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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Environmental conflicts"”.
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Environmental Conflicts and Climate Breakdown in the Republic of Haiti: An Environmental Case Study
… that repeated hurricanes have impacted Haiti environmentally and economically in addition to their impact on multiple dimensions of society. Areas of Haitian community that were impacted include government, safety/preparedness, social services/local services, and through loss of life overall. …
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Indigenous Environmental Conflicts in Mexico, 2007-2020: a Neoliberal and Environmental Justice Perspective on Collective Grievances
… variability in the distribution of indigenous environmental conflicts in Mexico?” Building off of previous literature on indigenous collective action, neoliberal grievances, and environmental justice, I argue that neoliberal reforms in Mexico have served to perpetuate and amplify the …
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Jumping scales and influencing outcomes: A case study of community development for environmental justice
… addresses the structural injustice embedded in environmental conflicts. Local environmental mobilisations face numerous procedural barriers when seeking to engage with political and regulatory interlocutors across scales. Addressing the scaler dynamics of participation and power is important for …
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Corporate-Community Mining Conflicts in Guatemala: Unsettling Hegemonic Power Relations in Environmental Struggles
<p>This dissertation analyzes corporate-community conflicts around extractive industries in Guatemala with the purpose of better understanding how environmental struggles emerge and take shape. The study uses environmental governance as a framework to analyze the processes, institutions, actors and …
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Divided into Stands, Together they Fall: A critical analysis of salvage logging in the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest
… research takes elements of the scholarship on environmentalism -- political theory and ethical philosophy -- and evaluates them together in the context of the conflict over salvage logging in the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon. I tell the story of the conflict through a history of …
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Nature and the Social Sciences : Examples from the Electricity and Waste Sectors
… connected to issues of studying society and environmental problems; another objective is empirical/analytical, referring to the analysis of "green" public participation in the electricity and waste sectors in Sweden, and partly in the Netherlands as well as the UK. The metatheoretical part …
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An evaluation of the use of mediation in environmental dispute resolution under s.268 of the Resource Management Act 1991
… Dispute Resolution (ADR) techniques to resolve environmental conflicts in western societies. ADR was incorporated into one of New Zealand's main environmental statutes, the Resource Management Act 1991(RMA). Under s.268 of the RMA the Environment Court (the Court) may, if the parties agree, …
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Green Expectations: Politics of the Environment in Pink Tide Bolivia
… seek to organize and act politically around environmental issues, amidst frayed and tenuous alliances? What specific – and often contradictory – trajectories might ideas about environmental stewardship take for a number of different actors, against a backdrop of stalling out hopes and …
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¿CAMPO PARA LA/OS JÓVENES? EXPLORING CAMPESINA/O YOUTH SUBJECTIVITIES IN CONTEMPORARY COLOMBIA.
… how the current importance and influence of environmental issues and rural development projects and policies play roles in young campesina/o subjectivities. Using qualitative methods based on semi-structured interviews, farm tours, and policy and social media analysis, this work finds …
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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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Negotiating nature : expertise and environment in the Klamath River Basin
… and the intertwined roles of law and science in environmental conflicts in the Upper Klamath River Basin in southern Oregon. I follow disputes over the management of water and endangered species. I develop several themes: first, how these disputes demonstrate the growing connections between …
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Europos Sąjungos politikos įgyvendinimas už jos ribų: Arkties regiono atvejis /
… the EU has a key role to play in ensuring environmental standards and sustainable development in there. The European Union has already tried to become a member of the Arctic Council for Regional Coordination, but its application was rejected. This has led the EU to look for other ways to …
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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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Toleransi perguruan pencak silat Pagar Nusa, Kera Sakti dan PSHT
… the results of the research are very prone to environmental conflicts between the School of Silat and the lack of cooperation between the leaders of the School of silat (Coach) with the Police as an effort to create peace.
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Contabilidad y conflictos ambientales: una perspectiva decolonial desde los pueblos originarios de América Latina
La contabilidad social y ambiental (CSA) he logrado obtener un alto reconocimiento social gracias a la importancia que ha cobrado la lucha contra el cambio climático en todo el mundo. De igual manera, los informes de sostenibilidad, como principal instrumento de la CSA se han convertido en objeto …
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Transición eólica en la Guajira: propuesta para la transformación positiva de conflictos socioambientales
La transición energética hacia fuentes renovables, como la energía eólica, es vista como una de las soluciones para la mitigación del cambio climático y la reducción de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. No obstante, la puesta en marcha de megaproyectos eólicos ha generado conflictos …