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|Trash, housing, and drugs are at the top of community issues of concern in Baltimore's Oliver-Broadway East, Sandtown-Winchester, and Westport neighborhoods. Larger font sizes represent the words repeated most frequently as the most important issues in response to the question " What are the issues in your neighborhood you would like to see addressed? "
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Communities are beginning planning efforts to
consider adaptation strategies to build their
resilience (NRC, 2010), yet many lack the
political capital or access to information and
resources that would allow them to prepare for
chronic flooding, catastrophic storm events, and
losses of economically important natural
resources. Frequently, it is und...
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... most commonly listed top community issue in the Baltimore neighborhoods was trash ( Figure 4; Appendix Tables A3.a-A3.c). Trash was cited as an important issue in all three of the communities. ...
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... is practiced equivalently throughout the state and our four neighborhoods. Those in Baltimore's neighborhoods are significantly less likely to use two other active coping strategies than the state as a whole: concentrating their efforts on the problem and coming up with a strategy for what to do ( Figure 14). There is little significant difference between Baltimore's three neighborhoods in preferred coping strategies; residents in Sandtown-Winchester and Westport are more likely to say that they "learn to live with it" than those in Oliver-Broadway East (Appendix Table B6). ...
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... most commonly listed top community issue in the Baltimore neighborhoods was trash ( Figure 4; Appendix Tables A3.a-A3.c). Trash was cited as an important issue in all three of the communities. ...
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... is practiced equivalently throughout the state and our four neighborhoods. Those in Baltimore's neighborhoods are significantly less likely to use two other active coping strategies than the state as a whole: concentrating their efforts on the problem and coming up with a strategy for what to do ( Figure 14). There is little significant difference between Baltimore's three neighborhoods in preferred coping strategies; residents in Sandtown-Winchester and Westport are more likely to say that they "learn to live with it" than those in Oliver-Broadway East (Appendix Table B6). ...
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