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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"environmental wellbeing"”.
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Uncertainty in synthetic biology for release and possibilities for regulation under the Toxic Substances Control Act
… the environment or human bodies, have potential environmental and health implications. These implications, which present design challenges to engineers, stem from organisms' potential for competitiveness with natural strains upon entering an environment, their tendency to evolve new …
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Addressing Fragmented Relationships and Dislocation in Environmental Thinking: Ubuntu Insights on Human and Nonhuman Wellbeing
… of humanity from its natural environments, in environmental thinking and practices? In answering this question, this dissertation offers an ubuntu-inspired solution. Ubuntu views humanity as inseparably connected with other beings and located in the environment. I propose that, in rejecting …
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The plantation network : Brazilian bioenergy science and sustainability in the global South
… industrial development that contributes to environmental wellbeing while maintaining the possibility of continued capitalist production for future populations. The dissertation examines "sustainability" as it has emerged in these sites by considering the plantation as a pharmakon-like …
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Optimal Management Of Biological Populations
… is essential to both the world's economic and environmental wellbeing. This includes controlling invasive species and sustainably harvesting biological resources for profit. In the first chapter we consider monitoring programs for the management of invasive populations that we wish to …
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Modifying a Cow-Calf Biophysical Simulation Model for Analyses of Alternative Enterprises
… could be used to improve producer financial and environmental outcomes. However, bioenergy production is slow to gain traction in the US due to adverse market conditions from low fossil fuel prices. Thus, in the US, there are only a few bio-refineries currently online and accepting …
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The Natural Environment and local perceptions of poverty, well-being and justice in a Mexican fishing community. Gaps and bridges between local perceptions and national metrics
… by the Mexican Law of Social Development, the environmental dimension is missing in the current national measures of multidimensional poverty. This doctoral research aims to understand the implications of this absence by understanding the local meanings, perceptions and lived experiences of …