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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"environmental activism"”.
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Cumulative Impact: Digital Ethnography of Environmental Activism in the Mountain View Community
… may be discovered in understanding the role of environmental discourse in human behavior, promoting higher levels of community participation, engaging those who are most greatly impacted by environmental issues, and fostering positive social change. The purpose of this study is three-fold: (1) …
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Collective strategies in unregulated urban expansion: Class and gender as shaping factors in environmental activism in Concon-Quintero, Chile.
In the context of climate change and unregulated urban expansion driven by capitalist land administration practices in the Concón-Quintero region, in Chile, I aim to explore the relationships between the roles of women, levels of trust in institutions, and the strategies and mechanisms developed by …
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Environmental (in)activism: pollution, people, and politics in two Indianapolis neighborhoods
This research examines the development of environmental activism (or lack thereof) in response to urban environmental injustices in two communities to understand differences in response between the communities. The goal is to better understand how and why residents take action to secure …
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Sonic landscapes: The environmental choral music of R. Murray Schafer and John Luther Adams
… on the ecology and the growing concern of environmental issues. Composers are engaging with this topic in a variety of ways, but few North American composers have devoted themselves so thoroughly to this genre as have R. Murray Schafer and John Luther Adams, both of whom have found …
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The construction of environmental justice: Warren County, North Carolina
"By seeking to ameliorate environmental problems while also working to alleviate poverty and oppression, the construct of environmental justice has transformed environmental activism and altered the national environmental agenda. The controversy over the Warren County landfill is seen as the birth …
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Reflections on a Collaborative Project between Elementary Students from an International School and Students from a Host Country
… on five separate occasions to plan and implement environmental projects in the local community. While mainly project-based and experiential, responsible citizenship through environmental activism added the element of service learning. The service-learning component met the curricular standards of …
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Fracked Perceptions: Changes in Perception Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing Among Residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania.
… high economic return with minimal change to environmental quality or rural aesthetics. Also, this discord is more widespread than environmental issues, as it is experienced by all community members. Residents supporting fracking find themselves at odds with residents claiming water …
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Houses in Heaven are made of steel : understanding change in Ecuadorian amazon Secoya structures
… Secoya of the Aguarico River. In the context of environmental activism and cultural survival there are many reasons to lament major alterations in the Secoya's lifestyle in recent years. One of the most visible transformations experienced by this group is the abandonment of several traditional …
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EMOTIONALITY IN ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS: THE INTERACTION OF PROBLEM AND DECIDER CHARACTERISTICS.
Emotionality in environmental decisions is a function of the characteristics of the environmental planning problem, the decider, and of the situation in which decisions occur. This research examined the effects of problem and decider characteristics upon the emotionality of the decision process and …
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Educating for the ‘Anthropocene’: The Meaning of Politics in an Age of Slow Violence
… study examines the interface of education and environmental activism in spaces affected by the slow violence of environmental degradation, characteristic of the current high ‘Anthropocene’ era. By conducting research at government schools and in their surrounding communities in Pashulok, India, …
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Bay Area Student Involvement in the Environmental and Food Justice Movements: A Narrative of Motivations, Experiences, and Community Impact
… any formal, academic curriculum that emphasizes environmental awareness and activism. This may result in a population of adults who believe they know more about the environment than they actually do, lack the skills to compete in an expanding green job market, lack creativity and the ability to …
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Uncommon work: Utopia, labor, and environment in late twentieth-century American fiction
… has been felt particularly acutely among the environmental movement. After its optimistic emergence in the 1960s and 1970s as a corollary of the New Left, the environmental movement became increasingly characterized by a heightened sensibility of ecological precarity and everyday crisis, which …
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Growing a green job : essays on social movements and the emergence of a new occupation
… to demonstrate how old and new forms of environmental activism have shaped key processes in the development of the occupation. The first piece of empirical work employs historical field analysis to show that three core processes of occupation formation - the creation of new practices and …
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Application of Social Influence Strategies to Convert Concern into Relevant Action: The Case of Global Warming
… influence strategies in order to encourage environmental activism and efficiency behaviors in response to global warming. A secondary goal was to study the relationship between pro-environment attitudes as measured by the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) and the activism/efficiency behaviors. …
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The Diffusion of Climate Protection Planning among U.S. Municipalities
… driven primarily by local demographic, economic, environmental, or political characteristics. It also contributes to the literature on local government policy diffusion by examining whether the spread of climate protection policies is dictated primarily by internal or external determinants. The …
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DIRECT ENFORCEMENT ON THE HIGH SEAS: THE STRATEGY OF THE SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY
… unlike any other described in the transnational environmental activism literature, the study seeks to add to our understanding of the role and power of non-state actors in international affairs. A close examination reveals that the organization is engaging in a strategy which can be described as …
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Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship
ABSTRACT Lohrmann, Adam, M.S., May 2011 Environmental Studies Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship Chairperson: Dr. Daniel Spencer In recent years, the field of ecological restoration has gained momentum as an academic …
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Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship
ABSTRACT Lohrmann, Adam, M.S., May 2011 Environmental Studies Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship Chairperson: Dr. Daniel Spencer In recent years, the field of ecological restoration has gained momentum as an academic …
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