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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Environmental agency"”.
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Haze measurements through image analysis
… Index (PSI) values provided by the National Environmental Agency (NEA). Further studies on mapping contrast to PSI values are recommended.
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Casting environmental governance : the evolution of regulatory relationships in the Wisconsin foundry industry
This thesis examines the evolving shape of environmental governance using an extended case study of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, drawing on their efforts to reduce pollution in the Wisconsin foundry industry. This analysis follows the development of the Department's efforts to …
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Planning Gone Hog Wild: Mega-Hog Farm in a Mountain West County
… of studies have explored the socio-economic and environmental aspects of hog farms, few studies have focused on the planning process and evaluated its effectiveness in dealing with the threats and challenges that a CAFO poses. This qualitative study used interviews, observations, public meeting …
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Assessment of environmental degradation in Northern Ghana: A GIS based participatory approach
… actions interact in a complex way to bring about environmental degradation requires a holistic research approach. This thesis examines the potential application of a GIS based participatory approach in the assessment of environmental degradation in northern Ghana. It is a development of GIS in …
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Economic Instruments for Water Pollution Control Policy making issues: Experiences from Colombia
… economic-based initiatives to improve environmental quality. In this study the Colombian water pollution charge, which was implemented in 1997, is analyzed. The two key questions that this study attempts to answer are: 1) Does the performance of the pollution charge program in Colombia …
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Uma abordagem geográfica dos EIAs/RIMAs no estado da Paraíba
The Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Impact Report (ISE/EIR) are studies required under brazilian environmental legislation aiming to subsidize environmental licensing of public and private enterprises with significant power of environmental degradation. However, for that to become …
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Climates of Mutation: Posthuman Orientations in Twenty-First Century Ecological Science Fiction
… through a posthuman perspective to facilitate an environmentally situated understanding. By mapping the aspects of bare life, posthuman becomings, multispecies community, and environmental agency that situate these texts within their climate-focused twenty-first-century contexts, my dissertation …
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Cultivating communication : participatory approaches in land restoration in Iceland
Stakeholder participation in environmental management is increasing. Environmental agency personnel, however, often lack training in communication and conduct of participatory processes. How they interpret participation affects how it is practiced, which in turn affects the outcomes of …
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Eco-Otherness and Interconnectedness: Re-thinking Land, Trees, and Nonhuman Agency in Palestinian and North African Literature
… literature, exploring the entanglement of environmental degradation, colonial violence, and cultural memory. While ecocriticism has traditionally focused on Western literary traditions, this study positions Arab literature as a vital contributor to global environmental humanities, …
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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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Developing novel methodological approaches to understand the harvest and conservation of Neotropical wildlife
… but also the inextricable social dimensions of environmental change, and must do so with limited human and financial resources. The challenge is particularly great in tropical regions. These are home to the majority of terrestrial biodiversity and are facing unprecedented pressures due to …
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An investigation of the biogeochemical exchange of the macro plant nutrients phosphorus and nitrogen on rewetted peat soil on the Somerset Levels and Moors.
… good ecological status by the Environment Agency. <br/>The Somerset Levels and Moors (SLMs) condition status is described, by Natural England and the Environmental Agency, as ‘unfavourable declining’ due to the phosphate levels being up to three times higher than the Common Standards …