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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"environmentalist"”.
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An Analysis of Tolerance Variation Among Adherents to Feminist, Environmentalist and Gay Rights Principles
… between general tolerance and pro-feminist, pro-environmentalist and pro-gay rights attitudes. In conclusion, the prediction that individuals scoring high on measurements of feminism, environmentalism and pro-homosexuality, which all expound ideological convictions that refute traditional norms …
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Do Oil Companies aquire Alternative Energy Patents to Limit Technological Innovation, in order to Maintain Economic Advantage in Fossil Fuels
… study had been performed to support the environmentalist position, an evaluation of economic theory along with an examination of actual U.S. Patent Office data strongly contradicts the environmentalist view.
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A Political Ecology of Oil Palm in the Peruvian Amazon
… of the opposing discourses of available environmentalist and developmentalist videos and texts, I trace environmental conflict created by the establishment of a large-scale plantation in the Caynarachi-Shanusi Valley, on the San Martin-Loreto border. In addition, while area farmers make …
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Crawl Space: Driving Over the Anthropocene in a Jeep
… degradation, four-wheelers worked within environmentalist discourse, while maintaining a distinct subjectivity framed counter to that of an environmentalist, to ensure the continuation of use of the Rubicon Trail.</p>
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I Know Him Not, and Never Will: Moby Dick, The Human and the Whale
… way that develops aesthetic theory into a proto-environmentalist message. Melville draws on theories of the mathematical and dynamic sublime as outlined by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, while also employing Goethe's Theory of Colours in his depictions of the ocean setting. Goethe posits that …
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Nature and the city : ecohistory and environmental planning in Philadelphia, 1681-2000
… in ideal and crisis terms, as well as between environmentalist and economic objectives. This thesis explores these tensions, tracing the course of ecohistory and environmental planning in the city and region of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, over more than three centuries and examining current …
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Cartographies of undomesticated ground: Nature and feminism in American women's fiction and theory
… ideologies of nature for feminist, and sometimes environmentalist ends. Informed by feminist and poststructuralist theory, this study also critiques the way these theories have distanced themselves from the category of nature. In contrast, I argue that ""nature"" has been and continues to be a …
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When cultures collide : a rhetorical history of the Makah whaling controversy.
… new knowledge about Native American rhetoric, environmentalist/animal rights rhetoric, and colonialism.
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What West Virginia? Conflict over West Virginia's State Identity: A Constitutive Approach to Activism and Public Relations
… analysis of a coal advocacy and a coal-critical environmentalist organization examines how each group constitutes different West Virginian identities that accord with their organizational mission. Based on the constitutive concepts advanced by Edwin Black, Maurice Charland, and Michael McGee, …
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Komentovaný překlad: SIEGLE, Lucy: Turning the Tide on Plastic. How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again. London: The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, 2018, str. 7-36.
… the book was written by British journalist and environmentalist Lucy Siegle and published by The Orion Publishing Group in 2018. The thesis commentary includes: an analysis of the source text that specifically addresses extratextual and intratextual factors (using Christiane Nord's model); the …
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The Horned God as Environmental Figure in Anglophone Fantasy Fiction and Live Action Role-Play.
… for the study, among other subjects, of popular environmentalist sentiment.<p></p>
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An analysis of hybrid-electric vehicles as the car of the future
… consumer, the automaker, the government, and the environmentalist. After determining the different parameters that affect HEV integration, we can do a more thorough analysis of energy and cost consumption through the whole vehicle lifecycle, through the process of production, use, and disposal in …
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A Bog Approach: An Ethnography, Or, An Anthropology Of Climate Emergency
… Zero” discourse that might confound traditional environmentalist positions. My findings characterize a local Net Zero cultural form with 1) a latent construction of future uncertainty that manages to reproduce the “estate” of land ownership regimes; 2) a rhetorical imaginary of “plausibility” …
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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)
… issues well, the analysis cannot support that environmentalist groups directly affected their incorporation into the trilateral free-trade agreement.</p>
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Post-environmentalism, the deep ecology/ecofeminist debate, and Surfacing : rereading environmental theory
… approach to the debate surrounding 'the environmentalist crisis'. As the term suggests, the debate is one subject to essentialist thinking which constitutes it as simple and singular. In particular I am interested in the ways in which that logic is one of specularity, forwarded by a …
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Green giants and sleeping giants: environmental interest group politics and the nature of the state
… Through drawing out the logic of the environmentalist position, it can be shown how environmentalism challenges both these aspects of the modem State. It will then be shown how the State plays a decisive role in setting the parameters in which interest group activity operates, and how …
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The Interdependent Morality Directive: An extension of the animal rights and environmental ethics debate
… an analysis of two opposing camps: (1) the environmentalist argument as represented by Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac (the land ethic) and Paul Taylor's Respect For Nature and (2) the animal rights argument of Tom Regan in his book The Case for Animal Rights. Next, the point of …
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Local environmental attitudes, global environmental attitudes, and religion: An analysis in 47 nations
… Dominion Hypothesis that Christians hold less environmentalist attitudes than their peers in other religious traditions, the direct experience effect, and the Reverence Hypothesis, this dissertation includes descriptive analysis, psychometric scale evaluations, OLS regression, and multilevel …
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Fishing for Food and Fodder: The Transnational Environmental History of Humboldt Current Fisheries in Peru and Chile since 1945
… anchoveta stocks recovered in the 1990s, new environmentalist voices--from local residents to international scientists--emerged to contest unsustainable fisheries practices. This study demonstrates how global, transnational, and translocal connections shaped Humboldt Current fisheries as …
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Panography
… Panography is neither transcendentalist nor environmentalist in its primary agenda. Pan, as a hybrid of the human and the bestial, and as an archetype that has been carried to the present exclusively through artistic and scholarly works, is an ideal nexus for a deconstruction (or even a …
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