... Britain Canada China Poland shale boom fracking shale gas production shale gas development economic challenges local communities By now, just about everyone has heard about “fracking,” the extraction of natural gas through the process of hydraulic fracturing. Those who hoped for greater federal...

... learning experience with hands-on Peace Corps service. The Cornell–Peace Corps collaboration proved to be a mutually beneficial partnership benefitting local communities around the world, Peace Corps volunteers, the United States, and the university community. Africa Ottinger Richard Peace Corps...

...This concluding chapter pulls together the conclusions of the case studies discussed throughout this book. The shale boom has created many studies on environmental and health impacts, but far less on what happens in local communities in practical terms of governance, planning, and economic impacts...

... are skewed toward breaches of both legal obligation and social expectations, including episodes of violence. How parishioners reported, reacted to, and participated in conflict with their seroras underscores the ease with which the ideals of reform were consumed and deployed by local communities...

... seroras semireligious lifestyles Arregui Joseph de Bourbon reforms licensing Cédula Real 1769 sacristans servientes seroras women Catholic Reformation Catholic reformers women's spirituality Tridentine reform local communities On September 10, 2014, the parishioners of Otsagabia crowded...

...This chapter examines how schools that establish rich and sustaining partnerships with local communities enhance opportunities for urban environmental education. It considers “socioecological refrains” that incorporate stewardship, pedagogy, interrelationships, and heritage and highlight the role...

... identified in the previous chapter about patterns of perpetration and contributing factors. However, this analysis also demonstrates that the ways in which local communities experience sexual exploitation and abuse is grounded in historical experience, cultural norms, and, in many ways, the particular forms...

... of mistrust between local communities and the international intervention, particularly as it intersected with other behaviors that amplified and exploited the power imbalance between international interveners and local communities. AIDS Free World Code Blue Campaign Democratic Republic of Congo Expert...

...This concluding chapter discusses how intervener cultures interact with the broad range of factors that challenge and undermine the effectiveness of peace operations, including by giving rise to the perpetration of sexual misconduct against local communities. In light of this, it details the key...