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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Social and environmental issues"”.
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Reflections on Lgbtq in Adolescence: Impact of Social and Environmental Issues on Early Identity Development
… study is designed to attain an in-depth understanding of the question: What are the social and environmental factors that affect the identity development of LGBTQ youth? Designed as a convergent mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) study, the research seeks to examine the perspective of …
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An Examination of the Legal, Social, and Environmental Issues That Surround the Restoration of Tidal Hydrology in Edisto Beach, South Carolina
… constructed to access many of the barrier islands along the coast of South Carolina. Many of these islands are surrounded by large areas of salt marsh. In the process of dredging and filling for roadbeds through these marshes, existing tidal creeks were routinely filled and cut off from …
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Boundaries to membranes : the urban project revisited : an urban strategy for Rio de Janeiro, Zona Norte
… area of Rio, into its industrial hinterland, into a fully urbanized dense fabric today. Currently the area is challenged by extreme socio-economic and environmental problems. Zona Norte also has potential for vast redevelopment soon due to the investments for World Cup and Olympics as …
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Healing Places
The earth and its inhabitants are experiencing a rapid decline in physical, mental, social, and environmental health. The built environment directly affects each of these factors, and therefore has the ability to improve them. Baltimore City, Maryland is a clear example of the dialectic …
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Iyarara: Loss and Found
… cycle of trade associated with the extraction and exploitation of minerals in Africa and the impact on the environment and lives of people on the continent. The project uses e-waste to highlight sponsored conflict in Africa, the displacement of millions of people and the dumping of outdated and …
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Lateral stakeholder alignment in the Global Water Partnership
… years as a means of addressing complex global social and environmental issues. This master's thesis adds to the body of literature on evaluation and assessment of these new global multi-stakeholder organizations by applying the Lateral Alignment Framework to study three different levels of …
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Transformação do espaço urbano na comunidade Saturnino de Brito em João Pessoa - PB.
The urban landscape consists of several elements in its form.These elements interact by generating transformations that are accelerated by the action of man through his exclusionary social practices, directly affecting their right to live. Lack of financial conditions of decent housing makes people …
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Assets and needs of local food producers in Sedgwick County: An exploratory analysis
… system has been criticized for its economic, social, and environmental consequences. Alternative and local food systems have been proposed to be movements reacting against current agricultural food systems, as they emphasize social and environmental issues over purely economic ones. Such …
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Representations of Marble in Art from the Late Nineteenth Century to 2023
… It begins with the ‘western’ tradition of Europe and branches out to increasingly global perspectives, particularly those shaped through the cross-cultural exchange of ideas between Asia and the ‘west’ that have unlocked new and unique marble expressions. The temporal range treated in this …
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Envelopes of adaptation - an architecture of social thresholds and flexibility: investigating the socio-technical relationship between the built edge and social surface
… one that very often bears technical rather than social connotations. What are the mechanisms and systems that allow buildings to adapt to fluctuating environmental and climatic conditions? These responses are often the driving force behind design considerations, placing emphasis on the manner in …
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Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action
… the organization of several territorially based social movements in Chile has expressed a significant level of social discomfort about the political and economic system of the country. The central objective of this dissertation is to analyze how motivations, achievements, and failures of these …
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Indie Music in Post-bomb Bali: Participant Practices, Scene Subjectivities
… bombings, during which time an economic downturn and subsequent accelerated tourism development and urbanization transformed southern Bali, several rock bands rose to national and international acclaim and, alongside other music professionals committed to the creative, professional, and social …
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Corporate social responsibility and reporting by multinational corporations in Bangladesh: an exploration
This study examines the extent of and motivations behind corporate social reporting (CSR) by large corporations in general and subsidiaries of multinational corporations in particular in Bangladesh. It particularly addresses the research question: Why, in Bangladesh, do corporations in general and …
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The Governance of Waste in Iqaluit, Nunavut
Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, this thesis examines the historical and contemporary governing practices that inform waste management in Iqaluit, Nunavut. I draw on governance theory to critically examine the diffuse network of power that influences waste management practices …
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Repacking the supermarket: food retail evolution and futures
… represent a key shopping space in UK cities and are the main interface between consumers and food supply chains. Spatially, supermarkets are generic, designed to create a convenient shopping experience but beyond the consumer-facing space hides a complex, often invisible, food supply system. …
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Mis-Guided Exploration of Cities: an ambulant investigation of participative politics of place
The politics of place and walking as an arts practice form the core concerns of my research. The research is being conducted with particular reference to the ongoing Mis-Guide projects, conceived and produced by the site-specific arts company, Wrights & Sites, of which I am a member. Our apparent …
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Trees Outside of the Forest: A Political Ecology of Tree Planting in Kenya
… bullet to some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental issues, most notably climate change. This is especially the case in sub-Saharan Africa, which has seen a proliferation of tree planting projects and targets. Yet, seeing tree planting as a solution to environmental and …
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The feasibility of augmenting the Stellenbosch potable water supply by establishing a direct potable reuse plant
… on raw water resources for both agriculture and municipal use. The crisis was due to many factors including climate change, increasing urbanisation and ageing infrastructure to name a few. The water scarcity problems will persist in the future globally unless water management authorities are …
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Pro-environmental behaviours of hospitality employees : a practice theory approach
It has been argued that the social and environmental issues facing our world today are rooted in human behaviours (Vlek & Steg, 2007). For that reason, many policy initiatives in the UK seek to promote behaviours that minimise negative impact on the natural environment. Pro-environmental behaviours …
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