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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Understandings of Nature"”.
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Mass media and public understandings of nature in interwar Britain
… humans and the natural world was undergoing a profound transformation. Meanwhile, new methods of conveying knowledge like film and radio were hailed as potential solutions to the needs of an expanding system of formal education. My dissertation responds to a key historical question that unites …
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The Edutainer: Walt Disney, Nature Films, and American Understandings of Nature in the Twentieth Century
Throughout much of the twentieth century Walt Disney wielded considerable influence in American culture. By identifying and commercially exploiting a strain of environmental thought that sentimentalized and romanticized nature, Walt Disney influenced the attitudes of millions of Americans …
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Public Understandings of Environmental Quality: A Case Study of Private Forest Land Management in Southwest Virginia
… environmental quality has a multiplicity of definitions, owing to: a) the fact that there are a number of terms (or "sub constructs") taken to be synonymous with environmental quality (i.e. environmental health, sustainability, biodiversity, integrity, and the like), and b) the fact that …
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The Sound and the Fury: Common Sense About the Exxon Valdez
… theory, it moves beyond the quagmire of the great wilderness debate, and charts a middle ground between, on the one hand, the overly optimistic and non-deterministic celebration of ""wild nature"" as an unproblematic solution to complex social and ecological problems, and, on the other …
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Beyond the Pristine: Reframing the Notion of Nature Conservation through the Agency of Plant 'Vagabonds' in Toronto's Rouge National Urban Park
Protecting nature in its pristine state and within designated geographic boundaries is embedded within historical framings of conservation. Yet, in the context of today's rapid anthropogenic change, this concept is increasingly flawed and irrelevant. This thesis draws from interdisciplinary …
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Exploring Educational Initiatives in Nanotechnology Networks
Nanotechnology has captured the attention of governments and corporations around the globe. It has become the subject and context for numerous conferences, media articles, websites and scientific research papers. Nano enthusiasts and government officials claim that it is an area that promises new …
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The Ethics of Rust: an interpretation of Ruskin's gothic
The aim of the thesis is to demonstrate that the critical theories of John Ruskin have a particular interest to us at the end of the 20th century. The basis for this claim is that Ruskin’s mode of thought was essentially ecological. By this I do not mean to suggest that he was simply interested in …
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The Ethics of Rust: an interpretation of Ruskin's gothic
The aim of the thesis is to demonstrate that the critical theories of John Ruskin have a particular interest to us at the end of the 20th century. The basis for this claim is that Ruskin’s mode of thought was essentially ecological. By this I do not mean to suggest that he was simply interested in …
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Grains of truth : science and the evolution of international desertification policymaking
This study explores changing perceptions of dryland degradation (desertification) as revealed through twentieth century intergovernmental policies. Between the 1930s and 1990s these policies reflected markedly different ideas regarding the nature of the problem (e.g., global or local), its causes …
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Rock stories: The discourse of rocks and rock-collecting
… (1995, p.2) describes archaeological evidence of early assemblages of rocks found in Cro-Magnon caves that would not be out of place in contemporary rock-collections. Historically, apart from being used as material for tools and buildings. rocks were also used for magical, pharmaceutical and …