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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Environmental Movements"”.
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Environmental Movements in China’s Digital Age
New media technologies have transformed environmental campaigns and activism in China. The social media affords both Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and local protester communities the opportunity to embrace the dynamics of environmental movements in the digital age, when flexible networks of …
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Community: A Simulation Game for Environmental Involvement
… need for a method of communicating concepts of environmental action, reviews environmental movements and simulation gaming theory, proposes methodology and learning objectives and describes an environmental simulation game named ''Community". The game simulates a small town with four industries …
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Lei do SNUC: Sistema Nacional De Unidades de Conservação da Natureza
… the declaration of Snuc Act. Previous Brazilian environmental laws the Federal Constitution contextualized, depending on the offered legal cover. It describes global environmental movements that influenced the Brazilian legal framework. It offers a world, and Brazilian Paraiba framework of …
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21st Century Radicalization: The Role of the Internet User and Nonuser in Terrorist Outcomes
… planning processes for domestic terrorist movements operating within the United States. In addition, this study is the first quantitative exploration of the prevalence, types, and purposes of ICT use within terrorist movements, specifically environmental, far-right, and Islamic extremist …
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Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks
Randall, Cassidy, M.S, Spring 2008 Environmental Studies Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks Dr. Daniel T. Spencer, Chair Singing Struggles and Dreams is a compilation of narratives by young Maya women, accompanied by my own contextual commentary. This work will be …
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Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks
Randall, Cassidy, M.S, Spring 2008 Environmental Studies Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks Dr. Daniel T. Spencer, Chair Singing Struggles and Dreams is a compilation of narratives by young Maya women, accompanied by my own contextual commentary. This work will be …
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Dystopia: An Ecological History
… years after World War II by identifying the environmental dimensions of many of the most genre-defining authors and novels of this period. Given the escalating climate emergency and the growing popularity of climate fiction (“cli-fi”), it would be difficult to imagine critical conversations …
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Somewhere That's Green? visions of sustainable suburbia
… despite its many trees and lawns. Contemporary environmental movements promoting a "green" agenda often dismiss suburbia as a wholly unsustainable paradigm. However, emergent trends in planning, building, marketing, consumption, and entertainment attempt to reconcile long held desires for …
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What does psychology contribute to the understanding of societal transformation? A discussion of motives for collective pro-environmental action
Pro-environmental movements organise collective strikes for actions to limit the global temperature rise and characterise lack of pro-environmental policies as immoral. Against this background, the present dissertation comprises three manuscripts that (1) connect environmental psychological …
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Green Expectations: Politics of the Environment in Pink Tide Bolivia
… seek to organize and act politically around environmental issues, amidst frayed and tenuous alliances? What specific – and often contradictory – trajectories might ideas about environmental stewardship take for a number of different actors, against a backdrop of stalling out hopes and …
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WWF's Earth Hour Campaign: ‘Global Village' or Eco-Imperialism?
… across national, political and cultural borders. Environmental campaigns like WWF's Earth Hour, which touts itself as “the world's largest grassroots movement for the environment,” often adopt a utopian view of globalisation that celebrates what Marshall McLuhan termed the ‘global village'. While …
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Immigration in a Global Economy: Why the Left Should Embrace Open Borders
… as a way of pressuring down wages, tax policies, environmental protections, and workplace standards depends on a prone and powerless population. With open borders, by contrast, such policies would promote largescale immigration from low- to high-income countries. This would change the incentive …
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Renewable Energy: The Roles of States, Social Movements, and Policy in California and Germany
… this thesis considers the impact of social movements on what the theory identifies as five core imperatives of state. The argument uses a qualitative, comparative, process tracing methodology, supported by critical discourse analysis, to analyze environmental social movement engagements with …
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Environmental (in)activism: pollution, people, and politics in two Indianapolis neighborhoods
This research examines the development of environmental activism (or lack thereof) in response to urban environmental injustices in two communities to understand differences in response between the communities. The goal is to better understand how and why residents take action to secure …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… proletarian literature. Employing methods of environmental historicism, archival research, and intersectional analysis, my project argues not only that intertwining racial and ecological problems erupted along the color line, but also that these problems form a constitutive element of our …