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Showing 1 to 20 of 662 for “"environmental protection"”.
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Strategies and constraints for environmental protection in Nicaragua
… faces tremendous problems in relation to environmental and social conditions as well as continuing conflicts over access to natural and economic resources. The loss of forests and other essential eco-systems, the extinction of unique species, the degradation of soils and farmland, poverty, …
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Neoliberalism, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chesapeake Bay
… within the political process, has impacted environmentalism on a variety of levels. Without regulation, the neoliberal capitalist drive to maximize production, consumption, and profits is antagonistic to environmental sustainability. The influences that corporations and economic elites have …
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Becoming a Side: Legal Mobilization and Environmental Protection in Poland
… a human geographic and socio-legal analysis of environmental legal mobilization in contemporary Poland. It examines how administrative law is being used by individuals and societal groups to enforce environmental protection commitments, and what the broader implications of interactions with the …
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Mechanical design, calibration, and environmental protection of the REXIS DAM
… functions: Mechanical alignment, calibration and protection of the CCDs. In this thesis we outline the overall design of the REXIS DAM with a focus on its three main functions. Chapter 1 provides background on the OSIRIS-REx mission and the REXIS instrument. Chapter 2 discusses the adaptation of …
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An evaluation of voluntary programs as public policies for environmental protection
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
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Increasing ecological sustainability through land justice and environmental protection for indigenous people
Current paradigms governing environmental resource management are unsustainable and require an urgent change for ecological sustainability. To this end, Agenda 21 is the international action plan for an ecologically sustainable globe. It provides the scienta and ethics of the modern environmental …
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Production of Energy and Environmental Protection as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development
<p>This paper explains why renewable energy is a prerequisite for sustainable development. The development of renewable energy sources is important because renewable energy sources have a very important role in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) into the atmosphere, eradicate …
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Diffusion of Environmental Protection Single-Use Plastic Bags Ban Policy in California
… inability to observe the short-term effects of environmental policy, environmental policy diffusion has received less attention than the diffusion of other policies, despite a growing awareness of environmental concerns and an expanding application of policy diffusion in policy research. Due to …
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So Much for Beauty: Realizing Participatory Aesthetics in Environmental Protection and Restoration
… in order to contribute to scholarship devoted to environmental visual rhetoric. Through these studies, I address connections between aesthetics and environmental ethics and challenge scholarship that argues mainstream preservationist perspectives have adhered to an anthropocentric ideological …
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Towards the environmental minimum: an argument for environmental protection through human rights
… lines of objection to linking human rights and environmental interests: conceptual, those arising from issues of recognition, vagueness and conflicts between human rights, ecological, especially from those seeking protections for the environment regardless of its utility to humans, and those …
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Environmental protection and affordable housing : can a rapidly growing community have it all?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Engineering the Environment: Regulatory Engineering at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1970-1980
… about pollution, crafted an institution for environmental protection, and constructed a collective identity for themselves. I show an important shift in regulators\' priorities, from stringent health-based standards to flexible technology-based ones through the development of end-of-pipeline …
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Balancing the need for investment and environmental protection : a case study of The Gambia
… conflict has been exacerbated by the numerous environmental violations committed by investors and their investments in the country. There has been a collective outcry from the communities affected by these violations and The Gambian government seems to find some difficulty in attending to the …
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New Role Orientations for U.S. EPA Officials in the Next Generation System of Environmental Protection
At the start of the twenty-first century, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials can look back on nearly thirty years of meaningful accomplishments. Toxic releases are down, the air and water are cleaner, and waste disposal methods are greatly improved. Although this is a record of …
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The inclusion of Indian tribes in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's policy decisions that affect tribal lands
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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A Theory on State's Extended Remit under International Human Rights Law: Foundations and Implications for Extraterritorial Environmental Protection
… of human rights approaches for extraterritorial environmental protection. While the issue of extraterritoriality in the human rights field has been discussed for more than a decade now, the discussion has been restricted to specific areas of practice (state agent conduct abroad and situations of …
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