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Risk Management Plans

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This collection focuses on disaster preparedness and risk management in Calhoun County, Texas

Science in Calhoun County

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This collection documents environmental and health research carried out in relation to the petrochemical industry in Calhoun County, Texas. 

Matagorda Bay Fishing Futures

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This collection focuses on ongoing efforts to establish a sustainable fishing cooperative on Matagorda Bay, Calhoun County, with funding from 

Max Midstream Pipeline & Port Proposal

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This collection focuses on the proposed expansion of the Port of Calhoun to increase oil exports, including dredging of Matagorda Bay, likely impacting the

Placemaking as a practice

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Place-making practices refer to the ways in which people create and define physical spaces as meaningful and significant through their everyday activities and social interactions.[1] In Ethnography, the study of these practices is often referred to as ‘ethnography as place-making,’ which involves the exploration of the cultural meanings and practices that shape the physical and social environments in which people live. This can include examining how people create and maintain social boundaries, how they express their identities and values through the built environment,[2] and how they negotiate power and control over the spaces they inhabit.

This place in Gröpelingen is made a place through the interaction of the people tending to the urban gardening project. 

  1. Pink 2008, 178ff. 

  2. See: urbanization 

  3. Pink 2008, 190.