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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Environmental Sociology"”.
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Capitalist Pigs: Large-Scale Swine Facilities and the Mutual Construction of Nature and Society
… that is as much natural as it is social; thus environmental sociology would be better served if our work decentered the human and instead attended to all the agents.
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Modes of production, metabolism and resilience: toward a framework for the analysis of complex social-ecological systems
The field of environmental sociology has undergone drastic change in recent decades, in context of a broader reconfiguration of the terrain of sociological theory and practice. Systems-based approaches to the study of human society, located at the interface between the natural and social sciences …
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Urban Agriculture and Sustainability in Chicago
… have sought to alleviate the dual effects of environmental degradation and a changing economy by introducing sustainable development initiatives. Policy makers and environmental activists have often praised these efforts, pointing to the enhancement of quality of life, the mitigation of …
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The Rhetorical Ecology of an Urban Wetland Complex
… wetlands have become a priority in the field of environmental management, this dissertation traces the rhetorical ecology of one such contested site (the Meadowlands), highlighting the role of public and professional texts as agents of both knowledge production and landscape change. To that end, …
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Making meaning out of mountains : skiing, the environment and eco-politics
… and flows of power, this research describes an environmental ambiguity at the centre of skiing. There is a tension between interpretations of skiing as an environmentally-sustainable practice and notions of skiing as an environmental and social problem. Skiing is based on the symbolic …
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Struggling against the Sea in Ban Khun Samut Chin: Environmental Knowledge, Community Identity and Livelihood Strategies in a Village Fighting Severe Coastal Erosion on the Gulf of Thailand
… frameworks from the fields of political ecology, environmental sociology, and sociology of the self and everyday life, the thesis demonstrates some interesting findings. Firstly, rather than passive victims of national economic development and ecological change, many members of the Ban Khun Samut …
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Practicing Ecological Security and Making Multispecies Relations in Anti-Base Resistance: Insights from Environmental-Oriented Anti-Base Activists in Henoko and Takae struggles in Okinawa
… US military bases and operations in relation to environmental justice (EJ), conservation, and ecological security concerns. Focusing on environmental-focused anti-base resistance, my research asks what activities activists engage in and how those activities relate to activists’ understanding of …
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Measuring Cultural Alignment: Surveys as Cultural Affiliation Networks
… substance of these studies ranges broadly across environmental sociology, social networks, social psychology, and the sociology of taste. I discuss two methodological approaches to the study of cultural alignment. The study of individuals’ cultural neighborhoods — referring to an analytically …
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Manure management decision-making of cattle-feed growers in northeastern Colorado
… places manure management in the overlap between environmental sociology and natural resource sociology. The study identifies factors related to how farmers choose fields on which to apply manure, the monetary value of cattle manure as perceived from a farmer's perspective, and how densely farmers …
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The Community of Member-Based Nature Parks: An Integration of Spatial, Socio-Demographic, and Interview Data
… research, nature center users, and a new form of environmental inequality as it relates to benefits. Findings also present how members socially construct nature, and how those social constructions relate to their tangible relationship with the environment as nature center participants. Additional …
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Fracturing Illinois: Fields of Political Contention in Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Policy
… with organization leaders from industry and environmental coalitions, key informants from government bureaus, and participant observation at public meetings, my research contributes to the political process literature by elaborating the heterogeneity of the state’s interests in political …
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The social bases of climate skepticism: Risk perception, ideology, and the creation of carbon publics
… policy within an ideological framework equating environmental regulation with attacks on free markets, refusing to accept scientific authority as a legitimate form of expertise regulating market activity. Likewise, conservative politicians equate hydrocarbon energy with the creation of wealth …
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Disciplining water – risk, environmental politics, and the return of water infrastructure
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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New Zealand public attitudes towards genetically modified food
… submission of an application to the New Zealand Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA- now EPA ) for permission for field trials. The purpose of this study was to see if the New Zealand public’s attitudes towards GM food were changing, with the aim of understanding if such development …
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Managerialism as a professionalising catalyst for the front-line practitioner community of New Zealand's Department of Conservation
… taking as its cue a key question in the sociology of ‘profession’—what arouses or subdues the inclination of bureaucratised occupations to professionalise as a means of reclaiming autonomy? It explains the nature and meaning of strategies adopted by front-line practitioners in New …
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Interpretation in the national parks of New Zealand: the evolution and development of a management practice : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Applied Science in the Lincoln University
… ascribed to interpretation by national park and environmental agency managers. Naturalistic research methods were used to collect data. These included a series of 38 indepth interviews with former national park managers, and Department of Conservation staff. Archive searches and a literature …
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How has contamination to water supply altered Havelock North business owners’ perspectives on water? : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master Water Resource Management at Lincoln University and Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management
Safe drinking water is essential to public health. In August 2016 an outbreak of gastroenteritis in Havelock North, New Zealand, shook the public’s trust in the water supply service. Over 5,500 of the town’s 14,000 residents were estimated to have fallen ill with campylobacteriosis, and 45 people …