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Showing 1 to 20 of 6437 for “"Ecological"”.
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Ecological Regionalism: A Synthesis of Ecological Economics and Organicist Regionalism
To realize visions of regional ecological and economic sustainability—extant the ecological economics literature—a unified understanding and philosophy of the region is needed. Additionally, this philosophy needs to be institutionally informed; i.e. aware of the social structures that contribute to …
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Theorizing "Ecological Communication"
… exploration into the mass communication of ecological issues, a phenomenon bound to become increasingly important through the on-going dual process of economic-cum-ecological globalization and information revolution. Such an exploration is warranted, first, because, despite the highly …
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Contradictions in change: ecological factors in the implementation of ecological prevention
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Dystopia: An Ecological History
… mutual imbrication with growing anxieties about ecological degradation, my dissertation shows that texts in the genre have grappled for decades with socioecological questions that still perplex us today: can nuclear energy power a safe and abundant future? Should there be hard limits to …
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Ecological Knowledge Center, Amazon
… the relationship between the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of Amazonian communities and their sustainable indigenous architecture. Over centuries, these communities have profoundly influenced the Amazon rainforests through their distinctive lifestyles, cultural practices, and …
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The ecological Christ: Discerning an ecological consciousness in the Sermon on the Mount
… way humans conduct their lives. Instituting an ecological consciousness will require a change in the values we commit to and the lens of ethics we apply to situations. Through a comprehensive literature review and a series of interviews with experts from the fields of ecology, theology, and …
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Ecological Influences on Adolescent Behavior
<p>This study examined the ecological influences, outlined by Bronfenbrenner (1994), to understand adolescent behavior. It was hypothesized that proximal ecological influences would be significantly related to behavioral outcomes. Participants (N= 244) were students attending traditional and …
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The Ecological Structure of Madras
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317665.pdf: 8630360 bytes, checksum: 753b77fd167b0b2017d730e9c79de339 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Counting animals in ecological images
In the field of ecology, counting of animals to estimate population size and prey abundance is important for the conservation of wildlife. This involves analyzing large volumes of image, video or audio data and manual counting. Automating the process of counting animals would be invaluable to …
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Ecological insights from bacterial networks
… networks, using computational tools to uncover ecological associations with relevance to both human health and environmental restoration. I begin with the discovery of a massive, global network of recent gene exchange linking even distantly related bacteria from the far corners of earth. To …
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Ecological Schoolyards Landscapes of Empowerment
This thesis explores the ecological design of schoolyard environments. It employs a systems approach, and considers energy, hydrologic, biotic, and social systems and their interrelation. The question of how to integrate experiential learning with the school landscape is also examined, as the …
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THE ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM; LOCAL VERSUS GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS IN VAL DI MERSE, ITALY
… This dissertation utilizes concepts from ecological economics towards defining a sustainable scale for tourism development. In addition, an ecological footprint indicator (EF) is applied to two populations (residents and tourists) responsible for both local and global environmental …
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Improved Inference of Ecological Interaction Types
Inference of microbial interaction types allows us to understand the growth and development of microbial life forms found on earth. Numerous methods have been proposed to infer the interaction type(s) of microbes in a microbial communities using a population dynamics model. However, due to dynamic …
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Irish Sea : a socio-ecological system
… management involves coupled, complex socio-ecological systems which are inherently unpredictable due to the non-linear nature of their construction. The diverse social activities and natural processes involved in such an approach requires the inclusion of multiple disciplines which presently …
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Ecological Management Strategies for Impounded Harbours
… taxa and appearance of opportunists. The ecological impact of impoundment was minimal, in that the harbour ecosystem was able to withstand the imposed environmental stresses. The management strategy adopted will ensure that water and sediment quality are maintained in Sutton Harbour; …
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Reorienting Sonic Creativity Amid Ecological Disorientation
This dissertation offers ecological disorientation as an analytic 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 …
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Ecological-Hydrological Feedback in Forested Wetlands
In forested wetlands, the biotic and abiotic consequences of water level variability is not well understood. The effects of flooding on carbon and water exchanges are important knowledge gaps where progress could benefit management of natural resources and predicting of changes in surface …
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