[PDF] Quality Of Life Perceptions Among Residents Of Rural Unincorporated Subdivisions In Hidalgo County Texas eBook

Author : Martha Oehmke Loustaunau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 1999-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313390479

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Loustaunau and Sánchez-Bane combine their many years of association and collaboration dealing with health issues in the U.S.-Mexico border area, to bring together a series of chapters illustrating that así es la vida, that's life, need not indicate a fatalistic acceptance that poverty, sickness, misery, and misfortune must be taken in stride. The authors of the chapters have researched, studied, worked with, or have been borderlanders themselves. The chapters focus on the impact of the social structure, and on the power and determination of people to change their conditions for the better, increasing their choices and enlarging their worlds. They look beyond political and economic barriers to find the spark in the human spirit that must be identified and nurtured to produce a better life for the benefit of peoples and nations on both sides of the border, and to nourish the third culture as a bridge between nations. The authors note the dangers and pitfalls along the way, and the need for more realistic policies and programs to empower people to define their own problems, and to participate in fashioning the solutions.

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Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Author : Shiv Rattan Mehta
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The only concordance to Eddic poetry ever published, Kellogg's work is a basic reference tool of all scholars of Old Norse literature and language. ". . . will become part of the indispensable core of reference works that an Old Norse eddic scholar needs." -Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Author : Julie Koppel Maldonado
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2014-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319052667

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With a long history and deep connection to the Earth’s resources, indigenous peoples have an intimate understanding and ability to observe the impacts linked to climate change. Traditional ecological knowledge and tribal experience play a key role in developing future scientific solutions for adaptation to the impacts. The book explores climate-related issues for indigenous communities in the United States, including loss of traditional knowledge, forests and ecosystems, food security and traditional foods, as well as water, Arctic sea ice loss, permafrost thaw and relocation. The book also highlights how tribal communities and programs are responding to the changing environments. Fifty authors from tribal communities, academia, government agencies and NGOs contributed to the book. Previously published in Climatic Change, Volume 120, Issue 3, 2013.