Dissertations / Theses: 'Environmental values'

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Grübmeyer, Sonja Felicitas. "Quiet Activists - Environmental Values and Value Adjustment in Environmental Policy Advisors." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2369.

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In this thesis, I investigate the influence of environmental values on the work of environmental policy advisors in a regional council in New Zealand and the influence on the institutional values of their work environment on their personal environmental values. Values are relatively stable concepts of socially acquired beliefs and norms that influence the perception and behaviour of humans and are organised in interdependent and dynamic structures that can be changed through social experiences. Environmental values are partly responsible for environmentally friendly behaviour, which encompasses a variety of activities and even lifestyle choices. People, who have chosen to work in the environmental sector are exposed to environmental values through working for institutions that represent environmentally friendly principles. By working in an environmental context, environmental values can get changed by social interaction, which can lead to an adjustment or approximation to the dominant notion of environmental values within the workplace (Finegan, 2000) Although policy advice is expected to be a neutral and objective task, statements are still written by persons with an individual opinion that, although suppressed, represents the values of the writer (Heineman, Bluhm, Peterson, Keary, 2002). It is therefore likely that the whole process of evaluating information and preparing a policy recommendation is influenced by the values of the policy advisor. My findings indicate that environmental values of employees get adjusted to the institution's environmental values through their work. This happens through a merging of their private environmental values into their professional values, through processes of adjustment. This change not only results in identification with the job but also presents a way to circumvent possible value conflicts in the work environment. The policy process involves a number of stages where information is re-evaluated and discussed to fit the formal and structural requirements of policy making under the Resource Management Act, which is done in collaboration with others. This leads to a social construction of values that are represented in collaboratively developed policy recommendation. In my conclusion, I show that policy advisors at regional government level use. in New Zealand have environmental values, use them for environmental protection, and adjust them to work more efficiently for the environment within a public service organisation. The use of their environmental values by the participants show that they are environmentalists and do what environmentalists do, but in a quiet, unobtrusive way.

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Holstein, Fredrik. "Environmental values - what's the point? : essays on compliance with environmental regulations and on the meaning of environmental values /." Uppsala : Dept. of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2009. http://epsilon.slu.se/201001.pdf.

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SOUZA, ROOSEVELT FIDELES DE. "AN EXPERIENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: BUILDING SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4302@1.

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Este estudo teve como motivação inicial a experiência profissional do autor,como educador e geógrafo, atuando na iniciativa denominada Projeto de Educação Ambiental com Crianças de Escolas públicas, que vem sendo realizada no campus da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro desde 1998. Este projeto foi desenvolvido pelo Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Meio Ambiente - NIMA/PUC-Rio, com o objetivo de integrar as escolas públicas com a Universidade, através de aulas de Educação Ambiental, tendo como meta a formação de valores ético-ambientais para o exercício da cidadania das futuras gerações. Baseado nesta experiência de projeto social, que visa atender às crianças mais carentes que estudam nas escolas públicas no bairro da Gávea e moradoras das comunidades carentes da Rocinha, Vidigal, Parque da Cidade e Cruzada São Sebastião, localizadas próximas ao campus da PUC-Rio, são apresentadas aqui as reflexões e potencialidades de transformação social do Projeto de Educação Ambiental com Crianças de Escolas Públicas. A análise deste Projeto, enquanto um modelo que visa responder aos atuais apelos da recente Lei Federal de Educação Ambiental e da Lei Estadual, sobretudo no que se refere a sua dimensão não-formal, constitui o escopo desta dissertação. Em outras palavras, este trabalho avalia as ações e práticas educativas voltadas para a sensibilização da coletividade sobre as questões ambientais, com a participação e parceria de escolas, Universidade e empresas, e das transformações processadas com valores éticos presentes na relação do homem com o seu meio ambiente, através de um projeto de Educação Ambiental, realizado junto às crianças e adolescentes estudantes da rede pública de educação no Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
This research was motivated by the author s professional experience, as a Geography teacher, working as a member of the team responsible for the Project of Environmental Education for Public School Children, which has been taking place within the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro campus since 1998. This project was developed by the Interdisciplinary Center for the Environment - NIMA/PUC-Rio to promote the integration of the public schools with the university,throughout Environmental Education classes. The goal of the project is to develop ethical-environmental values for the exercise of future generations citizenship. The purpose of this initiative is to serve the poor children, who attend classes of the public schools of Gávea, Rocinha, Vidigal, Parque da Cidade e Cruzada de São Sebastião neighborhoods, located near by PUC- Rio campus. Based on this experience, the author describes the perspectives for social change of the Project of Environmental Education for Public School Children. The core subject of this dissertation is an analysis of this project, taken as a model response to the determinations of the recent Federal and State Laws for environmental education, with emphasis on non-formal education. In other words, this essay describes the educational actions and practices designed to wake up collective sensibility towards environmental issues, relying on the partner ship established by schools with universities and companies. This dissertation is concerned with the ethical valves which comes out of the relation ship between mankind and its surrounding nature and the transformations that can be accomplished by an Environmental Education Project such as this one offered to the children of the public education system of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

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Betermier, Katherine. "Organic: Designing Communication for Environmental Values." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2011. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/4.

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I began this thesis with an interest in sustainability and how to design communication to educate people on the concept. I didn’t know much about the topic but my interest was sparked initially by both the documentary “Food Inc.” and by Michael Pollen’s book, “Omnivore’s Dilemma”. I was also influenced by the literature review on sustainability that brought home the reality of how unsustainably we live in the modern world. It seemed natural to look into food and the agricultural system in order to explore sustainability further. This arose partially from a personal interest in food and partially because sustainability can be understood in terms of the biological systems intrinsic to sustainable agriculture. I sought out a real-world problem that would help scope down such a broad topic, and this led me to organic food. I ended up working with the Vermont chapter of the Northeast Organic Farmers Association (NOFA). Their job was to market and promote Organic to their community as well as act as the third party organization certifying Vermont Farms based on USDA regulations. “How can we get people to choose Organic?” was the marketing problem that I wanted to design for. The heart of this is a communication issue, and I argue in this thesis that organic should be the vehicle through which they promote their environmental goals and values. For NOFA-VT, I believe that this is where their interest lies. The organization’s values that drive belief in organic should drive the messaging. Organic ends up not necessarily being the goal, but a means to an end, and that end is helping to instill environmental care among their consumers and hopefully the desire to live more sustainably based on those values

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Smith, Graham Martin. "Pluralism, deliberative democracy and environmental values." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242671.

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Loftus, Molly R. "Coastal Environmental Policies and Water: Environmental Values in Ghana and Senegal." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1082.

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This thesis provides a comparative analysis of the environmental values present in Ghana’s and Senegal’s coastal regions, and the implications that those have for the surrounding environment. The countries approaches to urban farming, mining and oil and gas extraction, fishing, marine debris and municipal waste management are assessed in order to reach a greater understanding of these environmental issues. In undertaking this thesis, I attempted to draw a correlation between the handling of these issues and how people perceive their environment. Through the comparison of environmental degradation and the level of effort to achieve a more sustainable developmental framework in both countries, I draw examples from successes in Senegal’s coastal management framework to recommend appropriate environmental policy for the Greater Accra Region.

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Smith, Michael Frederick. "Humanism and anti-humanism in environmental values." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21523.

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This thesis identifies a family of humanist presuppositions which, I argue, pervade modern Western society and are partly responsible for our inability to escape from a spiral of environmental destruction. For example, humanist ethical theories frequently assume the existence of an objective / subjective divide, autonomous rational individuals and a neutral rationality. I argue that these assumptions, which are peculiar to our society, provide a wholly inappropriate basis for the expression of many environmental concerns. Humanism imposes particular taxonomies and interpretations on social and environmental relations; these facilitate the treatment of nature as a resource rather than as a part of our (ethical) community. At the theoretical level, humanism develops explicit systems of ''formal rationaiity" which purport to be neutral e.g. axiological systems like neoclassical economics and utilitarianism. However, these systems reduce environmental evaluation to the bureaucratic application of abstract methodologies and, far from being neutral, they impose a particular humanist ideology on decision making processes which marginalises those who speak in a different voice. I develop an alternative perspective; a critical theory informed by the antihumanism of Althusser, the later Wittgenstein and Bourdieu. This post-humanist theoretical problematic works in two ways. First, it explains how ideologies interpellate individuals into social structures and reproduce current social values. Second, it advocates an alternative "ecological paradigm", embedded in anti-humanist and radical traditions which would give due regard to the constitutive role of 'nature' in the formation of our moral values.

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Parker, Michael. "Framing environmental messages to correspond with values." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12829.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
The successful promotion of environmentally-responsible behavior may depend on the values of the target audience, but little is known of this relationship. Framing messages promoting environmentally-responsible behavior in line with an individual's environmental values, for instance, may make it more likely the individual performs the behavior. Environmental values fall into three clusters: Egoistic concerns focus on self; social-altruistic concerns focus on others; and biospheric concerns focus on non-human living things. A key question is whether egoistic values are consistent with environmentalism. Seventy-two male and 90 female undergraduates (aged 18 to 22) completed questionnaires assessing their egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric values. Participants were assessed on engagement in environmentally-responsible behavior and on connection to nature. Levels of materialism, religiosity, economic individualism, trust, sense of control, and subjective social status were also assessed, as were the demographic variables age, gender, race, and political and religious affiliation. Participants responded to a series of messages promoting environmentally-responsible behavior framed to appeal to each of the environmental values. Three volunteer opportunities, framed to appeal to each of the environmental values, were also presented. The hypothesis was that framing messages in a manner consistent with environmental values would make the message more appealing and more likely to result in environmentally-responsible behavior. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed no relationship between the environmental message a participant said was most appealing and the participant's values. As predicted, however, participants with egoistic values were more likely to choose the egoistically-framed volunteer opportunity. Contrary to expectations, those with altruistic or biospheric values revealed no preferences for a particular message. Both connection to nature and environmentally-responsible behavior were negatively correlated with materialistic values, while trust was positively correlated with environmentally-responsible behavior, but not with connection to nature. Religious and economic values, control, and subjective social status were not significantly related to environmentally-responsible behavior or connection to nature, nor were any of the demographic variables. While egoistically-framed messages were not more appealing to participants with egoistic values, egoistically-framed volunteer opportunities were more effective in motivating these participants to volunteer, suggesting that egoistic framing may be a way to encourage environmentally-responsible behavior.

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Penn, Jerrod M. "ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES, STATED PREFERENCES, AND HYPOTHETICAL BIAS." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/agecon_etds/57.

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Contingent Valuation (CV) methods are a primary tool in environmental economics to ascertain non-use or other values not observable through existing market mechanisms. Because common CV approaches typically rely on hypothetical answers from surveys in order to generate welfare estimates, these are often labelled stated preferences. Results from stated preference methods often diverge from those obtained when actual preference or behavior are involved. This divergence is commonly known as Hypothetical Bias (HB). This dissertation addresses HB as it applies to environmental applications. To begin, a meta-analysis using a sample of studies many times larger than previous works was performed. Its results identify which study protocols exacerbate HB, and which may mitigate it. Furthermore, the meta-analysis establishes the efficacy of some popular techniques to mitigate HB. The second essay focuses on understanding and addressing two important topics to environmental economics, distance decay and charismatic species conservation. These effects have not been investigated with respect to HB. We implement a field survey of monarch and viceroy butterfly conservation, creating survey treatment conditions involving both real payment and hypothetical scenarios in order to establish the extent of HB. The key finding is that while HB is present for both butterflies, HB in distance decay exists for monarchs. There is also additional HB for monarchs compared to viceroys, which we attribute to the former’s charisma. The final endeavor studies the usefulness of consequentiality, a relatively new tactic to reduce HB. Consequentiality is the degree to which respondents believe their answers may affect policy outcomes. Relying on the monarch field survey, we find that using a technique known as ex ante consequentiality may exacerbate HB. Another approach known as ex post consequentiality is more effective at reducing the extent of HB in the data. Lastly, some elements of the studies’ results showcase that HB is not always present and can also explain some of the mixed results found on the efficacy of HB mitigating methods reported in previous studies.

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Spash, Clive L. "Environmental Values in Conservation: Ethics, Economics and Pragmatism." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2017. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5499/1/sre%2Ddisc%2D2017_01.pdf.

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Billgren, Charlotte. "Making Sense of Environmental Values : Wetlands in Kenya." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema vatten i natur och samhälle, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-10413.

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En av de viktigaste frågorna i världen idag är naturresurshantering. Med en väx-ande befolkning och hoten från klimatförändringar kommer förvaltningen av jordens naturresurser bli än viktigare, såväl för dagens generation som kommande generationer. En viktig aspekt när det gäller naturresurshantering är hur människor uppfattar och värderar naturen. För att komma närmare dessa miljövärden har ett flertal olika vetenskapliga tillvägagångssätt föreslagits. Den här avhandlingen undersöker hur det är möjligt att närma sig miljövärden under olika omständighe-ter och utifrån olika behov. Detta görs genom att undersöka hur olika teorier har använts, och kan användas, avseende olika våtmarker i Kenya. I utvecklingslän-der har naturresurser, teoretiskt sett, ett högre värde eftersom fattiga människor till en högre grad är direkt beroende av naturresurser och ekosystemtjänster. Ut-gångspunkten i denna avhandling är sex våtmarksområden i Kenya under olika förvaltning och med ett flertal, både aktuella och potentiella, användare. I av-handlingen undersöks hur lokalsamhället, myndigheter, industrier och turister uppfattar och värderar våtmarkerna. Genom att applicera ett arenaperspektiv, som betonar vikten av tvärvetenskap, diskuteras i avhandlingen det ekonomiska värdet av miljön för att sedan applicera andra metoder såsom emergy analys, stakeholder analys, kulturteori och riskanalys för att bredda och berika värderingen av miljön.
One of the most important issues in the world, both for present and future genera-tions, concerns natural resource management. With a growing global population and the threat of climate change, issues relating to natural resource management will grow in importance with time. One fundamental aspect of natural resource management is how people perceive and value the environment. The value that is ascribed to natural resources will be one of the determinants in the choices that people face in regards to their management. A wide range of approaches have been suggested to approach environmental values. This thesis focuses on analys-ing the assessment of environmental values under different circumstances and needs. This is done by exploring the ways various theories have and can be used to approach natural resource valuation in different wetland management situations in Kenya. In the developing world the value of natural resources can, theoreti-cally, be seen as even higher than in the developed world, due to poor peoples’ direct dependency on their natural resources and the ecosystem services and goods that they provide. The point of departure in this thesis is six wetland areas with different management strategies and with multiple users. It examines how local communities, governmental authorities, industries and tourists perceive the value of the wetlands. By applying an arena perspective, that emphasises the need of interdisciplinarity, this thesis discusses the economic value of the environment and applies other methods such as, emergy analysis, stakeholder analysis, cultural theory and risk analysis, to enrich the valuation of environment.

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Ling, Hu. "Environmental values as a motivation of cycle tourism." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Universitetsförvaltningen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76316.

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The increasing popularity of cycling activities and events, and the need to encourage cycling to reduce tourism greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, require a better understanding of the motivations of cycle tourists. Cycle tourism is one kind of green sustainable tourism. While numbers of aspects of cycle tourism have been identified in previous studies, environmental values might be one of the factors to determine cycle tourism choice. Most findings show that personal factors are the main reason of cycling activity while environmental values play merely little role in the cycle tourism. This thesis project is aimed to study the motivations of non-club recreational cycle tourists in Kalmar, Sweden and the role of environmental values as a motivation of cycle tourism behavior. Qualitative exploration method has been adopted and 13 local cycle tourists have been interviewed for the project. By applying the environmental values framework, this thesis links two main factors of environmental values to the cycle tourism behavior, that is closeness to nature and environmental concern. The findings show that environmental values are good predictor of cycle tourism behavior. The role of environmental values as a motivation of cycle tourism is improving though still not the main motivation. More explicit attention to environmental related knowledge education may inform the operationalization and promotion of local cycle tourism development. As modern people may attach importance to hedonic experience for their cycle tourism activities, further researches are needed to understand the relationship of hedonic consumption values and cycle tourism behaviors. Keywords: cycling tourism; motivation; qualitative; environmental values; closeness to nature; environmental concern

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Kuo, Lih-Yuh Chiou. "Students' values, attitudes and behaviours towards environmental issues." Thesis, Kuo, Lih-Yuh Chiou (1994) Students' values, attitudes and behaviours towards environmental issues. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 1994. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51160/.

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This study investigated primary, secondary and tertiary students' attitudes towards environmental issues, their involvement in environmental activities, and the environmental values which underlie their concerns about caring for the environment It explored developmental changes in environmental attitudes, behavioural involvement and values as students pass through childhood and adolescence into early adulthood. The study also examined relationships among values, attitudes and behavioural actions, and aimed to determine whether values are better predictors of behavioural actions than are attitudes in the area of environmental conservation. A Rasch psychometric model of modem test theory for Likert-style questionnaires was applied to examine and improve the internal consistency and validity of three measuring scales, namely, an environmental attitude scale (EAS), an environmental behaviour scale (EBS) and an environmental value scale (EVS), all three of which were constructed for this investigation. After a preliminary and a pilot study using cross-sectional designs, final results from three groups of subjects totalling 423 students (148 primary school year 7 students, 151 high school year 10 students and 124 university first year students) who completed the 30-item EAS, the 15-item EBS and the 10-item EVS, showed that the items from the EAS and the EBS conformed satisfactorily with the Rasch model, and although the EVS was satisfactory for the purpose of the thesis, it requires further refinement. This study did not provide evidence to support the theoretical argument that values, rather than attitudes, are better predictors of environmental behaviour; however, it demonstrated that values remained consistent across six different environmental issues and across the three age groups, which provides some support for Rokeach's postulation that values transcend situations and underlie people's attitudes and behaviour towards specific objects and situations. Results from formal statistical analyses indicated that: (a) there was a developmental shift towards more positive environmental attitudes from primary school aged students through high school students to university students; however, further analysis revealed that the positive shift towards pro-environmental attitudes with increasing education levels was evident among female subjects only; (b) with respect to environmental behavioural involvement, primary school students participated more actively in environmental activities than high school and university students; this reversed trend was evident particularly with primary school male students; (c) responses to the EVS remained constant across the three age levels; (d) female students in all three age groups were significantly more pro-environment than male students on all three scales; (e) more primary school students (particularly male students) chose economic benefit as their main reason for participation in pro-environmental activities than did the other two groups of subjects; (f) primary school students thought they obtained their information about the environment mainly from school education while high school and university students received their information mainly from the mass media. Implications arising from this study suggest that: (a) a longitudinal panel study following a cohort of students from pre-adolescence through adolescence or even through early adulthood should be carried out in order to better understand any changing relationships among environmental attitudes, behaviours and values; (b) subjects from different socio-economic backgrounds and geographical areas should be examined to establish the generalizability of the findings from this study; (c) further exploration of the possible contribution of an environmental values education to changes in attitudes and behaviours with respect to the environment is required; (d) an investigation into the use of media as a means of developing positive environmental attitudes and values should be carried out; and (e) financial incentives seem to play a significant role in the decision of young people to get involved in environmental activities and this may need to be taken into account if a context to facilitate active participation is desired.

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Christensen, Kelly Marie. "Wilderness Values, the Environmental Movement and Mission 66." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12188.

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Mission 66 was a ten-year program that began in 1956 and concluded in 1966, the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service. The stated goal of Mission 66 was to increase public access and enjoyment of the national parks through a program of development and reconstruction. However, wilderness conservationists and environmentalists criticized the program heavily during its time. This reaction has left Mission 66 with a controversial legacy that reflects negatively on the historical developments of the program. The goal of this thesis is to delve into why Mission 66 was such a controversial program by examining the historic roots of wilderness and environmental thought in the national parks in the United States. It is hoped this study work will provide an important perspective on Mission 66 that can be utilized in the ongoing conversation about Mission 66 and its cultural legacy.
Committee in charge: Dr. Robert Z Melnick, Chair; Hugh C. Miller, Member;

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Davies, Anna Ray. "Environmental values and the UK land use planning system." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323793.

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Shearer, David. "Between two worlds : Maori values and environmental decision-making." Thesis, University of Canterbury, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10379.

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This study investigates the way in which Maori values are incorporated into environmental decision-making. Recently, the implementation of large resource developments have drawn protest from Maori communities and focussed attention on these values. The study examines the nature of these values, associated with the way the Maori people use and perceive the environment, and determines that these are still strongly held today. It then establishes that as an indigenous minority culture Maori values should be specifically considered. From this basis, environmental decision-making procedures are examined. The findings reveal that many procedures do not sufficiently account for Maori values. Two options are formulated to improve the existing situation. The first option looks at changes to present procedures. The second option investigates implementing reforms to encourage earlier participation with Maori communities.

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Vollgraaff, Helene. "Values and the environmental/green movement of South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52602.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The emergence and growth of the environmental/green movement has been linked to a value shift from materialism towards postmaterialism. In this study, the emergence of the South African environmental/green movement and its growth potential is investigated within the context of Ronald Inglehart's value change theory and its implications for developing societies. The positive link between postmaterialism and environmentalism is well researched and widely accepted. However, many researchers focusing on developing societies argue that a shift towards postmaterialism does not adequately explain the emergence of environmentalism, because environmentalism is taking root in developing societies despite postmaterialist values not being prioritised. This relationship is investigated by means of a literature study about the values, principles and issues addressed by the environmental/green movement. It is argued in this study that environmentalism can indeed be linked to postmaterialism, but that prematerialist values could also playa role, especially in developing societies. The South African environmental/green movement is discussed as an example of environmentalism in a developing society. The South African movement is often described as a white middle class movement. It is argued on the basis of a literature study that the movement has changed considerably and incorporates a wide range of interests ranging from more conservative forms of environmentalism to radical political forms of environmentalism such as environmental justice. This change is linked to the concepts of prematerialism and postmaterialism emphasising that both sets of goals seems to be prioritised by different discourses within the movement. Issues concerning both the welloff and the poor are addressed by the movement. This is followed by an analysis of the 1995 World Value survey data set to obtain a demographic and socio-economic profile of the active members of an environmental organisation and the environmentally concerned. The relationship between active membership of an environmental organisation, the environmentally concerned and the concepts of prematerialism, materialism and postmaterialism is also established. The positive relationship between postmaterialism and environmentalism is confirmed, but contradictory results have been found regarding the relationship between prematerialism and environmentalism. This can possibly be attributed to the inadequate survey material that is available. Although active membership of an environmental organisation correlates positively with prematerialism, no relationship could be found between environmental concern and prematerialism. Lastly, a demographic and socio-economic profile of the "don't know" response group has also been compiled as this group is an important target group for the expansion of the environmental/green movement.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die totstandkoming en groei van die groen- of omgewingsbeweging word gekoppel aan 'n waardeverskuiwing van materialisme na postmaterialisme. Die totstandkoming van die Suid-Afrikaanse groen/omgewingsbeweging en die groeipotensiaal daarvan word ill hierdie studie ondersoek binne die raamwerk van Ronald Inglehart se waardeverskuiwingsteorie en die implikasies daarvan vir ontwikkelende lande. Die positiewe verband tussen postmaterialisme en omgewingsbewustheid is goed nagevors en geniet wye aanvaarding. Tog het verskeie navorsers, veral dié wat op ontwikkelende lande fokus, probleme daarmee. Hierdie navorsers argumenteer dat postmaterialisme nie die totstandkoming van die omgewingsbeweging in ontwikkelende lande voldoende verklaar nie, aangesien die beweging in hierdie lande posgevat het terwyl die prioritisering van postmaterialisme ontbreek. Hierdie verband word ondersoek d.m.v. 'n literatuurstudie oor die waardes, beginsels en vraagstukke wat deur die groen/omgewingsbeweging aangespreek word. Daar word in hierdie studie geargumenteer dat omgewingsbewustheid wel aan postmaterialisme gekoppel kan word, maar dat prematerialistiese waardes waarskynlik ook 'n rol kan speel, veral in ontwikkelende lande. Die Suid-Afrikaanse groen/omgewingsbeweging word beskryf as 'n voorbeeld van omgewingsbewustheid in 'n ontwikkelende land. Die Suid-Afrikaanse beweging word dikwels beskryf as 'n wit middelklasbeweging. Daar word op grond van 'n literatuurstudie geargumenteer dat die beweging aansienlik verander het sodat dit nou 'n breë verskeidendenheid van belange aanspreek wat wissel van die meer konserwatiewe vorme van omgewingsbewustheid tot die radikale politieke vorme soos byvoorbeeld omgewingsregverdigheid (Eng: environmental justice). Die verskuiwing word aan die konsepte van postmaterialisme en prematerialisme verbind. Dit word beklemtoon dat verskillende groeperings binne die groen/omgewingsbeweging verskillende waardes prioritiseer. Vraagstukke wat beide die welvarendes en die armes raak, word deur die beweging aangespreek. Die literatuurstudie word gevolg deur 'n analise van die 1995 World Value Survey datastel. 'n Demografiese en sosio-ekonomiese profiel van die aktiewe lede van 'n omgewingsorganisasie en respondente wat as omgewingsbewus geïdentifiseer is, is opgestel. Die verhouding tussen die konsepte van prematerialisme, materialisme en postmaterialisme en aktiewe lidmaatskap van 'n omgewingsorganisasie aan die een kant en omgewingsbewustheid aan ander kant word ook bespreek. Die positiewe verband tussen postmaterialisme en omgewingsbewustheid, sowel as aktiewe lidmaatskap word deur die data bevestig. 'n Positiewe verband is ook tussen aktiewe lidmaatskap van 'n omgewingsorganisasie en prematerialisme gevind, maar teenstrydige resulte is gevind rakende die verband tussen omgewingsbewustheid en prematerialisme. Hierdie resultate kan egter moontlik beïnvloed wees deur die onvoldoende meetinstrument wat beskikbaar is. Laastens is 'n demografiese en sosio-ekonomiese profiel van die "weet nie" responsgroep saamgestel, aangesien hierdie groep 'n belangrike teiken is indien die groen/omgewingsbeweging wil uitbrei.

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Threlkeld-Sullivan, Arielle. "OD practitioner values and the impact on environmental behavior." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10142045.

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Organization Development has the potential to play an active role in supporting environmental change initiatives. This study explores the values of a group of OD practitioners who are working with environmental concerns as a consideration in their practice. Nine qualitative interviews were conducted to explore values and surface factors that have influenced those values. The Schwartz Value Questionnaire (SVQ) and the Nature Relatedness Scale were administered to better understand practitioner values. Elements of self-transcendent values were revealed amongst practitioners through both quantitative and qualitative methods. In addition, these practitioners scored higher than the average population on Nature Relatedness. This study supported research, which linked an individual’s self-transcendent values to feelings of environmental concern. This study also supported research by Schein (2014), which showed that certain experiences shaped ecological worldviews of sustainability leaders over their lifespan. OD has an opportunity to enable more of its students and practitioners to adopt this ecological worldview and gravitate towards leveraging OD expertise in the environmental sustainability space.

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Ruggero, E. Colin. "Radical Green Populism environmental values in DIY/Punk communities /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 125 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1885562141&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Sherren, Katherine Dove. "Sustainability bound? : a study of interdisciplinarity and values in universities /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2008. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20080507.100919/index.html.

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Thompson, Ian H. "Sources of values in landscape architecture." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311145.

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Worley, Christina Marie. "The Value of Open Space: A Case Study of the Values of Suburban Residents." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/104623.

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In light of the rapid spread of sprawling development, a better understanding of local efforts promoting open space preservation is needed. This comparative case study focused on creating narratives to provide a deeper understanding of how suburban residents in the Philadelphia region value open space. Logan and Molotch's "Growth machine hypothesis" and Michael Taylor's alternative choice theory provided a framework for the study. Survey respondents who were more liberal and affluent, had higher levels of education, access to and use of open space, were more supportive of open space preservation efforts. Survey and interview respondents and local officials were more likely to value local open spaces for their use, rather than exchange values. Interviews provided narratives of how residents valued open spaces primarily for a variety of use values, secondarily for their exchange values, and as a reaction against growth itself. Local municipalities by engaging in public education to increase resident understanding of the economic value of open space and the value of growing smartly can work to improve local quality of life by simultaneously preserving open spaces and accommodating growth for the community's advantage.
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Vladimirova, Ekaterina. "Values for sustainable future: transforming values in the context of climate change and global environmental degradation." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/241295.

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VLADIMIROVA, EKATERINA. "Values for sustainable future: transforming values in the context of climate change and global environmental degradation." Doctoral thesis, Luiss Guido Carli, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11385/200999.

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This dissertation is an interdisciplinary project aimed to explore normative and empirical dimensions and underpinnings of a societal transformation towards sustainability and the underlying value shift in developed countries. This study attempted to build a holistic perspective of a value shift towards sustainability by tackling a constellation of approaches from philosophy and ethics, social and political sciences, international relations. The project looked into how a value shift could be a response to climate change and global environmental crisis, what gaps in the existing system of values should be addressed and what values should be developed, how values can be changed at individual and collective levels, what actors can advance the transformation and which tools they can employ. Finally, the project explored how environmental non-governmental organizations can advance sustainability values to the general public and also analyzed climate change campaigns of the WWF and Greenpeace in order to identify which values these organizations promote to the public through their outreach efforts.

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Cochrane, David Alan, and david cochrane@au ey com. "Maintaining Environmental Values in a Commercial Environment - a Framework for Commercial Development in Victoria's National Parks." RMIT University. Graduate School of Business, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080220.163331.

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This research has focussed on the development of a commercial business model (CBM) for providing tourism and support service based commercial activities in Victoria's national parks which also allowed for the protection of the parks natural values. National parks are vital if we as a nation are to retain our natural heritage - but the public sector land stewards of these important assets are facing increasing funding and user pressures. The result is a growing focus on the commercialisation of our national parks to provide services and generate the revenue required to maintain these assets. However, this has resulted in the exacerbation of a long existing conflict - these commercial operators are primarily focus on the achievement of a commercial return, while the land stewards' main responsibility is in the protection of the natural values of these assets. In completing this project an abductive research approach (using grounded theory) has been adopted. Specifically, the research activities undertaken included data collection via a number of techniques including stakeholder interviews, detailed examination of existing commercial arrangements, literature research on international approaches and models, development of a suggested commercial business model based on a synthesise of the research outcomes and, finally, obtaining user feedback. The use of the various data sources, and subsequent sourcing of user feedback facilitated the triangulation of the research results. The findings from this research challenge a number of the practices currently adopted in the structuring of commercial activities suggesting that these practices are inhibiting the quality of the service being provided to the national park visitor along with the level of protection being afforded to the parks natural values. The resulting CBM provides park managers with a framework for identification and structuring of commercial business activities, practical guidance on the actions required in the completion of a concession process and identification of a number of the relevant issues which need to be considered and addressed in establishing and managing a national park concession. The CBM has been developed specifically for application within Victoria's national parks (based on a public/private sector relationship). The output will also provide guidance on methods for embedding natural values on public/private sector relationships in other settings.

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Crick-Furman, Deborah Suzanne Estelle. "Environmental values amongst tourists to small urban places in Scotland." Thesis, Open University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286928.

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Lynch, Monica. "Values orientation of an environmental education centre, a case study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0025/MQ50541.pdf.

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Lynch, Monica. "Values orientation of an environmental education centre : a case study." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21236.

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With ecological crises remaining at the forefront of public concern it is now more important than ever to develop connections between human beings and the natural world. Consequently, environmental education programs have included values in their objectives in an effort to stimulate appreciation for and dedication to maintaining the health of the planet.
This case study examines the values and values education approaches implicit in the Fort Whyte Centre for Environmental Education in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Based on the theoretical framework of both values education and environmental education, analysis revealed that embedded in the program are the values of respect, appreciation and care-taking. Furthermore, it indicates that early childhood experiences in nature are integral in sustained dedication to the environment. Finally, it was apparent that ingrained in the strategies employed by the facility are elements of values education models.
Outlining values in program objectives ensures that these beliefs are a central focus of the lessons. Concurrently, teacher training programs must directly teach values education approaches with reference to environmental education. Ecological dilemmas are moral-ethical issues and must be dealt with as such. By neglecting to adequately prepare instructors to deal with these issues programs cannot achieve their objectives. Environmental value systems cannot be developed unless programs are specifically designed to achieve this goal.

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Blake, James Murray. "Method or madness? : a contextual approach to researching environmental values." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325010.

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Jefferson, Rebecca Louise. "Communicating marine environmental health : connecting science, social and policy values." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2666.

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Human activities are degrading marine ecosystems and undermining the ecological functions and processes which provide valued goods and services. European and UK marine policy developments aim to implement the Ecosystem Approach to support better management of activities and maintain the health of regional seas. Current public perceptions of the UK marine environment are overwhelmingly negative, creating a barrier to engaging society with marine environmental issues and policy. This thesis conducts a study of the attributes of a suite of 72 UK marine species to identify those which contribute most to marine ecological health. The findings show that structurally complex species are most important and are recommended as species to assess and monitor Good Environmental Status as defined by the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Existing conservation policies are biased towards large vertebrate species, with ecologically important species being underprotected. A survey of public perceptions of the marine environment. revealed conflicting perceptions of charismatic megafauna. Charismatic species were the most interesting species but least important as measures of marine health. Ecologically important species were the least interesting, but ecological health concepts were considered important measures of marine health. Perceptions of the marine environment varied with socio-demographic and social value factors. By integrating these studies, barriers and opportunities to engaging society with the marine environment were identified. Communication strategies which address these are proposed, including a suite of Spokes Species, potential high profile species to champion the marine environment. These include puffin, cod, basking shark and seagrass. A series of themes are proposed which implement other key findings such as the importance of personal experience in building connections with marine species. Communication strategies are supported by ecologically defined assessments of marine environmental health, are relevant to current policy developments and will resonate with social values of the marine environment.

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Boldkhuyag, Enkhtuya. "Values and pro environmental behaviour among Mongolian adolescents:Implications for ESD." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-258952.

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The study aims to contribute in the understanding of key values and behaviours for Education for sustainable development and their correlations and to further develop knowledge about how they are distributed among upper secondary school students in relation to socio-demographic factors. There were 274 surveys collected in 5 different schools in Ulaanbaatar and analysed using ANOVA followed by Tukey test and Pearson’s correlation tests. The study supports the findings of previous research that universal, benevolence and traditional values are positively correlated with a positive environmental behaviour. The positive orientation towards sustainability suggest that the current adolescent Mongolian population can become potential environmental supporters with a strong motivation towards sustainable behaviour and attitudes. The demographic and social factors were weak in relation to value orientations, no significant difference observed in value orientation. There was a notable gender difference in pro environmental behaviour which aligned with many existing academic studies. Social factors in relation to environmentally friendly attitude suggested that pro environmental adolescents were somehow exposed to the natural environment and read books during their free time displayed increasingly positive behaviour toward the environment. Therefore this study emphasises the importance of encouraging informal outdoor activities and increasing the access and popularity of reading books among youths. These measures would also serve to strengthen the benevolence value and promote pro environmental behaviour.

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Pruss, Emmet J. "Environmental Values and Landscape Architecture: A New Ecological Paradigm Study." DigitalCommons@USU, 2017. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6235.

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In recent decades, landscape design theory has been affected by an increase in pro-environmental values. Currently, concepts of ‘sustainability’ and ‘ecosystem services’ exert a strong influence. These concepts involve sustaining current human behaviors within the constraints of ecological limits and maintaining or enhancing the goods and services that humans receive from ecosystems, respectively. In this way, they are most characteristic of anthropocentric environmental worldviews with high degrees of concern for the instrumental values of ecosystems, which are indicative of shallow ecology. Previous researchers have advanced theoretical characterizations of the environmental values of landscape architects in terms of environmental ethics. However, as of yet, no statistics-based model has been developed for this purpose. In order to advance such a model, and in the effort to further characterize the environmental values of landscape architects, two studies were performed. Both utilized data collected with the New Ecological Paradigm (revised-NEP) survey. In the first study, a Shallow v. Deep Worldview model was used to characterize revised-NEP survey responses of landscape architecture students and alumni practitioners from Utah State University (USU) in terms of shallow or deep ecology. The results indicate that the groups exhibited essentially anthropocentric environmental values, which were characteristic of shallow ecology worldviews. In the second study, the revised-NEP survey was used to assess the environmental worldviews of general education and landscape architecture students at USU. The results indicate that the landscape architecture students exhibited greater pro-environmental worldviews, which were correlated to differences in political orientation between the groups. Overall, the results of the two studies support the notions that the study or practice of landscape architecture is correlated to greater pro-environmental values than are common for general higher education students, and that, in general, current landscape architecture students and practitioners exhibit environmental values that are characteristic of ecologically-concerned, yet essentially anthropocentric, shallow ecology worldviews.

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Meyers, Ronald B. "A Heuristic for Environmental Values and Ethics, and a Psychometric Instrument to Measure Adult Environmental Ethics and Willingness to Protect the Environment." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1039113836.

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De, Beer Jessica. "Competing Values in the Integrated Environmental Management Process ~ Understanding the Dynamics Between Evidence Versus Value-Based Decision-Making." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65176.

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Within the Integrated Environmental Management (IEM) process, Environmental Assessment Practitioners are expected to gather information or evidence in order to formulate decisions on the suitability of development projects as it relates to the environment which takes the form of an Environmental Impact Assessment. The EIA decision-making framework relies mainly on a technocratic-, rationalist or technical-rational approach, which is based largely on cognitive or scientific knowledge. This over-reliance on scientific evidence (evidence-based knowledge) limits the level to which non-scientific evidence (value-based knowledge) is incorporated into the EIA decision-making framework. There is a concern that an over-reliance on evidence-based decision-making will lead to valuable information being overlooked or ignored, resulting in a skewed and fragmented process which could fail in ensuring environmental justice for the citizens of South Africa. The overall methodological approach that was used to achieve the aim and objectives of this study was of a qualitative nature, relying on three main methods, including document analysis, expert interviews and focus group meetings. The literature review provided six thematic areas of interest which was further elaborated during the thematic analysis of the data. One of the key findings of this research was that although the South African legislative framework makes provision for value-based decision-making processes, the EIA decision-making framework in particular is too rigid to incorporate non-scientific knowledge or value-based evidence. The need to shorten the EIA decision-making timeframes to allow for social and economic development in addition other challenges facing the IEM field can also attributed to an over-reliance on a formulaic tick-box approach which limits the incorporation of value-based decision-making in the EIA decision-making process.
Mini Dissertation (MA) University of Pretoria, 2018.
Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
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Sa, Ho Thi Chau. "Three essays on toxic chemical releases, house values, health and labor productivity." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/07M%20Dissertations/HO_SA_40.pdf.

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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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Bash, Ross S. "Religious and environmental values in PCUSA and UCC church camp programs." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/11149.

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Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 187 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-187).

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Younis, Khalid M. "The impact of moral values on ethical practices in environmental management." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3583330.

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The Harbormaster Command and Control Center (HCCC) project provides mobile platforms intended to control harbor operations. The main component of the HCCC is a double-expandable shelter mounted on a 5 ton military flatbed truck. Kentucky Trailer Corporation manufactured a baseline shelter using standard materials (aluminum, steel, plywood, etc.) and also considered alternate designs using composite materials (carbon fiber laminates, glass fiber laminates, composite sandwich configurations, etc.).

Two faculty members and several graduate students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Louisville participated in this effort, primarily in terms of material selection, structural analysis, and design approaches. This thesis presents one portion of that work. This consists of a finite element model (FEM) of the HCCC using standard materials. This model was constructed to match the design proposed and later built and delivered by Kentucky Trailer. The thesis also presents two structural analysis simulations performed using the HCCC FEM.

The HCCC FEM was built using ANSY Mechanical APDL. This software utilizes text-based “input files” to build, analyze and post-process the HCCC FEM entirely without user assistance. The author generated these input files to create the HCCC FEM structure using 3D beam elements, layered shell elements, and point mass elements. This approach represented a simplification to eliminate the need for more computationally intensive 3D solid elements; it also provides a simpler approach for changing the model as design changes occur. For example, the thickness of an aluminum plate in the HCCC FEM model is represented as a number that can be easily changed; for a 3D solid element model, revisions would involve changing solid model entities such as volumes and areas followed by remeshing. This is feasible in a small model but impractical in a large complex model such as the HCCC FEM.

The HCCC FEM is constructed in a modular manner, with different models representing the roof, sides, rear and front, floor and both expandable sections. These various submodels are joined together using constraint equations to cause identical displacements and rotations along common boundaries between models. This also permitted scenarios such as analysis with the expandables retracted or expanded. Contact elements are used to simulate support of the HCCC FEM along is bottom by a rigid boundary simulating the truck bed carrying the HCCC. The HCCC FEM is a nonlinear model due to both the contact elements and the ability to solve in cases of arbitrarily large displacement needed for dynamic analysis.

Two analyses using the HCCC FEM are presented. The first is a static analysis under various constant inertial (acceleration) loads to demonstrate that the structure is worthy for air transport using a C-17 aircraft. The second is a dynamic analysis simulating the structural response during a rail impact; this occurs when the HCCC is mounted on a rail car which then collides with another rail car. Both analyses were beneficial in demonstrating that the HCCC design performs sufficiently well in service.

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RIBEIRO, LUCIANA MELLO. "UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS: THEIR VALUES AND THE OPTION FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32581@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
PROGRAMA DE EXCELENCIA ACADEMICA
A Educação Ambiental (EA), um novo paradigma educacional, vem enfrentando uma série de desafios em seu processo de institucionalização no Brasil e no mundo, nestes seus pouco mais de 30 anos de trajetória. Desde 1999, a Lei Nacional de EA garante a obrigatoriedade de sua difusão em todas as instâncias sociais, seja nos meios de comunicação, nas empresas, no campo, ou em cada nível do ensino formal. Sua natureza interdisciplinar fez com que se propusesse incorporá-la de modo transversal nos processos educativos. Considerando as dificuldades de ordem cultural, burocrática, política, e mesmo psicológicas e sociais, tal proposição, com todos os avanços que se fez, segue ainda distante do horizonte desejado. A universidade, idealmente, deveria ser um dos locus transformadores da realidade, já que se propõe ser um espaço para formação educacional em diversos sentidos. Entretanto, sendo tradicionalmente conservadora em termos de práticas, não manifesta situação melhor quanto à EA. Ainda assim, existem docentes universitários que arrostam as dificuldades e desenvolvem práticas educativo-ambientais de fato engajadas e transformadoras. O que os motiva e mobiliza nesse sentido é a questão que orientou esta pesquisa. Tomou-se por hipótese serem os valores pessoais o fator decisivo nesta opção. Neste caso, que meios e experiências morais teriam produzido tais valores? De que forma? Como se expressam? Em busca de entender esta motivação lançou-se mão da história oral, através de sua modalidade conhecida por depoimentos pessoais, colhidos estes por meio de entrevistas. Mesclando memórias, práticas cotidianas e escolhas, a entrevista percorreu a trajetória pessoal e profissional destes docentes, procurando ir além da mera teorização em torno de valores desejados. Assim, foram confrontadas a prática e os ideais de cada docente, sendo tomados por indicadores de alinhamento entre discurso e valores a coerência e a vergonha. A riqueza dos relatos indica forte relação entre os valores principais de cada professor e sua prática social. Em comum, tais professores têm um perfil idealista e gosto pela vida, valorizando a justiça, a solidariedade, a gratidão, a relação humana e a responsabilidade, elementos aos quais conseguem dar corpo através de grande engajamento e dedicação ao trabalho, entendido e buscado enquanto meio de realização de seu projeto de vida. Idéias inatas, experiências familiares, sócio-culturais e educativas parecem ter contribuído para as escolhas existenciais dos docentes estudados. Espera-se que a identificação destes perfis e experiências formadoras possa inspirar a criação de processos educativos, iniciais ou continuados - tendo em vista a generalização do saber ambiental e do sujeito ecológico. Pretende-se, por fim, que a presente tese venha a contribuir para o debate acerca do processo pedagógico formador de valores no âmbito da Educação Ambiental.
Environmental Education (EE), a new educational paradigm, has been facing several challenges during its institutionalization process in Brazil and in the world over its thirty years trajectory. Since 1999, the Brazilian EE National Law made mandatory its diffusion in every social instance, such as the media, enterprises, countryside municipalities, and within each formal education level. The EE interdisciplinary nature has indicated its inclusion through a transversal approach within educational processes. Considering the difficulties within cultural, bureaucratic, politic and even psychological and social instances, such proposition continues - besides many developments achieved -, far from its goal. The institution of higher education, ideally, should be a social changing locus, as it has the purpose of being a place for educational development in many ways. However, being traditionally conservative within its practices, it is not doing well concerning EE. Even so, there are professors whom, despite difficulties, develop educative-environmental practices truly committed with social change. The reasons which motivate and mobilize them in this direction are the key matter that guided this research. By hypothesis, this work proposes that personal values are decisive factors leading these university teachers into this option. In this case, what means and moral experiences have produced such values? How was it? How are they regularly expressed? In order to understand their motivation it was applied the oral history research approach through personal depositions, obtained through interviews. Mixing memories, daily practices, and choices, the interviews explore university teacher s personal and professional trajectory, trying to proceed beyond simple theorizations about required values. Furthermore, their practice and educational ideals were compared, being taken the coherence and the shame as alignment indicators between their speeches and values. A large quantity of stories indicates a strong relation between the main values of each teacher and their social practice. Yet, as a common characteristic, such professors share an idealistic profile and taste for life, valuing justice, solidarity, gratitude, human relationship and responsibility, elements which they develop by great commitment and dedication to work, understood and pursued as life project accomplishments. Innate ideas, family background, educational and social-cultural experiences also seem to have contributed to the life choices of our research s participants. It is expected the investigation of these personal profiles and experiences may inspire the development of learning processes, within initial or further education levels, in order to disseminate the Environmental Knowledge and the Ecological Subject matter. It is intended, ultimately, this thesis can contribute to the discussion about value-maker pedagogical processes within the Environmental Education field.

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Benson, Etienne Samuel. "The wired wilderness : electronic surveillance and environmental values in wildlife biology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43219.

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Thesis (Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS))--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2006.
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In the second half of the twentieth century, American wildlife biologists incorporated Cold War-era surveillance technologies into their practices in order to render wild animals and their habitats legible and manageable. One of the most important of these was wildlife radio-tracking, in which collars and tags containing miniature transmitters were used to locate individual animals in the field. In addition to producing new ecological insights, radio-tracking served as a site where relationships among scientists, animals, hunters, animal rights activists, environmentalists, and others involved in wildlife conservation could be embodied and contested. While scholars have tended to interpret surveillance technologies in terms of the extension of human control over nature and society, I show how technological, biological, and ecological factors made such control fragmentary and open to reappropriation. Wildlife radio-tracking created vulnerabilities as well as capabilities; it provided opportunities for connection as well as for control. I begin by showing how biologists in Minnesota and Illinois in the early 1960s used radio-tracking to establish intimate, technologically-mediated, situated relationships with game animals such as ruffed grouse, which they hoped would bolster their authority vis-a-vis recreational hunters. I then show how the technique was contested by environmentalists when biologists applied it to iconic "wilderness wildlife" such as grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park in the 1960s and 1970s. One way for biologists to render radio-tracking acceptable in the face of such opposition was to emphasize its continuity with traditional practices, as they did in a radio-tagging study of tigers in Nepal in the 1970s.
(cont.) Another way was to shift to less invasive techniques of remote sensing, such as the bioacoustic surveys of bowhead whales off Alaska's Arctic coast that were conducted in the 1980s after a proposal to radio-tag whales was rejected by marine mammalogists and Ifiupiat whalers. Finally, wildlife biologists could reframe radio-tracking as a means for popular connection rather than expert control, as they did by broadcasting the locations of satellite-tagged albatrosses to schoolchildren, gamblers, and the general public via the Internet in the 1990s and early 2000s.
by Etienne Samuel Benson.
Ph.D.in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS

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Webb, Megan. "Environmental controls of stable carbon isotope values in freshwater diatom silica." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.747983.

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Improved understanding of the impact of catchment processes on freshwater carbon cycling would aid prediction of carbon flux attributed to changes in climate or land use. Carbon transfer through terrestrial and aquatic environments can be traced using stable carbon isotopic analysis (δ13C). A refined method of δ13C, free from host effects, is the utilisation of diatom-bound carbon (δ13Cdiatom)-

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Pickett, Susan Elena 1970. "Deliberation : integrating stakeholder values and risk assessments in environmental decision making." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46247.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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Risk management has gained a significant amount of attention from both policy makers and the public over the past thirty years, as the interaction of technology and policy choices become more predominant in the evaluation of trade-offs in a democratic society. This is particularly so in decisions regarding the management, disposal and clean up of hazardous wastes throughout the United States. The responsible agency must balance the multiple elements of risk, multiple and conflicting objectives, and stakeholder values and perceptions inherent in environmental decisions in order to meet social needs, while maintaining the integrity of both the technical and social aspects of that decision. The National Research Council (1996) has recommended that the responsible agency incorporate all relevant stakeholders in the decision making process from the start, specifying an analytical-deliberative process for dealing with decisions that involve substantial risk analysis and assessment. The basic premise of this recommendation is that by involving the stakeholders in the process from the beginning and simultaneously performing the necessary risk assessments, taking into account the stakeholder values in an analytic-deliberative method, the decision making process can be enhanced. The concept of bringing together multiple stakeholders in environmental decision making attempts to address the fact that past decisions have neglected stakeholder values, however, by bringing together the multiple stakeholders, the agency is faced with numerous other challenges. These challenges include:: communicating and characterizing risk, unreasonable expectations, selecting of stakeholders, utilizing of time and resources efficiently, providing access to resources, addressing stakeholder concerns, and defining consensus. In order to aid in this process, this work investigates the integration of risk assessment and stakeholder involvement in reaching a fair, wise, efficient and stable decision concerning environmental remediation. We propose an integration of stakeholder values and risk assessments using a combination of mathematical and decision analysis tools which culminate in a ranking of the remediation alternatives. From this integration, we devise strategies for a consensual deliberation that focus on the interests of the stakeholders while simultaneously account for the technical issues. This work presents the results of such an integration and details the formulation of strategies.
by Susan Elena Pickett.
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Codling, Rosamunde Jill. "Wilderness and aesthetic values in the Antarctic." n.p, 1998. http://oro.open.ac.uk/18867.

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Rikner, Amanda. "Waldorf Teachers and Environmental Issues : - Behavior, Values, Attitudes and Feelings of Responsibility." Thesis, Linnaeus University, School of Education, Psychology and Sport Science, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-5784.

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Today it has become critical that people adapt their behavior and lifestyles to environmental constraints. Teachers are supposed to teach pupils to accept personal responsibility in regard to these problems. The pedagogies of Waldorf and public schools have different outlooks on nature, hence it was hypothesized that Waldorf and public teachers would differ in regard to pro-environmental behavior and factors explaining such actions. An e-questionnaire measuring pro-environmental behavior, biospheric and altruistic values, feelings of personal responsibility, and pro-environmental attitudes was filled out by 68 Waldorf teachers and 73 public teachers from different municipalities in Sweden. The results suggest that Waldorf teachers report higher biospheric values (partial eta²= .46, p < .001), more pro-environmental behavior (partial eta²= .39, p < .001), more feelings of personal responsibility, (partial eta²= .32, p < .001), and higher altruistic values (partial eta²= .12, p < .001), than public school teachers do. There were a few limitations in reliability and possibly with social desirability. However, the present study paves the way for an understanding of how pedagogy can be of help in preventing further environmental problems.

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Wild, Andrew. "Environmental values and democratic relationships in the context of Local Agenda 21." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247261.

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Duque-AristizaÌbal, Ana Maria. "Environmental education discourses in Colombia : a study of values, politics and power." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396251.

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Hampson, Ruann Knox. "Variations in bacterial adenosine triphosphate values due to genus and environmental conditions." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94467.

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Variations in ATP content in three ground beef spoilage bacteria, Lactobacillus brevis, Lactobacillus jensenii, and Pseudomonas sp. were investigated using the bioluminescence (luciferin-luciferase) assay. Environmental factors (temperature, atmosphere, pH, aeration, and phase of growth), as well as differences among genera and species, were studied in relation to their effect on cellular ATP. Variations for each of the environmental factors and bacteria were shown statistically to be significantly different at the 0.05 level. The mean ATP/cell for each of the bacteria was 2.71 fg/cell (L. brevis), 2.20 fg/cell (L. jensenii), and 1.36 fg/cell (Pseudomonas sp.). For all three bacteria, ATP/cell was lower and more stable throughout the culture's growth cycle at 3°C or in N₂. In general, ATP/cell increases from a lowest value in lag phase to a highest value in stationary phase. The effect of sonication on ATP/cell was tested for each bacterium at one set of factors. Sonication studies showed that L. brevis cells were clumping, especially in aged cultures. After sonication, ATP/cell remained relatively constant from lag through stationary phase. L. jensenii showed no signs of clumping and ATP/cell increased as the culture aged. Sonication had a lethal effect on the Pseudomonas. Thus the ATP/cell for Pseudomonas increased dramatically as the culture aged. Guidelines concerning temperature, assumed ATP content for major contaminants, and sample handling must be followed in order to use the bioluminescence assay to estimate biomass in foods.
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Aurin, Shaila Nusrat. "Shareholder Values and a Story of Corporate Social and Environmental Negative Events." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42598.

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This dissertation considers the entire process originated by corporate events that impact the environment and the society (ES events). Using a rich hand-collected dataset with 1139 chronological incidents originating from negative corporate social responsibility (CSR)-related events, it explores stock market reactions to each stage within a chain of successive events triggered by negative ES events, including the recurrent, follow-up (either favorable or unfavorable), as well as companies’ response events. We find that the investors respond strongly negatively to negative events (origin, negative subsequent, and negative responses) and strongly positively to positive events (positive subsequent and positive responses). We also find that investors react more negatively to the negative subsequent and recurrent events, as well as company negative responses when they occur sooner after the origin events, whereas promptness of positive subsequent events and positive responses heighten the favorable market reaction. The study also reveals the presence of expectancy violation as investors of high-CSR firm react more negatively to the negative events. In addition, it provides observations suggesting that: (1) investors do not regard positive responses as agency-motivated events, instead they are more concerned about the availability of financial resources when a firm makes remedial responses to a negative ES event; and (2) the market cares about CSR events not solely due to their financial implications, but also because it considers socially responsible operations as a value-enhancing corporate duty.

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Xu, Weihuan. "Experimental choice analysis of non-market values for ecosystem management with preference heterogeneity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5576.

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Aronow, Emily. "Environmental clean-up and property price change." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1354812110.

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