Community
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| Urban-Rural Differences in Concern about the Environment and Jobs in the Puget Sound Region Using data from a phone survey of 1,980 Puget Sound residents conducted in 2012, this fact sheet examines the severity of different environmental problems and compares the strength of concern about the lack of jobs and beliefs about the environment. Too few jobs and… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Community, Employment, Environment, Public Opinion |
| Public Perceptions of Environmental Management in the Puget Sound Region Using data from a phone survey of 1,980 Puget Sound residents conducted in 2012, this fact sheet describes public perceptions of different environmental interventions. Puget Sound residents widely support a range of proposed interventions designed to protect and… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Community, Environment, Public Opinion |
| It Takes a Community: Civic Life and Community Involvement Among Coös County Youth This brief explores the extent to which Coös County youth are involved in a variety of civic-related activities, with particular attention to the demographic and attitudinal factors associated with such participation. Author Justin Young reports that approximately 75… |
New Hampshire | Civic Engagement, Community, Coös Youth Study, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Youths' Opinions About Their Opportunities for Success in Coös County Communities This fact sheet examines Coös County youths’ beliefs about their access to educational and occupational opportunities in their home communities and whether these beliefs relate to their expectations for the future. To do so, author Erin Hiley Sharp draws on the Coös… |
New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Forging the Future: Community Leadership and Economic Change in Coös County, New Hampshire Author Michele Dillon conducted a case study of community change in Coös County, New Hampshire, for two-and-a-half years (June 2009-December 2011) to investigate how local community leaders in Coös assess the initiatives, challenges, opportunities, and progress in… |
New Hampshire | Civic Engagement, Community, Economic Development, Leadership, New Hampshire |
| Forest Views: Northeast Oregon Survey Looks at Community and Environment This brief reports on a survey conducted in fall 2011 as one component of the ongoing Communities and Forests in Oregon (CAFOR) project. The CAFOR project focuses on the people and landscapes of three counties in northeast Oregon (Baker, Union, and Wallowa), where… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Community, Environment, Forests |
| The Local Agricultural Community Exchange: Outcomes and Lessons Learned from a Public-Private Initiative to Revitalize a Downtown Community This brief describes a revitalization project in Barre, Vermont, led by a public-private partnership involving the Agricultural Community Exchange, the Central Vermont Community Action Council, and the private businesses that operated out of the storefront.
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Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Community, Economic Development, New England |
| Teen Stress and Substance Use Problems in Coös: Survey Shows Strong Community Attachment Can Offset Risk This brief explores how social stress and community attachment are related to problem alcohol and drug use for girls and boys in Coös County, New Hampshire.
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New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Coös Teens’ View of Family Economic Stress Is Tied to Quality of Relationships at Home Family economic hardship during adolescence affects family relationships and the social, emotional, and behavioral development of a substantial number of American youth.
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New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Family, New Hampshire, Wages, Young Adults |
| Jobs, Natural Resources, and Community Resilience: A Survey of Southeast Alaskans about Social and Environmental Change As part of the Community and Environment in Rural America (CERA) project, researchers at the Carsey Institute surveyed 1,541 residents of the ten boroughs and unincorporated census areas in Southeast Alaska to better understand social and environmental change in the… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Community, Economic Development, Environment, Public Opinion |
