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Tejada, Matthew Steven. "A history of Bulgaria's environmental movement." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432268.
Full textWills, John. "The Diablo Canyon, California : an environmental history." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/9e9428ca-3e80-49f8-8260-8b4f3f10c4f3.
Full textJohnson, Ylva. "Procedural environmental rights - a tool for sustainable development?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194039.
Full textNolan-Spohn, Hannah Katherine. "Urban Ecology: History and Practice." Thesis, Boston College, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/483.
Full textThe study of human interactions with nature in the context of urban environments has evolved over the past fifty years. Early writers who were able to view urban areas as ecosystems planted the seeds for what is today an important and growing movement across the United States. They paved the way for later scholars to develop human- and ecologically-based natural histories, to imagine land uses, urban planning and development in new and sustainable ways, and to reinforce the spiritual and emotional bond between humanity and nature. In the last ten to fifteen years, organizations in urban areas around the United States have begun to look at planning and development with both an ecological lens and a focus on community-based, grassroots organizing. The layers of information available for study in an urban area are many and complex, providing an immense amount of data to those who choose to study cities. This study will first trace the theoretical development in understanding urban ecosystems, touching on important themes and groundbreaking authors. Subsequent chapters will build on the foundation laid by these authors in an exploration of the current practical use of urban ecology in the field, focusing on community-based organizations throughout the country
Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2005
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: College Honors Program
Lang, Kenna Renee Bratton Susan. "An environmental history William Cameron Park, Waco, Texas /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5072.
Full textKitto, Stephen G. "The Environmental History of Te Waihora – Lake Ellesmere." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geological Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5028.
Full textVentris, P. A. "Pleistocene environmental history of the Nar Valley, Norfolk." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372911.
Full textBunting, M. J. "Environmental history and human impact in Orkney, Scotland." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271916.
Full textChristopher, Terry. "Paleolimnology in an urban environment, the history of environmental change in St. John's, Newfoundland." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0001/NQ42474.pdf.
Full textWilson, Mark. "The British environmental movement : the development of an environmental consciousness and environmental activism, 1945-1975." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2014. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/21603/.
Full textThomson, Jennifer Christine. "From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10876.
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Hougland, Uchwat Gail Ann. "Natural history of the saguaro." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1466.
Full textVileisis, Ann E. "Working on Desert Rails: A Social and Environmental History." DigitalCommons@USU, 1992. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4691.
Full textJamieson, Robyn E. "Environmental history of northern cod from otolith isotopic analysis /." *McMaster only, 2001.
Find full textEkblom, Anneli. "Changing landscapes : an environmental history of Chibuene, Southern Mozambique /." Uppsala : Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-4587.
Full textKotsakis, Andreas. "The biological diversity complex : a history of environmental government." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/216/.
Full textWeir, David Alan. "An environmental history of the Navan area, Co. Armagh." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296796.
Full textLawson, Ian Thomas. "The late glacial and holocene environmental history of Greece." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621354.
Full textSpringthorpe, Victoria. "Environmental regulation of life history phenology in Arabidopsis thaliana." Thesis, University of York, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/7756/.
Full textBower, Matthew S. "Catastrophe in Permanence: Benjamin's Natural History of Environmental Crisis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984263/.
Full textBeattie, James John, and james beattie@stonebow otago ac nz. "Environmental anxiety in New Zealand, 1850-1920 : settlers, climate, conservation, health, environment." University of Otago. School of Liberal Arts, 2004. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20051020.183413.
Full textRagland, Gregory J. Kingsolver Joel G. "Life history evolution in seasonal environments phenological and environmental determinants of thermal adaptation in Wyeomyia smithii /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1147.
Full textTitle from electronic title page (viewed Mar. 27, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Biology." Discipline: Biology; Department/School: Biology.
Michor, Daniel J. "People in Nature: Environmental History of the Kennebec River, Maine." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/MichorDJ2003.pdf.
Full textStrömsten, Henrik. "Military and Nature : An environmental history of Swedish military landscapes." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-302652.
Full textDenna uppsats, en miljöhistoria av ett utvalt antal svenska militära övningsområden, är baserat på en observation av militära landskap med en permanent närvaro av militärrelaterade objekt och aktiviteter vilka lämnar sina spår i miljön, och hur fortsatt militär aktivitet legitimeras genom miljöargument. Jag analyserar militära riktlinjer och dokument, för att se på hur svensk militär förhåller sig till dess övningsområden, och hur diskurser om miljövård används för att motivera fortsatt militär aktivitet. De militära landskapen bör studeras i en större geopolitisk säkerhetskontext; därför inkluderar jag också en historisk studie av svensk försvarspolitik och militära markanskaffningar. En viktig insats med denna uppsats, förutom att bidra med en svensk kontext till militära landskapsstudier, är att testa ett historiskt-ekologiskt ramverk i analys och metod vid studier av militära landskap då jag anser att denna uppsats är ett pilot-projekt för militära landskapsstudier i Sverige och ger incitament till vidare forskning i ämnet. De svenska militära landskapen som studeras här har upp till en hundraårig närvaro av militär aktivitet. Vissa övnings- och skjutfält såsom Marma och Revingehed, vilka också är Natura 2000- områden, har haft militär aktivitet sedan slutet av 1800- talet, och de varierande militära ytorna och byggnaderna främjar en militär biografi, en identitet knuten till landskapet, vilken förstärker fortsatt militär närvaro. Presentationen av de militära fälten som ekologiska refuger av sällsynta arter och habitat är uppenbar i skötsel- och vårdplanerna av de studerade landskapen. Sättet som det militära landskapet förstås, legitimeras och produceras ur militärperspektiv i policy och dokument är, som jag kommer argumentera, koncentrerade kring två faktorer. För det första, militär närvaro i ett landskap är ett resultat av en militariseringsprocess baserat på en geopolitisk kontext och försvarsbeslut. Militär närvaro har en långsiktig effekt i form av en förändring av den fysiska naturen och utvecklingen av en biologisk mångfald. För det andra, de långsiktiga positiva effekterna underbygger en naturvårdsdiskurs inom militären när det kommer till att motivera dåtida och nuvarande militär landskapsanvändning, och för att rättfärdiga en fortsatt militär närvaro.
Diaz-Palacios, Sylvia Anaid. "Environmental variation and life-history evolution : experiments on Caenorhabditis remanei." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/744/.
Full textOostheok, Kornelis Jan Willem. "An environmental history of state forestry in Scotland, 1919-1970." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1450.
Full textOttke, Doug. "An environmental history of the 19th century Marquette Iron Range." Reston, Va. : U.S. Geological Survey, 2000. http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS10143.
Full textPatrick, Andrew P. "BLUEGRASS CAPITAL: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY TO 1860." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/51.
Full textLascelles, D. B. "Holocene environmental and pedogenic history of the Hiraethog Moors, Clwyd." Thesis, Bangor University, 1995. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/holocene-environmental-and-pedogenic-history-of-the-hiraethog-moors-clwyd(3c8e72ad-217e-4927-9aba-8ab6143d6594).html.
Full textHansen, Bradley Paul. "An Environmental History of the Bear River Range, 1860-1910." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1724.
Full textWarrick, Alyssa Diane. ""Deep" South| Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and Environmental Knowledge, 1800-1974." Thesis, Mississippi State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10642996.
Full textMammoth Cave in Kentucky is the longest known cave in the world. This dissertation examines the history of how scientists and non-scientists alike contributed to a growing body of knowledge about Mammoth Cave and how that knowledge in turn affected land use decisions in the surrounding neighborhood. During the nineteenth century visitors traveled through Mammoth Cave along with their guides, gaining knowledge of the cave by using their senses and spreading that knowledge through travel narratives. After the Civil War, cave guides, now free men who chose to stay in the neighborhood, used the cave as a way to build and support their community. New technologies and new visitors reconstructed the Mammoth Cave experience. Competing knowledge of locals and science-minded individuals, new technologies to spread the cave experience, and a growing tourism industry in America spurred the Kentucky Cave Wars during the late-nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, cutthroat competition between caves crystallized support for a national park at Mammoth Cave. Park promoters met resistance. Cave owners’ knowledge of what they owned underground helped them resist condemnation. Those affected by the coming of the national park made their protests known on the landscape, in newspapers, and in courtrooms. The introduction of New Deal workers, primarily the Civilian Conservation Corps, at Mammoth Cave and a skeleton staff of National Park Service officials faced antagonism from the local community. Important discoveries inside Mammoth Cave hastened the park’s creation, but not without lingering bitterness that would affect later preservation efforts. The inability of the park promoters to acquire two caves around Mammoth Cave was a failure for the national park campaign but a boon for exploration. The postwar period saw returning veterans and their families swarming national parks. While the parking lots at Mammoth Cave grew crowded and the Park Service attempted to balance preservation and development for the enjoyment of the visiting public, underground explorers were pushing the cave’s known extent to new lengths. This new knowledge inspired a new generation of environmentalists and preservationists to use the Wilderness Act to advocate for a cave wilderness designation at Mammoth Cave National Park.
Koroglu, Nuri Tunga. "The Environmental History Of Land And Water Usage In The Modernity Period Of Turkey." Phd thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12605991/index.pdf.
Full textWright, Crystal T. "Through Her Own Eyes: Environmental Rhetoric in Women's Autobiographical Frontier Writing." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/108.
Full textGleave, Daniel Richard. "History and technology of Lemuel Chenoweth's covered bridges." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89849.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-102).
Lemuel Chenoweth was a carpenter and bridge builder who played a key role in the development of the infrastructure of antebellum Virginia. Theodore Burr and Lewis Wernwag are among the designers who influenced the structure and construction of his bridges, two of which are currently standing in West Virginia. The timber covered bridge at Beverly is one of Chenoweth's key creations that have been lost, which was at the time located on a key turnpike running through the county seat. The first goal of the following study is to establish the geometry of the Beverly Bridge. To do this, historical photographs of the construction and the finished bridge were studied. Salvaged timbers from the bridge were observed to establish the cross-sectional dimensions and species of the wood. Finally, surveys of Chenoweth's existing bridges were performed to determine the probable joinery and truss dimensions. A second goal is to perform a simplified and finite element analysis of the bridge in order to determine its performance under modern vehicle loading. A third goal is to determine the feasibility of reconstruction of the bridge. The Beverly Bridge is compared to other existing timber covered bridges of a similar span and type in order to prove that similar bridges can withstand modern loads adequately. Modifications that may be made to the bridge are then discussed, covering both structural and nonstructural considerations. Finally, the cost of reconstructing the bridge today is assessed.
by Daniel Richard Gleave.
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Chang, Sheng-Po Grabill Joseph L. "Teaching American history in Taiwan from an environmental point of view." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9914565.
Full textTitle from title page screen, viewed July 10, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Joseph L. Grabill (chair), Frederick D. Drake, Lawrence W. McBride. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-185) and abstract. Also available in print.
von, Euler Tove. "Environmental heterogeneity, population dynamics and life-history differentiation in Primula farinosa." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Botaniska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-79566.
Full textAt the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Manuscript. Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.
Burbidge, Susan Margot. "Holocene environmental history of Lake Winnipeg, thecamoebians and stable lead isotopes." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ26848.pdf.
Full textMaier, Kevin. "Environmental rhetoric of American hunting and fishing narratives : a revisionist history /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1232423281&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textTypescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 249-256). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Newman, Lareen A. "Environmental history of the Willunga Basin, 1830's to 1990's /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arn553.pdf.
Full textAllen, H. D. "Late Quaternary of the Kopais Basin, Greece : Sedimentary and environmental history." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383701.
Full textEdenbrow, Mathew. "Behavioural phenotypes : associated life-history traits and environmental effects on development." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3278.
Full textBrowne, B. J. "The environmental history of Washing Lough, Kilrea, Co. Derry, Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281430.
Full textLumley, Susanne Helen. "Late Quaternary vegetational and environmental history of the Taitao Peninsula, Chile." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320035.
Full textKing, Giorgina F. J. ""Skarrelling" : a socio-environmental history of household waste in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86689.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study excavates a century’s worth of the history of household waste in South Africa, from 1890-1996. It shows that waste history is entangled with histories of disease and poor sanitation, advances in technology, the impact of war, environmental concerns and – perhaps above all – shifting socio-economic circumstances. Using a socio-environmental analytical framework, this analysis of waste history unearths empirical archival data and oral testimony, to contextualise themes of gender, race, class and nationalism in order to place rubbish within the wider historical debates in South Africa. This study uses Rubbish Theory and Broken Windows Theory as well as concepts of “Othering” and the “Sanitation Syndrome” to explore the role of waste in the construction of racial identities and perceptions. This thesis shows that Apartheid should not be seen as a watershed within this waste history, but rather as a continuation of colonial ideas of cleanliness that helped to perpetuate racist stereotypes. This study argues that the lack of waste services in “locations” during this time helped to contribute to the perception of the urban African as the unsanitary Other. The state and civic societies fostered gender roles, which (coupled with wartime nationalist propaganda) helped in shaping waste behaviour promoted by the National Anti-Waste Organisation (NAWO) during the Second World War (WWII). In the years after WWII, the threats of wartime shortages and enthusiastic solutions suggested to municipalities to “end the waste problem” were thwarted by the spread of the landfill as an even more convenient disposal method. The implementation of Apartheid, especially the Group Areas Act (No 41 of 1950) and the rise of consumer society, led to increasingly divergent experiences of waste for urban Africans and whites. The thesis uses a case study of the Devon Valley Landfill community outside of Stellenbosch. This ethnographic history explores notions of the “Subaltern” in order to give this history a human face. The diachronic analysis of this community offers a lens into ideas of “ordentlikheid” (decency), “weggooi mense” (throwaway people) and how these waste-pickers experience the environment in which they live.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie grawe ’n eeu se geskiedenis van huishoudelike afval in Suid-Afrika op, van 1890-1996. Dit toon dat die geskiedenis van afval verweef is met geskiedenisse van siekte en swak sanitasie, tegnologiese vooruitgang, die impak van oorlog, omgewingskwessies en – dalk bowenal – veranderende sosio-ekonomiese omstandighede. Deur middel van ’n sosio-omgewings-analitiese raamwerk ontgin hierdie analise empiriese argiefdata en mondelingse getuienis om temas van geslag, ras, klas en nasionalisme te kontekstualiseer ten einde afval binne die breër historiese debatte in Suid-Afrika te plaas. Die studie gebruik Afval-teorie en Gebreekte Vensters-teorie sowel as begrippe van “Othering” en die “Sanitasie-sindroom” om die rol van afval in die totstandkoming van rasse-identiteite en -persepsies te ondersoek. Die tesis toon dat Apartheid nie as ’n waterskeiding in hierdie afval-geskiedenis gesien moet word nie, maar eerder as ’n voortsetting van koloniale idees oor higiëne wat gehelp het om rasse-stereotipes te perpetueer. Die studie argumenteer dat die gebrek aan afvalverwyderingsdienste in “lokasies” in die tyd bygedra het tot die persepsie van die stedelike Afrikaan as die onhigiëniese Ander. Die staat en burgerlike samelewings het geslagsrolle gekweek, wat (tesame met oorlogtydse nasionalistiese propaganda) gehelp het met die vestiging van afval-gedrag wat bevorder is deur die National Anti-Waste Organisation (NAWO) gedurende die Tweede Wêreldoorlog. In die jare na dié oorlog is die bedreigings van oorlogtydse tekorte en die entoesiastiese oplossings wat vir munisipaliteite aanbeveel is om die “afvalprobleem te beëindig”, gefnuik deur die toenemende gebruik van stortingsterreine as ’n selfs geriefliker afvalverwyderingsmetode. Die implementering van Apartheid, veral die Groepsgebiedewet (No. 41 van 1950) en die opkoms van die verbruikersamelewing, het gelei tot toenemend uiteenlopende ervarings van afval onder stedelike Afrikane en wit mense. Die tesis maak gebruik van ’n gevallestudie van die gemeenskap van die Devonvallei-stortingsterrein buite Stellenbosch. Hierdie etnografiese geskiedenis verken denkbeelde van die “Ondergeskikte” om ’n menslike gesig aan die geskiedenis te gee. Die diakroniese analise van die gemeenskap is ’n venster op idees van “ordentlikheid”, “weggooimense” en hoe hierdie afvalontginners die omgewing waarin hulle woon, beleef.
McLennan, Darryl. "Life history & environmental effects on telomere dynamics in Atlantic salmon." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7833/.
Full textBurbidge, Susan M. (Susan Margot) Carleton University Dissertation Earth Sciences. "Holocene environmental history of lake Winnipeg; thecamoebians and stable lead isotopes." Ottawa, 1997.
Find full textSmurr, Robert Welling. "Perceptions of nature, expressions of nation : an environmental history of Estonia /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10338.
Full textZhou, Yuxin. "Situating Asian American Environmental (In)Justices through Radical History Walking Tours." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2020. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/213.
Full textHince, Bernadette. "The teeth of the wind : an environmental history of subantarctic islands." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10859.
Full textOtter, Robert. "Aspects of environmental public health in Portsmouth, 1764-1864." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387284.
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