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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Environmental anthropology"”.
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Africanized honey bee colonization in the human domain: Issues of environmental anthropology in southern Nevada
Environmental anthropology seeks to identify issues and propose resolutions when humans are directly affected by environmental consequences or indirectly by policies that may marginalize the concerns of certain populations. Africanized Honey Bees created both environmental and policy consequences …
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Wildlife-human relations and education in community-based marine tourism: a case study of coastal Oregon, U.S.A.
… This study has significant relevance for the anthropology of tourism and environmental anthropology literature and broadens current understanding of marine and community-based tourism. Practical implications hold promise for the livelihoods of local Oregonian coastal animals, as well.
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THE WISDOM OF THE FLIES. SOCIETY, ENVIRONMENT, AND METABOLIC JUSTICE IN RURAL SARDINIA.
This PhD thesis in Environmental Anthropology explores the mutually reinforcing effects of industrialised food production on humans, nonhumans, and their environments. To do so, it employs the ethnographic data collected over the course of a 12-month fieldwork in Barbagia, rural Sardinia, by living …
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Configuring Local Resilience to Coastal Erosion in Togo
… resilience efforts my research investigates environmental and social issues and possibilities emerging from this climate disaster. I focus on Aneho, a historic town and former site of transcontinental commerce during the precolonial period, and a center of the famous African Print Textile …
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Moral natures: the convergence of imagined futures around a national park in Uganda
… historical contexts. Building on literatures in environmental anthropology, the anthropology of development, and the anthropology of morality, this dissertation illustrates the importance of class affiliation and professional disciplining versus localized exposure to alternative moral frameworks …
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"No to the bear" : contested power and truths behind the reintroduction of brown bears in the Pyrenees.
… from such tensions, it is essential that environmental anthropology actively engages in the issues, and confronts the necessary cultural and environmental changes which are already becoming evident. This dissertation examines these issues in the French Pyrenees, where a conservation …
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Hippopotami in a liminal space: a multi-species ethnography of Lake Tanganyika in Bujumbura
… economy-based approaches to development and environmental management with the many engagements with the lake, and how this in turn affects human-hippo relations on Lake Tanganyika's riparian zone. Environmental protection and management discourses are frequently portrayed as a unified, …
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Living with the Zeekoevlei: an ethnography on historicizing relationships with/to plastic, wastewater and solid waste pollution
… by drawing from past and current debates in the environmental humanities, urban studies, law, geographical and historical sciences, environmental, cultural, and social anthropology. The evidence basis for this study includes experiences and relationships related by Zeekoevlei residents, archival …
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An Inquiry Into the Diverse Modes of Caring in Khayelitsha Wetlands Parks World of Many Worlds
… interactions with wetlands to address environmental injustices of the past and of the present. Queer theory is often associated with gender and sexuality where it means diverging from what is normalised, for instance, understanding that there are other ways of being outside …
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Optical Water Quality and Human Perceptions of Rivers
<p>Understanding water quality dynamics in recreational rivers is integral in shaping management strategies that maintain ecosystem health, perceived value and appeal, and regional economic significance in a changing environment. Optical water quality describes the behavior of light in water as …
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Understanding the drivers behind farmer decision making toward a new farm management approach : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master Applied Science at Lincoln University
Growing climatic and environmental pressures are forcing many stakeholders to question the ability of the current global food production system to meet growing demand. This complex pressure leads food producers to consider whether they are doing all they can to sustain and future-proof their …
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Rede of Reeds: Land and Labour in Rural Norfolk
Abstract - Rede of Reeds: Land and Labour in Rural Norfolk The central aim of this thesis is to provide a detailed ethnographic account of the human ecology of the Broads - a protected wetland region in the East of England - focussing upon how working lives shape and are shaped by this reedy …