Landscape Certification Programs

2021 ◽  
pp. 295-303
Keyword(s):  
Certification Programs

The Living Community Challenge for Environmental and Urban Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Krinos
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Certification Program ◽  
Certification Programs ◽  
Living Building Challenge ◽  
Green Certification

The Living Community Challenge (LCC) is a green certification program that, unlike most certification programs, is geared toward whole neighborhoods as opposed to singular buildings. Unfortunately, no existing communities have achieved Living Community Challenge certification. Still, there are many neighborhoods utilizing the ideals – known as petals – of the LCC in attempts to become more sustainable. The Living Building Challenge (LBC), the parent certification for the LCC, has seen more success than the LCC and will provide further research on the implications of its criterion. This paper will look at the hypothetical variables of the LCC, the communities trying to achieve these variables, and how elements of it could be used in relation to impoverished communities. Through case studies on groups and individuals attempting LCC and LBC certification, specifically Bend, Oregon and the BLOCK Project, the potential of the research becomes evident. This paper seeks to demonstrate how the LCC could be applied specifically in low-income areas in Gainesville, FL without achieving all the requirements of each petal.

Assessing policies to mitigate abandonment of shade-grown coffee production in forest systems amid low and uncertain prices

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Heidi J. Albers ◽  
Stephanie Brockmann ◽  
Beatriz Ávalos-Sartorio
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Biodiversity Hotspot ◽  
Payments For Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natural Forests ◽  
Coffee Production ◽  
Certification Programs ◽  
Coffee Farmers ◽  
Effective Policy

Abstract Low and highly variable prices plague the coffee market, generating concerns that coffee farmers producing in shade systems under natural forests, as in biodiversity hotspot Oaxaca, Mexico, will abandon production and contribute to deforestation and reduced ecosystem services. Using stakeholder information, we build a setting-informed model to analyze farmers' decisions to abandon shade-grown coffee production and their reactions to policy to reduce abandonment. Exploring price premiums for bird-friendly certified coffee, payments for ecosystem services, and price floors as policies, we find that once a farmer is on the path toward abandonment, it is difficult to reverse. However, implementing policies early that are low cost to farmers – price floors and no-cost certification programs – can stem abandonment. Considering the abandonment that policy avoids per dollar spent, price floors are the most cost-effective policy, yet governments prefer certification programs that push costs onto international coffee consumers who pay the price premium.

Enacting Diversity in Dual Certification Programs

2012 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 254-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marleen C. Pugach ◽  
Linda P. Blanton
Keyword(s):  
Certification Programs ◽  
Dual Certification

A Comparative Study of the Standards and Certification System of the Green Hotel: China, U.S., and Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 3308-3312
Author(s):  
Dong Xia Luo ◽  
Ling Yun Zhang ◽  
Ling Ling Ma ◽  
Yan Cao
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Green Leaf ◽  
Certification System ◽  
Certification Programs ◽  
Green Hotel ◽  
Similarities And Differences

This paper mainly compares Chinese "Green Hotel" National Standard with three green hotel certification programs originated from U.S. and Europe, including the Green Key, the Green Key Eco-rating Program and the Green Leaf Eco-rating Program. The similarities and differences of all these certification programs are concluded. Eventually, some practical suggestions for stakeholders to promote Chinese green hotel standards are proposed.

Savvy Marketing Strategies for BCIA Certificants

Biofeedback ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-137
Author(s):  
Fredric Shaffer ◽  
Judy Crawford
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Muscle Dysfunction ◽  
Didactic Training ◽  
Certification Programs ◽  
Media Services

Consumer and military interest in biofeedback and neurofeedback services has increased. BCIA-accredited didactic training programs report greater enrollment. BCIA's applications for our three certification programs (biofeedback, neurofeedback, and pelvic muscle dysfunction biofeedback) are 20% higher than 2010. This is the time to redouble your marketing efforts to take advantage of our field's rising popularity. Although new media services offer unprecedented opportunities to communicate with your audience, they also carry unparalleled risks.

Pathways to a Profession: An Introduction to the Yearbook

2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (14) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Natriello ◽  
Karen Zumwalt
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Effective Teachers ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Certification Programs ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Alternative Routes

The need for large numbers of individuals who can serve as effective teachers for the nation's young people has generated continuing interest in the recruitment, preparation, and retention of talented teachers for the past half-century, particularly since the civil rights and women's rights revolutions opened a wide range of career opportunities to many for whom teaching was historically one of the few fields available. Among the policy options under development in recent decades have been alternative routes into teaching, typically preparation experiences that differ in form and/or format from the established college-based certification programs. In this Teachers College Record Yearbook, we present the results of a longitudinal examination of one early alternative route program developed by the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Provisional Teacher Program (or Alternate Route) is of particular interest both because it was the first of a generation of such programs created by various states in the final years of the 20th century and because its creation surfaced a range of issues and tensions that all the programs following in its wake have experienced.

scholarly journals Certified Occupational Health Nursing

AAOHN Journal ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 581-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Burgel ◽  
Emily M. Wallace ◽  
Sharon Donnelly Kemerer ◽  
Margery Garbin
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nurse Specialist ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Certification Programs ◽  
Health Nurse ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Occupational Health Nurse ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Occupational Health Nursing

Specialty nursing certification programs, such as that administered by the American Board for Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. (ABOHN), must be firmly based on current practice to maintain validity. To determine this, ABOHN performed its most recent job analysis and role delineation study between 1992 and 1994. A comprehensive survey tool was developed by ABOHN Board members, and administered to all 3,805 certified occupational health nurses in practice at the time of the study. With a final return rate of 42.7%, the results were believed to be representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to practice occupational health nursing in the United States at the proficient level of practice. The results of the study formed the basis for the ABOHN test blueprints and the creation of two credentials for occupational health nurses: the Certified Occupational Health Nurse (COHN) and the Certified Occupational Health Nurse Specialist (COHN-S).

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