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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Environmental Movement"”.
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Mass Media and the Evolution of the Environmental Movement: 1960-1979
… mass media spurred and guided the United States environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Its objective is to better understand how mass media contributed to the evolution of the environmental movement. Three particular types of media form the basis of this study: writing (books, newspapers, …
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From Sympathy to Synergy: Humane Activism in the Modern Environmental Movement
… contributed both substance and style to the environmental movement that emerged in the years following the Second World War. Women tended to take a more active role than men in humane politics. A loose network of women activists led campaigns to save marine mammals from hunters, predators …
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Spontaneity by command: Soviet state-society relations under Gorbachev and the emergence of the Russian environmental movement
The reform process begun by Gorbachev in 1985 and the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union present us with intriguing analytical challenges. A widely accepted explanation for the course of events which unfolded under Gorbachev stresses the central role that a modern and increasingly restive …
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From Grassroots to Treetops: A Scope-of-Behavior Matrix for Environmental Movement Organizations that Considers Place and Scale
Environmental movement organizations (EMOs) vary in structure and function, with different forms of outreach, financial characteristics, and motivations. They also differ in terms of the geographic areas on behalf of which they take action. Using a mixed-method, case-study approach, this study …
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HOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT HAS FAILED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. REVIVING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION AS PART OF THE PUBLIC CONSCIUSNESS: ADVERTISING IS THE MISSING TOOL
The organizations that make up the environmental movement have a great opportunity and challenge before them. These organizations could lead our nation in a time of great change. They could challenge the public to align personal consumer habits with positive environmental beliefs. However, the …
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HOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT HAS FAILED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. REVIVING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION AS PART OF THE PUBLIC CONSCIUSNESS: ADVERTISING IS THE MISSING TOOL
The organizations that make up the environmental movement have a great opportunity and challenge before them. These organizations could lead our nation in a time of great change. They could challenge the public to align personal consumer habits with positive environmental beliefs. However, the …
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Environmental Documentary Film: A Contemporary Tool For Social Movement
Building a 21st century movement capable of inspiring social and structural change requires creative education, resourceful collaboration, and civic engagement. The U.S. environmental movement is in need of strategies that bring a wide spectrum of people together, facilitate appropriate …
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Environmental Documentary Film: A Contemporary Tool For Social Movement
Building a 21st century movement capable of inspiring social and structural change requires creative education, resourceful collaboration, and civic engagement. The U.S. environmental movement is in need of strategies that bring a wide spectrum of people together, facilitate appropriate …
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Divided into Stands, Together they Fall: A critical analysis of salvage logging in the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest
… research takes elements of the scholarship on environmentalism -- political theory and ethical philosophy -- and evaluates them together in the context of the conflict over salvage logging in the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon. I tell the story of the conflict through a history of …
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The Romantic View of Nature and the Conspiracy Theory in Environmental Documentaries
This project argues that environmental documentaries of the 2000s promote harmful Romantic views of nature and produce overly simplistic knowledge about the causes of global environmental degradation through the use of the conspiracy theory. By analyzing the rhetorical and ideological features of …
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Is God green? : emerging environmentalism in the evangelical community
In recent months, evangelical environmentalism has been the subject of much media coverage and debate. The central questions are whether evangelical environmentalists could be potential allies for the mainstream environmental movement, and what impact pro-environment evangelicals might have on …
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Salvaging salmon: Shasta Dam and the conservation movement
… Dam offers a microcosm for the conservation movement as a whole in the 1930's and 40's, a period that is not yet well studied in US environmental history. It is a time when conservationism was largely a focus of well-off and well-educated people, without much broad public discourse. …
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The Delicate Art of Being: Psychological Responses to Environmental Damage in American Fiction of the 1970s
… politicization and globalization of the American environmental movement? and How do these novels depict psychological responses to ongoing environmental damage and destruction? This study is particularly interested in depictions of abjected environments inhabited by socially abjected people. …
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Interpreting global justice : variations in perspectives of U.S. environmental organizations on environment, human rights, and social equity
Environmental movement organizations in the United States have engaged with the global justice movement differently depending on the extent to which they view human rights and social equity issues as part of their environmental work. These organizations, influenced by their organizational history …
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The Limits of Law as Technology for Environmental Policy: A Case Study of the Bronx Community Paper Company
This thesis examines environmental law as a social technology, using approaches from science and technology studies, including methods for studying controversies as well as actornetwork and technology transfer concepts. Legal technologies, including statutes, regulations, and lawsuits, have become …
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Harmonious Living: Sustainability, Ecology, and Eco-Islam in Wales
… intersection of Islamic principles with environmental and ecological concerns. It is not necessarily a formalised movement with a centralised structure but rather a broader concept that explores the compatibility between Islamic teachings and environmental stewardship. It emphasises the …
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Environmentalists and their politics : an analysis of protest strategy in the politics of some Australian environmentalists
A feature of the politics of "environmental quality" in Australia is the adoption of protest and other forms of direct action by some Australian environmentalists. The thesis is, firstly, a critical examination of the explanations often given for this phenomenon and, secondly, an attempt to provide …
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Environmentalists and their politics : an analysis of protest strategy in the politics of some Australian environmentalists
A feature of the politics of "environmental quality" in Australia is the adoption of protest and other forms of direct action by some Australian environmentalists. The thesis is, firstly, a critical examination of the explanations often given for this phenomenon and, secondly, an attempt to provide …
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Among the Giants: Resituating the Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck
… the more-than-human world. Although he explored environmental issues with ecological insight and philosophical contemplation that placed him well beyond his literary and scientific contemporaries, Steinbeck’s contributions to modern ecological inquiry and environmental thought have received only …
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Invisible Green
… is nature conceived today, a generation into the environmental movement? Many contemporary artists grapple with how to reconcile our inheritance of both a precarious natural world and the culture that created it. My work investigates the subtle intricacies of our relationship with nature. I use …
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