Dissertations / Theses: 'Environmental knowledge'

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Miles, Leon Anthony. "Knowledge management and environmental management." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365193.

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Fukuda, Kyoko. "Computer-Enhanced Knowledge Discovery in Environmental Science." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Mathematics and Statistics, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2140.

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Encouraging the use of computer algorithms by developing new algorithms and introducing uncommonly known algorithms for use on environmental science problems is a significant contribution, as it provides knowledge discovery tools to extract new aspects of results and draw new insights, additional to those from general statistical methods. Conducting analysis with appropriately chosen methods, in terms of quality of performance and results, computation time, flexibility and applicability to data of various natures, will help decision making in the policy development and management process for environmental studies. This thesis has three fundamental aims and motivations. Firstly, to develop a flexibly applicable attribute selection method, Tree Node Selection (TNS), and a decision tree assessment tool, Tree Node Selection for assessing decision tree structure (TNS-A), both of which use decision trees pre-generated by the widely used C4.5 decision tree algorithm as their information source, to identify important attributes from data. TNS helps the cost effective and efficient data collection and policy making process by selecting fewer, but important, attributes, and TNS-A provides a tool to assess the decision tree structure to extract information on the relationship of attributes and decisions. Secondly, to introduce the use of new, theoretical or unknown computer algorithms, such as the K-Maximum Subarray Algorithm (K-MSA) and Ant-Miner, by adjusting and maximizing their applicability and practicality to assess environmental science problems to bring new insights. Additionally, the unique advanced statistical and mathematical method, Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA), is demonstrated as a data pre-processing method to help improve C4.5 results on noisy measurements. Thirdly, to promote, encourage and motivate environmental scientists to use ideas and methods developed in this thesis. The methods were tested with benchmark data and various real environmental science problems: sea container contamination, the Weed Risk Assessment model and weed spatial analysis for New Zealand Biosecurity, air pollution, climate and health, and defoliation imagery. The outcome of this thesis will be to introduce the concept and technique of data mining, a process of knowledge discovery from databases, to environmental science researchers in New Zealand and overseas by collaborating on future research to achieve, together with future policy and management, to maintain and sustain a healthy environment to live in.

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Gutto, Bassett Priscilla Pambana. "Handcraft and Environmental Knowledge: Mapuche Women Weavers." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/146.

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Beginning in a small informal collective of Mapuche women weavers in Puerto Saavedra, Chile, I explore how ecological knowledge has survived through textile handcraft, passed down from mother to daughter . Through analysis of interviews and observations with the women as weavers , I reflect on the importance of centering Indigenous women's knowledge, systematically excluded from the environmental cannon. The weavers maintain and shape traditions that have survived colonization and its disruption of Indigenous access to land and ways of living. They produce and transmit environmental knowledge on which they depend for subsistence and cultural expression. Using ecofeminism as a framework, I argue that the Mapuche women weavers' knowledge is counternarrative and expert knowledge. Through these stories told by hand and through oral story-telling it becomes clear that it is not enough to simply celebrate their beautiful craft and sustainable ways of interacting with the more-than-human environment; it is essential, also, to engage in activist work towards environmental and social justice.

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Parker, Jonathan. "Sustainable Environmental Identities for Environmental Sustainability: Remaking Environmental Identities with the Help of Indigenous Knowledge." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc177240/.

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Early literature in the field of environmental ethics suggests that environmental problems are not technological problems requiring technological solutions, but rather are problems deeply rooted in Western value systems calling for a reorientation of our values. This dissertation examines what resources are available to us in reorienting our values if this starting point is correct. Three positions can be observed in the environmental ethics literature on this issue: 1. We can go back and reinterpret our Western canonical texts and figures to determine if they can be useful in providing fresh insight on today's environmental challenges; 2. We abandon the traditional approaches, since these are what led to the crisis in the first place, and we seek to establish entirely new approaches and new environmental identities to face the environmental challenges of the 21st century; 3. We look outside of the Western tradition for guidance from other cultures to see how they inhabit and interact with the natural world. This dissertation presents and evaluates these three options and ultimately argues for an approach similar to the third option, suggesting that dialogue with indigenous cultures and traditions can help us to reorient our values and assist in developing more sustainable environmental identities.

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Chi, Jeffrey C. (Jeffrey Chien-Chuen). "The knowledge evolution framework : a knowledge management perspective on the impact of knowledge segregation on product development projects." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8621.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216).
Developing offerings faster, better and cheaper than competitors has become critical to success. In response to these commercial pressures, many industries have shifted from a sequential, functional development paradigm to a concurrent, team-based paradigm. Increasing the concurrence and cross-functional development, however, also dramatically increases the dynamic complexity of development projects. This is added complexity on top of the increasing technological complexity of offerings. Whilst traditional models based on tools such as the CPM and PERT have been used for the planning and management of such projects successfully in the past, the increase in complexity has shown that such tools are less capable of planning and predicting the outcome of projects. This is due to the dynamic nature of projects and the task-based approach used. Recent research using dynamic simulation tools such as system dynamics have indicated reasons that project duration and cost have been consistently underestimated. The differentiation is attributed to the ability of dynamic simulation tools to capture the iterative nature of work. Existing research has, however, concentrated on iteration as a result of errors, quality control and shifting targets. Although these factors do contribute to iteration, they seem almost exogenous factors where independent policies can be used to mitigate the need for iteration. Yet all texts on design and product development describe the process as an iterative one. There must, therefore, be some endogenous factors that result in an inherent need for iteration. With the level of complexity of projects, specialization becomes necessary. As a result, no individual within a project has 'lull" knowledge about the project and its current state of development. In other words, the information and knowledge is segregated to different parts of the project organization. This research proposes a shift towards a knowledge-evolution paradigm and uses it to investigate the impacts of such knowledge segregation on the performance of product development projects. This proposed framework acts, in part, to provide management levers and measurements in managing the knowledge within product development projects. These are measurements that the traditional task-based frameworks cannot directly provide. A dynamic simulation model of a development project with multiple persons was built using the system dynamics methodology. The model portrays the segregation of knowledge and studies its impact on the rate of development and iteration. The model was applied to projects with a scope defined by the Delta Design Game. Though simple, the Delta Design game provides the boundaries in understanding the interactions amongst participants in a typical process and has been used in the past primarily to demonstrate this aspect of design. The model simulation bore results that closely resembled real life behavior of the Delta Design project. The model was also applied to the investigation of differing policies for improved project performance. These policies include strategies involving conservatism in design, preemptive measures against iteration and reduction of knowledge segregation through the decoupling of the knowledge processes. The model structure provides insight as to the effectiveness of these strategies. The research finds that rework and iteration happens inherently in development projects and its prevalence is interwoven into the fabric of the system architecture and project organization structure. Finally, this research has shown value in the knowledge evolution paradigm by gathering insights through which task-based models could not. In so doing so, it is shown that there is value in developing this conc
by Jeffrey C. Chi.
Ph.D.

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Hannibal-Paci, Christopher James. "His knowledge and my knowledge, Cree and Ojibwe traditional environmental knowledge and sturgeon co-management in Manitoba." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0008/NQ53046.pdf.

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Lasso, de la Vega Ernesto. "AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ATTITUDE ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: RESP." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2648.

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Over the last 30 years, environmental education has been part of the curriculum in Southwest Florida public schools. Curriculum objectives, such as, environmental attitude, knowledge, and awareness (AKA), have been investigated in the literature as ways to improve the overall behavior of future citizens toward the environment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the aforementioned objectives among the following groups: environmental specialists, high school instructors, high school students, and the parents of the corresponding students in three Southwest Florida counties during the 2003-2004 school year. An instrument was developed to measure the groups' levels of awareness, knowledge, and attitude as well as their levels of self-efficacy. The returned surveys represented responses from: 27 environmental specialists, 15 high school instructors, 224 high school students, and 222 parents. This study found statistically significant differences among the groups regarding the levels of awareness, knowledge, and attitude as related to environmental issues. The environmental specialists scored highest for all AKA components as compared to the lowest levels presented by parent awareness, parent attitude, and high school student knowledge. In addition, factors such as socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and preference of leisure activities resulted in differences among the groups regarding their levels of environmental AKA. This study supports the evaluation of AKA levels among participants as an appropriate approach to the evaluation of environmental curriculum objectives. In addition, the study suggests a simplified measurement of AKA as an attempt to unify the parameters measured by numerous instruments found throughout environmental education literature. The results of this study may assist environmental specialists, instructors, and school districts in the evaluation of environmental education curricula.
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Department of Educational Studies
Education
Curriculum and Instruction

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DaSilva, Christian M. (Christian Michael) Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. "Divergence or convergence? Local environmental knowledge, secondary schools, and environmental education in Tanzania." Ottawa, 1995.

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Sato, Atsuko. "Beyond boundaries Japan, knowledge, and transnational networks in global atmospheric politics /." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53965208.html.

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Finn, Gavin Alexander. "Event-driven knowledge-based design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11386.

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Field, Robert Cushman. "Knowledge representation for contructed facilities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45479.

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Ramming, Michael Scott. "Network knowledge and route choice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49797.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-236).
Models of urban traveler route choice are reviewed in the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems, particularly Advanced Traveler Information S ystems. Existing models suffer from assumptions of perfect information about travel conditions a nd infinite information processing capabilities of drivers. We present evidence that a majority of travelers fail to minimize travel time or distance. We also show that travelers with more network knowledge appear to vary their commute route to respond to changing travel conditions. Coefficient estimates of a model of network knowledge, based on the geographical idea of spatial ability, are presented. To better understand habitual route choice behavior, we examine many possible route generation algorithms. A simulation approach is preferred because it allows for heterogeneity in driver perceptions and it has a quick computational time. Alternative route choice model specifications such as Multinomial Logit, C-Logit, Path Size Logit, Cross-Nested Logit and Logit Kernel Probit are evaluated. The exponential specification of the Path S ize term, using a large parameter value, offers a considerable improvement in fit over MNL, C -Logit and CNL. A hybrid Path Size Logit and Logit Kernel Probit model offers the best overall fit; however, the stability of these estimates requires further examination. The hybrid Path S ize Logit and CNL model provides the next best empirical fit. Random coefficient specifications of MNL, PS L and LK Probit models were also examined.
Significant random coefficient parameter estimates were only obtained for the MNL model. This result suggests that random coefficients capture variation in route choice models that would be more effectively explained by a Path S ize or LK Probit specification. Model fit can be further improved by adding an Implicit Availability/Perception term that includes estimated network knowledge. However, this term provides limited explanatory power, as can be seen by its standard errors and by forecasts that are relatively insensitive to changes in traveler knowledge. These results suggest that continued development of better attitudinal surveys to assess network knowledge and wayfinding strategies would allow estimation of route choice models with better explanatory power.
by Michael Scott Ramming.
Ph.D.

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van, Drumpt Thomas. "The effects of gamification on environmental knowledge and behaviors." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-19962.

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Doran, Peter. "Earth, power, knowledge : towards a critical global environmental politics." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311223.

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SALMI, MILLA. "Social or environmental labelling- Consumers’ knowledge, attitudes and preferences." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-18012.

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Social or environmental labelling- Consumers’ knowledge, attitudes and preferencesEngelska nyckelord: labelling, social or environmental labelling, eco-labelling, sustainability, transparency, fashion consumer, visual/verbal communication, consumer buying behaviour, green consumerism.Sammanfattning på engelska: In the recent years the Swedish fashion retailers have increased their range of various social or environmental labels on their garments which in return has created confusion amongst the fashion consumers. Currently, there are approximately fourteen different third-party labelling standards in Sweden and a diverse range of self-controlled labelling standards. The reason for this increase can partly be explained by the increasing pressure from various actors to act more sustainably and ethically, and companies having realized a competitive advantage by adopting sustainable strategies. This study provides a preliminary exploration into the types of social and environmental labels that are available on the Swedish market and consumers’ knowledge, attitudes and preferences regarding these labels. Based on two focus group discussions held at two different occasions, respondents indicated that environmental labelling of clothing could influence their purchase decision positively if product related attributes (design and quality) have the same standard as non-sustainable clothing. Although consumers’ knowledge about the social or environmental labels is relatively low, they have an increased interest to learn more about the various labels and the potential environmental impact the fashion industry may cause. However, the growing involvement of taking social or environmental issues into consideration does not always lead to consumers actually purchasing eco-friendlier clothes, and thus these two “identities” are not yet compatible with each other.Additionally, consumers respond differently to positive and negative labelling, where negative labelling seems to have a stronger effect on their feelings and may influence their purchase decision. When it comes to the design of the label, visual and verbal communications are additives and a label should also have a numerical rating system, which states how sustainable a garment is in comparison to other garments. Furthermore, the logo should be more coherent with the fashion industry in terms of colours and illustrations. Moreover, consumers think that there is a lack of information at the point of purchase regarding the social and environmental labels and this should be addressed with either QR-code or by providing a simple brochure.
Program: Textilt management, fashion management

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van, Drumpt Thomas. "Gamification and its effects on environmental knowledge and behavior." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-20387.

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The world is faced with many different environmental challenges. These challenges will need to be addressed with a variety of different tools. The way people behave has a significant impact on environmental contributions and as such influencing behavior towards better environmental decision making is something that should be addressed. Gamification is the introduction of elements of play in situations which are normally not considered play. Gamification has been shown to change the way people interact with their environments. The environmental field is ripe for testing how gamification can be used to increase environmentally beneficial behavior. Two case studies were conducted at MIUN campus in Östersund. One study focused on creating a fun and interesting method to increase environmental learning.The other study attempted to change the way students recycled on campus.The learning study produced results which were slightly better for the gamifiedinformation in terms of knowledge acquisition compared to students who read apamphlet (66% for the game and 56% for the pamphlet). More importantly 98%students considered the game to be interesting and were more willing to participate in it.The recycling study showed that environmental behavior could be affected by a gamified environment. The test week showed a 41% increase in recycling over theprevious 2 weeks. A properly designed game environment has the potential to change the way people behave in a beneficial way for the environment. It is important that the gamemechanics match the stated goals or this could lead to failed implementation.

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Gilbertson, Kenneth L. "Environmental Literacy: Outdoor Education Training and its Effect on Knowledge and Attitude Toward the Environment." Connect to resource, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1224793460.

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Karlsson, Sandra, and Alexandra Lindström. "Is knowledge enough? : A qualitative study investigating the knowledge-action gap of environmental science students." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Miljöförändring, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-167185.

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In order to slow down, if not stop, climate change, we all need to contribute to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. This knowledge has been with us for a long time, but nevertheless emissions have not decreased, but rather increased. To understand the reason why we don't act in line with what we know, we need to study behaviors. In this paper we focus on behaviors at the individual level. The gap that exists between what we know and what we do has many names where it is studied from different perspectives, and to understand what creates this gap is very complex. There is therefore not just one answer to this question and many different complementary theories and models are needed. The majority of the studies carried out on the subject examine perceptionsof the gap among people without higher education in environmental science, which has contributed to knowledge being, in many cases,seen as one of the main contributing factors to inaction.In our study, we want to contribute with a perspective on the gapin people who already have a higher education in environmental science. We conducted a qualitative study with three focus group interviews with environmental science students at Linköping University. The results show that, despite higher education and knowledge, there are variousindividual, structural and responsibility factors thathinder individuals fromactingenvironmentally friendly. Throughout the analysis the situational aspect comes into play and that knowledge of the complexity of environmental and climate issues can in many cases contribute to inaction.
För att kunna bromsa, om inte stoppa, klimatförändringarna behöver vi alla bidra till att minska våra växthusgasutsläpp. Denna vetskap har funnits med oss länge, men trots det har inte utsläppen minskat utan snarare ökat. För att förstå orsaken till varför vi inte agerar i linje med vad vi vet behöver vi studera beteenden. I denna uppsats fokuserar vi på beteenden på individnivå. Det gap som finns mellan vad vi vet och vad vi gör har många namn (e.g. value-action gap, attitude-behavior gap) där man studerar det utifrån olika perspektiv. Att förstå vad som skapar detta gap är mycket komplext. Det finns därmed inte ett rätt svar på denna fråga utan det behövs många olika kompletterande teorier och modeller. Majoriteten av de studier som gjorts undersöker uppfattningar om gapet hos personer utan högre utbildning inom miljövetenskap. Vilket har bidragit till att bristande kunskap i många fall setts som en av de största bidragande faktorerna till overksamhet. Vi vill därmed i vår studie bidra med ett perspektiv på gapet utifrån personer som redan har en högre utbildning inom miljövetenskap, och kallar således gapet för knowledge-action gap. Vi genomförde en kvalitativ studie med tre fokusgruppsintervjuer med miljövetarstudenter från Linköpings universitet. Resultatet visar på att det, trots en högre utbildning och kunskap, finns många olika, individuella, strukturella och ansvarsrelaterade, faktorer som gör att en individ inte agerar miljövänligt. Genomgående i analysen för dessa är att den situationella aspekten spelar in samt att kunskapen om miljö-och klimatfrågans komplexitet i många fall kan bidra till overksamhet.

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Moors, Allan D. "An indigenous knowledge garden, an urban teaching garden for the preservation of indigenous environmental knowledge." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0004/MQ41665.pdf.

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Amarant, Arlene. "An investigation into the environmental knowledge, attittudes and behavioural intentions of elementary school students." Thesis, Curtin University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/898.

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This study was designed to find out elementary students knowledge about the environment, their attitudes towards helping the environment and what they actually have done to help the environment. Specifically, during the northern spring of 2002 all grade-4 and grade-5 students in one public elementary school in Miami-Dade County, Florida were administered the Children's Environmental Attitude and Knowledge Scale (CHEAKS) instrument. In 2002, some students in both grade levels interviewed each other in pairs to determine why they answered the way they did on the CHEAKS instrument. In the interviews, students discussed what they had been taught in school, compared to what they had learned outside of school that was related to the environment. The following year, during the northern spring of 2003, all grade-4 and grade-5 students in the same elementary school were given the CHEAKS instrument. Students at the elementary school were also asked questions which they answered in writing. These included: Which questions on the survey did you feel were difficult?; what do you remember learning about environmental education in school, at home or elsewhere? In addition, some gifted grade-6 students, who attended the nearby middle school and other grade-6 students who were in heterogeneous ability classes also responded to the CHEAKS instrument.Analysis of the data showed that grade-4 students in this elementary school had a higher commitment to the environment than did grade-5 students and gifted students had more knowledge than regular students. Only the gifted students in grade-5 had a high commitment to the environment. Comparing independent t-test results in year 2002 between grade-5 regular students (n=105) and grade-5 gifted students (n=30), grade-5 gifted students were statistically less committed to the environment in terms of scores on the Verbal Commitment. There was no difference in knowledge or commitment in grade-6 students. Girls were more verbally committed to the environment than boys. Having knowledge about the environment did not necessarily mean students were committed to saving the environment or took action to solve environmental problems. The thesis concludes with explanations, discussions about the limitations of the study and suggestions for further research.

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Abdalla, Mohammed Ammar. "Environmental knowledge and city perception, with a focus on the energy link to environmental aesthetics." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26845.

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Architecture exists to respond to environmental problems that affect human life, many of which are directly related to energy principles. In the early stages of man's adaptation, these challenges set the criteria for indigenous architecture. Certain formal solutions became recognised as more reliable in meeting environmental potentials and a deep appreciation of these emerged. This persisted even as the evolution of the intellect allowed man to move away from direct, survivalist responses to the environment into a more symbol -based and mutual relationship. The process of change, however, has developed into one of internationalisation. In Libya, the subject area of this thesis, building techniques are used that have no relevance to the environment. This fracture between the natural and artificial has created many problems. This thesis will research these accumulated problems by studying the city image, which lead the author to assert the role of energy in setting the criteria for environmental quality.

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Sethusha, Mantsose Jane. "How primary school learners conceptualize the environment and environmental education." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10022007-134249/.

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Pokhrel, Lok R., Brajesh Dubey, and Phillip R. Scheuerman. "Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment: A Critical Appraisal of Uncertainty and Knowledge Gaps in Human Health Risk Assessment." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2882.

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Grover, David. "Knowledge in pollution-saving technological change." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/517/.

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This thesis looks at the role that technical knowledge plays in the transition in industry away from pollution-intensive production methods. It uses econometric techniques and qualitative analysis to test three aspects of the relationship between knowledge and pollution-saving technological change-related outcomes, all in the context of US industry, and all with respect to conventional pollutants. The first paper observes that the level of industrial environmental R&D spending steadily declined from the late 1970s onward. Employing an estimation model with industry fixed effects, the hypothesis is tested that this decline was the result of the conditioning effect of greater flexibility in the design of the environmental policy on the environmental regulatory burden born by industry. The second paper investigates the sources of the change in SO2 intensity of electricity production undergone by electric power plants under the SO2 cap and trade program. Mixed methods including quantile regression are used to compare the effect of frontier technical knowledge on the extent of change undergone, relative to the effect of knowledge un-intensive techniques. The third paper investigates why a small number of inventions aimed at controlling pollution from automobiles turned out to be so much more technologically influential than the great majority of comparable inventions, which exerted very little technological influence at all. Negative binomial regression is used to test the effect of the composition of the stock of knowledge that the automobile companies brought to bear on the inventive process. These studies find that pollution-saving technological change is characterised more by the repurposing and adaptation of existing knowledge and by the churn among existing technologies, than by universal technological advance in dedicated environmental technologies. The implications for climate mitigation policy are discussed in the conclusions.

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Jones, Sandra Joyce. "How an after school environmental science club can increase environmental knowledge: Awareness and sensitivity towards the environment for third and fourth grade students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3377.

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Children today are disconnected from the natural environment around them, sometimes finding it annoying, lacking in excitement, and little use to them. Their attention and focus are spent inside watching TV, playing games on computers or a variety of other electronic devices. The purpose of this project was to see if after-school exposure to an Enirovnmental Science Club on the school grounds can impact student attitudes toward our local environment and to increase these third and fourth grade students' knowledge and awareness of their environment.

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Warrick, Alyssa Diane. ""Deep" South| Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and Environmental Knowledge, 1800-1974." Thesis, Mississippi State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10642996.

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Mammoth 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.

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Hedbrant, Johan. "Structuring empirical knowledge on environmental issues : urban heavy metal metabolism /." Linköping : Univ, 2003. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2003/arts283s.pdf.

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Whitman, Geoff Peter. "Environmental knowledge and policy construction : the English less favoured areas." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.427299.

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Barraza, Laura. "Environmental knowledge and attitudes of English and Mexican school children." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245107.

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Haughton, Guillaumette. "Knowledge, power and emotions in stakeholder participation within environmental governance." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10628/.

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Environmental concerns are high on the political agenda in the current circumstances of climate change and uncertainty. Given the complex nature of environmental concerns, incorporating many different stakeholders and fields of expertise, it can be difficult to see how any agreement can be reached on ways forward, and especially what might be the ‘right’ approach to governance. This thesis uses interpretive policy analysis to investigate the way in which flood alleviation policy is implemented at local scales, examining the decision-making processes that lead to change. The empirical study examines two case studies of flood alleviation sites in South Yorkshire subject to policy processes concerning flood risk following the dramatic weather patterns of recent years, and leading to structural changes to the sites. By focussing on the themes that emerged from the data and the stories that were important to stakeholders a new perspective on the governance process emerges. The way in which we conceptualise power and knowledge/expertise is examined, and the role of place attachment and relationship to place is positioned alongside traditional interpretation, to offer a more rounded perspective which accounts for the intricacies and individuality of the policy making processes which affect different places. The thesis has developed a new approach to the understanding of environmental governance, which brings together interpretive policy analysis with relationship to place, incorporating understandings of emotions and collective memory to broaden the understanding of the way stakeholders impact on the changes to environmental sites. Through this suggestions are made about the way in which policy processes can be changed to offer more equality and justice within governance processes.

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Valencia, Mireya. "Restoring Reciprocity: Indigenous Knowledges and Environmental Education." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/224.

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Environmental education in the U.S. has been slow to incorporate Indigenous knowledges, with most pre-university curriculum centering around Western science. I believe incorporating Indigenous knowledges into environmental education can promote reciprocal, critical, and active human-nature relationships. While Indigenous knowledges should infiltrate all levels of environmental education, I argue that alternative forms of education which operate outside the formal school system might present the fewest immediate obstacles.

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Zbib, Rabih M. (Rabih Mohamed) 1974. "Using linguistic knowledge in statistical machine translation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62391.

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Thesis (Ph. D. in Information Technology)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2010.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-162).
In this thesis, we present methods for using linguistically motivated information to enhance the performance of statistical machine translation (SMT). One of the advantages of the statistical approach to machine translation is that it is largely language-agnostic. Machine learning models are used to automatically learn translation patterns from data. SMT can, however, be improved by using linguistic knowledge to address specific areas of the translation process, where translations would be hard to learn fully automatically. We present methods that use linguistic knowledge at various levels to improve statistical machine translation, focusing on Arabic-English translation as a case study. In the first part, morphological information is used to preprocess the Arabic text for Arabic-to-English and English-to-Arabic translation, which reduces the gap in the complexity of the morphology between Arabic and English. The second method addresses the issue of long-distance reordering in translation to account for the difference in the syntax of the two languages. In the third part, we show how additional local context information on the source side is incorporated, which helps reduce lexical ambiguity. Two methods are proposed for using binary decision trees to control the amount of context information introduced. These methods are successfully applied to the use of diacritized Arabic source in Arabic-to-English translation. The final method combines the outputs of an SMT system and a Rule-based MT (RBMT) system, taking advantage of the flexibility of the statistical approach and the rich linguistic knowledge embedded in the rule-based MT system.
by Rabih M. Zbib.
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Amarant, Arlene. "An investigation into the environmental knowledge, attittudes and behavioural intentions of elementary school students." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2006. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=16915.

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This study was designed to find out elementary students knowledge about the environment, their attitudes towards helping the environment and what they actually have done to help the environment. Specifically, during the northern spring of 2002 all grade-4 and grade-5 students in one public elementary school in Miami-Dade County, Florida were administered the Children's Environmental Attitude and Knowledge Scale (CHEAKS) instrument. In 2002, some students in both grade levels interviewed each other in pairs to determine why they answered the way they did on the CHEAKS instrument. In the interviews, students discussed what they had been taught in school, compared to what they had learned outside of school that was related to the environment. The following year, during the northern spring of 2003, all grade-4 and grade-5 students in the same elementary school were given the CHEAKS instrument. Students at the elementary school were also asked questions which they answered in writing. These included: Which questions on the survey did you feel were difficult?; what do you remember learning about environmental education in school, at home or elsewhere? In addition, some gifted grade-6 students, who attended the nearby middle school and other grade-6 students who were in heterogeneous ability classes also responded to the CHEAKS instrument.
Analysis of the data showed that grade-4 students in this elementary school had a higher commitment to the environment than did grade-5 students and gifted students had more knowledge than regular students. Only the gifted students in grade-5 had a high commitment to the environment. Comparing independent t-test results in year 2002 between grade-5 regular students (n=105) and grade-5 gifted students (n=30), grade-5 gifted students were statistically less committed to the environment in terms of scores on the Verbal Commitment. There was no difference in knowledge or commitment in grade-6 students. Girls were more verbally committed to the environment than boys. Having knowledge about the environment did not necessarily mean students were committed to saving the environment or took action to solve environmental problems. The thesis concludes with explanations, discussions about the limitations of the study and suggestions for further research.

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Evans, Peter J. "Community knowledge, attitudes and practices - urban mosquitoes and sustainable mosquito control." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241460.

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Kyritsis, Markos-Akrivos. "Investigating the impact of individual user differences and environmental factors on spatial knowledge acquisition from virtual environments." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4490.

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Trying to ‘learn’ the spatial layout of an environment is a common problem in certain application domains, such as military and emergency personnel training. Until recently this training was accomplished solely by providing maps and briefings of an environment. These methods, however, only provide topological (survey) knowledge of the environment, which pays little attention to the details of routes and landmarks that can only be acquired through the acquisition of procedural knowledge via navigation. Unlike previous experiments concerning spatial knowledge acquisition this work does not attempt to determine whether spatial knowledge acquisition is feasible. Such investigations have yielded a variety of results, yet all agree that spatial knowledge acquisition from a virtual environment is feasible if given enough exposure time. Accordingly, the aim of this thesis is to contribute towards a better understanding of how various individual differences and environmental factors impact the exposure time requirements needed for a person to acquire spatial knowledge from a virtual environment. Although the results of our investigation should be used with caution, we show that a one-size-fits-all situation is not possible when estimating the required exposure time that a user needs to acquire spatial knowledge. Moreover we provide a guide that allows a trainer to predict the required exposure time a person will require, by using the person's personal profile, and the environment's particular factors. In addition, we found that one of the tests we used during our investigation caused unnecessary frustration and confusion to our participants. This test is a standard way of finding a participant's orientation skill, and is commonly used in the area of spatial knowledge acquisition. Therefore, by recreating a new electronic version of the test and comparing the scores from both the new test and the old one our investigation showed that the scores on the new test were significantly higher for all participants. The training time was also lowered significantly. Our updated electronic version will be useful in future research. This test is available online at: www.newgztest.com.

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Elofson, Gregg Steven. "Facilitating knowledge sharing in organizations: Semiautonomous agents that learn to gather, classify, and distribute environmental scanning knowledge." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184743.

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Evaluating patterns of indicators is often the first step an organization takes in scanning the environment. Not surprisingly, the experts that evaluate these patterns are not equally adept across all disciplines. While one expert is particularly skilled at recognizing the potential for political turmoil in a foreign nation, another is best at recognizing how Japanese government de-regulation is meant to complement the development of some new product. Moreover, the experts often benefit from one another's skills and knowledge in assessing activity in the environment external to the organization. One problem in this process occurs when the expert is unavailable and can't share his knowledge. And, addressing the problem of knowledge sharing, of distributing expertise, is the focus of this dissertation. A technical approach is adapted in this effort--an architecture and a prototype are described that provide the capability of capturing, organizing, and delivering the knowledge used by experts in classifying patterns of qualitative indicators about the business environment. Using a combination of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, a collection of objects termed "Apprentices" are employed to do the work of gathering, classifying, and distributing the expertise of knowledge workers in environmental scanning. Furthermore, an archival case study is provided to illustrate the operations of an Apprentice using "real world" data.

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Sugiono, Johanes Chandra. "Application development in a knowledge-based conceptual generator." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37759.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-175).
by Johanes Chandra Sugiono.
M.S.

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Karmol, Stephen N. "Knowledge, values, and action for sustainability environmental education for the 21st century /." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2009. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Karmol_SMITthesis2009.pdf.

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Figus, Elizabeth Carroll. "Using Local Knowledge to Inform Commercial Fisheries Science and Management in Poland and Alaska." Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10747800.

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Science and decision making in commercial fisheries management take place in the context of uncertainty. This research demonstrates ways that local knowledge held by fishermen can be used to mitigate that uncertainty. This dissertation documents local knowledge of fishermen in Poland and Alaska, and contributes to the development of methods for utilizing that local knowledge in commercial fisheries management. Specific case study examples were developed through exploratory interviews with fishermen in the two study regions. Interviews were conducted with Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) fishermen in Poland and Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) fishermen in Alaska. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to analyze local knowledge about ecosystems, as well as preferences held by fishermen about regulations. Cultural consensus analysis was used to quantify agreement among fishermen in Poland about the abundance and condition of cod, and generalized additive modeling was used to show how fishermen and scientists attributed different causes to similar observed phenomena. Multiple factor analysis and logistic regression were used to demonstrate how fishing characteristics influence encounters with incidental catch in the commercial fishery for halibut in Southeast Alaska. Finally, an analytic hierarchy process model was used to shed light on preferences halibut fishermen have about data collection methods on their vessels. All findings show how the inclusion of fishermen’s local knowledge in fisheries management need not be limited to informal conversations or public testimony at meetings in order to be meaningfully interpretable by managers.

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Deutsh, Shoshana. "No science, no democracy : environmental knowledge and scientific activism in Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55116.

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“No Science, No Evidence, No Truth, No Democracy”: this phrase has appeared on signs and has been chanted at protests across Canada since the “Death of Evidence” protests in 2012. It marked the emergence of a number of pro-science organizations that have sought to protect the role of science in Canada’s democracy in the face of substantial changes to science governance in Canada. Arguing against funding cuts to environmental research and libraries, much of the protest has been centred on the emergence of a “wilful ignorance” or “war on science” in Canada. This thesis takes these pro-science activists seriously as part of an emerging social movement working towards changing how federal science is governed and how politics influences its governance. By tracking their modes of resistance, this thesis aims to understand how federal scientists conceive of their role and that of science in democratic governance since the sweeping changes of Bill C-38 and affiliated policies which have been accused of gutting environmental protections and blocking environmental knowledge. I argue that these changes reflect an institutional power shift and have generated a tension between different models of scientific practice within federal institutions. Differing conceptions of scientists as public servants have fuelled the protests, which have focused in particular on the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), a freshwater institute in Kenora, Ontario, a freshwater research station previously managed by Fisheries and Oceans Canada and now by the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Using the ELA as my case study, I analyze how different conceptions of politics and governance have been articulated using discourse analysis as my primary method of study. Adding to current Science & Technology Studies (STS) discussions on the tension between expertise and democratic decision-making, I question the role of federal governance and perceptions of political interference in producing environmental knowledge.
Arts, Faculty of
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Kruglikova, Nina. "The environmental NGO as mediator of scientific knowledge : an ethnographic study." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669734.

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Frank, Robert. "Semantic information integration for knowledge discovery in multi-dimensional environmental systems." Thesis, University of Kent, 2003. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/13928/.

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Ractliffe, Tamzin Pascoe. "Environmental concern, knowledge, and the enactment of environmental citizenship in a retail food environment: an investigation into the perceptions and behaviours of Cape Town consumers." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19993.

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Sustainable consumption has long been recognised as essential for the achievement of sustainable development. Whilst early efforts to achieve sustainable consumption focused on using technological innovation and process efficiencies to reduce the resource intensity of products, create new, less toxic, more environmentally friendly products, and/or improve the efficiency of production processes, the inadequacy of production-based approaches alone has been widely accepted. More recent efforts to achieve sustainable consumption have highlighted that a change in the behaviour of individuals is a prerequisite for its achievement. A significant body of research has focusing on trying to understand the determinants of pro-environmental behaviour and specifically the intersection of environmental concern and environmental knowledge in the manifestation in pro-environmental behaviour. The relatively recent concept of environmental citizenship, premised on the existence of concern and knowledge, and rooted in issues of environmental and social justice, has gained traction as an alternative means by which to achieve both sustainable development and sustainable consumption. This dissertation presents research findings from a mixed-method empirical study of the food consumption behaviour of a purposive sample of upper middle income South African retail food consumers. Applying the notion of environmental citizenship, it considers the influence of critical variables widely identified as key to the expression of pro-environmental behaviour, viz. desire to act, knowledge to act, and ability to act. Specifically it considers the relationship between environmental knowledge, environmental concern and pro-environmental behaviour, as well as the barriers and situational factors in the food retail environment which are reported to inhibit the practice of sustainable consumption behaviour. It then considers whether improvements in objective knowledge have an impact on the enactment of environmental citizenship through an increase in pro-environmental behaviour practices. The main conclusion drawn from the findings of this dissertation is that environmental concern and knowledge are positive predictors of pro-environmental behaviour. However, a low incidence of pro-environmental behaviour was evident in the study sample overall. This is most likely as a result of low levels of environmental concern and general lack of objective knowledge although a significant additional barrier could be the lack of a mature market for sustainable food in South Africa. In keeping with international studies, health concerns appear to be both most prevalent and most influential in determining the practice of pro-environmental behaviours. The study also suggests that efforts to increase levels of objective knowledge may have an impact on the practice of sustainable food consumption behaviours.

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Hsiao, Franny Pai-Fang 1975. "Design issues in the Knowledge Based E-Health Project." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84793.

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Mbengashe, Pauline Maria. "Environmental perceptions and knowledge among political leaders in the Eastern Cape Province and some implications for environmental policy." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003399.

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The environmental and development challenges facing South Africa are closely linked with the political and economic inequalities of the past. The achievement of sustainable. development will require social and political change. Protection and conservation of the environment, improving environmental knowledge and understanding, the participation of all citizens, effective environmental management, inclusive and implementable policies and legislation, are all necessary components of sustainable development. These requirements are in line with the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21, a programme of action coming out of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED 1992) This study explores the environmental perceptions and knowledge of some representative Eastern Cape political leaders. The aim of the study was to share views on environmental issues, concerns and strategies that might lead to improved environmental understanding, informed policy change and effective environmental management. Different environmental ideologies were also explored because of the political and ideological nature of the concepts 'environment' and 'education'. Data was collected from semi-structured interviews undertaken with ten political leaders in the Eastern Cape Province Legislature. The study revealed a general awareness and understanding of environmental issues with unsupported indepth knowledge and detailed information. The political, development, social and economic dimensions of the environment were emphasised more than the ecological and physical aspects. The need for environmental information, policies and legislation was recognised. Both formal and non-formal environmental education were emphasised. The need to redefine environmental education and make it more relevant, problem solving and action oriented was also emphasised. The challenge is to improve environmental understanding and making environmental information available to political leaders, government officials and citizens in general.

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Momiroski, Toni Ross William. "Knowing and acting in the environment : the relationship between knowledge, beliefs and actions in environmental students and alumni /." Abstract, 2009. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2552/cd425/4936030.pdf.

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DuCoff, David. "Recycling: Knowledge, Demographic & Motivational Factors Which Differentiate Behavior." TopSCHOLAR®, 1991. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2287.

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This study focuses on motivation -Involved in recycling behavior among residents of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Knowledge of recycling and how it was acquired, and the variables of environmental concern, economic incentive and the peer pressure were compared so that behavior could be distinguished that separated recyclers from nonrecyclers. Talcott Parsons' work in action theory and George Homans' work in exchange theory provide the theoretical foundation for my study. The research was approached in a qualitatively based design with interviews of twenty area residents. Demographic factors of age, sex, religious affiliation, church attendance, education and income of respondents were solicited. In addition to interviews, I administered a demographic survey. Recycling behavior was correlated positively with older age, convenience, female sex, higher levels of education, higher income, affiliation with liberal church denominations, and urban residence. It was negativley correlated with church attendance. Recyclers were better informed about environmental topics, especially those pertaining to recycling. Peer pressure was shown to have a positive effect on recyclers and recycling behavior. Recyclers were concerned about the quality of their environment, while nonrecyclers felt that the quality of the local environment was above average.

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Tjale, Lydia Mmapula. "Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding environmental health services in Hospital Hill, Johannesburg Metropolitan Council, South Africa." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1277.

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Thesis (MPH. (Health Measurement)) --University of Limpopo, 2012
The purpose of this study was to establish the community’s knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding environmental health services (EHS) in the informal settlement of Hospital Hill. A qualitative, cross-sectional study was conducted using focus group discussions among study participants that satisfied the inclusion criteria. Each focus group discussion had varying duration ranging from one hour to one-and-half hours. The study revealed that there was lack of knowledge about EHS, with participants citing provision of water and sanitation facilities as the various roles that EHPs played. Participants’ attitude towards EHS and EHPs showed marked dissatisfaction due to their inaccessibility and unavailability. The lack of consultation, follow-up and community initiatives fuelled their negative attitudes towards EHS. Culture and beliefs, school dropout, human resources and lack of access to information discouraged the community from using EHS. A number of suggestions were made which revealed the community’s need and desire for EHS provision because environmental health problems were dealt with in different ways and these varied from one household to the other further signifying the need for a uniform approach was needed to deal with environmental health problems. The community of Hospital Hill was found to be experiencing discrimination evidenced by inexistence of EHS and consequent limited knowledge of EHS, negative attitudes and practices regarding EHS.

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Chou, Shu-Chiao, and 周淑嬌. "The status of behavioral intension of environment and environmental knowledge and environmental attitude and self-efficacy and environmental experience." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53584906484707584009.

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The purposes of this study were to investigate the status of the behavioral intension of environment and environmental knowledge and environmental attitude and self-efficacy and environmental experience on junior high students in Taipei County. The subjects were sampled from a public junior high school in Taipei County. The questionnaire was administrated to a sample of 382 students for collecting data. The main results of this study were as follows: 1. The subjects got good score on environmental knowledge. There were significantly differences of environmental knowledge on grades. 2. There were significantly differences of self-efficacy on gender. 3. Positive relations were shown among the environmental knowledge and environmental attitude and self-efficacy and environmental experience and behavioral intension of environment. 4. Environmental knowledge and environmental attitude and self-efficacy and environmental experience could predict behavioral intension of environment. In conclusion, this study was also submitted some suggestions for the application on environmental education and further studies.

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Shen, Kuang Cheng, and 沈廣城. "The study of Elementary School Students’ Environmental Knowledge, Environmental Attitude and Environmental Behavior." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03006578171752664795.

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The main purpose of this study was to research the current status of the environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental behavior for the fourth grade students and sixth grade students in elementary school of Kaohsiung city. It was to examine and compare these students from different various factors among of the environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental behavior and also to analyze the correlation among of the environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental behavior. In order to complete the purpose, the samples were included 667 students of fourth grade and sixth grade in elementary school of Kaohsiung city ,and researcher adopted the “ questionnaire survey “to obtain the data. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, T-test, One-Way ANOVA, Two-Way ANOVA ,Pearson product-moment correlation and Multiple regression. The main conclusions were as follows： 1.The average score of the environmental knowledge was 12.95 points, and the proportion of the correct answers was 76.22%. The average score of the environmental attitude was 62.05 points, and the proportion of the environmental attitude was 86.19%.The average score of the environmental behavior was 63.88 points, and the proportion of the environmental attitude was 70.98%. 2.In the sex various, all the fourth grade students and sixth grade students were not significantly different at environmental knowledge and environmental attitude. But at the environmental behavior there were significantly differences among of the fourth grade students and sixth grade students. On the other hand, the environmental behavior score of the girl students are higher than the boy students. 3.In the grade various, all the fourth grade students and sixth grade students were significantly different at environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental behavior. The score of sixth grade students are higher than the fourth grade students. 4.In the Social Economic Status various, all the fourth grade students and sixth grade students of different Social Economic Status were significantly different at environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental behavior. As well as ,the students’ score of high Social Economic Status are higher than the low Social Economic Status students. 5.For the fourth grade students and sixth grade students, the interaction of the different Social Economic Status and different sex were not significantly different towards environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental behavior. 6.For the fourth grade students and sixth grade students, the interaction of the different Social Economic Status and different grade were not significantly different towards environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental behavior. 7.For the fourth grade students and sixth grade students, there is significant positive correlation among of the environmental knowledge, environmental attitude and environmental behavior. 8.The environmental knowledge and environmental attitude of the fourth grade students and sixth grade students can combine to predict the environmental behavior. 9.The analysis of the open-form questions shows： All the fourth grade students and sixth grade students perceptive the serious environmental pollution problems in Kaohsiung city is “ air pollution” , “ water pollution ”and “ jangle pollution”.

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