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Engaging Appalachia : a guidebook for building capacity and sustainability /

"Inclusive campus-community collaborations provide critical opportunities to build community capacity-defined as a community's ability to jointly respond to challenges and opportunities-and sustainability. Through case studies from across all three subregions of Appalachia from Georgia to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fletcher, Rebecca Adkins (Editor ), Long, Rebecca-Eli (Editor ), Schumann, William R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, [2023]
Colección:Place matters (Series) (Lexington, Ky.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Collaborating toward sustainability / Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Rebecca-Eli Long, and William Schumann
  • 1. Saving Appalachian gardens and stories: Growing community and sustainability through seeds and art / Chris Dockery, Karrie Ann Fadroski, and Rosann Kent
  • 2. Bringing back the forest: University outreach, community engagement, and partnerships for the reforestation of coal mines in Appalachia / Patrick Angel, Christopher Barton, Geoffrey Bell, Theresa Burriss, and Sarah Hall
  • 3. Wealth and poverty in the Little Cities of Black Diamonds: Navigating community-university partnership in Southeast Ohio / Robert Frank, Diana Marvel, Rachel Terman, and John Winnenberg
  • 4. Collaborating for conservation: Monitoring the hemlock woolly adelgid in the Allegheny National Forest / Jonathan Heck, Sarah Johnson, Bethany Kier, and Denise A. Piechnik
  • 5. Documenting the past to sustain the future: Appalachian Teaching Project in Unicoi County, Tennessee / Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Johnny Lynch, and Ron R. Roach
  • 6. Roots with wings: Oral history project in Floyd County, Virginia / Mary Dickerson, Barry Hollandsworth, Kathleen Ingoldsby, Angela Myers, Catherine Pauley, and Melinda Bollar Wagner
  • 7. Breaking the chains of addiction through university, nonprofit and community partnerships: The story of Pollen8 / Louis Gaunch and Cheryl Laws
  • 8. Students leading the way to social change: Engaging students in applied sociological research in Eastern Kentucky / Dylan C. Burns, J. Jared Friesen, James N. Maples, Stephanie M. McSpirit, Shaunna L. Scott
  • 9. Town and gown collaborations in Southwest Virginia post-coal communities: Clinch River Valley Initiative and Radford University economic diversification efforts / Theresa L. Burriss, Kasey Campbell, and Caroline Leggett
  • 10. GIS mapping of legacy oil and gas wells / Matthew M. Kropf and Devin Weis
  • 11. Appalachia abroad: Reflections on long-term engagement in rural Wales / Geraint Roberts, William Schumann, and Bruce Stewart
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: Community-based research in Appalachia / Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Rebecca-Eli Long, and William Schumann.