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    People make Places

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    For centuries Glasgow, as a bucolic fishing village and ecclesiastical centre on the banks of the River Clyde, held little of strategic significance. When success and later threats came to the city, it was as a consequence of explosive growth during the industrial era that left a significant civic presence accompanied by social and environmental challenges. Wartime damage to the fabric of the city and the subsequent implementation of modernist planning left Glasgow with a series of existential threats to the lives and the health of its people that have taken time to understand and come to terms with. In a few remarkable decades of late 20th century regeneration, Glasgow began to be put back together. The trauma of the second half of the 20th century is fading but not yet a distant memory. Existential threats from the climate emergency can provoke the reaction “what, again?” However, the resilience built over the last 50 years has instilled a belief that a constructive, pro-active and creative approach to face this challenge along with the recognition that such action can be transformational for safeguarding and improving people’s lives and the quality of their places. A process described as a just transition that has become central to Glasgow’s approach. Of Scotland’s four big cities, three are surrounded by landscape and sea only Glasgow is surrounded by itself. Even with a small territory, Glasgow is still the largest of Scotland’s big cities and by some margin. When the wider metropolitan area is considered, Glasgow is – like Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool – no mean city. People make Places begins with a review of the concept and complexities of place, discusses why these matter and reviews the growing body of evidence that place quality can deliver economic, social and environmental value. The following chapters focus on the history and evolution of modern Glasgow in four eras of 19th and early 20th century industrialisation, de- industrialisation and modernism in mid 20th century, late 20th century regeneration and a 21st century recovery towards transition and renaissance, and document the process, synthesis and the results of a major engagement programme and to explore systematic approaches to place and consensus building around the principal issues. The second half of the work reflects on a stocktaking of place in contemporary Glasgow, looking at the city through the lenses of an international, metropolitan and everyday city, concluding with a review of the places of Glasgow and what may be learned from them revealing some valuable insights presented in a series of Place Stories included. The concluding chapter sets out the findings of the investigation and analysis reviewing place goals, challenges and opportunities for Glasgow over the decades to 2030 and 2040 and ends with some recommendations about what Glasgow might do better to combine place thinking and climate awareness and setting out practical steps to mobilise Glasgow’s ‘place ecosystem’

    Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, April 7, 2022

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    Approval of 3 March 2022 Minutes Program Proposals Semester Course Approval Reviews https://usu.curriculog.com/ Other Business New Curriculum Subcommittee Chair appointment. Acceptance of membership for 2022-2023 academic year. Program Proposals Request from the Department of Plants, Soils and Climate in the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences to offer a new specialization (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) to the MS and PhD degrees of Plant Science. Request from the Department of Theatre Arts in the Caine College of the Arts to change the name of the Theatre Arts Theatre Education Certification Option BFA to Theatre Arts Education BFA. Request from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering to create a Center for the Design and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials (CDMAM). Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to create a new post-baccalaureate certificate in Cybersecurity. Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to create a new post-baccalaureate certificate in Data Analytics. Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to create a new post-baccalaureate certificate in Data Engineering. Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to create a new post-baccalaureate certificate in Data Technologies. Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to restructure the existing Master of Management Information Systems program to require completion of two stackable post-baccalaureate certificates (24 credits) along with six credits of information technology strategy or management courses. Request from the Department of Data Analytics and Information Systems in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business to create a new post-baccalaureate certificate in Web Development

    Evaluating the readiness of three States in the Northeastern United States to adapt important natural resources systems to climate change: practical and theoretical considerations

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    In the last decade, governments have made advances in the development and adoption of climate adaptation programs. With the rise of these programs, scholarly efforts have emerged to assess and evaluate their effectiveness and quality. Thus, researchers have developed and applied a range of climate adaptation evaluation approaches to gauge adaptation progress. In this thesis, a climate adaptation evaluation approach developed by Ford and King (2015) — the adaptation readiness framework — was applied to assess the readiness of three Northeastern US States – Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine – to adapt the natural resources systems located within their boundaries to climate change. To enable the adaptation readiness evaluation, the indicators in the adaptation readiness framework were revised to fit the context of this study shaped by scale and governmental system. Systematic reviews of the scholarly and grey literature were pursued. The revised indicators were used for the coding of documents. Indicators were then scored based on ordinal rankings. Results demonstrated that Massachusetts had the highest level of climate adaptation readiness, New Hampshire the second highest and Maine the lowest climate adaptation readiness. It was found that political leadership – one of the factors in the framework – strongly correlates with climate adaptation readiness, and that high levels of climate adaptation readiness are associated with government centralization. The conceptual strengths of the framework include its ability to illuminate adaptation deficits, and adaptation policy patterns and structures. Its weaknesses stem from the vagueness of the underlying definition of adaptation. Rather than measuring adaptation progress, the adaptation readiness framework measures the extent to which governments have established programs that fall under the category of adaptation as “adjustments”

    A psychobiographical study of the life story of Ellen Pakkies

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    Ellen Pakkies’ memoir highlights numerous psychosocial issues, such as child abuse, gender based violence, sexual abuse, child neglect and, in particular, the aftermath of substance abuse. The overarching aim of this study was to describe and interpret the unique and complex development process of Ellen Pakkies across her lifespan and to understand her traumatic life experiences and that as a caregiver of a methamphetamine addict, as well as the resilient outcome of her ordeal. Ellen’s development over her lifespan and the resilient outcome displayed was primarily guided by KĂŒmpfer’s (2002) transactional resilience model and supplemented by Baltes’ (1987) lifespan development perspective theory. This was a single case, qualitative psychobiographical study of the life of Ellen Pakkies. Ellen was chosen as the research subject of this psychobiographical study due to the uniqueness and complexity of her life story. Life history material in the form of the book Dealing in Death, radio interviews, speeches, and court transcripts aided in creating a biographical sketch of Ellen’s life. This study suggests that a single factor cannot be ascribed to the tragic occurrence of Ellen strangling her son to death. It is rather the amalgamation of traumatic experiences and prolonged abuse that Ellen was subjected to from childhood to adulthood that contributed to her reaching her limit.PsychologyM.A. (Psychology

    Natural Capital:Quantifying Existing Stocks and Future Potential using a Geospatial Approach

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    Geospatial techniques for quantifying, modelling, and mapping natural capital and ecosystem services have the potential to improve our understanding of the benefits provided by natural assets and identify changes in land use that could increase these benefits. However, questions remain around how such an approach could be implemented in practice. In this thesis, analyses are undertaken across multiple scales to explore how geospatial techniques can be applied to help solve current challenges in land management and planning. At the local scale, a land cover and benefit transfer methodology is developed and applied for the first time to value current natural capital assets within individual farms in the UK. This work highlights how the land cover product used in the methodology can have a substantial impact on valuations, with differences of up to 58% found at the five farms studied. The magnitude of these differences varies according to the landscape structure of the farm, with higher resolution land cover products incorporating larger amounts of woodland, primarily through inclusion of smaller patches, leading to overall higher valuations. At the national scale, the creation of new natural capital assets is explored by investigating proposed large-scale afforestation targets in the UK. In the initial part of the study, the feasibility of meeting these targets is investigated in the first national assessment of land available for afforestation, considering a range of physical, environmental, and policy constraints in three hypothetical planting scenarios. This found that while there is sufficient space to meet the afforestation targets in all three scenarios, this would require planting on a large proportion of unconstrained land, which could limit opportunities for spatially targeting woodland creation. The implications of this transformational change in British land cover, and policies that would be required to support this transition, are highlighted. In the second part of the study, the potential to deliver ecosystem services from afforestation is investigated. Models and spatial analysis are used to quantify the provision of carbon sequestration, recreation, and flood mitigation from potential new woodland across England, identifying targeted locations where new planting could maximise the provision of these three services. The impact of planning afforestation at different spatial scales is explored by identifying priority locations nationally and within smaller planning units such as local authorities. This shows that while spatial targeting within larger spatial units results in the greatest provision of ecosystem services, targeting even within smaller units provides substantially greater benefits than random, untargeted afforestation. Overall, the thesis develops and applies new geospatial tools for quantifying, modelling and mapping natural capital and ecosystem services. In doing so, it highlights the sensitivity of the techniques to the quality of the input data and the scale of the analysis. The outputs generate detailed insights into the distribution and potential changes in natural capital that can result from land use decisions which provides valuable evidence for directing future policy and practice
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