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Ulbrich, Bryan Armand 1969. "The implementation of environmental policy on Indian lands: A case study on the Pueblo of Isleta." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291868.
Повний текст джерелаFeldman, Jonathan M. (Jonathan Michael). "Protectionism as an industrial policy : the case of the United States automobile industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73272.
Повний текст джерелаMICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH
Bibliography: leaves 199-217.
by Jonathan Michael Feldman.
M.C.P.
Tarr, James Michael. "Should the United States Environmental Protection Agency's policy on the technical impracticability waivers be changed?" Thesis, American Military University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1691468.
Повний текст джерелаThis research tests and answers the main question: Should the Environmental Protection Agency’s Policy on the Technical Impracticability Waivers be changed? This research uses public and private databases for collecting information on the Comprehensive Environmental Recovery and Liability Act sites with Technical Impracticability Waivers and examines the process the Environmental Protection Agency uses to make Technical Impracticability Waivers evaluations. Existing data demonstrates the Environmental Protection Agency has been very conservative and has granted few Technical Impracticability Waivers over the last 30 years. Several arguments for changing Environmental Protection Agency’s policy are made. A comparison of approved Technical Impracticability Waivers sites and sites that meet the criteria for approval but have not been submitted for the waiver are used in this research. The results indicate that the policy should be changed. A policy change would be beneficial to appropriate funds to the more complex and critical sites. A change in policy would also save taxpayers funds instead of being spent on experimentation on sites that are impracticable to clean up, these funds would go to more critical sites. The research also shows a need for collecting a database of sites that Environmental Protection Agency has rejected for a Technical Impracticability Waiver.
Mudliar, Pranietha Mudliar. "Heterogeneity and Collective Action: Case Studies from the United States and India." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468941095.
Повний текст джерелаHuber-Stearns, Heidi Rebecca. "Investments in watershed services| Understanding a new arena of environmental governance in the western United States." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3720572.
Повний текст джерелаIssues around sustainably managing freshwater resources are one of the most challenging and timely issues affecting the globe. In response to rising social and ecological complexities, decision makers are faced with designing new policies and programs to effectively govern water resources. This shift towards new freshwater resource management approaches is in line with recent movement toward incentive-based mechanisms such as “Investments in Watershed Services” (IWS). The western United States contains one of the most concentrated IWS populations, in a time when population growth, intensifying land uses, and climate-induced environmental changes are stressing ecological systems in the region. My dissertation focuses on understanding this new arena of environmental governance aimed at freshwater conservation in the US West. Through three sets of data and analytical lenses I explore: the characterization of this new arena of governance, what led to its recent and significant growth, and what changes have occurred with respect to how such water resources were traditionally governed. I employ a mixed methods approach, using quantitative approaches to characterize the study population and temporal changes, and qualitative approaches to dive deeper into understanding specific phenomena. First, I improve understanding of IWS as an institution, and demonstrate the importance of dynamics between institutional factors for external context, program structure, and other related analytical domains in shaping how PWS is applied to water resources challenges globally. Through an institutional analysis of IWS and the use of cluster analysis to group programs around buyer types and management actions, I highlight the role of government, influence of geographic context, and role of both regional and local conditions in shaping IWS design and structure. Second, I demonstrate that government actors are essential to IWS in the region, expanding beyond existing regulations and traditional roles. This exploration of the role of government within adaptive governance shows the evolving and expanding role of government over time, from federal regulations driving early water quality management, then state legislation driving water quantity programs, and more recently, federal agencies partnering on local water source protection efforts. Third, I show how key individuals and organizations create voluntary IWS in response to risk, aligning policies, politics and problems into solution framing, which suggests policy process theories more explicitly consider social-ecological complexities. These programs constitute the most recent expansion of IWS in the US West, and applying a policy process theory sheds light into the formation of the IWS, and the political, economic, ecological and social components that aligned to make the programs possible. My research shows this new arena of environmental governance as adaptive, place and problem-based, learning and collaboration-focused, accepting of uncertainty, and containing nimble and adaptive government across scale. My work also creates a baseline of IWS in the region, and identifies areas for future research as IWS matures over time.
Li, Ying, and Joseph Kusi. "Projecting Future Heat-Related Mortality in the United States under Global Climate Change." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/18.
Повний текст джерелаBayerl, Elizabeth. "USAID projects in the former Soviet Union: policy case studies." Thesis, Boston University, 2002. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/32740.
Повний текст джерелаThe dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War are widely recognized as watershed events in the history of world affairs. Decision-makers and scholars in many fields are only beginning to understand the profound shifts and realignments in global political and economic relationships in a post-Cold War world. An important link between the United States and the former Soviet republics is the foreign assistance program in the region, since assistance efforts often serve as an important lens through which to view strategic relationships between nations. This evaluative policy research explores that link through qualitative case studies of three US Agency for International Development (USAID) projects in the region. Each qualitative case study represents a distinct approach to foreign assistance delivery in the region: classical technical assistance (represented by ZdravReform in contracts with Abt Associates), formal site partnership (in cooperative agreements with the American International Health Alliance), and experimental technology (a cooperative agreement with the former Selentec, Inc.). Three policy context chapters (Chapters I, II, and III) introduce the case studies, in which historical trends of the assistance effort and of the domestic foreign policy-making framework in Washington, DC, are highlighted. A final chapter (VII) examines the findings from the study and recommends a refocusing of the foreign assistance effort in the NIS toward more long-term developmental strategies. Theoretical and methodological assumptions in the study are informed by the constructionist approach to policy evaluation described by Guba and Lincoln (1989). This broad approach assumes that different constructions or interpretations exist concerning the nature and goals of projects. Unlike typical project evaluations, this approach does not assume that stakeholders in projects share common perceptions of the expected goals for and outcomes of their projects. Constructionist approaches to qualitative study fall within the interpretative stream of social science explored by theorists and researchers from a number of disciplines (Geertz, 1973; Denzin, 1992; Hammersley, 1989; Bruner, 1990). More specific conceptual assumptions also are explored in Chapter I, drawn from the literature on institutional research . Emphasis is placed in the evaluative analysis on how effectively conflicts that arose among the multiple stakeholders in each project were addressed.
Millward, Alison J. "Affordable downtown housing : innovative U.S. municipal initiatives and a case study of Seattle." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29996.
Повний текст джерелаApplied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
Graduate
Wang, Qian. "Assessment of the Emission Trading Policy: A case study for the Acid Rain Program in the United States." Thesis, Waterloo, Ont. : University of Waterloo, 2004. http://etd.uwaterloo.ca/etd/q4wang2004.pdf.
Повний текст джерела"A thesis presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfillment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Environmental Studies in Geography". Includes bibliographical references.
Bird, Annie. "US foreign policy on transitional justice : case studies on Cambodia, Liberia and Colombia." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/473/.
Повний текст джерелаDetwiler, Dominic. "Bridging The Queer-Green Gap: LGBTQ & Environmental Movements inCanada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1587131806748671.
Повний текст джерелаMaclin, Stephen Alexander. "A democratic governance approach to urban economic development policymaking." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37427.
Повний текст джерелаPh. D.
Jarvis, David Seiler. "Accountability Models in Policy Design: Understanding the Explanatory Power of the Four Major Accountability Models in Policy Tool Choices." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1798.
Повний текст джерелаSimon, Lily. "Running on Empty: Investigating the Production and Consumption Paradox of Biofuel Policy in the United States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/63.
Повний текст джерелаEarley, Penelope M. "Federal attention to teacher certification and licensure : two policy case studies /." Diss., This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10022007-145344/.
Повний текст джерелаPirring, Andrew Thomas. "AN INTERNSHIP IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY WITH THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY IN THE OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1344180835.
Повний текст джерелаDavis, Whitney Michelle. "THE DECISION TO DECENTRALIZE GOOD PROVISION IN THE UNITED STATES: A STUDY IN CLEAN ENERGY POLICY." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/msppa_etds/32.
Повний текст джерелаNel, Coligny. "United States policy and nuclear non-proliferation: a preliminary comparison of the Bush and Obama administrations' approaches." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4129.
Повний текст джерелаENGLISH ABSTRACT: The United States of America (USA) has a new president in the White House - a president whose rhetoric appears to distance himself from the policies of the previous administration. This also appears to hold true for his approach with regard to nuclear nonproliferation. The overarching research aim of this study is to explore whether the Obama administration’s policy with regard to nuclear non-proliferation will differ significantly from that of the Bush administration. The broader subject of nuclear non-proliferation will be subdivided into three themes, namely: disarmament, proliferation by non-nuclear states and nuclear terrorism. In order to sketch the international context within which the USA’s policy must be viewed, an overview of the nuclear non-proliferation regime is provided. This will be followed by an exploration of disarmament, proliferation by nonnuclear states (with Iran and North Korea as case studies) and nuclear terrorism. In each case, a comparison between the Bush administration and the Obama administration’s policies will be done. Finally, an analysis will be done of the main similarities and differences between the two administrations’ approaches, with a focus on the use of hard, soft and smart power. The study concludes that the primary difference between the Bush and Obama administration’s approaches is that Bush pursued only one policy option (hard power) at a time, while Obama intends to use many different policy options (smart power) at the same time, with a focus on increasing the use of soft power. This sort of pragmatism may just be what the USA needs right now in order to address the problem of nuclear proliferation.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Verenigte State van Amerika (VSA) het ‘n nuwe president in die Withuis – ‘n president wie se uitsprake hom van die beleide van die vorige administrasie blyk te distansieer. Dit wil ook voorkom asof dit van toepassing is op sy benadering tot kernwapen versperring. Die oorhoofse navorsingsdoelwit van hierdie studie is om te ondersoek of die Obama administrasie se beleid ten opsigte van kernwapen versperring aansienlik van die van die Bush administrasie gaan verskil. Die breër onderwerp van kernwapen versperring kan in drie temas opgedeel word, naamlik: ontwapening, proliferasie deur nie-kernwapenstate, en kernwapen terrorisme. Ten einde die internasionale konteks te skets waarin die VSA se beleid moet geskied, begin die studie met ‘n oorsig van die kernwapen versperring regime. Dit word gevolg deur ‘n ondersoek van onderskeidelik ontwapening, proliferasie deur nie-kernwapenstate (met Iran en Noord-Korea as gevallestudies) en kernwapen terrorisme. By elkeen van die drie temas word ‘n vergelyking tussen die Bush administrasie en die Obama adminstrasie se beleide getref. Laastens word ‘n analise van die hoof verskille en ooreenkomste tussen die twee administrasies se benaderings onderneem, met die klem op die gebruik van harde, sagte en slim mag. Die bevinding van die studie is dat die hoof verskille tussen die Bush en Obama administrasies se benaderings behels dat Bush slegs een beleidsopsie (harde mag) op ‘n slag nagevolg het, terwyl Obama beoog om terselfdertyd van verskillende beleidsopsies (slim mag) gebruik te maak, met veral ‘n fokus op ‘n toename in die gebruik van sagte mag. Die soort pragmatisme mag dalk net wees wat die VSA tans nodig het om die probleem van kernwapen proliferasie aan te spreek.
Sommaggio, Samantha <1997>. "STATES NON-FULFILMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS: CASE STUDIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WITH THE KYOTO PROTOCOL AND THE PARIS AGREEMENT." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20950.
Повний текст джерелаKusi, Joseph, and Ying Li. "Climate Change Impacts: Heat-Related Mortality Projections and Population Adaptive Responses in United States." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/26.
Повний текст джерелаOlmsted, Daniel T. "Effective Environmental Management of the National Park Service: A Case Study of Channel Islands National Park." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/51.
Повний текст джерелаMcMahon, Robert Kieran. "Bureaucratic motivations : an examination of motivations in the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Environment Agency for England and Wales." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:49d505fd-475f-4064-8591-0052c83d902a.
Повний текст джерелаWaterman, Peter A. (Peter Alan). "Resource Evaluation and Presidential Decision-making: Predicting the Use of Force by U.S. Presidents, 1976 - 1988." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278299/.
Повний текст джерелаCarpenter, Joshua David. "Democracy and the disengaged : a multi-dimensional study of voter mobilization in Alabama." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a2c1f070-db85-465c-b3e5-f55ddbe01438.
Повний текст джерелаManulak, Michael W. "Continuity and change in international institutions : the case of the United Nations environment regime." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a22a9ef4-5d7d-4e85-9078-bd8711d0aeb7.
Повний текст джерелаTeebay, Catherine. "Smoggy with a Chance of Acid Rain: A Comparison Between California's and China's Environmental Degradation and Response." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1359.
Повний текст джерелаLi, Ying, and Wei Zhang. "Estimating Heat-Related Mortality in the U.S. and In China Using Downscaled Climate Projections." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/12.
Повний текст джерелаMills, Lisa Nicole. "Science and social context, the regulation of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH) in the United States and Canada, 1982-1998." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0007/NQ41244.pdf.
Повний текст джерелаBennett, Cathy. "The U.S. Forest Service : business as usual." Scholarly Commons, 2003. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/583.
Повний текст джерелаWeaver, Anne. "The Social Acceptance of Community Solar| A Portland Case Study." Thesis, Portland State University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10600285.
Повний текст джерелаCommunity solar is a renewable energy practice that’s been adopted by multiple U.S. states and is being considered by many more, including the state of Oregon. A recent senate bill in Oregon, called the “Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Plan”, includes a provision that directs the Oregon Public Utility Commission to establish a community solar program for investor-owned utilities by late 2017. Thus, energy consumers in Portland will be offered participation in community solar projects in the near future. Community solar is a mechanism that allows ratepayers to experience both the costs and benefits of solar energy while also helping to offset the proportion of fossil-fuel generated electricity in utility grids, thus aiding climate change mitigation.
For community solar to achieve market success in the residential sector of Portland, ratepayers of investor-owned utilities must socially accept this energy practice. The aim of this study was to forecast the potential social acceptance of community solar among Portland residents by measuring willingness to participate in these projects. Additionally, consumer characteristics, attitudes, awareness, and knowledge were captured to assess the influence of these factors on intent to enroll in community solar. The theory of planned behavior, as well as the social acceptance, diffusion of innovation, and dual-interest theories were frameworks used to inform the analysis of community solar adoption. These research objectives were addressed through a mixed-mode survey of Portland residents, using a stratified random sample of Portland neighborhoods to acquire a gradient of demographics. 330 questionnaires were completed, yielding a 34.2% response rate.
Descriptive statistics, binomial logistic regression models, and mean willingness to pay were the analyses conducted to measure the influence of project factors and demographic characteristics on likelihood of community solar participation. Roughly 60% of respondents exhibited interest in community solar enrollment. The logistic regression model revealed the percent change in utility bill (essentially the rate of return on the community solar investment) as a dramatically influential variable predicting willingness to participate. Community solar project scenarios also had a strong influence on willingness to participate: larger, cheaper, and distant projects were preferred over small and expensive local projects. Results indicate that community solar project features that accentuate affordability are most important to energy consumers. Additionally, demographic characteristics that were strongly correlated with willingness to enroll were politically liberal ideologies, higher incomes, current enrollment in green utility programs, and membership in an environmental organization. Thus, the market acceptance of community solar in Portland will potentially be broadened by emphasizing affordability over other features, such as community and locality.
Additionally, I explored attitudinal influences on interest in community solar by conducting exploratory factor analysis on attitudes towards energy, climate change, and solar barriers and subsequently conducting binomial logistic regression models. Results found that perceiving renewable energy as environmentally beneficial was positively correlated with intent to enroll in community solar, which supported the notion that environmental attitudes will lead to environmental behaviors. The logistic regression model also revealed a negative correlation between community solar interest and negative attitudes towards renewable energy. Perceptions of solar barriers were mild, indicating that lack of an enabling mechanism may be the reason solar continues to be underutilized in this region.
Bennett, Cathy. "The U.S. Forest Service : business as usual : a thesis." Scholarly Commons, 2001. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/583.
Повний текст джерелаMoody, Joanna C. (Joanna Charlotte). "Development of a predictive coalition building analysis for stakeholders of sociotechnical systems: case studies of high-speed rail development in the Northeast Corridor of the United States and the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori, Japan." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104155.
Повний текст джерелаThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198).
This thesis lays out the intellectual underpinnings and the motivation for a visual, transparent, and user-friendly predictive stakeholder analysis tool for planners and project managers to better understand future uncertainties in institutional structures and cooperative relationships surrounding large, complex, multi-stakeholder infrastructure and transportation projects. We present the development of Predictive Coalition Building Analysis (PCBA). The three-phase methodological framework assigns likelihoods to possible future coalitions of stakeholders by 1) identifying and discussing stakeholders and their interests in various objectives for system development, 2) clustering stakeholders based on their similar interests, and 3) attributing salience to each stakeholder and cluster to discuss incentives and barriers to collective action. We apply PCBA to two case studies of complex, multi-stakeholder high-speed rail (HSR) systems: 1) the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in the United States, and 2) the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori, Japan. In the NEC case, we test PCBA for its sensitivity and robustness to perturbations, demonstrating that the tool responds to small changes in the institutional context in meaningful ways. This highlights the usefulness of PCBA as a tool for exploring different future scenarios and understanding the uncertainty of stakeholder relationships and coalitions surrounding the system or project of study. In the case of the Tōhoku Shinkansen extension, we are able to directly verify the predictive validity of the coalition likelihood results obtained from PCBA by comparing them with what actually happened through the planning, construction, and start of revenue service (1994-2012). This thesis lays the foundation for future research and application into PCBA. As a tool developed for professional application, the strength of this tool lies in its usability, transparency, and communicability. We have demonstrated that PCBA can provide real, predictive insight at a macro-scale to help explore uncertainties in stakeholder relationships, making it valuable for policy-makers who want to easily understand and visualize the broad institutional context of the system. While the case studies in this thesis explore high-speed rail development, the author asserts that this tool could be useful for exploring other sociotechnical systems within and beyond the transportation domain, even more so as the tool continues to develop.
by Joanna C. Moody.
S.M. in Transportation
Nalin, Emma R. "Building Relationships between a Free Clinic and Its Donors." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404598/.
Повний текст джерелаFoehringer, Merchant Emma. "Radical Housewife Activism: Subverting the Toxic Public/Private Binary." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/101.
Повний текст джерелаGuard, Misty Ann. "Business innovation and regulatory enforcement: case studies of the big box retail industry and enforcement of RCRA." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33940.
Повний текст джерелаWozniak-Brown, Joanna. "Understanding Community Character as a Socio-ecological Framework to Enhance Local-scale Adaptation: An Interdisciplinary Case Study from Rural Northwest Connecticut." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1494437621424657.
Повний текст джерелаHaukka, Sandra, and s. haukka@qut edu au. "Research training and national innovation systems in Australia, Finland and the United States: a policy and systems study supported by 30 case studies of research students in the fields of geospatial science, wireless communication, biosciences, and materials science and engineering." RMIT University. Education, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20061109.120913.
Повний текст джерелаHaukka, Sandra. "Research training and national innovation systems in Australia, Finland and the United States : a policy and systems study supported by 30 case studies of research students in the fields of geospatial science, wireless communication, biosciences, and materials science and engineering." Thesis, RMIT University, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32212/1/Sandra_Haukka_PhD_thesis.pdf.
Повний текст джерелаLambeth, Tara. "Coastal Louisiana: Adaptive Capacity in the Face of Climate Change." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2228.
Повний текст джерелаTodd, Maurice L. "Rhetoric or reality : US counterinsurgency policy reconsidered." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6431.
Повний текст джерелаEdmundson, Joshua R. "THE ONE EXHIBITION THE ROOTS OF THE LGBT EQUALITY MOVEMENT ONE MAGAZINE & THE FIRST GAY SUPREME COURT CASE IN U.S. HISTORY 1943-1958." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/399.
Повний текст джерелаDeMasi, Emily. "A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility in Commerical Banks: Case Studies from the United States and the United Kingdom." 2011. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/etd,154141.
Повний текст джерелаMcAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy
MA
Thesis
Fairbanks, Luke W. "The Geographies of Policy: Assembling National Marine Aquaculture Policy in the United States." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/10527.
Повний текст джерелаIn the United States, marine aquaculture is increasingly viewed as way to offset stagnating wild fisheries production, help faltering coastal community economies, and address a growing national seafood trade deficit. The national government has outwardly supported the development of the sector through policies, plans, and other statements. However, many social and environmental questions surround prospective expansion, and actual policy development and implementation has been slow. This dissertation builds on recent work in human geography and policy studies to explore US national marine aquaculture policy processes, conceptualizing policy as a dynamic assemblage of actors, spaces, practices, and relations. It contributes to our understanding of oceans geography and policy processes by addressing three questions: (1) How do actors interact within the assemblage negotiate, construct, and develop national policies? (2) What practices are actors employing to shape aquaculture policymaking, and what views underlie them? (3) What are the practical, and often local, implications of these processes, and how do actors interact with and within policy development (or not)?
These questions are approached empirically by tracing the US national marine aquaculture policy assemblage across time, space, and scale. The dissertation draws on research conducted within and outside the US government, focusing on the internal practices of the state and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as well as a case of local and regional policy implementation and development in New England. It also focuses on offshore aquaculture policy, as well as marine aquaculture more generally. The dissertation uses discourse analysis, ethnography, and other approaches to conduct a geographic policy analysis that explores the processes and relationships producing national marine aquaculture policy in the United States.
Overall, this research shows that broad or monolithic conceptualization of the state, its motivations, its practices, and their implications are oversimplified. The federal government features a diversity of actors, discourses, and ideas about marine aquaculture and its policy development, which manifest in different paths to reform and conflicting efforts within the state itself. Further, national policy processes are not contained within the national government, but are co-produced by mobile and dynamic actors and policies across contexts. Actors deploy particular discourses about marine aquaculture’s risks and opportunities, government agencies and offices claim and reclaim authority over the sector, bureaucrats engage in diverse everyday policy practices and interactions, and policy ideas and policies themselves change as they are translated and deployed in new spaces and by different actors. Together, these processes suggest that rather than expecting a totalizing form of marine aquaculture development in the United State, it is important to consider the ruptures and opportunities within the assemblage that might allow for alternative forms of policy, coordination, and implementation at all scales.
Dissertation
Uram, Derek Andrew. "Covert action : a useful tool for United States foreign policy?" 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/781.
Повний текст джерелаMaxey, Hannah L. "Understanding the Influence of State Policy Environment on Dental Service Availability, Access, and Oral Health in America's Underserved Communities." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/5993.
Повний текст джерелаOral health is crucial to overall health and a focus of the U.S. Health Center program, which provides preventive dental services in medically underserved communities. Dental hygiene is an oral health profession whose practice is focused on dental disease prevention and oral health promotion. Variations in the practice and regulation of dental hygiene has been demonstrated to influence access to dental care at a state level; restrictive policies are associated lower rates of access to care. Understanding whether and to what extent policy variations affect availability and access to dental care and the oral health of medically underserved communities served by grantees of the U.S. Health Center program is the focus of this study. This longitudinal study examines dental service utilization at 1,135 health center grantees that received community health center funding from 2004 to 2011. The Dental Hygiene Professional Practice Index (DHPPI) was used as an indicator of the state policy environment. The influence of grantee and state level characteristics are also considered. Mixed effects models were used to account for correlations introduced by the multiple hierarchical structure of the data. Key findings of this study demonstrate that state policy environment is a predictor of the availability and access to dental care and the oral health status of medically underserved communities that received care at a grantee of the U.S. Health Center program. Grantees located in states with highly restrictive policy environments were 73% less likely to deliver dental services and, those that do, provided care to 7% fewer patients than those grantees located in states with the most supportive policy environments. Population’s served by grantees from the most restrictive states received less preventive care and had greater restorative and emergency dental care needs. State policy environment is a predictor of availability and access to dental care and the oral health status of medically underserved communities. This study has important implications for policy at the federal, state, and local levels. Findings demonstrate the need for policy and advocacy efforts at all levels, especially within states with restrictive policy environments.
Park, Jong Chan. "Industrial policies of Japan and the United States case studies of Toyo Kogyo (Mazda) and Chrysler /." 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/33143410.html.
Повний текст джерелаShai, Kgothatso. "The United States of America's foreign policy towards Africa: the case studies of Kenya and Nigeria, 1990-2008." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1013.
Повний текст джерелаLentz, Roberta G. ""Linguistic engineering" and the FCC computer inquiries, 1966-1989." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18249.
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Arafeh, Sousan. "Policy provisions for public access to television : democratic and educational implications in Canada and the United States." Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1947.
Повний текст джерелаCox, Ronald W. "Business and the state in United States foreign economic policy case studies of Central America from the 1950s to the present /." 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/34782036.html.
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