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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Environmental conflict."”.
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Identity, Intergroup Relationships, and Environmental Conflict
… for addressing identity-related barriers to environmental problem-solving through the lens of two social-psychological theories: self-affirmation theory and moral foundations theory. Through one theoretical review, two online experiments and one in-lab experiment I explore, integrate and test …
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Improvement and environmental conflict in the northern fens, 1560-1665
… modern England as a contested process of rapid environmental change. As a flagship project of agrarian improvement, drainage sought to alchemise pastoral fen commons into arable enclosed terra firma and promised manifold benefits for crown, commoners, and commonwealth alike. In practice, …
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US Compliance with International Environmental Human Rights Standards within Domestic Environmental Conflict Resolution
… resources whilst challenged by the impacts of environmental exploitation and degradation, affecting the lives, health and property of human beings. As a clean and safe environment is a prerequisite to the fulfilment of human rights, international law affirms that states have obligations to …
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Power and environmental conflict : a case study of the Mae Moh power plant in Thailand
Managing environmental conflict is becoming increasingly important. This research explores management’s responses—mediated by the Thai government—to environmental conflict with the local community. The central research question of this thesis is ‘How did the Electrical Generating Authority of …
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The News Media, Environmental Collaborations and Accountability: A survey of the EPA's Roster of Environmental Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals
… the relationship between the news media and environmental collaborations. It reports the results of a 2008 online survey of the 250 members of the EPA's National Roster of Environmental Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals. The study asked about the impact of the media on …
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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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Technologies of mining production: space, discourse, new materialities, and media
… and practices that take place in a zone of socio-environmental conflict. In the dissertation, I demonstrate how the mining activity exceeds the zone of extractive operations of a company, studying different sites, specifically the local communities of the Choapa Valley, the zone of extraction …
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The use of mediation to resolve environmental disputes in South Africa and Switzerland
… about mediation as one mechanism to resolve environmental disputes and the advantages respectively disadvantages of this kind of alternative dispute resolution, the focus shifts in paragraph C to the use of mediation to resolve environmental disputes in Switzerland. On the basis 4 of several …
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Selection of Spawning Habitats by Horseshoe Crabs (Limulus polyphemus) along the Complex Connecticut Coast
… resource that has recently come under environmental conflict. This research focused on the Long Island Sound population of horseshoe crabs and aimed to characterize the coastal habitats of Connecticut by various traits using remote sensing and geographic information system technologies. …
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El conflicto socioambiental de Xstrata en Espinar en el periodismo online
… the information coverage of the socio-environmental conflict in the province of Espinar in Cusco, developed by the digital press that influenced more than the country for a year, between May 2012 and April 2013 an important player in this conflict began its operations in 1985 as a state …
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The Role of the state in large-scale hydropower development perspectives from Chile, Ecuador, and Perú
… provide effective solutions to climate change, environmental degradation, and security of supply. This work explores the rapidly-changing context for hydropower in South America by looking at three flagship projects: Ecuador's Coca-Codo-Sinclair (1,500MW), Chile's HidroAysen (2,750MW), and …
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A comparative analysis of two modes of citizen participation
… can perform in citizen participation and environmental conflict resolution are also discussed. The addition of a workbook or information manual to a mail-back questionnaire was suggested as a means of endowing this citizen participation technique with an educative element. The need for …
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The Protracted Dispute over the Edwards Aquifer: Revisiting and Reframing Multiparty Stakeholder Conflicts in Management, Regulation, Allocation, and Property Rights
… have successfully mitigated the intractable environmental conflict of the aquifer. The stakeholder process has implemented a Habitat Conservation Plan to protect spring flows, downstream economic interests, and endangered species. However, lingering problems related to property rights issues …
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Implications of the Resource Management Act 1991 for the marine farming industry in New Zealand
In October 1991 the Resource Management Act was introduced. It was an unprecedented piece of legislation which resulted in fundamental changes to resource management in New Zealand. The purpose of the Act is to promote the sustainable management of natural and physical resources. This involves …