Browsing Strategic Growth Area: Policy by Title
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A Model for a Smallpox-Vaccination Policy
(NEJM Group, 2003-01-30)Background: The new reality of biologic terrorism and warfare has ignited a debate about whether to reintroduce smallpox vaccination. Methods: We developed scenarios of smallpox attacks and built a stochastic model of ... -
Addressing the Impact of Housing for Virginia’s Economy
(Governor’s Housing Conference, 2017-11)In October 2014, Governor McAuliffe issued Executive Order (EO) 32, “Advancing Virginia’s Housing Policy,” to “identify and implement actions to enable quality, affordable housing, which will strengthen families and ... -
An Empirical Analysis of International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) Annual Surveys
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Biopolitical and Disciplinary Peacebuilding: Sport, Reforming Bodies and Rebuilding Societies
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-03-25)The peacebuilding political rationality established in the first years of the current century broadened the target of such efforts from state institutions to populations and adopted an array of disciplinary and biopolitical ... -
Considering the Relationships among Social Conflict, Social Imaginaries, Resilience, and Community-based Organization Leadership
(Resilience Alliance, 2011)This article focuses on the question of what role community-based organization leaders play in shaping the possibility for the emergence of new social imaginaries. It argues that deep social conflicts and efforts to secure ... -
The Dilemmas of Citizen Inclusion in Urban Planning and Governance to Enable a 1.5 °C Climate Change Scenario
(Cogitatio Press, 2018-04-24)Cities around the world are facilitating ambitious and inclusive action on climate change by adopting participatory and collaborative planning approaches. However, given the major political, spatial, and scalar interdependencies ... -
A Dynamic Model of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for Military Personnel and Veterans
(PLOS, 2016-10-07)Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) stands out as a major mental illness; however, little is known about effective policies for mitigating the problem. The importance and complexity of PTSD raise critical questions: What ... -
Effects of Government Spending on Research Workforce Development: Evidence from Biomedical Postdoctoral Researchers
(PLOS, 2015-05-01)We examine effects of government spending on postdoctoral researchers’ (postdocs) productivity in biomedical sciences, the largest population of postdocs in the US. We analyze changes in the productivity of postdocs before ... -
Engaging IDPs in Sri Lanka: a Buddhist approach
(Oxford, 2014-11)A Buddhist Sri Lankan NGO provides an example of how endogenous faith-based civil society organisations can help mobilise IDPs in owning and defining strategies for their own protection. -
Environmental Remediation to Address Childhood Lead Poisoning Epidemic due to Artisanal Gold Mining in Zamfara, Nigeria
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2016-09)Background: From 2010 through 2013, integrated health and environmental responses addressed an unprecedented epidemic lead poisoning in Zamfara State, northern Nigeria. Artisanal gold mining caused widespread contamination ... -
Exploring Producers', Staff Members', and Board Members' Cognitive Frame on Decision Making in an Appalachian Organic Farming Venture
(Southern Rural Sociological Association, 2012)Sustainable development assistance organizations (SDAOs) aim to help producers of natural resource products move their goods and services to market. This article explores how the cognitive frames held by producers, staff, ... -
Final Report Abstract: Caregivers of Persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Information and Support Needs
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Fragile Foundations and Enduring Challenges: Essays on Democratic Politics and Governance
(VT Publishing, 2019-05-22)In this volume of timely essays, Max O. Stephenson Jr. offers unique insight into the state of politics and policymaking in the United States. Covering the period 2010-2018, his essays chronicle a growing crisis in American ... -
Global Systems Science (GSS) DA and Policy SGA (PSGA) Synergies and Opportunities Workshop
(Virginia Tech, 2017-09-29)The goals of this day-long event, held on September 29, 2017, were to identify areas for collaborative synergy and cooperation between the GSS DA and PSGA and showcase a model for future DA/SGA collaboration and shared innovation. -
The Import of Neoliberalism on Efforts to Encourage Agency in Three Fields of Development Action
(ISTR, 2014-07)This article examines the dynamics of population agency and empowerment in each of three fields of aid provision—humanitarian relief, international development and peacebuilding—during recent decades. It first describes ... -
Institute for Society, Culture and Environment Annual Report 2011
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Institute for Society, Culture and Environment Annual Report 2012
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Interactional dynamics of same-sex marriage legislation in the United States
(The Royal Society, 2017)Understanding how people form opinions and make decisions is a complex phenomenon that depends on both personal practices and interactions. Recent availability of real-world data has enabled quantitative analysis of opinion ... -
International Refugee Research: Evidence for Smart Policy
(Virginia Tech. School of Public and International Affairs, 2018-09)The Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs Refugee Research Project was prompted by discussions among institutional partners in the aftermath of the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe. With the number of ... -
Managing Networks as Learning Organizations in the Public Sector
(North American Institute of Science and Information Technology, 2012)This paper addresses the increasing use of network forms of governance and the challenges would-be network managers confront, including the persistent need network structures create to secure a modicum of internal goal ...
