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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Environmentalists"”.
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Environmentalists and their politics : an analysis of protest strategy in the politics of some Australian environmentalists
… other forms of direct action by some Australian environmentalists. The thesis is, firstly, a critical examination of the explanations often given for this phenomenon and, secondly, an attempt to provide a political explanation for protest strategy. It is argued that much of the analysis of …
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Environmentalists and their politics : an analysis of protest strategy in the politics of some Australian environmentalists
… other forms of direct action by some Australian environmentalists. The thesis is, firstly, a critical examination of the explanations often given for this phenomenon and, secondly, an attempt to provide a political explanation for protest strategy. It is argued that much of the analysis of …
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Voices of young environmentalists : a generational perspective on environmentalism
… Fifty years on, a younger generation of environmentalists is now addressing contemporary environmental issues, and developing its own interpretation of how environmentalism can be a force for social change. Through a phenomenological study of 20 young adults from British Columbia who care …
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Wildlife-associated recreation and wildlife management: views of birders, hunters, environmentalists, wildlife professionals, and forestry professionals
… experiences enjoyed by hunters, birders, environmentalists, wildlife professionals, and forestry professionals. In addition, the study also compared the surveyed groups' socioeconomic characteristics, recreation activities, and organizational affiliations, as well as their perceptions …
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How the green guys won : interest group strategies & the California Clean Cars Legislation
… half that the bill was in the state legislature, environmentalists and the auto industry fought for the public's support of their positions. Although the auto industry had the benefit of a multi-million dollar advertising budget, environmentalists adopted tactics that proved more effective in the …
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Is God green? : emerging environmentalism in the evangelical community
… The central questions are whether evangelical environmentalists could be potential allies for the mainstream environmental movement, and what impact pro-environment evangelicals might have on politics. I argue that evangelical environmentalists do not seek alliances with the mainstream …
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Perceptions of Environmental Education in Illinois Public High Schools
… and the writings of environmental educators and environmentalists. This perception was then compared with those of seven Illinois high school environmental education teachers.
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Trade and the environment: A game-theoretic analysis of the linkages.
… transfer to each other, and the type of environmentalists. This thesis shows how interactions between different interest groups and their national governments may prevent the adoption of socially optimal levels of environmental policies. Moreover, it shows that environmentalists might be …
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The wired wilderness : electronic surveillance and environmental values in wildlife biology
… animals, hunters, animal rights activists, environmentalists, and others involved in wildlife conservation could be embodied and contested. While scholars have tended to interpret surveillance technologies in terms of the extension of human control over nature and society, I show how …
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THE POLICY OF EXPERIMENTAL STEWARDSHIP ON PUBLIC RANGELANDS.
Between July and September, 1985, 70 ranchers, environmentalists and agency officials participating in three chartered Experimental Stewardship Program (ESP) areas were interviewed. Committee records and agency documents were also examined. As a result of the field work three conclusions were …
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Commissioning genetic modification: The marginalisation of dissent in the royal commission on genetic modification
… narratives in the texts produced by the environmentalists and the bioproponents who made submissions, and the documentation produced by the RCGM. I found that Enlightenment rationality, shaped the context of the Commission and, was reflected in the processes for 'Interested Persons' (the …
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Making Resource Futures: Petroleum and Performance by the Norwegian Barents Sea
… players, local and national politicians, environmentalists and other actors. Working in a region that is simultaneously Sápmi and Northern Norway, the thesis also asks how assimilation policies and coloniality continue to have an impact today, and how this partakes in the making of pasts, …
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Community-based social marketing at the neighborhood scale : sustainable behavior or neighborhood sustainability?
… among people who do not self-identify as "environmentalists". I suggest that different CBSM strategies may be useful for promoting rain barrels among individuals who self-identify in different ways. In contrast, rain gardens received limited support from non-environmentalists and appeared …
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Taoism and Contemporary Environmental Literature
… the paper. The three groups include mainstream environmentalists, deep ecology, and ecofeminism.
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Harvesting Encounter: An Interpretive Research Center at Pack Forest
As environmentalists focus on the negative impacts of forestry and the built environment focuses on the sustainable qualities of a renewable resource, wood has become divorced from timber. Harvesting Encounter proposes an interpretive research center at the University of Washington's Center for …
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Legal aspects of public interest participation in environmental management and conservation
… be applied to the issue. Even amongst informed environmentalists there is no common procedure for approaching environmental issues. Public interest participation in managing and conserving the environment is one avenue open to the public
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Natural resource development after Perestroika: Gold and tin mining in the Russian Northeast
… addressing the concerns of indigenous people and environmentalists.
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Private Property in America: Land Use and the Ethics of Owning Land
… are central to issues that often divide environmentalists and landowners. Property rights must be put in the context to understand the divergence between landowner attitudes and provisions made when the institution of private property was created. Finally, land itself as a type of …
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What West Virginia? Conflict over West Virginia's State Identity: A Constitutive Approach to Activism and Public Relations
… to the nation and fueling its economy, the environmentalists interpellate a primitive people who live at the mercy of their environment. In a father-child relationship, the groups take oppositional roles in a mutually constructed drama. Hence, this constitutive analysis of two public …
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Conflict And Solidarity Between Anti-Colonial Environmentalism, Indigenous Anti-Pipeline Resistance, And The Labour
… of solidarity between labour, anti-capitalist Environmentalists and the Indigenous movement. In this dissertation, I strategically explore possibilities for building strong Indigenous-environmentalist-labour solidarity. Through extensive policy analysis of the critical infrastructure risk …
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