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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Environmental Advocacy"”.
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How green is green? : Conflict and collaboration among environmental advocacy groups
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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Access to Environmental Justice: NGO Environmental Advocacy on Mining-Related Environmental Issues in Mongolia
In this thesis, I apply the theory of environmental justice to determine how NGOs use substantive and procedural environmental rights to advocate for mining-affected nomadic communities in Mongolia. Environmental NGOs often possess legal and scientific expertise pertinent to resolving and …
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Motivating Factors for Hispanic American Volunteers: A Phenomenological Study of Non-Profit Environmental Advocacy Organizations in Southern California
… labor. Statistics show volunteer rates in environmental organizations in the United States are second to last. Although Hispanic Americans are the largest minority group in the United States, their presence in environmental advocacy organizations is deficient and not representative of their …
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A Shift In Perspective
Responsible design practice should include environmental advocacy and a focus on community — subjects often lacking in design education. My creative project is the result of investigations into how designers integrate nature into their design process. By increasing their awareness for communal and …
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Adult environmental education : a community psychology perspective
Environmental education (EE) research has identified factors affecting people's environmental understanding and personal behaviours. However, it has been criticized for its largely individualistic, apolitical focus on school children. The present research used an action research (AR) approach to …
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Special Interests and Climate Change: An Analysis of PAC Contributions to Members of the 111th U.S. House
… (PACs) representing fossil fuel interests and environmental advocacy groups. Industry not only outspends environmental advocacy groups, but is better represented in the campaign finance space. Using OpenSecrets data on contributions to candidates in the 111th U.S. House, logistic regression and …
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The Sixth Creek
… and how place-based poetry might function as environmental advocacy. The poetry of The Sixth Creek is entirely located within the catchment area of the Sixth Creek in the Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia. This catchment area constitutes a local bioregion and is used as a framing device; a …
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Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello
… and their relationships with political and environmental slow violence in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Othello. Using Steve Mentz’s work with water and shipwreck, Lowell Duckert’s work on water in Shakespeare, Rob Nixon’s concept “slow violence,” Patricia Fumerton’s book on vagrancy …
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Advocacy Networks in the Marcellus Shale Area: A Study of Environmental Organizations in Northeastern and Southwestern Pennsylvania
… breadth and depth of the network of non-profit environmental organizations, sportsmen-oriented conservation groups, county conservation districts and state parks that advocate for or against Marcellus Shale drilling within northeastern and southwestern Pennsylvania where drilling occurs. The …
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Carbon capture and storage in the U.S. : a sinking climate solution
… be scaled in time, costs too much, has serious environmental risks, and will face public resistance. Yet, CCS remains a part of future U.S. energy policy because the coal and electric utility industries have funded an attractive message and story for it. Environmental advocacy organizations are …
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The crossroads of oil: perpetuation of settler colonialism based in Native American treaties and sustained through the construction and protection of oil pipelines in the American Great Lakes region
… US and Canada, and Native American tribes with environmental advocacy groups, over the continued operation of oil pipelines within the greater context of the climate crisis and the proliferation of crude oil pipelines.</p>
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The role of a newspaper in an advocacy campaign to save Dhaka’s rivers in Bangladesh
… concern for both Dhaka’s inhabitants and for environmentalists. River-related issues have become controversial and contentious, and have started to receive public attention. Nowadays the newspapers of Bangladesh frequently cover river issues, including the protection of rivers. The Daily Star, …
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Spiritual experiences and environmentalism of recreational users in the marine environment: New Zealand surfers and scuba divers
… leisure activities, ecological paradigms and environmental advocacy. This was achieved through the application of a modified framework based on the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES) (Underwood, 2006) called the Spiritual Experience Assessment (SEA). The New Ecological Paradigm (Dunlap, …
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Wildlife-inspired awe in leisure-based learning
… self-awareness, as well as their beliefs about environmental advocacy. Developed for this study, the Wildlife Awe Scale proved to be a valuable data collection tool and will contribute to future efforts to understand how people experience awe while in the presence of wildlife. Findings from this …
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An Environmental and Economic Systems Analysis of Land Use Decisions in the Massachusetts Cranberry Industry
This dissertation presents an analysis of the environmental and economic impacts of land use decisions in the Massachusetts (MA) cranberry industry. Cranberry farming is culturally and economically important in Southeastern MA but faces ongoing, compounding challenges that make it increasingly …
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Examining the Influence of Source-Message Incongruence on Source Trustworthiness and Attitudes Regarding Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions
… to source-message congruence. Focusing on an environmental risk management context involving the cleanup of a hazardous waste site, this research investigated how source-message incongruence influenced perceptions of source trustworthiness, attitude change, perceptions of risk, and support for …
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Urban Mining & Regenerative E-Waste Ecosystems: Visions towards Sustainable Entrepreneurial Futures for Informal Settlements and Recycling Communities
… than traditional ore (Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, 2022). The global distribution of off-shored e-waste has led to the emergence of informal settlements that depend on e-waste recovery to support livelihoods and income generation. These communities have become prime examples …
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Becoming a Side: Legal Mobilization and Environmental Protection in Poland
… a human geographic and socio-legal analysis of environmental legal mobilization in contemporary Poland. It examines how administrative law is being used by individuals and societal groups to enforce environmental protection commitments, and what the broader implications of interactions with the …
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Music, musicians, and social advocacy: Environmental conservation, knowledge-sharing, and cultivating a culture of wisdom in northern Tanzania
… research, their engagement with local and global environmental issues and community-based education have not been exhaustively addressed. This thesis seeks to fill this gap by exploring the relationships of music-makers and their communities with environmental concerns and various forms of …