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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"overpopulation"”.
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A Mandatory Spay/Neuter Ordinance in San Francisco: The Solution to San Francisco’s Other Homeless Problem
<p>This Capstone explains the dog overpopulation problem in San Francisco where the increase in dog impoundments and animal cruelty cases, particularly ones involving dogs, has been straining its Department of Animal Care & Control’s already limited resources. At least 33 local governments around …
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Evaluation of the elephant immunocontraception program at Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, South Africa
… African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) overpopulation in enclosed reserves is currently a major issue in southern Africa due to the potential negative impact of high elephant density on biodiversity. Immunocontraception of elephants has been proven to be an effective method of population …
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Eugenics, demography and family planning in Greece, 1950-1980: the activities of the Hellenic Eugenics Society
… international demographic problems, such as overpopulation, to light. Contrary to the global overpopulation problem and its consequences, Greece experienced low birth rates, high rates of induced abortion and mass emigration to Western countries. After the end of the Civil War (1949), the …
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The Metaphor of The Prairie in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
… The values of the wilderness are threatened by overpopulation and cultivation. In short, the idea of a democracy threatens man's idea of self-worth, as self-worth is defined by man's place in and relationship to nature. Democracy threatens man's idea, that is, of his natural, essential self.
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William H. Sheldon and the culture of the somatotype
… "Second Industrial Revolution" (urbanization, overpopulation, industrialization, alienation) that confronted modernist poets, novelists, and philosophers. In this I am elaborating Dorothy Ross’s recent metaphor, "modernist impulses in the human sciences" (1994). Both scientists and artists were …
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Analysis of Ecofascist Tendencies on Reddit
… to the Global South, focusing on rhetoric about overpopulation and excessive fossil fuel consumption. It avoids addressing systemic issues such as resource distribution and sustainable energy production, instead advocating for a so-called ‘cleansing’ of the world, often through acts of mass …
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Negotiating community amongst spatial and identity boundaries : the case of "unity in diversity" in the transmigration settlement of Mopugad, Indonesia
… from Java and Bali, two islands experiencing overpopulation, urbanization and increasing poverty, to the "Outer Islands" of Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, the Moluccas and Papua. One of the objectives of transmigration was the integration of the many ethnic and religious sub-communities …
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The Impacts of Genetically Modified Organisms That Increase Yield and Nutritional Values and Their Future Applications in Assisting the Humans
… become insufficient. One way of tackling the overpopulation problem is genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, that increase the nutritional value of foods. During the past several decades, GMOs have been useful to countries that face malnutrition or food deficiencies. An example of a very …
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Organic Food for Thought: How Larger Countries Can Learn from Smaller Export Countries When it Comes to Sustainable Agriculture
… the world faces including water scarcity, overpopulation, dependency on fertilizers and pesticides and the Dutch solutions to these specific problems. The paper also delves into the history of the division in the Western world over organic and sustainable agriculture. It looks at how this …
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Going with the flow: Using menstrual education as a tool for empowering post pubescent Nepali girls
… the cycle of poverty, gender inequality, and overpopulation. Moreover, there is a growing interest in closing the gender gap in education, but there has been insufficient attention to the specific needs of girls experiencing menses or menarche within schooling environments. The beginning of …
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Challenges that offenders face upon release that contribute to recidivism in the Department of Correctional Services: a case study of the West Coast Medium ' A' Correctional Centre in the Western Cape
… in South Africa. Life in prison is harsh and overpopulation leads to numerous communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and other sexuality transmitted infections. Offenders participate in various rehabilitation programmes during their incarceration. However, the challenge is to …
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The Catholic emancipation movement and the Society of United Irishmen, 1788-1798
… the 1790's bad economic conditions related to overpopulation, and the outside influences of the American and French Revolutions, effected an increase in Catholic agitation for a better life. In 1791, the Society of United Irishmen was founded in order to combine these Catholic desires with the …
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From baby boom to birth dearth: an interpretation of the population control movement and its political discourse since 1945 in the United States
… in the United States. The ideology employed was "overpopulation." But while the image was overcrowding, it was not the industrialized, densely populated countries that were accused of being overpopulated but rather the poor, underdeveloped, often sparsely populated nations in the Third World. Or, …
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The decline of civic trust in the United States: a critical assessment of competing explanations
… the depression of wages, a situation of relative overpopulation, and domestic market expansion, leads to the decline of civic trust both directly and indirectly. In this process institutional degradation and social capitals decline work as intervening variables in this process, as their …
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They Knew Full Well
… a futuristic society, one</p> <p>facing massive overpopulation problems. A science-fiction novel in many ways, the setting is</p> <p>based on a wide breadth of research in fields that include genetics, sustainable urban</p> <p>development, climate change, and the progression towards an …
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The Eugenic Sterilization of Puerto Rican Women: A Case of US Interests and Religious/Spiritual Freedom
… as a solution to the island’s perceived "overpopulation" and its associated problems: unemployment, disease, and poverty. While Puerto Rican women were exploited as instruments of U.S. policy, sterilization paradoxically became widely accepted as a form of birth control on the island. This …
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Carving the spirits of the wood: an enquiry into Trobriand materialisations
… globalisation impinging upon their region. Overpopulation, food security issues and the partial collapse of traditional hierarchical structures have elicited the assemblage of new relational networks to negotiate these transformations. Tokwalu are not fixed signposts in a predefined system …
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Food production strategies and the sustenance of rural livelihood at Umzumbe
… produce a surplus that can generate high income. Overpopulation has greatly reduced the amount farming land per peasant family. Since land is controlled by Inkosi, landholders do not have a choice of size of land, so that the land used is almost always too small for substantial food production. …
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Food Habits of Young-of-the-Year Fishes in Abbey Pond, South Dakota
… Pond may be an important protection against overpopulation and may result in a more stable fish population.
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