This thesis explores the role of community capacity in sustainable rural community development. Community development in the United States has typically followed an economic model founded on the assumption that economic growth will positively affect o . . .

This project focuses on an affordable housing model aimed at ending the homelessness of individuals who experience mental illness in rural Humboldt County, California. Although a range of human services and temporary housing programs are available, th . . .

In a time of change and dwindling resources, how decisions are made for managing private lands is critical for the future resilience of ecosystems. Theories in ecology and natural resource sciences are moving away from a past emphasis on steady-state . . .

Population discourse has been woven throughout the Sierra Club rhetoric and evolved into an internal, yet public debate over the Sierra’s Club’s immigration policy. This debate generated moments that reproduce systems of power as well as spurred anti- . . .

Privately held resource lands provide ecosystem services including water quality and wildlife habitat across the United States. These lands hold significant conservation values, but their contiguity is threatened by the pressure of subdivision from re . . .

Community gardens are one of the many kinds of urban agricultural green spaces that exist in the cities and suburbs across the United States. Current research credits them with producing a wide array of human and environmental. Especially touted are i . . .

Libraries used to be quiet reflective places where people went to find information and read and study. Even university libraries expected students to only talk in hushed voices and most of the space was taken up by book stacks. Today university librar . . .

This thesis examines the change in Earth First! praxis elaborated by North Coast Earth First! (in Northern California) from 1985-1990 in order to identify how Judi Bari’s theory of “revolutionary ecology” emerged as political force from within a movem . . .

Anti-violence movements in the United States have demanded that the state, institutions, and communities take steps to respond seriously to domestic violence and sexual assault. In the past 35 years, state and federal laws have been passed mandating c . . .

Though the need for prescribed fire in forests and rangelands is widely recognized, its use remains subject to a range of constraints, from operational to social. Efforts have been made to identify these constraints, as their characterization may be c . . .