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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"environmental organizations"”.
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Changed climate : networking, professionalization, and grassroots organizing in U.S. environmental organizations
… and Grassroots Organizing in U.S Environmental Organizations," explores the efforts of four established U.S. environmental NGOs to change their organizational cultures and routine practices to develop grassroots activism for climate change advocacy. I find that although actors …
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Advocacy Networks in the Marcellus Shale Area: A Study of Environmental Organizations in Northeastern and Southwestern Pennsylvania
… breadth and depth of the network of non-profit environmental organizations, sportsmen-oriented conservation groups, county conservation districts and state parks that advocate for or against Marcellus Shale drilling within northeastern and southwestern Pennsylvania where drilling occurs. The …
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Interpreting global justice : variations in perspectives of U.S. environmental organizations on environment, human rights, and social equity
Environmental movement organizations in the United States have engaged with the global justice movement differently depending on the extent to which they view human rights and social equity issues as part of their environmental work. These organizations, influenced by their organizational history …
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HOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT HAS FAILED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. REVIVING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION AS PART OF THE PUBLIC CONSCIUSNESS: ADVERTISING IS THE MISSING TOOL
The organizations that make up the environmental movement have a great opportunity and challenge before them. These organizations could lead our nation in a time of great change. They could challenge the public to align personal consumer habits with positive environmental beliefs. However, the …
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HOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT HAS FAILED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. REVIVING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION AS PART OF THE PUBLIC CONSCIUSNESS: ADVERTISING IS THE MISSING TOOL
The organizations that make up the environmental movement have a great opportunity and challenge before them. These organizations could lead our nation in a time of great change. They could challenge the public to align personal consumer habits with positive environmental beliefs. However, the …
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Greening the invisible hand : how environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) succeed and fall in technology change
This dissertation examines how national environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Sweden and the United States (US) tried to diffuse cleaner production technologies in the pulp and paper industry from 1980-1998. The environmental organizations were: Greenpeace Sweden, Swedish Society …
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Environmentalism in the United States: An Evolving Perspective
The purpose of this study is to investigate environmentalism in the United States. The dimension of perspective receives considerable attention. The prevailing perspective by a society regarding the importance of the health of the natural world greatly influences the degree of support of …
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Toward a more deliberative port planning : the "vision and daring" of environmental NGOs in negotiations on the Second Maasvlakte, Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands
… the project planning came to an impasse when environmental organizations and port expansion proponents could not reconcile their positions on if and under what conditions the port should be extended. I posit that at this critical juncture certain environmental organizations took an …
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Perceptions of Symmetry and Color in Environmental Logos
… generate a unique class of consumer responses is environmental organizations, which may rely on logo characteristics to best portray environmentally friendly connotations and associations. Color and symmetry may also have unique effects on responses to environmental organizations as both may …
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Adaptiveness of political interest organizations to social change in the United States since 1960: a theoretical examination
… of business associations, labor unions, and environmental organizations to social change since 1960. These three types of interest organizations are selected because they are particularly likely to have become targets of increased popular demands for environmental protection, a value change …
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Hedonic Valuation of Forested Riparian Buffers Along Rivers in Northwestern North Carolina
… basis of the hedonic models used to value these environmental characteristics. Homes that border a river sell for at least $28,000 more than otherwise similar homes that do not border a river. Riparian area tree coverage positively impacts river-bordering house prices, but only to a certain …
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The greening of community development : an analysis of ecological restoration and neighborhood planning in the Fenway
… for analyzing community development and environmental protection issues. Moreover, it addresses the role of neighborhood institutions in forging non-traditional partnerships to meet a set of comprehensive planning objectives. The Fenway case study suggests the potential for two ostensibly …
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The social construction of acid rain: The paper says it looks like rain today.
… of information were overrepresented while environmental organizations were hardly used by reporters. This thesis also examined other influences on the print media's construction of acid rain, including political influences and geographical location of the newspapers.Dept. of Sociology and …
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From Grassroots to Treetops: A Scope-of-Behavior Matrix for Environmental Movement Organizations that Considers Place and Scale
Environmental movement organizations (EMOs) vary in structure and function, with different forms of outreach, financial characteristics, and motivations. They also differ in terms of the geographic areas on behalf of which they take action. Using a mixed-method, case-study approach, this study …
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Ignoring the obvious : women's roles in environmental management in Papua New Guinea
… within and between women's issues and environmental management issues in Papua New Guinea. These relationships are social, environmental and economic in nature and are impacted by the dynamics of the development process. The analysis used in the research is based on Gender and …
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Exploring Environmental Justice Issues in Latino communities in the Treasure Valley in Idaho
This thesis explores environmental justice issues in Latino communities in the Treasure Valley in Idaho. Given the little work focused on environmental justice issues of Latino communities, specifically in the Treasure Valley in Idaho. This thesis aims to, firstly determine whether environmental …
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The mental demands of marine Ecosystem -based Management: A constructive developmental lens
… from ail levels of government, academia, environmental organizations, and marine-dependent businesses and industry. This dissertation lays out the substantive differences of marine EBM stakeholder engagement processes versus other, single sector processes. EBM processes are more complex …
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Motivating Factors for Hispanic American Volunteers: A Phenomenological Study of Non-Profit Environmental Advocacy Organizations in Southern California
… Volunteering is essential for most non-profit organizations in the United States because they lack the revenue to afford to pay for this necessary labor. Statistics show volunteer rates in environmental organizations in the United States are second to last. Although Hispanic Americans are the …
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Five Public Concerns Represented by Environmental Groups in the Development of Regional Free Trade Agreements: A Case Study of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
… project set out to determine if North American environmental groups successfully had public concerns addressed and codified in the Environment chapter of the USMCA. By analyzing official statements made in press releases by seventeen prominent Environmental groups operating in the United States, …
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A General Evolutionary Methodology for Sustainable Development
… the dynamic factors inducing the evolution of environmental management strategies in the context of sustainable development, I draw upon theory from the field of general evolutionary sciences (including chaos theory, complexity science, and nonlinear thermodynamics). I translate this emerging …
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