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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Environmental stewardship"”.
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The public-trust doctrine and environmental stewardship in coastal New Hampshire.
… can and has successfully protected public environmental interests? How have communities historically applied the doctrine within their borders? Has the public-trust doctrine evolved to fit changing conditions, and if so, did that flexibility promote or hinder public interests in the …
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Installing Environmental Stewardship: Installation Artworks and the Capacity to Convey Nature Experience
… world to understand its intrinsic value. Due to environmental injustice and poor communication, marginalized communities have decreasing access to green spaces and ecological information. Art installations non-conventionally provide access to nature knowledge and experiences that focus explicitly …
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The Beauty Of Bradner: Envisioning an Ideal Future to Inspire Environmental Stewardship
… and vulnerable species. I suggest that inspiring environmental stewardship in the Bradner neighbourhood could start by bringing people together under the banner of appreciating the beauty of our connection to the land and our connection to each other. Keywords: Abbotsford BC, neighbourhood, …
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Environmental Stewardship and the Virtuous Cycle: Pathways to Sustainability in a Coastal Context
… The need for sustainability through effective environmental stewardship is urgent, yet current concepts and frameworks are insufficient to achieve the sustainability agenda. Novel social-ecological research is required to better understand human-environment relationships, to balance the …
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Power to the people : a framework for enhancing environmental stewardship through community design
… natural resource depletion, and other environmentally-related threats to humankind. Currently, the negative impacts of these actions are most commonly addressed through "green" design strategies that utilize largely technological solutions to increase the resource efficiency of the …
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The nature of choice: unraveling individual decision-making for climate-adaptation, science-participation, and environmental stewardship in Mexico
… livelihoods, for science-policy outcomes and environmental behaviors. This research draws on traditional frameworks for behavior change but integrates novel concepts that have been established in other fields as influencing choice. Though the sustainability field has relied on traditional …
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"We are a part of nature and we must care for it”: an investigation of co-design and youth experiences in nature-based interventions for wellbeing and environmental stewardship
… the escalating mental health crisis and environmental emergency. In response, there is an urgent need for evidence-based interventions that strengthen nature connectedness, enhance wellbeing, and cultivate adaptive coping strategies. Emerging research consistently highlights the pivotal …
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Outdoor education : an environmental context for the promotion and maintenance of well-being
… in enhancing and sustaining wellbeing within an environmental framework, a subject of increasing importance in youth and community initiatives. It explored the necessity of comprehending how nature-based learning experiences facilitated overall well-being. The study sought to investigate the …
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Testing the effects of social pressures through signaling, shaming, & communication to reduce pollution
… the impact of these treatments with and without stewardship signaling, through which individuals can give credible signals about their environmental stewardship efforts. In the experiment, participants use flags to signal their use of a costly “green” technology that reduces the pollution …
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Healthy Building, People, Planet: A Place for Learning and Play
… activity and play, is a living laboratory for environmental stewardship, and fosters a strong sense of community.
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Teacher Perspectives on Environmental Education Programs Provided By Eastern Kentucky University Division of Natural Areas
<p>A goal of environmental education (EE) is to help instill environmental stewardship in students for the future. Hungerford and Volk (1990) believe environmental stewardship is changing behaviors, values, or beliefs related to human-environment interaction. It is important for people to learn …
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Stewardship gardening: multifarious meanings through community, ecology, and food
… of faith-based gardening is designated as stewardship gardening within this thesis. While these gardens are recently conspicuous, they are certainly not new; disparate connotations of environmental stewardship have developed since the Garden of Eden. The contemporary call for environmental …
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EVERYDAY IDENTITIES, EVERYDAY ENVIRONMENTS: URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHIES OF PHILADELPHIA
This study examines the environmental identity processes of Philadelphians involved in volunteer local everyday urban environmental stewardship through tree plantings and prunings, urban gardening, and neighborhood cleanups. A hybrid theoretical framework for environmental identities that …
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Efficacy of the environmental laws in Zambia's mining sector.
… is associated with the weak and unclear existing environmental legislation coupled with poor institutional arrangement of enforcement and monitoring. Implementing policies that are weak and not in line with the best international practices can have unintended consequences. One such example is lead …
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Efficacy of the environmental laws in Zambia's mining sector.
… is associated with the weak and unclear existing environmental legislation coupled with poor institutional arrangement of enforcement and monitoring. Implementing policies that are weak and not in line with the best international practices can have unintended consequences. One such example is lead …
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Death in the Curriculum: A Terror Management Theory Assessment of Emotions and Mortality Reminders in Post-Secondary Interdisciplinary Environmental Education Courses at Selected Canadian Universities
Interdisciplinary Environmental Education (IEE) has been designed to provide students with knowledge, awareness, skills, and motivation for environmental stewardship. Educators are responsible for building their students’ action competence to engage in environmental/climate action and effectively …
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Building Through Traces of History: The Value of Salvage Architecture in the Incomappleux Valley
… a discarded world, paused in time. With global environmental issues of climate change and warming, environmental stewardship is critical to remediate landscapes scarred by colonial occupation. How can historical narratives be merged to create new forms of value and relationships to land? This …
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Environmental Psychology and Urban Green Space: Supporting Place-Based Conservation in Philadelphia, PA
… that green spaces can make in developing environmentally-conscious citizens. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this project aims to explore theoretical components of environmental psychology and place attachment as related to the socioenvironmental benefits of urban green space. Two …
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