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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"environmental disaster"”.
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Governing Nature, Sustaining Degradation: An Eco-Governmental Critique of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
… the discursive production of, and response to, environmental disaster. The project is contextualized through the case of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. By interrupting traditional perceptions of environmental disaster, this project frames socio-environmental disasters …
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Mass media and alternative coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill
… the issue of news content and coverage of an environmental disaster in the mass and the alternative media. With the use of content analysis, 132 articles on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill were selected and analyzed in four alternative magazines and one American newspaper. It was hypothesized that …
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An Ecofeminist Perspective: Ecology and Feminism in the Works of Reinig, Maron, Morgner, and Wolf
… their condemnation of society and its course of environmental destruction that they feel will ultimately lead to the devastation of the planet. The relation of fiction to reality is impressed upon readers by actual news reports on environmental disaster. Although the novels often share a …
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Rights-based evaluation of government responses to a given 'natural' disaster : Katrina as case study
Disaster impacts human mobility and a rights-based approach to disaster response is needed to protect the human rights of those who seek migration as an adaptation strategy. This paper deals with returning to a place after a catastrophic environmental disaster when the dynamics of that place call …
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Fictitious Ecology
… light-hearted story of two dogs who must face an environmental disaster. In this accompanying critical essay, I break down the process of crafting a fictional relationship between author-illustrator, animal characters, and the environment. It begins through the context of J.R.R. Tolkien’s essay …
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Genre criticism : an application of BP's image restoration campaign to the crisis communication genre
… the BP Gulf Oil spill had become the worst environmental disaster in United States history. However, for those studying public relations the oil spill brought more than ecological disaster, by providing a case study of crisis communication. Although there were a number of crisis responses …
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Divisor de águas no Rio do Peixe: ambientalização dos conflitos sociais e racismo ambiental vivenciados pelos comunitários do Quati - Ba
… The aim is to understand the conflicts and environmental racism experienced by the members of the Quati community before, during, and after the event of the dam breach. This relationship is a result of the environmental disaster caused by the breach of the Quati Dam, on July 11, 2019. …
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Finding Identity Through Survival: The Impact of the Hurricanes in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
… color in order to emphasize both the effects of environmental disaster on vulnerable communities and also the inherent power of their protagonists to overcome systemic racism combined with natural disaster. The climax of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel revolves around the deadly 1928 Okeechobee …
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Flood occurrence, smart tunnel operating system and traffic flow: A case of Kuala Lumpur smart tunnel Malaysia
Managing environmental disaster requires the use of technology into how technology is used to minimize the casualties and loss incurred when disaster strikes. This research study the relationship between SMART tunnel maintenance works, flooding and traffic flow management. SMART is an acronym for …
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Essays in Financial Economics and Econometrics
… the heterogeneous wage effects of a major environmental disaster. The first chapter (joint with Luis Alvarez and Thiago Christiano Silva) studies how modern monetary policy tools, which increasingly operate through corporate asset markets, affect real firm outcomes. We exploit …
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Land Loss: Attachment, Place and Identity in Coastal Louisiana
This dissertation explores how people frame environmental change. Specifically, this work explores the identity loss that residents of coastal Louisiana experience due to coastal land loss. I rely on 126 in-depth interviews of residents from communities in six coastal parishes (counties). …
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Numerical analysis of a shear ram and experimental determination of fracture parameters
The human, economic and environmental disaster that followed the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe at the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 revealed how much the offshore drilling industry relies on the Blowout Preventer (BOP) as the primary means of controlling a 'well kick' or 'blowout'. One of the most …
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Prenatal environment and health at birth in Brazil: empirical and normative aspects
… chapter aims to frame the debate on if, and why, environmental conditions endured in utero and health at birth are relevant. The essay summarizes the discussion on the relationship between justice and health, highlighting the role of health at birth. Additionally, theoretical models and empirical …
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Children of men: the American jeremiad in twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction and film
… War. Chapter three concerns the indebtedness of environmental science fiction and film to the American jeremiad tradition and, more specifically, how their dual imperatives of polemical and exceptionalism rhetoric continue to shape the ways that Americans conceive of environmental problems and …
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The alienation of humans from nature: media and environmental discourse
Environmental problems are discouraging. Extensive and growing media consumption in the U.S. may be one of a few reasons. Communication constructs how people experience and understand nature, and corporate ownership of media influences the content (Beder, 2004). What does this discouragement look …