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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"environmental disasters"”.
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Essays on Health Economics
… of future individual outcomes. Chapter 2. Environmental disasters and infant health: Evidence from the Mariana mining disaster in Brazil. Implementation and enforcement of environmental regulation policies are necessary for promoting environmentally sustainable industrial development. When …
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Effects of the US Capitol Attack on political views in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
… effects from major events like terrorism or environmental disasters. In this study, I take advantage of the fact that the insurrection took place in the middle of a set of surveys administered to bureaucrats in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. The events of Jan. 6 thus act as a type of exogenous …
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Advancing the theory and applications of Lagrangian Coherent Structures methods for oceanic surface flows
Ocean surface transport is at the core of many environmental disasters, including the spread of marine plastic pollution, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Fukushima nuclear contamination. Understanding and predicting flow transport, however, remains a scientific challenge, because it …
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Social media persuasion : the KXL pipeline debate
… ENGOs and government agencies during protests, environmental disasters and policy-announcements. I found that the ENGOs used all or most of Cialdini’s persuasion principles to frame their opposition views, which translated into high social media engagement.
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Developing and testing integrated decision support models for coastal management
Oil spills over seas are serious environmental disasters, which cause significant, long-term impacts on the environment and socio-economic activities. For this reason, there has been a recognized need for a system modelling approach which is able to support and improve oil spill contingency …
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Risk management at public events: a case study of a municipality within Southern Ontario
… and consider the risk of stampedes and environmental disasters as a greater threat than terrorism within their events.
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Second Skin : an antithesis to hermetic architecture
… where the world has been transformed by environmental disasters. Basically our immunological bubble has been broken. For years, we have tried to control our environment by creating a separate homeostatic interior. And In the process of trying to achieve physical comfort, not only have we …
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Productive spoils : retooling Detroit's waterfront
With the recent strain of environmental disasters associated with poor environmental planning and the crash of the economic system that had propped up this type of development, it is clear that architecture's relationship to nature needs to be rethought. The thesis uses the waterfront of Detroit as …
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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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Top Management Team Attention To The Threats From Technological Disasters: Evidence From Polluters In The S&P 1500
Increased public attention to environmental disasters is reducing the likelihood firms can ascribe the consequential damages of stakeholders to "acts of Nature". This phenomenon indicates that the absence of top management team (TMT) attention to natural environmental issues leads a firm to …
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The Damage Done
… regulatory agencies have changed to prevent such environmental disasters from happening in the future.
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The Damage Done
… regulatory agencies have changed to prevent such environmental disasters from happening in the future.
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Controle inteligente de um robô móvel utilizando modos deslizantes, redes neurais artificiais e aprendizagem por reforço
… plantations, the use in actions to support environmental disasters, border patrol, mapping of submarine territories or even the study of animal behavior. This work rescues the multi and interdisciplinary motivation of artificial intelligence, starting from philosophical questions to reach …
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Oil spills in cold climates with special reference to the transportation and exploration of hydrocarbons in the Kara Sea
… work the fate and behaviour of the oil in ice, environmental conditions in the Kara Sea and the present and past exploration of the region has been summarised. Oil spilled under ice will be encapsulated within the growing ice field for then to be released, without a change in properties, the …
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Ethnic Conflict in Côte d’Ivoire
… regional instability, economic failures, environmental disasters, diffusion, and spillover effects are conditions favorable to organized crime and terrorism. In the case of Africa, millions have become displaced persons in their own countries or refugees in other. Therefore, it is fair to …
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Not as Planned
… failure after failure—technological obsolesce, environmental disasters, economic collapse—making it both peculiar and paradigmatic. And while architecture does not have the agency to change these realities, it can respond. By considering a series of architectural propositions instead of a …
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Elemental trauma: A case study of living with contaminated water near sites of Marcellus Shale gas extraction
… cost. Energy production has created the worst environmental disasters currently known on the planet. Of the various causalities of these events, elemental substances are continually damaged. The concept of elemental trauma is defined as a way of thinking catastrophic change due to large-scale …
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Advancing the theory and applications of Lagrangian Coherent Structures methods for oceanic surface flows
Ocean surface transport is at the core of many environmental disasters, including the spread of marine plastic pollution, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Fukushima nuclear contamination. Understanding and predicting flow transport, however, remains a scientific challenge, because it …
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Compensation in a Changing International Legal Order
… Armed conflicts, investment disputes and environmental disasters are just a few of the horrendous scenarios in which violations of international law harm large numbers of individuals. ELIC thus provides extraordinary opportunities for redress at the international level.Existing mass …
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Site-specific performance rituals in the Anthropocene
… practices within the specific socio-cultural and environmental context of Aotearoa. Inspired by critical posthumanist philosophies, I viewed ritual practices through a lens that considered the interconnectedness of technology, culture, and nature, moving beyond essentialist and dualistic …
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