With over 1.6 million service members having deployed as a result of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and a shortage in available Veterans Affairs (VA) services, there is an urgent need for community-based care for our veterans. The Homefront Enabling Relationships, Opportu…
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Resource and environmental degradation are typified by change, complexity, conflict and uncertainty. Environmental change, for instance, can contribute to conflict among resource users, which in turn increases uncertainty. At the community level, collaborative resource managemen…
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) are poorly documented, yet 90% of the 120 million employed in capture fisheries work in the SSF sector and >1 billion people globally rely on fish as an important source of protein. There is a lack of data on the status of the majority of fisheries in…
This case study assesses the educational needs of the teachers, students and women of a remote, isolated school community in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It also addresses the cultural, social and religious obstacles that girls, women and teachers face, while identifying appropriate …
The purpose of this research was to examine factors that influence the success of community based marine protected areas in North Sulawesi Indonesia. The research took place in North Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. A multi-methods approach was used including administration of a …
This thesis explores how, for more than four millennia, neighboring Afghan tribal communities have exercised highly decentralized, community-based freshwater management practices. I argue that these practices can act as both a model for how to structure Afghan polity at large as…
This study investigates the conceptual frameworks for understanding disability and strategies for vocational rehabilitation of people with disabilities from various world perspectives. It examines the state of rehabilitation of persons with disabilities in Ethiopia. The thesis a…
The goal with this action research project was to understand how community-based social workers (CBSWs) could address female offenders’ and their children’s needs while striving to reintegrate them into the community of Central Los Angeles County, California. Postrelease female …
This paper uses the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia as a case study to examine the origins and institutional evolution of American regional art museums, identify some of the challenges they currently face, and the important civic and cultural roles they play in their communi…
Thousands of immigrants in New York, legal, or undocumented, rely on the services of nonprofit organizations for assistance in their daily lives. Immigrants often seek assistance from nonprofits due to the less restrictive barriers of eligibility for receiving government-provide…