COMMUNITY PARTICIPATIONAND EMPOWERMENT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- THE OUT OF SCHOOL HOURS SPORTS PROGRAM:DEVELOPING A HEALTHY COMMUNITY THROUGHACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND EMPOWERMENT? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- VALUES ORIENTATION -- LEVELS OF USE -- COMMUNITIES AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT -- COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION -- EMPOWERMENT -- BACKGROUND -- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AIM -- Study 1: The OSHSP as a Diverse Community -- Theoretical Background -- Values Orientation Inventory (VOI) -- Participants -- Measure -- VOI Survey -- Procedure -- Data Analysis -- Value Orientation Inventory Results -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Study 2: The OSHSP as an Example of Diverse Implementation Practices -- Theoretical Background -- Level of Use (LoU) -- Participants -- Measure -- LoU Semi-structured Interview -- Procedure -- Data Analysis -- Results -- Categories of Use of the OSHSP -- Knowledge -- Sharing -- Assessing -- Planning -- Performing -- Overall Level of Use -- Discussion -- Study 3: The OSHSP as an Example of Community Development -- Participants -- Procedure -- Data Analysis -- Results -- Community Development -- Community Participation -- Empowerment -- Discussion -- SUMMARY DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SYNTHESISING DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACYAND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY:LESSONS FROM THE STANAGE FORUM -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY -- INTRODUCING THE STANAGE FORUM -- TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OFDELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY IN THE STANAGE FORUM -- Stage 1: Setting the Agenda -- Stage 2: The Process of Deliberation -- Participation and Representation -- Processes of Deliberation -- Stage 3: Decision-Making -- Stage 4: Implementation -- Stage 5: Review -- THE STANAGE FORUM'S DECISIONS AND ENVIRONMENTALRATIONALITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

SOCIAL INEQUALITIES, POWERLESSNESS ANDSOMATIC HEALTH IN A WELFARE STATE -- ABSTRACT -- Objectives -- Methods -- Results -- Conclusion -- INTRODUCTION -- Aims of Present Study -- Hypotheses -- METHODS -- Sample -- Variables -- Somatic Health -- Social Status -- Powerlessness and Lack of Control -- Social Support -- Negative Life Events -- Psychological Distress -- Life Style -- Statistical Analysis -- RESULTS -- Social Status and Somatic Health -- Social Status and Risk Factors -- Powerlessness/Lack of Control and Somatic Disorders -- Social Status, Risk Factors and Somatic Health -- DISCUSSION -- Main Findings -- Methods -- Powerlessness and Somatic Disorders -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FUNDING -- REFERENCES -- PARTICIPATION OF HOMELESS AND ABUSED WOMENIN A PARENT TRAINING PROGRAM: SCIENCE ANDPRACTICE CONVERGE IN A BATTEREDWOMEN'S SHELTER -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE (EBP) -- Tensions in Evidence-Based Practice -- Parent Management Training - Oregon Model (PMTO) as an EBP Prototype -- NEED FOR PARENTING INTERVENTIONS TO SUPPORTFAMILIES IN SHELTERS -- Community Sectors of Care: Battered Women's Shelters -- ADAPTATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EVIDENCE-BASEDPROGRAM -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- COMMUNITIES FORLEGAL KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Knowledge and the Legitimacy of Law -- 1.2. Legal Knowledge Dissemination -- 2. A TRANSLATION METHOD FORLEGAL KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION -- 2.1. Outline of the Translation Model -- 2.2. Translation Steps -- 2.3. A Translation Example -- Art. 13a Police Data Act (PDA) -- 3. APPLIED LEGAL EPISTEMOLOGY -- 3.1. The Value of Knowledge -- 3.2. Three Dimensions of Knowledge -- Acquisition -- Object -- Justification -- 3.3. Basic Categories of the Knowledge-based Model of the Legal Domain -- 3.4. Epistemic Roles -- 3.5. Knowledge Criteria -- Truth.

Justification -- Reliability -- Coherence -- 4. IMPROVING THE QUALITYOF CONTRIBUTIONS IN COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS -- 4.1. Collaboratories and the Three Dimensions of Knowledge -- 5. ON-LINE COLLABORATIONIN LEGAL KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION -- 5.1. Regulating Collaboration -- 5.2. The Rules of Collaboration -- Collaboration Mission -- Reputation Charter -- Reputation System -- 5.3. Reusing Reputation -- 5.4. Challenges for Reputation-based Collaboration -- 6. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENTES -- PARTICIPATION, PEDAGOGY ANDPRACTICE IN DESIGN EDUCATION -- ABSTRACT -- CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND -- APPROACH TO THE RESEARCH -- FINDINGS -- Learning in the Design Practicum -- Key Discourses Structuring Graphic Design Learning,Teaching and Practice -- Metaphors of Space: The Graphic Design Journey -- Metaphors of Space: Insiders and Outsiders -- Metaphors of Space: Permeable People and the Knowledge Flow -- Metaphors of Order and Control: Reason and Rationale -- Metaphors of Order and Control: Building and Construction -- Discourse Consonance across Educational and Professional Contexts -- PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANDDECISION PROCESSES FOR URBAN PLANNING:A CASE STUDY OF ROUGH SET ANALYSISON THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS OF THE CITY OFCAGLIARI, ITALY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. METHODOLOGY -- 3. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM -- 3.1. Methodology -- 3.1.1. Data -- 3.1.2. Residential Zones -- 3.1.3. Spatial Analysis Approach -- 3.2. Results of the Spatial Analysis -- 3.2.1. Area of the A Zone Contained in the Buffer around a Residential Zone -- 3.2.2. Area of the B Zone Contained in the Buffer around a Residential Zone -- 3.2.3. Area of the C Zone Contained in the Buffer around a Residential Zone -- 3.2.4. Area of the EZ Zone Contained in the Buffer around a Residential Zone.

3.2.5. Land Use -- 3.2.6. Population -- 3.2.7. Building Prohibition -- 4. ANALYSIS OF THE SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONOF THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS OF CAGLIARI -- 4.1. Objects, Attributes and Decision Rules -- 4.2. RESULTS -- 4.2.1. Residential Completion Zones with an Area Greater than Eight Hectares (BHIGH) -- 4.2.2. Residential Completion Zones with an Area Smaller than Eight Hectares (BLOW) -- 4.2.3. Residential Expansion Zones (C) -- 4.2.4. Enterprise Zones (EZ) -- 5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- REGIONAL AND CITY PLANNING IN SARDINIA(ITALY): CONFLICTUAL ISSUES ANALYZED THROUGHMULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS AND CONTINGENTVALUATION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THS CITY AND THE REGIONALADMINISTRATION -- 3. A PLANNING PROPOSAL OF AN URBAN RECREATION PARK IN ANAREA WHICH THE ACTUAL MPS DEFINES A RESIDENTIALEXPANSION ZONE -- 4. METHODOLOGY -- 4.1. CONTINGENT VALUATION -- 4.2. MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS -- 5. SAMPLING METHOD AND RESULTS -- 5.1. CV RESULTS -- 5.2. MCA RESULTS -- 6. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- DRINKING WATER FROM SOLAR STILLS: ARENEWABLE TECHNOLOGY FOR SUDAN -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GEOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF THE SUDAN -- 3. ENERGY SITUATION IN SUDAN -- 3.1. Problems and Difficulties in Rural Energy Development -- 3.1.1. Imbalance in Rural Energy Development -- 3.1.2. Insufficient Investment in Development of Rural Energy -- 3.1.3. Excessive Dependence on Forests for Rural Energy -- 4. SOLAR ENERGY -- 4.1. Solar Radiation over the Sudan -- 4.2. Solar Thermal Energy -- 4.2.1. Solar Cookers -- 4.2.2. Industrial Solar Water Heaters (SWHs) -- 4.2.3. Solar Dryers for Peanut Crops -- 4.2.4. Solar Stills -- 5. ENERGY REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER DISTILLATION -- 5.1. Simple Solar Still Operation -- 5.2. Design Types and their Performance -- 5.3. Output of a Solar Still -- 5.4. Experience -- 5.4.1. Solar Still Suit the Needs.

5.4.2. Solar Still Types -- 6. MATERIALS REQUIREMENTS OF SOLAR STILLS -- 7. DISCUSSIONS -- 8. BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTATION -- 9. DISADVANTAGES -- 10. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX 1. TAXONOMY OF SOLAR DISTILLATION SYSTEMS -- REFERENCES -- COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN FORMULATINGSUSTAINABLE FOREST POLICY:AN INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVEOF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION -- 2.1. Models of Community Participation -- 2.2. Operational Rules of Participation -- 3. THE CASE OF AUSTRALIAN FOREST POLICY -- 3.1. Institutional History of the Australian Forest Sector -- 3.1.1. State Forestry Legislation -- 3.1.2. Forest Policy Conflicts -- 3.1.3. Commonwealth and State Relations -- 3.1.4. Institutional Changes in Forest Management -- 3.2. The National Forest Policy Statement (NFPS) -- 3.3. The Regional Agreement (RFA) Program -- 3.3.1. The Stated Policy Intent of RFA -- 3.3.2. The Stages and Procedures of the RFA -- 3.3.3. Comprehensive, Adequate and Representative (CAR) Reserve System -- 3.3.4. Comprehensive Regional Assessments (CRAs) -- 3.4. Processes of Community Participation in the RFA Program -- 3.4.1. Social Assessment Process (SAP) -- 3.4.2. Induced Institutional Changes -- 4. RULE CONFIGURATION IN PARTICIPATION -- 4.1. Scoping Rules -- 4.2. Position Rules -- 4.3. Information Rules -- 4.4. Boundary Rules and Representation -- 4.5. Aggregation and Authority Rules -- 5. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- COLLABORATING ON CLIMATE CHANGEIN 3D LANDSCAPES -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SIEVE: TECHNICAL OVERVIEW -- 2.1. SIEVE Builder -- 2.2. SIEVE Viewer -- 2.2.1. Functionality -- 2.2.2. Collaboration -- 3. CLIMATE CHANGE CASE STUDY -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN JAPAN:JAPANESE COLLECTIVISM ANDSTEREOTYPICAL GENDER-ROLE -- ABSTRACT -- CHANGES IN JAPANESE SOCIETY AFTER WORLD WAR II.

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