Dakota State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25989.
Full textBodland, Tove. "Lokalsamhällets resiliens mot katastrofer i en svensk kontext. : Möjligheter och hinder gällande att involvera allmänheten i katastrofriskreduceringen. En explorativ fallstudie av Örebro kommun." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-68876.
Full textSummary Background: Resiliens is a concept that is increasingly used in risk- and disaster research to describe society's resistance to, ability to recover from and to develop positively after major natural events. Research shows the importance of involving all levels of society in order to create resilience against disasters and is expressed in international frameworks for disaster risk reduction, climate change and sustainable development. Since the consequences of extreme natural events primarily manifests at the local level, they need to be locally managed. The importance of involving the public in disaster risk reduction, also called the “bottom-up approach” with the aim of building resilience is thus highlighted. One factor affecting societal disaster risk is vulnerability. How vulnerable a society is to disasters is influenced by economic, ecological and social factors and the distribution of resources. Certain groups in society are often referred to as more vulnerable and one part of building resilience against disasters is to cater to the specific needs of these groups in relation to disaster risks. Theories and models of societal resilience against disasters are often developed with focus on environments with more frequent and dramatic natural events and societies that are characterized by a greater degree of socio-economic differences than that of today's Sweden. But a changing climate and other global processes also affect the Swedish society. The Swedish state and its authorities increasingly emphasize the importance of taking a resilience perspective on societal development. The responsibility for risk and crisis management in Sweden is primarily focused at the municipal level, as well as on the individual, which could warrant the involvement of the public in disaster reduction in order to build a resilient local community. Purpose: The purpose of the study is threefold. It primarily aims at gaining an overall understanding of the views of individuals, involved in risk and crisis management at local level in Sweden, upon involving the public in disaster risk reduction from a resilience perspective. Secondarily, the study aims at investigating how the needs of different groups in the community is incorporated into the work, based on a vulnerability perspective, and thirdly to investigate the relevance of an existing theoretical framework for community resilience in a Swedish context. Method: The study was designed as a qualitative exploratory case study of Örebro municipality with an abductive approach. Through a combination of strategic selection and snowballing, key people working in the local council and non-governmental organizations have been included in the study. The data collection consisted of semistructured interviews that were transcribed and further analyzed through qualitative text analysis. In order to strengthen the validity of the study, municipal documents were studied to enable triangulation. The results were discussed through theories of resilience, risk governance and disaster vulnerability as well as a theoretical framework for community resilience by Norris et al. (2008). Results: The results show: 1) a positive view upon involving the public, primarily as a resource in emergency crisis management by using volunteers, 2) opportunities for involving the public through relational networking and enhanced cooperation with civil society, in order to gain information and knowledge on how people perceive their reality and the needs of the public regarding information and support, 3) communication and cooperation barriers between the municipality and the public are linked to the lack of useful tools and that new technologies are not fully utilized, 4) a lack of continuity in civil society and municipality collaboration, low frequency of major events, and lack of widespread commitment among the public. The result indicates that the resilience framework is also relevant in the Swedish context.
Norman, Spencer A. "THE TEA PARTY VERSUS PLANNING: A STUDY OF TEA PARTY ACTIVISM AND ITS IMPACT ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLANNING." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5029.
Full textBennett, Kellie. "Outcomes of community engagement in neighbourhood renewal: community confidence, participation and asset based community development." Thesis, Bennett, Kellie (2017) Outcomes of community engagement in neighbourhood renewal: community confidence, participation and asset based community development. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2017. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/41318/.
Full textNdlovu, Nontobeko Nontando. "Participation of wards in Operation Sukuma Sakhe activities within the city of Umhlathuze." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1531.
Full textThe study set out to obtain information on the nature and level of participation of community members in the implementation of Operation Sukuma Sakhe (OSS). A case study research design was adopted. A sample of 125 respondents was selected using the purposive sampling method for the key informants such as the traditional leadership, officials deployed by the government to the programme, fieldworkers and CSO. A convenience sampling method was also used for focus groups and to select participants from the community. An interview schedule which had both structured and unstructured questions, was used to gather the required data. For data analysis, the thematic analysis method was used. It was discovered that there are various methods used to engage the community in the programme, namely: mass community meetings, door-to-door visits, household visits and participation of the community as walk-ins. The most commonly used method to engage community members was found to be the door-to-door visits where the CCGs were actively involved. The respondents participated only in the identification of issues affecting them and not in identifying possible solutions to the problems. The decisions were seemingly taken by external members, something which has negative implications on community development of projects. The participation of community members in the form of ‘walk-ins’ raised concern, as this is taken as a sign of lack of commitment, which could result in people not viewing the programme as a learning process which could lead to growth and change. The method cannot be considered as a reliable or effective way of ensuring adequate participation in any service delivery or community development programme. It basically suggests low levels of participation and that the actual implementation does not encourage the development of what is referred to as the ‘we feeling’ or ownership of the programme in participation circles. It is also concluded that gender-specific capacitation and empowerment programmes have to be instituted, because the programme predominantly comprises women. The group that was found to be actively involved is usually characterised by inadequate access to assets and productive resources, and a lack of knowledge or skills. Among the officials in the WR, limited knowledge on roles and responsibilities was noted in certain wards, and this has implications for service delivery and may be somehow responsible for the lack of participation in WR activities.
Palmen, Rachel L. "Participation, power and democracy : a comparative study of community engagement processes." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2007. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19714/.
Full textBoakye-Agyei, Kwame. "Fostering civic engagement stakeholder participation in rural projects in Ghana /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/4543.
Full textVita: p. 233. Thesis director: Susan Crate. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Science and Public Policy. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed June 10, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-232). Also issued in print.
Thordin, Sofia, and Mihaela-Adriana Nițu. "Community Gardening Initiatives - Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Community Gardening Participation in Sydhavn." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21725.
Full textColeby, Alastor Merlin. "Public attitudes and community participation in windfarm development." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/129.
Full textRodgers, Christienne. "Visioning: A Public Participation Process for Community Building." The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555223.
Full textOffenbacker, Beth S. "Inclusive Management in Action: An International Study of Public Engagement." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28276.
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Escobar-Rodriguez, Oliver. "Transformative practices : the political work of public engagement practitioners." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9915.
Full textHendriks, Carolyn Maree. "Public deliberation and interest organisations : a study of responses to lay citizen engagement in public policy /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2004. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20050921.103047/index.html.
Full textRådelius, Elias. "Community Radio 2.0 - Reinventing Participation, Empowerment and Community in Converging Public Spheres." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23049.
Full textBennett, Amanda. "Honors Participation at a Two-Year Community College: Academic and Student Engagement Outcomes." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3856.
Full textDanielsons, Amy L. "Edible Urbanism: Fostering Growth and Community Engagement Through Food." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397476517.
Full textJakubowski, Susan L. "Public Participation in Urban Development: Case Studies from Cincinnati, Ohio." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397736487.
Full textNampila, Tutaleni. "Assessing community participation : the Huidare informal settlement." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2238.
Full textThis study evaluates community participation in the Huidare Informal Settlement (HDIS) as a case study. The hypothesis is that the breach of trust between the previous community leaders of the HDIS and the current community members has an effect on community participation in issues affecting them and their community today. The research methodology employed is explained as well as the policy context for community participation both on an international level and in Namibia, is reviewed. The legislation on community participation that has been enforced by the City of Windhoek contradicts what happened in the HDIS. The possibility will be investigated as to whether these policy documents of the City of Windhoek are only another form of tokenism.
Feehan, Michael. "Community participation in the development of local policing policy and practice : the Community Policing Forum model of engagement." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546052.
Full textBea, Alexander. "TreeHugging users: Engagement in an online green community." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32870.
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Saul, Zamani. "Developing a Community Engagement Model as a Normative Framework for Meaningful Engagement During Evictions." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6255.
Full textThe research problem of this study is the jurisprudential inconsistency in the application of the right in section 26(3) of the South African Constitution's Bill of Rights. The inconsistency is due to inadequate conceptualisation of the substantive requirements of meaningful engagement (ME) by the South African Constitutional Court (ConCourt). The central argument is that the development of a community engagement model based on the substantive requirements of ME will enhance the application of section 26(3). This study commences by illustrating the disempowering nature to the squatters of the apartheid evictions in South Africa. To tighten influx control, the apartheid regime introduced a battery of laws that disempowered the squatters. The apartheid-induced disempowerment of the squatters penetrated into the democratic dispensation. In the examination of the normative context of evictions post-1994, this study identifies six primary drivers for substantive involvement of the occupiers during evictions. The six primary drivers seek to address the disempowering trajectory during evictions.
Lew, Marna R. "Building an educational community : the participation of international graduate students in civic engagement projects." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99731.
Full textBased on semi-structured interviews with six international graduate students in the field of education in Quebec, the study showed that students embraced a more Deweyan perspective of education and successfully participated in civic engagement projects despite many challenges, such as an academic culture that provides little active support for their involvement in civic engagement activities. The study concludes with recommendations so that universities can provide such support.
Bone, Ilithyia. "An evaluation of the impact on social capital of community participation in planning." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/209306/1/Ilithyia_Bone_Thesis.pdf.
Full textGoliday, Angelique M. "Identifying the relationship between network governance and community action program participation." ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/799.
Full textProctor, Nicholaus. "The Added Value of Community Engagement in Public Design for Landscape Architecture Professionals." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74982.
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Weeks, Harry Jasper James. "'A unique epochal knot' : negotiations of community in contemporary art." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/16182.
Full textTam, E.-man, and 譚依文. "Public satisfaction and community participation in urban renewal in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47308643.
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Garland, Vaughn. "Participation in the Digital Public: New Media Art as Online Community." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/561.
Full textHeyward, Benjamin Rex, and ben heyward@baptistworldaid-au org. "A Comparative Study of Community Participation in the Philippines." Flinders University. Geography, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070328.131827.
Full textSouth, Susan E. "Contributing Factors to Engagement in Online Learning Environments: The Relationship Between Sense of Community and Participation." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194816.
Full textXali, Nomawethu. "Community participation in housing development : the Boystown informal settlement project." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1679.
Full textOne of the problems with development planning is a lack of community participation. This is due to the top-down approach that dominates development planning. To improve chances of sustainable development there is a need to shift from a top-down approach towards a bottom-up approach. The bottom-up approach promotes people-centred development. People-centred development focuses on people and enhances their capacity to influence the direction and implementation of the development process. Communities can only influence the development process through their participation. International bodies such as the United Nations and the World Bank support the concept of community participation in development planning. The South African policy framework also provides for community participation. The change agents should utilise this opportunity by sharing knowledge and by learning from the indigenous knowledge of the community. This knowledge exchange between the community and the change agents creates a platform for social learning, capacity building and empowerment. It is through this platform that sustainable development could be achieved. This kind of development process accommodates the building blocks of development. This study examines the level of community participation in a housing development project at the Boystown informal settlement. It was found that there is a lack of community participation in this project and that the project could be a success if there is a higher level of participation by the beneficiaries.
Kaminski, Amy Paige. "Sharing the Shuttle with America: NASA and Public Engagement after Apollo." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79365.
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Roberts, Heather. "Promoting participation in health in the community using a health survey." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1993. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12598/.
Full textHentschel, Valerie. "Empowering Civic Engagement in Energy Concepts : Design Implications for Citizen Participation." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-41587.
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Bennett, Jhono. "Platforms of engagement : a process of critical engagement with a developing context." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29870.
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Gauld, Don. "Public participation and the preparation of official community plans in British Columbia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26818.
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Jupp, Eleanor Frances. "Making public space : community groups and local participation in stoke-on-Trent." Thesis, Open University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435919.
Full textMilk, Richard L. 1970. "Negotiating place : community participation and design in the planning of public schools." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68814.
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Schools play key roles in land use, community development and public policy issues. The construction of new schools, in particular, has come to be seen as a critical growth factor with broad impacts. A participatory school design process is proposed as a model to plan, design and build schools that respond to multiple stakeholder interests. In order to describe how such a process would work, research in urban design, school design, educational facility planning, and participatory design is combined with local case interviews. The results of the research and interviews promote an understanding of the challenges a participatory school design process would face, as well as the support on which such a process could develop. Ideas drawn from consensus building models and from urban design theorists address many of the challenges to which the cases provide no clear prescriptive guidance. These include the organization of a participatory process and the key physical design questions. Combining these models produces a basic framework for a participatory school design process. The framework recognizes that the uncertainty of institutional change and tensions that arise from basic value differences remain to be addressed through testing of the framework.
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Brokenburr, Shenita. "The public-private partnership [electronic resource] : community college participation in workforce boards /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
Find full textTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 23, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-156). Also issued in print.
Jupp, Eleanor Frances. "Making public space : community groups and local participation in Stoke-on-Trent." n.p, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/.
Full textMartin, Sarah Ruth. "Community Connections: Exploring the Constructive Potential of Facebook for Civic Engagement." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1987.
Full textMcCall, Kimberly P. "Congregation for Public Health examines community engagement knowledge of Program Administrators and Community Health Advisors using social capital and community capacity." Thesis, Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2006. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2007r/mccall.pdf.
Full textElsworth, Charlotte. "Community mobility and physical activity participation in individuals with mulitple sclerosis." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1518/.
Full textDabney, Unwanna. "Public Participation in Transportation Planning: How Does the Level of Engagement and Deliberation Affect Transportation Decisions in Virginia's MPOs?" VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3146.
Full textAjide, Olushola. "A critical assessment of corporate community engagement (CCE) in the Niger Delta." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2449.
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