Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Climate Crisis"”.
-
Feeling the Climate Crisis
This project visualizes the ongoing climate crisis through the means of kinetic sculptures that are made with found natural objects juxtaposed with electromechanical elements. Together they create movement patterns that express climate data. The project attempts to create an experience that allows …
-
Kaleidoscopic Law: A Legal Ecology of the Climate Crisis
… investigates the sociomaterial co-production of climate law by urban coalitions under transnational climate knowledge networks (TCKNs) in transnational and European multilevel climate governance. I argue that European “leading cities” and TCKNs co-assemble an experimentalist legal order nominally …
-
Gathering Futures: Speculative Fiction as a Map for Transforming the Climate Crisis
… fiction can inspire new systems of surviving the climate crisis. While environmental literature warned of this crisis, climate change has outpaced warning. Indeed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reiterates that the scale of necessary change is beyond any other course …
-
Meeting Like This: Dramaturgies of Encounter in the Context of the Climate Crisis
… to what the thesis will call ‘deficit models’ of climate-engaged theatre, and the unequal, unidirectional and explanatory dynamics they suppose. Through interviews with these artists, and inductive analysis of their work, the thesis uses the concept of ‘dramaturgies of encounter’ to articulate the …
-
Climate Crisis in Our Closets: Sustainability Transition of Fast Fashion Using MLP Analysis
Innovations in production and retail methods have propelled the fashion industry's explosive growth, with complex global supply chains that pose serious environmental and social issues. Despite increased awareness and multiple attempts toward sustainability, the industry is still trapped in an …
-
Confronting climate crisis: A framework for understanding the criteria for addressing dangerous climate change
… of the threats from human-induced climate change to human societies and the wider ecosystem, no comprehensive long-term global agreement to tackle the problem has yet been reached to replace the Kyoto Protocol. In arguing for a replacement, evaluative claims are often made that …
-
Class Struggle in the Climate Crisis: Strategic Considerations for Life-Making In and Against a Settler-Colony
It is vital to understand the climate crisis in terms of class struggle, using social reproduction theory and an intersectional perspective. This makes the climate struggle a struggle for life-making, and not for emissions reduction. I look at a cohort of thirteen prominent climate action …
-
Climate Change and Aging: analyzing the disproportionate health and socioeconomic vulnerabilities of older adults in relation to the climate crisis in the U.S.
Climate change has exacerbated the extreme highs and lows of temperature throughout the United States. While climate change-related temperature changes have impacted the entire population, certain demographic groups bear more of the burden than others. In particular, older adults (those aged 65+) …
-
Reorienting Sonic Creativity Amid Ecological Disorientation
… for making sense of affective experiences of the climate crisis and the epistemological shifts that attend it. It focuses this analytic on a range of thinkers and makers whose reckonings with the climate crisis appeal to sonic creativity. It contributes to the difficult labor of reorienting music …
-
Disaster and Hope in the Comic Universe of 'Gardening in the Tropics'
… from the advent of the literary tragedy to the climate crisis. To contrast, I use his idea of comedy as the antidote to domination — a way of thinking that might inspire collaboration with the natural world. I will explore the comic with, predominately, Olive Senior’s <em>Gardening in the …
-
Ballads for Remembering
… and emergence, set against the precarity of the climate crisis. Using an arts-and-Zen-practice-based methodology of research-creation, and a theoretical framework of New Materialism and Post-Humanism (“K(now)n Materialism”), this feminist response to the climate crisis manifests an …
-
Towards Decolonial Climate Justice: An Analysis of Green New Deal and Indigenous Perspectives
… international significance as the only prominent climate legislation in the United States. The Green New Deal has also become emblematic of a larger movement for climate justice; however, further analysis of the Green New Deal and its assumptions indicates that it falls short of enacting …
-
Storms and Stories
… present and future environments that the climate crisis creates, tension between rural and urban spaces, and narratives of working-class characters. These stories were written during my time studying in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi between Fall 2019 and …
-
Human Behaviour and the Environment: Experiments in Behavioural Environmental Economics
Human behaviour lies at the heart of the climate crisis. Not only is it the primary cause of global climate change and environmental degradation, but also key to responding and adapting to them. Tackling the climate crisis thus requires a complete understanding of human behaviour. So far, however, …
-
Communicating Air: Alternative Pathways to Environmental Knowing through Computational Ecomedia
… to environmental knowing in a time of urgent climate crisis. This thesis traces the author’s artistic, personal and political development across the period of study and presents an extended argument for greater public engagement with weather and climate science, greater public and private …
-
Narrative of the wild: An autoethnographic exploration of protected areas within the United States of America
… global environment continue to degrade and the climate crisis deepens, wilderness and protected areas (PAs) serve as a bulwark for sustainability goals. As much of the protections and strengths of PAs stem from the public’s opinion of them, this research seeks to further understand the …
-
Heating Up the Conversation on Climate Change Storytelling in Canada
… as an environmental communication and climate justice strategy is becoming clearer and louder as the climate crisis unfolds disastrously around the world. This qualitative study explored how eleven storytellers in Canada are responding to this need and how intersectional storytelling on …
-
The psychological underpinnings of collective climate action
We are in the midst of a dangerous climate crisis, and collective mobilization is needed to push for urgent global transformations. Many people already perceive the risk that human actions are driving increasingly catastrophic climate impacts, but only a few are taking actions such as asking …
-
Technoeconomic Analysis and Design of CO₂ Capture and Conversion Systems
… by 2050 to avoid the most serious effects of a climate crisis. Here we present a techno-economic analysis of two promising capture and conversion technologies: CO₂ capture from ocean waters via electrochemical pH swing and electrochemical conversion of CO₂ into valuable chemicals. We identify …
-
Addressing Climate Change through Community Organizing and Machine Learning
Climate change is the challenge of our time. It is global, slow-moving, and impersonal – yet it has already impacted everyone from California to Kuwait. Humans are ill-adapted to this type of problem, as the scale – both in time and space – is too large to spur action. But to ignore the difficult …
Page 1 of 6