Browsing by Author "Bailey, Conner"

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An Analysis of Strain and Substance Use Among Youth

Mitchell, Jeremy (2006-05-15)

General Strain Theory has been used to test relationships between delinquency and the various types of strains felt by individuals. Although this theory is relatively new, it has been empirically tested in many studies. ...

Coal and Renewable Energy: History, Impacts, and Future in Alabama

Singh, Brajesh (2010-01-08)

Coal and renewable energy have differential impacts on human society. Coal is the most abundant, cheap, and yet environmentally detrimental source of energy. Renewable sources are environmentally benign but constrained by ...

Community Capacity and Rural Housing in the Black Belt

Kennealy, Patrick (2005-08-15)

The rural West Alabama Black Belt region faces many challenges in addressing low-income home construction and rehabilitation needs. In nearby metropolitan Tuscaloosa, non-governmental housing service providers draw on ...

A Comparative Case Study of Regional Councils of Government in Central and East Alabama

Washington, Shakeesha (2007-12-15)

Councils of Governments (COGs) are governmental units designed to provide regional coordination among local governments and assistance in obtaining grants from state and federal agencies. COGs are made up of county and ...

The Corporation and the DNA of Farmland Financialization

Canfield, John Jr (2019-04-18)

Although farmland has long been understood to be an investment, policies shaping the economy, intensified by the 2007-2008 food crisis, have given rise to a new paradigm in which, for a set of major investors, farmland is ...

The Debate between Federal and State Agencies on Recreational Red Snapper Fisheries Management in the Gulf of Mexico

Zhang, Ran (2015-07-27)

Red snapper is a pelagic species and one of the most popular recreational species in the GOM (Gulf of Mexico). The population of red snapper in the GOM has been in an overfished condition since 1988. In recent years, the ...

Disinvestment: Heirs’ Property and Food Desert across the Deep South and Appalachia

Shin, Jihyun (2023-05-02) ETD File Embargoed

The culture of poverty argument is popular in the United States, especially in the South. Victim-blaming masks the structural nature of the problem. While individual explanations of poverty might be popular, they fail to ...

Exploring 'Place' in Planning and Zoning Debates Across a Rural-Urban Gradient

Gartin, Meredith (2006-08-15)

Land use policy and zoning are examined here as socio-political forms of landscape creation. This study examined the human-place perspective of rural residents experiencing demographic and physical changes due to the ...

"God Bless the Farmer": Community Perceptions of Legal Challenges to Hog Farming Operations in North Carolina

Richardson, Dalton (2018-05-16)

This research is designed to complement existing research concerning the health and the ecological impact of industrial agriculture through semi-structured interviews with residents of Duplin County, where two major lawsuits ...

Growing Naturally in Alabama: Needs and Possibilities

Cui, Lina (2008-12-15)

The emergence of the term 'organic farming' describes a distinct system of agriculture compared to conventional or industrial agriculture. Since October 2002, farmers planning to market their products as ΄organic‘ must be ...

Growth Machine Meets Conservation: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Black Warrior and Cahaba River Watersheds

Carter-North, John (2005-08-15)

Results from a stakeholder analysis of two central-Alabama watersheds—-the Black Warrior River watershed and Cahaba River watershed—-are presented in this thesis. Stakeholder opinions, perspectives, concerns, interests ...

Heir Property in the South: A Case Study of a Resettlement Community

Patterson, James III (2018-07-20)

The purpose of this study is to determine if the resettlement program had an impact on the prevalence of heir property and the impact of heir property on asset building and community development. Given the prevalence of ...

Information Exchange Among Environmental Groups in Alabama and Romania

Robinson, Laura (2006-12-15)

According to resource mobilization theory, organizations need certain resources such as skills, money, and knowledge, to survive. For this research I consider information to be a key resource and use the resource mobilization ...

Internet Access, Practice Adoption, and Conservation Program Participation in Three Alabama Watersheds

Tallant, Meredith (2006-12-15)

The Internet is changing many things about our society; the way we communicate, do business, and obtain information. While the Internet provides a multitude of services for most of America, questions remain about its ...

Investigating the objectives of the new owners of Alabama's Timberlands

Ameyaw, Lord (2013-07-17)

Alabama has over 71% of its land area covered with forests and boasts of the third largest commercial forestland area in the United States. The forest products industry is a major employer in Alabama. This industry accounts ...

An Investigation of the Southern Subculture of Violence: Structural and Cultural Predictors of an Expanded Conceptualization of Violence

Weston, Andrea (2006-08-15)

This research investigates the impact of both structural and cultural variables on regional variations in rates of homicide and aggravated assault. Particular attention is given to the influence of conservative Protestantism ...

Irrigation, Income Distribution, and Industrialized Agriculture in the Southeast United States

Bai, Dan (2008-12-15)

Improved availability of irrigation water in agriculture can stabilize crop yields and therefore incomes for adopting producers. However, because of unequal distribution of access to land and water, irrigation may have ...

Legal Status of Alcohol, Population Density, and the Incidence of DUI Arrests in Alabama

Malek-Ahmadi, John (2008-08-15)

The purpose of this study is to identify the effect legal status of alcohol and population density has on the incidence of DUI arrests in the state of Alabama. It was expected that dry counties with low population densities ...

Portable Sawmills – A Small Scale Microenterprise Development

Aulakh, Jaspreet (2011-01-12)

A Cobb-Douglas cost function of portable sawmill industry for United States based sawmill owners was estimated using cross-sectional data with two inputs and capital. The elasticity of the output (bf) to total variable ...

The Role of Portable Sawmill Microenterprise Adoption in Promoting Rural Community Development and its Application in Small-Scale Forest Management

Lupo, Crystal (2010-08-11)

Changes have taken place in the United States economy over the past several years attributable to the overall global economic environment. As a result of the weakened U.S. economy, there is reduced demand for lumber and ...