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Colorado : a historical atlas
\"This thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994, is chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, with new topics, updated text, more than 100 color maps and 100 color photos, and a bibliography of best books on Colorado, as well as useful lists of relevant tourist attractions. Noel and cartographer Carol Zuber-Mallison map and describe Colorado's spectacular geography and its fascinating past. The book's eight parts survey natural Colorado (from rivers and mountains to dinosaurs and mammals), history (from prehistoric peoples to twentieth-century military sites), mining and manufacturing (from the gold rush to alternative energy sources), agriculture (including wineries and brewpubs), transportation (from stagecoach lines to light rail), modern Colorado (from the New Deal to the present, a fascinating category that includes politics, history, and information on lynchings, executions, and prisons), recreation (covering not only hiking and skiing but also literary locales and Colorado in the movies), and tourism (another broad category that includes historic landmarks, museums, and even cemeteries). In short, this book has information--and surprises--that anyone interested in Colorado will relish\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Curb appeal: how temporary weather patterns affect house prices
For decades, economists have examined the myriad variables that affect real estate value, from individual house characteristics to neighborhood amenities. Yet one variable, weather, has attracted little attention thus far. This is true despite widespread agreement that much of a home’s value rests on curb appeal, or how a home looks from the street, which could significantly change based on weather. Given that housing stock is the main store of wealth for many households, it is important to understand what impact climate can have on asset value. I utilize a large data set that comprises 185,000 sales of 96,000 single-family homes to ascertain the effect of various weather conditions on house prices. By using a fixed effects framework that isolates intra-property price changes, time-invariant omitted variable bias is accounted for, and the causal effect of weather on home prices can plausibly be determined. In the winter, the results indicate cold weather is associated with an increase in price. In the summer, precipitation affects price, but the sign and magnitude of the impact depend on the temperature. The magnitudes are small but highly statistically significant. These results show that home buyers and sellers are affected by temporary weather conditions.
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Laboring for Justice
Laboring for Justice highlights the experiences of day laborers and advocates in the struggle against wage theft in Denver, Colorado.
Drawing on more than seven years of research that earned special recognition for its community engagement, this book analyzes the widespread problem of wage theft and its disproportionate impact on low-wage immigrant workers. Rebecca Galemba focuses on the plight of day laborers in Denver, Colorado—a quintessential purple state that has swung between some of the harshest and more welcoming policies around immigrant and labor rights. With collaborators and community partners, Galemba reveals how labor abuses like wage theft persist, and how advocates, attorneys, and workers struggle to redress and prevent those abuses using proactive policy, legal challenges, and direct action tactics. As more and more industries move away from secure, permanent employment and towards casualized labor practices, this book shines a light on wage theft as symptomatic of larger, systemic issues throughout the U.S. economy, and illustrates how workers can deploy effective strategies to endure and improve their position in the world amidst precarity through everyday forms of convivencia and resistance.
Applying a public anthropology approach that integrates the experiences of community partners, students, policy makers, and activists in the production of research, this book uses the pressing issue of wage theft to offer a methodologically rigorous, community-engaged, and pedagogically innovative approach to the study of immigration, labor, inequality, and social justice.
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Producer Responses to Surface Water Availability and Implications for Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change is predicted to bring changes in weather and water availability. The effect on agriculture depends on the ability of producers to modify their practices in response to changing distributions. We develop a two-stage theoretical model of planting and irrigation decisions and use a unique dataset to empirically estimate how producers respond to changes in expected water availability and deviations from expectations. Ai water supplies decrease, producers respond by planting fewer acres and concentrating the application of water. Highlighting the importance of adaptation in this context, failure to account for this behavioral response overstates climate change impacts by 17%.
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Retiring Land to Save Water: Participation in Colorado's Republican River Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
Agricultural land retirement is increasingly used to manage water resources. This study uses well-level enrollment data to explore the factors that influence landowner participation in the Colorado Republican River Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program. An empirical model of enrollment is informed by a theoretical model of participation that incorporates aquifer and soil characteristics in addition to financial incentives. Our results reveal that enrollment is predicted to increase by 0.087 percentage points with a $10 increase in the incentives offered. The probability of enrollment is also influenced by the aquifer's saturated thickness and the soil characteristics that impact land productivity.
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Research-Practice Partnerships in Education: Advancing an Evolutionary Logic of Systems Improvement
Over the past several decades, scholars have proposed a number of innovative approaches to bridging the research-practice divide. A relatively new approach involves the formation of research-practice partnerships (RPPs), long-term collaborations aimed at educational improvement and transformation through engagement with research, intentionally organized to connect diverse forms of expertise and to ensure that all partners have a say in the joint work. Th is paper develops the idea that RPPs have the potential to create sustainable change, if they are able to support the mutual learning of partners to change practice while continuously adapting to turbulent environments of schools. As an illustration, the paper describes the evolution of an RPP in Colorado (U.S.A.) from a relatively small group of people representing a university and school district focused on a single line of research to an ongoing enterprise linking multiple researchers and educators to multiple lines of work to transform science teaching and learning in the district.
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Accounting for Heterogeneity of Public Lands in Hedonic Property Models
Open space lands, national forests in particular, are usually treated as homogeneous entities in hedonic price studies. Failure to account for the heterogeneous nature of public open spaces may result in inappropriate inferences about the benefits of proximate location to such lands. In this study the hedonic price method is used to estimate the marginal values for proximity to the Pike National Forest. The results indicate that specifying the forest as homogeneous overstates the benefits for homes within two miles relative to specifying the forest based on land use characteristics, because the significant negative effect from noise-intensive activities is omitted.
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Mexicans and Hispanos in Colorado schools and communities
Winner of the 2007 Critics' Choice Award presented by the
American Educational Studies Association Until now, much
of what has been written about Mexican American educational history
has focused on California and Texas, while Colorado's story has
remained largely untold. Rubén Donato recounts the social and
educational history of Mexicans and Hispanos (descendents of
Spanish troops who came to the region in the late 1500s) in
Colorado from 1920 to 1960. He examines both groups' experiences in
sugar beet towns, the experiences of Hispanos in Anglo
American-controlled towns, and the Hispano experience in a
historically Hispano-controlled town. Donato argues that whoever
possessed power at the local level determined who ran the schools,
who administered them, who taught in them, who succeeded in them,
and what sorts of social and academic environments were created.
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Modeling the effects of population growth on water resources: a CGE analysis of the South Platte River Basin in Colorado
This research examines the general equilibrium implications of economic and population growth on a fixed (or exogenously determined) total supply of available water in the South Platte River Basin in Colorado. Instead of looking at the effects of increased demand for water on a fixed allocation regime, we allow for transfers of water between agricultural and municipal water users based on the respective factor demand for water across the economy. The study utilizes an 18-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, where water is incorporated as a primary factor of production for agricultural operations and for a municipal water supply sector, but as an intermediate input for all other sectors. It is determined that, by allowing for water transfers with a fixed supply of water, the projected 50% increase in population from 2002 to 2030 will result in a 5.7% shift in water allocation from agriculture to other sectors. However, the total real value of agricultural sales is expected to increase slightly over this same period. The price of municipal water is expected to increase by 8.4% and the price of agricultural water is expected to increase by 10.4%. This result is contrasted to a scenario where significant barriers to water transfers are enacted. In this case the price of municipal water increases by 25% and agricultural water prices remain constant.
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