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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Environmental Crisis"”.
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Habitat of grace : biology, religion and the global environmental crisis
… to find workable ways to alleviate the global environmental crisis. As it stands, however, the Statement is an incompatible mixture of contemporary scientific and religious environmental concern set against a Biblical background that had no such concern. Therefore, public exhortations based on …
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Finite Earth Visionaries: Economics, Time and Environmental Crisis in the United States, c.1945-1980
… future. By the start of the 1970s, the mounting environmental crisis made the problem of reconciling human industrial society with the limits of the earth’s ecosystems a more widespread concern. At Yale University, a multidisciplinary group including Daly and Ophuls developed the model of a …
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Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
… positivism to one possible conclusion, environmental and social crisis, inaugurating, interestingly, a return to a bizarre, and textually ironic spiritualism in the form of the religion Mercerism.</p>
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Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
… positivism to one possible conclusion, environmental and social crisis, inaugurating, interestingly, a return to a bizarre, and textually ironic spiritualism in the form of the religion Mercerism.</p>
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Extractivism and the Defense of Life and Territories: An Account of Latin American Environmental Thought
<p>We are living today through an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. Recent decades have seen the proliferation of distinct environmentalisms around the world. In Latin America, a unique environmental vocabulary is being born out of resistance to northern framings of the environmental …
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Islamic environmental ethics: a model for shaping Muslim attitudes in helping to promote environmental education, awareness and activism
The environmental themes contained within the Quran and the traditions of the Islamic faith are some of the most understudied and largely ignored concepts within the Islamic educational landscape. Amid the severity of the environmental crisis there has been a growing interest in the subject area of …
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'The end of the world as we know it': imagining new possibilities for the Anthropocene through a study of Nigerian Africanfuturism
The imaginary of the Anthropocene as an environmental apocalypse facing the planet and calls for ecological literature from the perspective of the Global North masks the current environmental crisis in parts of the world that are “already living the apocalypse”. Likewise, science fiction has been …
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Sound-mediated environmentalisms in contemporary Tuscany: towards eco-ethnomusicological frameworks in central Italy
The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our time. While many stakeholders focus on scientific and economic solutions, research concerning cultural responses remains limited—specifically, the role that music and sound may play in contributing to environmentalism. Given that …
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Strategies and constraints for environmental protection in Nicaragua
… faces tremendous problems in relation to environmental and social conditions as well as continuing conflicts over access to natural and economic resources. The loss of forests and other essential eco-systems, the extinction of unique species, the degradation of soils and farmland, poverty, …
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Reformed theology, modernity and the environment crisis
… exposition of the tradition in the light of the environmental crisis; in dialogue with other Christian traditions, and making use of insights from contemporary biblical scholarship. First, the socio-historical relationship between the Reformed tradition and the rise of modernity is examined. It …
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Green Burial: Poems
… are bodily illness and fragility, decay, and environmental crisis. The second section, titled “Body Doubles,” explores how people project themselves into mediated worlds, particularly cinematic ones, in order to correct or qualify their personal and social insecurities. This section argues …
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Star Eater: A Novel
… against a background of political intrigue and environmental crisis. It is also, fundamentally, a novel about friendship.
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Study of Christian attitudes toward man's stewardship of the environment: a case study in the Roanoke Valley
… the effects of the Judeo-Christian tradition on environmental ethics. Some believe that the Judeo-Christian tradition has played the significant role in bringing about the present environmental situation. Others maintain that the current environmental crisis is much more complicated, resulting …
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Post-Course Environmental Behavior Change of Wild Rockies Field Institute Participants
In light of the environmental crisis facing the world, the need for citizens to behave in an environmentally responsible manner is critical to finding lasting solutions. After conducting and analyzing 20 in-depth interviews with alumni of the Wild Rockies Field Institute (WRFI), this study found …
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Post-Course Environmental Behavior Change of Wild Rockies Field Institute Participants
In light of the environmental crisis facing the world, the need for citizens to behave in an environmentally responsible manner is critical to finding lasting solutions. After conducting and analyzing 20 in-depth interviews with alumni of the Wild Rockies Field Institute (WRFI), this study found …
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Is Colorado Buddhism Green? A Study of the Interaction of Buddhist Practice with Environmental Concerns
… is paying more attention to our growing environmental crisis. Religious beliefs are often proposed as effective ways to address environmental ethics. It is often supposed that Buddhism is a "green" religion because of its intimate associations with nature. My research focuses on whether …
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Energy consumption and smart growth in Massachusetts : does smart growth make a difference?
With the environmental crisis involving climate change fast approaching, all potential mitigation techniques must be explored and implemented. A key approach comes from the power towns and cities have to influence land use and building standards in their jurisdiction. This thesis uses a scenario …
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Unravelling Tales of Truth: The Digital Battle Between Greenwashing Giants and Fashion Eco-Warriors
… as battlefields in the struggle between environmental activism and corporate greenwashing. With a focus on my conceptual contributions, shiny sustainability and digital eco-witnessing, it examines how power, discourse, and digital media combine to mediate public discourse of fashion's …
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