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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Environmental Perceptions"”.
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Environmental perceptions of the blind & their haptic representation,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1972. M.Arch.
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Factors that Shape Environmental Perceptions: the Role of Health and Place
… To measure the influence of these factors on environmental perception, a series of surveys conducted in four Louisiana communities between 2004 and 2005 describe community perceptions about environmental issues and health status. The objective of the study was to characterize and compare …
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Environmental perceptions : a case study of Fish Hoek Senior High School
… students at Fish Hoek Senior High School towards environmental activities which took place out of'school hours. Linked to this was a perceived lack of understanding of environmental issues and very little commitment towards positive environmental actions such as recycling. These were students in …
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Assessment of Environmental Perceptions and Behavior Changes in Residentsof a Therapeutic Community for Drug Addicts
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Environmental perceptions and participation in environmental decision-making among Blacks: A study of environmental justice and solid waste management planning in two Illinois counties
Since environmental justice reached the agenda of researchers in the mid 1980s, most environmental justice research has focused on the siting of environmentally hazardous facilities and the occurrence of urban air pollution. Although, research on environmental justice is still in its infancy, …
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Environmental and health management in small and medium size enterprises
… (SMEs) host a significant proportion of the environmental hazards currently present in the workplace. However, only a negligible amount of research or information has been completed and collected concerning SMEs environmental and health performance. SMEs possess environmental perceptions and …
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Louisiana cotton, rice, soybean and sugarcane farmer stakeholders: who are they and what are their perceptions of farming practices as related to the environment
… of this study was to discover the stakeholder perceptions of agricultural practices and their relationship to the environment. An environmental perceptions survey was conducted with two of the most important stakeholder groups identified – Experiment Station Research Faculty associated with …
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A Political Ecology of Oil Palm in the Peruvian Amazon
… of the opposing discourses of available environmentalist and developmentalist videos and texts, I trace environmental conflict created by the establishment of a large-scale plantation in the Caynarachi-Shanusi Valley, on the San Martin-Loreto border. In addition, while area farmers make …
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Investigating Lighting Quality: Examining the Relationship between Perceived Safety and Pedestrian Lighting Environment
… However, the exploration of people's needs and perceptions of pedestrian lighting is neglected. Most of the existing design guidelines are generated from designer centered perspectives. This study aims at creating new perspectives in pedestrian lighting study. In this study, lighting quality is …
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Student attitude and action regarding the single-use plastic shopping bag on The University of Alabama campus
… bags, reusable shopping bags, and related human-environmental issues. Research focused on worldwide approaches to problems associated with the single-use plastic bag, consumer and environmental perceptions related to the topic, attitude and behaviors toward plastic bags and recycling, the climate …
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Imagine Pershing Square : experiments in cinematic urban design
… of his or her own cultural, economic and environmental perceptions. Yet within dominant urban design paradigms, many of these perceptions never make it into the public meeting, nor onto the abstract maps and renderings that planners and designers frequently employ. This thesis seeks to …
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An assessment of environmental awareness towards sustainable development among selected grade twelve pupils in Lusaka District
This study was undertaken to assess environmental awareness towards sustainable development among selected grade twelve secondary school pupils in Lusaka District. The study used questionnaires, focus group schedules, and semi-structured interviews to collect data from the field. The main …
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Factors influencing functional literacy performance among adult basic education students
… How do selected developmental, academic, and environmental factors influence the functional literacy performance of adult basic education students? Multiple regression analysis was used to determine the tenability of ten research hypotheses that each included one of the ten literacy subtests …
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Contemporary South African environmental response : an historical and socio-political evaluation, with particular reference to Blacks
… has been particularly profound in the sphere of environmental perception, in that South Africans, both black and white, have had their notions of the environment shaped by the political forces of the past. Accordingly, this study is placed within the context of historical geography, as its …
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Hawaiki ora: Waka ama, it's a kind of magic
… resulting from engagement and participants’ environmental perceptions. Magic is understood as the recognition of the enchanted amid modern pressures. A critical gap identified in the literature is the lack of recognition of the key elements that underpin positive participation in waka ama. By …
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Evaluating Repeat Photography in Documenting Natural and Cultural Landscape Changes: a Changing Crown of the Continent Ecosystem between 1899 and 2010
… about documenting change, it is about analyzing perceptions of wilderness through photography. The original photographs in the study were taken during the earliest days of photography, a period in which the US Congress sent photographers out to record the West. Followed by a time when forestry …
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Evaluating Repeat Photography in Documenting Natural and Cultural Landscape Changes: a Changing Crown of the Continent Ecosystem between 1899 and 2010
… about documenting change, it is about analyzing perceptions of wilderness through photography. The original photographs in the study were taken during the earliest days of photography, a period in which the US Congress sent photographers out to record the West. Followed by a time when forestry …
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Understanding factors for investment into South African diaspora bonds: an extended theory of planned behaviour
… reveal that attitudinal, social, ability and environmental perceptions towards investing into South African diaspora bonds are largely shaped by conditionalities pertaining to risk and benefit realisation. Further economic, institutional and regulatory reform is needed to attract investors …
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Optical Water Quality and Human Perceptions of Rivers
… and is among the strongest influences on human perceptions of water quality. Ethnohydrology is the study of culturally constructed knowledge and understanding of water. This work is the culmination of an interdisciplinary approach to water resources research—integrating optical water quality and …