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The Case for Grassroots Collaboration

Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level

By: John C. Morris,William Allen Gibson,William Marshall Leavitt,Shana Campbell Jones

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The Case for Grassroots Collaboration

Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level

By: John C. Morris,William Allen Gibson,William Marshall Leavitt,Shana Campbell Jones

The nation’s approach to managing environmental policy and protecting natural resources has shifted from the national government’s top down, command and control, regulatory approach, used almost exclusively in the 1970s, to collaborative, multi-sector approaches used in recent decades to manage problems that are generally too complex, too expensive, and too politically divisive for one agency to manage or resolve on its own. Governments have organized multi-sector collaborations as a way to achieve better results for the past two decades. We know much about why collaboration occurs. We know a good deal about how collaborative processes work. Collaborations organized, led, and managed by grassroots organizations are rarer, though becoming more common. We do not as yet have a clear understanding of how they might differ from government led collaborations. Hampton Roads, Virginia, located at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay, offers an unusual opportunity to study and draw comparative lessons from three grassroots environmental collaborations to restore three rivers in the watershed, in terms of how they build, organize and distribute social capital, deepen democratic values, and succeed in meeting ecosystem restoration goals and benchmarks. This is relevant for the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed, but is also relevant for understanding grassroots collaborative options for managing, protecting, and restoring watersheds throughout the U.S. It may also provide useful information for developing grassroots collaborations in other policy sectors. The premise underlying this work is that to continue making progress toward achieving substantive environmental outcomes in a world where the problems are complex, expensive, and politically divisive, more non-state stakeholders must be actively involved in defining the problems and developing solutions. This will require more multi-sector collaborations of the type that governments have increasingly relied on for the past two decades. Our approach examines one subset of environmental collaboration, those driven and managed by grassroots organizations that were established to address specific environmental problems and provide implementable solutions to those problems, so that we may draw lessons that inform other grassroots collaborative efforts.

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Lexington Books

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0739176978

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A Treatise on Wills

Vol. III

By: Thomas Jarman,Joseph Fitz Randolph,William Talcott

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A Treatise on Wills

Vol. III

By: Thomas Jarman,Joseph Fitz Randolph,William Talcott

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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946

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3368630385

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9783368630386

History of Ancient Woodbury

Vol. I

By: William Cothren

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History of Ancient Woodbury

Vol. I

By: William Cothren

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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865

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3368142046

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9783368142049

Reflections on the University Scene

By: William J. Adams

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Reflections on the University Scene

By: William J. Adams

Reflections on the University Scene presents a sample of ideas, thoughts, and points of view, intimate to the university scene. They include the nature of the university, governance, limits of dissent, academic freedom, tenure, collective bargaining, liberal education, admissions, higher education and high-tech, and memorable teachers and teaching.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469107333

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9781469107332

The Law of Contracts

By: John William Smith

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The Law of Contracts

By: John William Smith

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

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3375176163

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Essentials of Biology Presented in Problems

By: George William Hunter

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Essentials of Biology Presented in Problems

By: George William Hunter

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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3368199358

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Charleston, South Carolina City Directories

For the Years 1816, 1819, 1822, 1825, and 1829

By: James William Hagy

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Charleston, South Carolina City Directories

For the Years 1816, 1819, 1822, 1825, and 1829

By: James William Hagy

These two complete indexes rectify a number of shortcomings in the existing finding aids to Maryland wills. Altogether about 5,000 wills for St. Mary's County and 7,500 wills for Somerset County, many of them dated prior to 1800, are indexed.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806346655

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9780806346656

Arguing about Slavery

John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress

By: William Lee Miller

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Arguing about Slavery

John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress

By: William Lee Miller

In the 1830s slavery was so deeply entrenched that it could not even be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a "gag rule" to ensure that anti-slavery petitions would be summarily rejected. This stirring book chronicles the parliamentary battle to bring "the peculiar institution" into the national debate, a battle that some historians have called "the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy." The campaign to make slavery officially and respectably debatable was waged by John Quincy Adams who spent nine years defying gags, accusations of treason, and assassination threats. In the end he made his case through a combination of cunning and sheer endurance. Telling this story with a brilliant command of detail, Arguing About Slavery endows history with majestic sweep, heroism, and moral weight. "Dramatic, immediate, intensely readable, fascinating and often moving."--New York Times Book Review

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Vintage

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0679768440

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9780679768449

Enforcer

Spilotro: The Chicago Mob's Man Over Las Vegas

By: William F. Roemer, Jr.

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Enforcer

Spilotro: The Chicago Mob's Man Over Las Vegas

By: William F. Roemer, Jr.

Bugsy Siegel built Las Vegas, but it was Tony "The Ant" Spilotro who ran the show. Now William F. Roemer, Jr., veteran FBI agent and scourge of the Cosa Nostra, tells the shocking story of how a teenage wiseguy grew up to become "the man" in Vegas. From the gritty streets of Chicago to the neon-lit Nevada wonderland, Roemer assembles a rogue's gallery of the highest-ranking capos and the lowest creeps of organized crime. As incredible as any work of fiction -- but it's all fact!

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Ivy Books

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0804113106

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9780804113106

Pax Economica

Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

By: Marc-William Palen

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Pax Economica

Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

By: Marc-William Palen

A new economic history which uncovers the forgotten left-wing, anti-imperial, pacifist origins of economic cosmopolitanism and free trade from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The post-1945 international free-trade regime was established to foster a more integrated, prosperous, and peaceful world. As US Secretary of State Cordell Hull (1933-1944), "Father of the United Nations" and one of the regime's principal architects, explained in his memoirs, "unhampered trade dovetailed with peace; high tariffs, trade barriers, and unfair economic competition, with war." Remarkably, this same economic order is now under assault from the country most involved in its creation: the United States. A global economic nationalist resurgence - heralded by Donald Trump's "America First" protectionism and resultant trade wars with the USA's closest allies and trading partners - now looks to transform over seventy years of regional and global market integration into an illiberal economic order resembling that of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Economic cosmopolitan critics of today's retreat from free trade have offered dire warnings that doing so would be catastrophic for global consumers and an existential threat to regional and world peace. But under what circumstances did this ideological marriage of free trade, prosperity, and peace arise? Who were its main adherents? How did this same free-trade ideology succeed in becoming the new economic orthodoxy following the Second World War? And how might the successes and failures of this earlier struggle to reform the economic order inform today's globalization crisis? In Pax Economica, economic historian Marc-William Palen finds answers amid a century of transnational peace and anti-imperial activism that stretched from Britain's unilateral adoption of free trade in 1846 to the founding of the US-led liberal trading system that arose immediately after the Second World War. Over five thematic chapters, considering the period from different perspectives, and utilising archival research conducted in Europe, North America, and Australia, Palen shows that this politico-ideological struggle to create a more prosperous and peaceful world through free trade pitted economic cosmopolitans against economic nationalists. Cosmopolitans sought to counter the industrialising world's embrace of economic nationalism because they believed - much like today's critics of Trump's tariffs and Brexit - that economic nationalism laid the groundwork for trade wars, high prices for consumers, and geopolitical conflict; while free trade created market interdependence, prosperity, social justice, and a more peaceful world. Pax Economica argues that this cosmopolitan fight for free trade laid foundations for a century of anti-imperial and peace activism across the globe - and paved the way for today's global trade regime now under siege"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691199329

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9780691199320

A Treatise on the Law of Taxation as Imposed by the States and Their Municipalities, or Other Subdivisions, and as Exercised by the Government of the United States, Particularly in the Customs and Internal Revenue

By: William Henry Burroughs

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A Treatise on the Law of Taxation as Imposed by the States and Their Municipalities, or Other Subdivisions, and as Exercised by the Government of the United States, Particularly in the Customs and Internal Revenue

By: William Henry Burroughs

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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3385559685

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9783385559684

Reel Character Education

A Cinematic Approach to Character Development

By: William B. Russell,Stewart Waters

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Reel Character Education

A Cinematic Approach to Character Development

By: William B. Russell,Stewart Waters

Values, attitudes, and beliefs have been depicted in movies since the beginning of the film industry. Educators will find this book to be a valuable resource for helping explore character education with film. This book includes an overview of the history of character education, a discussion of how to effectively teach with film, and a discussion about analyzing film for educational value. This book offers educators an effective and relevant method for exploring character education with today’s digital and media savvy students. This book details how film can be utilized to explore character education and discusses relevant legal issues surrounding the use of film in the classroom. Included in this book is a filmography of two hundred films pertaining to character education. The filmography is divided into four chapters. Each chapter details fifty films for a specific educational level (elementary, middle, high school, and postsecondary). Complete bibliographic information, summary, and applicable character lesson topics are detailed for each film. This book is clearly organized and expertly written for educators and scholars at the elementary, middle, high school, and postsecondary levels.

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161735127X

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Book's by William Marshall Leavitt

The Case for Grassroots Collaboration

The Case for Grassroots Collaboration

A Treatise on Wills

A Treatise on Wills

History of Ancient Woodbury

History of Ancient Woodbury

Reflections on the University Scene

Reflections on the University Scene

The Law of Contracts

The Law of Contracts

Essentials of Biology Presented in Problems

Essentials of Biology Presented in Problems

Charleston, South Carolina City Directories

Charleston, South Carolina City Directories

Arguing about Slavery

Arguing about Slavery

Enforcer

Enforcer

Pax Economica

Pax Economica

A Treatise on the Law of Taxation as Imposed by the States and Their Municipalities, or Other Subdivisions, and as Exercised by the Government of the United States, Particularly in the Customs and Internal Revenue

A Treatise on the Law of Taxation as Imposed by the States and Their Municipalities, or Other Subdivisions, and as Exercised by the Government of the United States, Particularly in the Customs and Internal Revenue

Reel Character Education

Reel Character Education

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