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Journal articles on the topic "Environmentalist analysis"
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Thoyre, Autumn. "Constructing environmentalist identities through green neoliberal identity work." Journal of Political Ecology 22, no. 1 (December 1, 2015): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v22i1.21082.
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To advance understandings of how neoliberal ideologies are linked to peoples' everyday environmentalist practices, this article examines processes through which green neoliberal subjects are made. Bringing together critical perspectives on green neoliberalism and symbolic interactionist perspectives on identities, I develop the concept of green neoliberal identity work, a mechanism through which neoliberal environmentalist subjects are produced. I use environmentalists' promotions and uses of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) as a case study, and employ mixed qualitative methods and grounded theory analysis. Data were collected in North Carolina through interviews, participant observation, and texts. The data reveal four generic patterns of green neoliberal identity work: celebrations and renunciations of particular technologies, inclusive-talk, performing moral math, and technological progress-talk. These patterns show that framing green neoliberal subject formation through the lens of identity work illuminates how these subjects form themselves through micro-level social processes, and opens up different ways of thinking about resistance.Keywords: environmentalism, neoliberalism, identity work, subjectivities, identities
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Kallis, Giorgos, and Sam Bliss. "Post-environmentalism: origins and evolution of a strange idea." Journal of Political Ecology 26, no. 1 (August 23, 2019): 466. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v26i1.23238.
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<p>The publication of the Ecomodernist Manifesto in 2015 marked a high point for post-environmentalism, a set of ideas that reject limits and instead advocate urbanization, industrialization, agricultural intensification, and nuclear power to protect the environment. Where, how, and why did post-environmentalism come about? Might it influence developments in the future? We trace the origins of post-environmentalism to the mid-2000s in the San Francisco Bay Area and show how it emerged as a response to perceived failures of U.S. environmentalism. Through a discourse analysis of key texts produced by the primary actors of post-environmentalism, namely the Oakland, California-based Breakthrough Institute and its cofounders Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, we show how the theory behind post-environmentalism mixes a deconstructionist trope familiar to political ecologists with a modernization core from liberal economics. We discuss the contradictions of post-environmentalist discourse and argue that despite its flaws, post-environmentalism can hold considerable sway because its politics align with powerful interests who benefit from arguing that accelerating capitalist modernization will save the environment. We conclude that political ecology has a much more nuanced take on the contradictions post-environmentalists stumble upon, disagreeing with those political ecologists who are choosing to ally with the agenda of the Manifesto.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: ecomodernism; ecological modernization; discourse analysis; environmental politics</p>
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Feyza Korkmaz SAGLAM and Bahattin CIZRELI. "THE PARADOX OF ENVIRONMENTALISM: WHEN ENVIRONMENTALIST CONSUMPTION BECOMES A STATUS SYMBOL." Eurasian Research Journal 6, no. 1 (February 12, 2024): 85–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.53277/2519-2442-2024.1-05.
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The purpose of this review article is to provide a critical analysis of some of the environmentalist practices developed during the tackle ecological degradation, as well as to evaluate the petty-bourgeois character of these practices. Initially, the article explains that capitalist production-consumption relations are primarily responsible for the observed climate changes in our era. After that, the character of the petty bourgeois, the consumer individual of late capitalism, is discussed in the context of Bourdieusian theory. To empirically explore the social dimensions of petty bourgeois environmentalism, this paper analyzes data from a targeted field research project conducted with residents of two distinct socioeconomic categories within Ankara. The research data employed within the article constitutes a limited subset derived from the broader data repository established by Feyza Korkmaz Saglam during her field research in 2021 July, conducted as part of her doctoral study. The findings, acquired through the application of Bourdieu’s Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) technique, reveal the utilization of environmentalist consumerism as a class differentiator, contributing to the perpetuation of capitalist production-consumption relations rather than challenging them.
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Baena, Benjamin, Amy Bronson, Tobias Jones, and Lindsey Champaigne. "Applying and assessing free market environmentalism to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s coltan resources: Challenges and possibilities." SURG Journal 7, no. 1 (February 10, 2014): 5–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.21083/surg.v7i1.2025.
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Coltan is the commonly used term for tantalum, a metal used in electronics, when sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This article considers that a “resource curse,” where a resource-rich country paradoxically experiences low social and economic development, is occurring in the DRC with respect to this mineral. The school of economic thought known as free market environmentalism broadly prescribes free markets, individual property rights, and common-law liability as the incentives to reduce environmental problems. While it is a less-common and sometimes controversial perspective on solving environmental problems, an analysis of a free market environmentalist perspective of coltan mining in the DRC provides alternative perspectives on solving a “resource curse,” such as effective property rights as put forward by Moriss (2009). Considering the practicality of implementing free market environmentalist principles in a war-torn country with weak governance, this article theorizes that the Congolese government could respond to the recent Congo Conflict Minerals Act within the American Dodd-Frank Act (2010) by implementing licenses to mine coltan resources that closely resemble private property rights, drawing on Pearse (1988), in areas of the DRC less affected by conflict.
Keywords: Democratic Republic of Congo; coltan; tantalum; mining; free market environmentalism; property rights (privatization of)
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Morris, John C. "The Artist as Environmentalist: Ansel Adams, Policy Entrepreneurship, and the Growth of Environmentalism." Public Voices 9, no. 2 (January 5, 2017): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/pv.214.
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The role of the policy entrepreneur in the policy process forms an integral part of our understanding of the formulation and implementation of policy in the United States. For all its theoretical importance, however, little work has been done to develop or test the propositions of entrepreneurship offered by Kingdon (1984). By examining the life of Ansel Adams (1902-1984), this paper explores more fully the concept of policy entrepreneurship and seeks to develop a more robust concept that accounts for the long-term, diffuse series of activities that precede Kingdon’s “stream coupling” in the policy process. The analysis suggests that such an approach offers some promise for capturing a broader spectrum of policy activity.
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Wapner, Paul. "World Summit on Sustainable Development: Toward a Post-Jo'burg Environmentalism." Global Environmental Politics 3, no. 1 (February 1, 2003): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/152638003763336356.
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This article provides a first-hand account of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) and an analysis of how to advance environmentalist concerns in the post-Jo'burg era. It reviews some of the achievements and disappointments of the Summit and describes significant changes in global environmental affairs that the WSSD was unable fully to appreciate and which, therefore, must be addressed in the post-Jo'burg world. One change is a switch in emphasis in the North and South in terms of sustainable development. For too long we've been told that the North is concerned with the environment while the South is focused on development. At the WSSD it became clear, however, that this is no longer the case. Many in the North now claim a development focus although, to be sure, through the more fundamental goal of economic globalization. Concomitantly, many in the South voice a commitment to environmental sustainability as a way to reduce poverty. A second change has to do with the power of environmentalism. After enjoying much strength, concern for the environment is flagging throughout much of the world as key states find themselves distracted by geo-political concerns in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. Both changes indicate the need to rethink environmentalist strategies in a post-Jo'burg era. The article offers several suggestions including abandoning sustainable development as a policy objective (although keeping it as a conceptual framework) and resuscitating the older, more narrow and arguably less complicated goals of environmental protection.
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Sun, A. Qiang. "Analysis on Structure and Morphological of Carton Packaging." Applied Mechanics and Materials 442 (October 2013): 338–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.442.338.
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The package structure is a three-dimensional space form, so people know the products are in used in the packaging. In packaging materials for paper use is very extensive, paper products are easy to shape the body shape for easy printing and recyclable advantage. This paper study design of the paper packaging structural, combining paper packaging structural design applications to explore the paper packaging structural morphology and environmentalist design consciousness.
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Burgos, Enric. "From «Cowspiracy» to «Seaspiracy»: Discursive Strategies in Contemporary Vegan Advocacy Documentaries." Communication & Society 37, no. 1 (January 9, 2024): 115–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.15581/003.37.1.115-130.
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Guided by the qualitative approach of film analysis, this article examines the discursive strategies used in the films Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret and Seaspiracy, while identifying contrasts with the rhetoric of other pro-vegan and environmentalist documentaries. The analysis of both films together serves to highlight: a) the prominence they give to environmentalist reasons for veganism; b) their different way of portraying violence against animals; c) their use of a detective plotline to articulate the narrative; d) their emotional use of first-person narration; and e) the emphasis they place on global responsibility for the environmental impact of animal-based food production and their proposal of specific, feasible solutions to reverse the situation. The study finds that Cowspiracy and Seaspiracy stand as evidence of the vegan advocacy documentary’s contributions to the environmentalist non-fiction genre to which it belongs, while highlighting the strategies used in both films (avoiding audience revulsion and promoting positive feelings; integrating fictional elements and fostering identification in order to seduce the audience; appealing to commitment and conveying proactive messages rather than a sense of helplessness) that enable the cognitive and affective dimensions to feed into each other for the purpose of persuading viewers and promoting individual and social change.
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Guignard, Florence Pasche. "Back Home and Back to Nature? Natural Parenting and Religion in Francophone Contexts." Open Theology 6, no. 1 (March 11, 2020): 175–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0013.
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AbstractNew entanglements between parenting (in theory and practice), environmentalism, religion, spirituality, and secularism are at the core of the analysis presented in this article. In francophone contexts, discourses by practitioners, advocates and detractors of natural parenting contribute to associating this specific style of parenting and several of its key practices with religion and spirituality. After documenting and defining natural parenting by listing its characteristic practices and underlining its values as well as its important overlap with attachment parenting, this article examines the historically religious roots of movements linked to several practices still regarded as typical of natural parenting (natural childbirth movements, natural family planning or fertility awareness, and breastfeeding advocacy). Along with feminist and medical strands of criticism, within these highly secular contexts, the association with religion and spirituality participates in the criticism of this style of parenting which combines the key tenets of attachment parenting with a strong environmentalist agenda implemented for the most part in the domestic sphere and around women’s bodies.
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Wexler, Mark N. "PROBLEMS IN THE GRID‐GROUP ANALYSIS OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 7, no. 1 (January 1987): 68–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb013030.
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Fiquet, Angela T. Jr. "An Analysis of Tolerance Variation Among Adherents to Feminist, Environmentalist and Gay Rights Principles." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46499.
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To the extent that the United States is a post-industrial society, whereby the means and ends of social production are social, and the production and reproduction of knowledge are shaped by reflexivity and continuous reconceptualizations of reality, what it means to be "tolerant" has been subjected to multiple ideologies. Supposedly freed from collectively imposed identities, social scientists have argued that in a postmodern society, individuals actively construct their own identities. In this study, it is questioned how multiple, trans-class and trans-disciplinary identities affect beliefs and behavior. Subject to exploration are expressions of tolerance, embodied as the expression of attitudes toward the following groups of traditionally nonconforming individuals: atheists, communists, racists and homosexuals.
Using 1993 General Social Survey data, independent attitudinal variables were constructed from indexed items measuring opinions about ideas embraced by three "new" social movements: the women's, environmental and gay rights' movements. Socio-structural and attitudinal variables were regressed on tolerance, the dependent variable, which was divided into general and group-specific indexes. Education and urbanism were shown to be significant predictors of tolerance, while gender and political ideology were not significant predictors of tolerance. Positive correlations resulted between general tolerance and pro-feminist, pro-environmentalist and pro-gay rights attitudes.
In conclusion, the prediction that individuals scoring high on measurements of feminism, environmentalism and pro-homosexuality, which all expound ideological convictions that refute traditional norms and value systems, would also demonstrate high levels of tolerance was greatly substantiated. Lending support for Bobo and Licari's (1989) argument, it is agreed that demographic, or social structural, variables alone are insufficient determinants of tolerance. Furthermore, although new social movements are chiefly organized around identity, rather than class, issues, even historically "tolerant" individuals, such as feminists, were shown to be less tolerant of certain groups, such as, in this study, racistsMaster of Science
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Talbot, Carl. "The myths of environmentalism : nature, discipline and the class struggle." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363250.
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Fisher, Alison Aurelia. "Roasting on Earth : a rhetorical analysis of eco-comedy /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1968468131&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Lasmothey, Kossi Biova Placide. "Analyse environnementaliste du droit de la commande publique." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lorraine, 2022. https://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/ulprive/DDOC_T_2022_0282_LASMOTHEY.pdf.
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Le principe de neutralité du droit de la commande publique est mort, vive l’instrumentalisation du droit de la commande publique à des fins environnementales ! Tel est le constat général fait par la présente thèse qui propose une analyse environnementaliste intégrale, détaillée et ordonnée du droit de la commande publique. À l’évidence, grâce à une analyse théorico-pratique, il est observé qu’en l’état actuel de la pratique contractuelle administrative, malgré le modernisme séduisant induit par l’intégration des considérations environnementales, le conservatisme persistant lié à la préférence économique des autorités contractantes marque encore une profonde réticence à une pleine exploitation des potentialités environnementales des contrats de la commande publique. Pour autant, il n’y a pas lieu d’être pessimiste, car l’évolution du cadre législatif permet d’espérer et d’insuffler une nouvelle dynamique environnementale plus efficace au droit de la commande publique et à la pratique contractuelleThe principle of neutrality of public procurement law is dead, long live the instrumentalization of public procurement law for environmental purposes! Such is the general observation made by our research which offers a full, meticulous and methodical environmentalist analysis of public procurement law. Obviously, by a theoretical-practical analysis, it is observed that in the current state of administrative contractual practice, despite the seductive modernism induced by the insertion of ecological considerations, the obstinate conservatism due to the economic preference of the contracting authorities, still showing a deep reluctance to fully use the environmental potential of public procurement contracts. However, there is no reason to be pessimistic, because the evolution of the legislative framework allows to hope and to breathe new and more effective environmental dynamics into public procurement Law and contractual practice
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Marquart-Pyatt, Sandra T. "A comparative analysis of environmental concern." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1091579241.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 248 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-194). Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2007 Aug. 4.
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Gruber, Vanessa Simone. "Local environmentalism in a globalized world : a case study of the international environmental discourse and Nahuel Huapi, Argentina." Thesis, Boston University, 2008. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27660.
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Thesis (B.A.)--Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. 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.
This paper analyzes the relationship between the global discourse on the environment and the discourse occurring in Nahuel Huapi, Argentina over the 20th century through the year 2007. This paper applies discourse analysis theory as used by Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault to the history of environmental discourse on a global, national, and local level. It assesses the institution of language and dialog through personal narrative , metaphor, rhetorical devices, and formal documentation in order to interpret the ways in which global environmental discourse has reached Nahuel Huapi. The primary examples of global discourse used are historical accounts by environmental sociologists , histories of the United Nations' incorporation of environmental discourse , and anthropological accounts of the global indigenous discourse. National linkages are made through studies of international treaties ratified by the Argentine government and laws implemented throughout the state. Local linkages are further made through anthropological assessments of local discourse as well as personal interviews . I analyze the global, national and local discourses in that order with a chronological focus throughout. Existing analyses of environmental institutions and their effectiveness tend to focus on the formal proceedings of international organizations, private citizens , or community actors but most fail to assess the informal mechanisms by which these global institutions can affect action at the local level. By arguing that language and dialog are indeed socialand political institutions, I conclude that through discourse, the international environmental regime has strongly affected local environmental discourse in Nahuel Huapi Argentina through two channels: 1) the National Parks System, which the international regime has impacted mainly through United Nations forums such as conferences and summits on the environment and development. 2) The Mapuche community , which the international regime has impacted mainly through the inclusion of indigenous communities in the international forum and the legitimization that the United Nations provides these communities with regard to environmental stewardship and selfdetermination. The study shows that early in the 20th century, when the Mapuche community and the government of Argentina were isolated from any global discourse , the dialog between them was virtually non-existent. [TRUNCATED]
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Wu, Pin-Hsien. "Environmentalism in China and India : a comparative analysis of people and politics in two coal capitals." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/57101/.
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This dissertation presents the results of an interdisciplinary environmental study that focuses on the formation of environmental discourse at the grassroots level of society. Case studies on the ‘Coal Capitals' in Guizhou of China and Jharkhand of India were conducted in order to examine the question: why do people appear to react in different ways when encountering environmental problems, such as those caused by mining? This thesis investigates how the environment – and the participation space for discussing it – has been socio-culturally, historically and politically defined in the two countries. It is one of the few initiatives to have assessed environmental development issues based on comparative literature reviews and empirical fieldwork in coal villages in China and India. It has critically examined the literature related to the two locations studied by encompassing environmental governance, political discourses and historical studies about environmental development, media productions and daily life conversations about the environment. By examining the representations of environmentalism in the Chinese and Indian cases, this study deals with different dynamics of discourse construction in the two societies – including the power of the state, the influences of media and social elites, and the emergence of grassroots movements. The investigation of the interactions between these dynamics enhances our understanding of, on the one hand, the social settings of the two Coal Capitals in the two countries, and, on the other hand, the relationship between nature and the people, especially those with limited social and economic resources. By bringing in the voices of the marginalised social groups, this thesis adds to a growing body of research on the diversity of environmentalism within developing countries. In particular, the analysis helps explain how popular environmentalism and the concept of environmental participation in India and China have become recognised differently, in the discussions created by researchers and media commentators in conjunction with actors with power in the state machinery.
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Nagel, Michael. "Queensland and Saskatchewan middle years students' experiences of environmental education : an analysis of conceptions." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16008/1/Michael_Nagel_Thesis.pdf.
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This study explores the qualitatively different ways in which the phenomenon of environmental education is understood or experienced by a purposeful sample of year seven students in Queensland and Saskatchewan. In 'directing the activities of the young', environmental education has, since its genesis, existed in an epistemological quagmire surrounding the development of 'responsible' environmental behaviours. Yet, after some thirty years of research and pedagogical initiative, this is one of only a few studies that have looked at the reality of environmental education through the eyes of young people.
Contested and debated, environmental education has received much attention in many countries from educators interested in merging the complexities of the terms environment and education. In the context of this study it is significant to note that environmental education's history bears witness to scholarly discourse and educational initiatives in Australia and Canada. However, while environmental education has continued to expand its presence in pedagogical and didactic endeavour, its history also demonstrates contested ideological foundations regarding its implementation in schools. Queensland and Saskatchewan offer pertinent examples of this contestation.
From a global perspective, the goals and objectives of environmental education have been driven, developed and established around international agendas developed at a number of conferences designed and delivered through UNESCO. These global initiatives were then left to local interpretation that often resulted in very different didactic and pedagogic frameworks. Such is the case with Queensland and Saskatchewan where environmental education is situated within a social science framework in Queensland and a science framework in Saskatchewan. However, the pedagogical structure of environmental education was not the focus of this study per se. Instead, this phenomenographic research project looks at how the phenomenon of environmental education is experienced by a group of Year 7 children in each region. These children's experiences of environmental education can be encapsulated in a limited number of qualitatively different conceptualisations.
The study finds that, regardless of their country of origin, the children conceptualise environmental education in five ways; Environmental Education as:
'Human Being'.
'Human Escaping'.
'Human Doing'.
'Human Complying'.
'Human Distancing'.
Specific components of these conceptions are detailed through 'categories of description' which lend themselves to a structural framework referred to as an 'outcome space'. Through this 'outcome space' it becomes apparent that for the year seven students who participated in this research project, environmental education is, at is best irrelevant, and at its worst depressing. For the goals of environmental education and those who aspire and work towards meeting those goals, this 'cumulative movement of action (environmental education) toward a later result' as noted by Dewey and quoted above, appears to be growing in the wrong direction.
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Nagel, Michael. "Queensland and Saskatchewan middle years students' experiences of environmental education : an analysis of conceptions." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16008/.
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This study explores the qualitatively different ways in which the phenomenon of environmental education is understood or experienced by a purposeful sample of year seven students in Queensland and Saskatchewan. In 'directing the activities of the young', environmental education has, since its genesis, existed in an epistemological quagmire surrounding the development of 'responsible' environmental behaviours. Yet, after some thirty years of research and pedagogical initiative, this is one of only a few studies that have looked at the reality of environmental education through the eyes of young people.
Contested and debated, environmental education has received much attention in many countries from educators interested in merging the complexities of the terms environment and education. In the context of this study it is significant to note that environmental education's history bears witness to scholarly discourse and educational initiatives in Australia and Canada. However, while environmental education has continued to expand its presence in pedagogical and didactic endeavour, its history also demonstrates contested ideological foundations regarding its implementation in schools. Queensland and Saskatchewan offer pertinent examples of this contestation.
From a global perspective, the goals and objectives of environmental education have been driven, developed and established around international agendas developed at a number of conferences designed and delivered through UNESCO. These global initiatives were then left to local interpretation that often resulted in very different didactic and pedagogic frameworks. Such is the case with Queensland and Saskatchewan where environmental education is situated within a social science framework in Queensland and a science framework in Saskatchewan. However, the pedagogical structure of environmental education was not the focus of this study per se. Instead, this phenomenographic research project looks at how the phenomenon of environmental education is experienced by a group of Year 7 children in each region. These children's experiences of environmental education can be encapsulated in a limited number of qualitatively different conceptualisations.
The study finds that, regardless of their country of origin, the children conceptualise environmental education in five ways; Environmental Education as:
'Human Being'.
'Human Escaping'.
'Human Doing'.
'Human Complying'.
'Human Distancing'.
Specific components of these conceptions are detailed through 'categories of description' which lend themselves to a structural framework referred to as an 'outcome space'. Through this 'outcome space' it becomes apparent that for the year seven students who participated in this research project, environmental education is, at is best irrelevant, and at its worst depressing. For the goals of environmental education and those who aspire and work towards meeting those goals, this 'cumulative movement of action (environmental education) toward a later result' as noted by Dewey and quoted above, appears to be growing in the wrong direction.
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Moscato, Derek. "Plains Spoken: A Framing Analysis of Bold Nebraska's Campaign Against the Keystone XL Pipeline." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22780.
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This dissertation focuses on the use of strategic communication in the context of contemporary environmental activism. It examines the case of Bold Nebraska, a grassroots advocacy group opposing the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL oil pipeline in the state of Nebraska. Such an analysis of activist communication informs several areas of research, including public relations theory and practice, social movement theory, and environmental communication. To understand the construction of strategic communication within such activism, this study employs a movement framing analysis, a media framing analysis, and a rhetorical analysis. A quantitative framing analysis of Bold Nebraska’s website communication against the pipeline during the five-year period of 2011 to 2015 assesses how activists craft and project strategic messages. A framing analysis of Bold Nebraska’s national media coverage during the same timeframe highlights the relationship between activist framing and mainstream news coverage. Finally, a rhetorical analysis of Bold Nebraska’s 2014 Harvest the Hope concert is provided to understand the role of rhetorical appeals in building an environmental activism metanarrative or master frame.
Taken together, these three approaches provide both a more holistic means to considering environmental activism campaigns in the context of strategic communication, and fill in the gaps for understanding the interplay of social movement organizations, public relations, and persuasion. This study brings a framework of strategic advocacy framing to the realm of environmental politics, and builds upon this framework by considering the dynamic of populism in activism. It also explores the role of strategic communication in evolving a movement organization’s metanarrative as it toggles between short- and long-term goals. Finally, it identifies a civic environmental persuasion built upon the attributes of narrative, hyperlocalization, engagement, and bipartisanship in order to build broad support and influence public policy.
Books on the topic "Environmentalist analysis"
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Sharma, T. C. Green revolution gaps: A geographical analysis. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 1989.
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Gerstenfeld, Manfred. Judaism, environmentalism, and the environment: Mapping and analysis. Jerusalem: Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 1998.
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Harré, Rom. Greenspeak: A study of environmental discourse. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 1999.
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(undifferentiated), Lowe, and Rudig. The green wave: A comparative analysis of ecological parties. Oxford: Polity Press, 1999.
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Śarmā, Subhāsha. Why people protest: An analysis of ecological movements. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 2009.
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Why people protest: An analysis of ecological movements. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 2009.
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Śarmā, Subhāsha. Why people protest: An analysis of ecological movements. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 2009.
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Śarmā, Subhāsha. Why people protest: An analysis of ecological movements. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 2009.
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I︠A︡nit︠s︡kiĭ, O. N. Russian greens in a risk society: A structural analysis. Helsinki: Aleksanteri-instituutti, 2000.
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1959-, King Leslie, and McCarthy Deborah 1966-, eds. Environmental sociology: From analysis to action. 2nd ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.
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Johnson, Branden B. "The Environmentalist Movement and Grid/Group Analysis: A Modest Critique." In The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk, 147–75. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3395-8_6.
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Baker, Susan. "The Impact of Environmentalism on Public Policy Analysis." In Politics at the Edge, 132–44. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780333981689_10.
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Volden, Johannes, and Arve Hansen. "Practical Aeromobilities: Making Sense of Environmentalist Air-Travel." In Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life, 193–225. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11069-6_8.
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AbstractFlying has become an increasingly contested form of consumption, but ‘green’ consumers often continue to fly. This chapter provides novel insights into the stubbornness of air-travel by specifically studying the obstacles that environmentally conscious consumers face when trying to limit or eliminate aeromobility. Through in-depth interviews with Norwegian environmental organisation workers—conceptualised as particularly self-reflexive when it comes to environmentally contested forms of consumption—we analyse how environmentalists negotiate one of the most environmentally destructive aspects of their consumption patterns. To explore how the social embeddedness of flying complicates the reduction of air-travel in these accounts, we draw on a combination of mobilities and social practice approaches. The participants considered flying to be problematic, but also often necessary in specific practices. Various expectations related to convenience, time, and sociality, led to a certain ‘lock-in’ of (aero)mobility. Zooming out to consider broader practice geographies, we argue that aeromobility contributes to the tempo-spatial expansion of many practices, changing their contents, meanings, and the contexts in which they unfold. To achieve sustainable mobility, we suggest that attention must be shifted from the air-travels of individual consumers to the broader practices in which aeromobility is embedded.
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Stoma, Monika, and Agnieszka Dudziak. "Analysis of Market Behaviour on the Organic Food Market in Terms of Environmental Protection and Consumer Environmentalism." In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 345–56. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13090-8_33.
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Dauvergne, Peter. "Introduction: Is Environmentalism Failing?" In Environmentalism of the Rich. The MIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262034951.003.0001.
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This chapter begins with a question that at some point just about every environmentalist asks themselves: “Is environmentalism failing?” In some respects and on some measures, environmentalism has been – and remains – a highly influential social movement. Nonetheless, the earth is clearly in a full-blown crisis as agricultural pollution, biodiversity loss, chemical contamination, climate change, deforestation, desertification, freshwater loss, ocean acidification, plastic waste, and transboundary pollutants continue to worsen. Why is environmentalism failing at this global scale? To begin to answer this question this chapter surveys the forces of global “unsustainability,” sketches the diversity of environmentalism, and defines the parameters of the book’s central organizing concept of “environmentalism of the rich,” taking great care to explain what qualifies – and what doesn’t. The chapter concludes by mapping out how the 11 chapters ahead fit into (and build) the book’s full analysis.
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Pogue, Neall W. "“It Could Have Taken A Very Different Path”." In The Nature of the Religious Right, 149–72. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501762000.003.0008.
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This chapter analyzes the struggle's aftermath by exploring the newly adopted anti-environmentalist views of Richard Land, Robert Dugan, and others in the wider community. It reveals the impact of the progressive Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) that helped spur the publication of the religious right's first official anti-environmentalist documents published in 2000. Although these statements represent the accepted and currently held conservative evangelical anti-environmentalist position, the EEN and others continued in their quest for Christian environmental stewardship. The chapter discusses the conspiracy theories connected with environmentalism and evangelicals that date back to the beginning of the environmental movement. It talks about how conservative evangelicals thought that environmentalists were blaming Christianity for the ecological crisis and trying to destroy the Christian faith by advocating the adoption of all other religions elevating the Earth and its creatures to a higher plane above mankind.
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Pak, Chris. "Ecology and Environmental Awareness in 1960s–1970s Terraforming Stories." In Terraforming, 98–136. Liverpool University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781382844.003.0004.
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Terraforming and its destructive ecological impact began to receive greater attention in the light of environmentalism in the 1960s-1970s. This chapter draws attention to the links between the utopian imagination, the pastoral, and the notion of the communard, a concept that was re-voiced in “New Age” environmentalist discourse. The first section compares and contrasts several significant proto-Gaian works while the second explores terraforming narratives that re-work the 1950s tradition. Citing Val Plumwood’s analysis of dualistic operations in Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, the conflict between colonising forces and indigenous populations is considered. This section argues that the popular ecological image of connection and the theme of love is a symbolic attempt to bridge the hyperseparation between dualised concepts; between coloniser and colonised, nature and culture.
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Fredericks, Sarah E. "Introduction." In Environmental Guilt and Shame, 1–24. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842699.003.0001.
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A vignette about environmentalist Colin Beavan’s experience of and reflection on environmental guilt and shame introduces the texture of these moral emotions experienced by many everyday environmentalists and sets the stage for the ensuing analysis. Taking this moral experience seriously reveals underexplored motivations and hindrances to environmental action, guilt, and shame. Reflection on these moral emotions challenges many modern ethical assumptions and forms the basis of the three main ethical arguments of the book: that collectives as well as individuals have guilt, shame, and responsibility; that some individuals and collectives should feel guilt and shame for environmental degradation including climate change; and that, given the consequences of guilt and shame, they should not be intentionally induced unless a number of conditions, which can be fostered through rituals, are met. These conditions are also necessary to respond to unintentionally elicited guilt and shame. To set the stage for these theoretical and practical arguments, the Introduction names the ethical values which influence the text and the disciplinary resources from social psychology; ethical pragmatism; virtue ethics; and religious studies, especially ritual theory, used in the project. It also delineates the scope of the book as the Western developed world, particularly the United States, and environmental guilt and shame, of which climate change is the main example.
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Dauvergne, Peter. "The Rise of Environmentalism." In Environmentalism of the Rich. The MIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262034951.003.0007.
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Chapters 7–11 explore why environmentalism is failing to make more headway against the global forces of unsustainability analyzed in chapters 1–6. Chapter 7 sets up the analysis by reviewing the global history of the environmental movement, highlighting the diversity of thought across cultures and time. Diversity characterizes contemporary environmentalism, from environmental justice movements in Africa to environmentalism of the poor in Asia to anti-capitalism in Latin America to conservation in North America. This diversity remains a source of strength and environmentalism is best thought of as a “movement of movements.” Around the world protests continue to rage; communities continue to rise up; radical organizations continue to fight capitalism; and, as the Goldman Prize reminds the world, individual environmentalists continue to win local battles. Still, over time the mainstream of environmentalism has increasingly come to reflect the values of those with money and privilege, supporting policies and prescriptions that arise primarily out of moderate Western environmentalism: conserving wildlife and natural settings; sustaining productive yields; improving eco-efficiency; and reducing pollution for prosperous citizens.
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Trepanier-Jobin, Gabrielle, Maeva Charre-Tchang, and Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega. "The Underrealized Ecocritical Potential of ABZÛ." In Ecogames. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463721196_ch14.
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In recent years, diving ecogames have become an increasingly popular video game subgenre that seems to hold out the promise of raising awareness about environmental issues. In this chapter, a content analysis of the diving video game ABZU highlights its ecocritical potential despite its hints of speciesism, orientalism, and techno-solutionism. A reception study of the game, based on 2,421 comments published on fourteen platforms, however, shows that only fifty-six players mention its environmentalist message. Nevertheless, most of these commenters do pick up on the ecocritical potential of ABZU, sharing their thoughts with other players. Online forums therefore appear as discussion spaces where collective ecological awareness can develop.
Conference papers on the topic "Environmentalist analysis"
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E.V., Malaya, and Vavulin K.E. "THE PHENOMENON OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: ECOLOGICAL AND ARTISTIC ANALYSIS." In INTERNATIONAL FORUM "YOUTH IN THE AGRIBUSINESS". DSTU-Print, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/young.2022.50-53.
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What are natural landscapes? Are they "out there somewhere", separate from people, or are they products of our own perception? The problematic field of research is determined by contradictions: the consideration of the artistic national vision of the natural landscape, the modern vision of the architectural landscape of Russian cities, on the one hand, and the development of ecology as a self-conscious science. "Landscape" originally meant people living inside and forming a capricious nature, but quickly turned into a "natural landscape" reflecting the balance of nature viewed from the outside. Despite repeated scientific demonstrations of the lack of ecological balance now or in the past, environmentalists stubbornly cling to the "romantic" concept of a landscape with nature in balance. In order to rethink and reconfigure ecology and environmental management to better reflect the modern understanding of how nature, including humans, "works", modern architects, urbanists, landscape designers must interact with environmentalists, environmental scientists, and the general public to redefine the nature of nature.
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Bianco, Antonio, Claudia Roberta Combei, and Chiara Zanchi. "Painting the Senate #Green: A Corpus Study of Twitter Sentiment Towards the Italian Environmentalist Blitz." In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies. RSUH, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2023-22-1021-1031.
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This study analyzes the reactions of the Italian Twitter community to an environmental demonstration that occurred in Rome on January 2nd, 2023. We compiled a corpus of 368,531 tokens consisting of 11,780 tweets, collected during a 7-day period. We propose a mixed-method approach that combines automated and manual corpus analyses of sentiment, emotions, and implicit language. Our findings offer insights into how tweets reflected the users’ attitudes toward a variety of subjects and entities. Although the sentiment of the overall debate was distributed rather evenly, the incident itself seems to have sparked negative sentiment and emotions among Twitter users. The results of our manual analyses revealed some issues with respect to the automatic classification of sentiment, due to the fact that some tweets contained irony, sarcasm, and slurs. Non-literal interpretations were ignored by the tools at hand that could not account for complex rhetorical-argumentative strategies.
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Kopp, Anne-Claire, and Robert H. Sturges. "Value Implications of Green Design: Case Study of a Videocassette." In ASME 1996 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/96-detc/dfm-1313.
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Abstract Recent concern for the environment has caused growing attention to recycling, both using recycled materials to make products and recycling products after use. Although environmentalists may be eager to buy recycled/recyclable products, other consumers may not be so easily convinced. It may also be difficult to convince manufacturers that it is beneficial to develop green products. This paper supports a joint project between engineering and marketing disciplines to determine the cost and value of an environmentally designed product. Specifically, this paper evaluates the resources spent to manufacture a green videocassette in comparison with a standard videocassette by performing a resource analysis. This analysis estimates the cost, time and energy necessary to produce both videocassettes. This paper also compares the value of the videocassettes in terms of performance and physical attributes.
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Mumtaz, Nadhif, and Ahmad Suhaimi. "MUSLIM ENVIRONMENTALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF POLICY APPROACHES IN ISLAMIC EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AND SECULAR SCHOOLS IN MUSLIM MAJORITY SOCIETIES." In 16th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. IATED, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2023.2123.
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Johar, Badr O., and Surendra M. Gupta. "Analysis of Inventory Management in Reverse Supply Chain Using Stochastic Dynamic Programming Model." In ASME 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2008-67374.
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Reverse logistics is a critical topic that has captured the attention of government, private entities and researchers in recent years. This increase in the concern was driven by current set of government regulations, increase of public awareness, and the attractive economic opportunities. Also, environmentalists have always demanded Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to be more involved and be responsible of their products at the end of its life cycle. However, the uncertainty in quality of items returned, and its quantity discourage OEMs from participating in such programs. Because of the unique problems associated and the complex nature of the reverse logistics activities, numerous studies have been carried out in this field. One of those crucial areas is inventory management of End-of-Life (EOL) products. The take back program could possibly bring financial burden to OEM if it is not managed well. Thus, an efficient yet cost effective system should be implemented to appropriately manage the overwhelming number of returns. Previously, we have analyzed the problem based on the assumption that the number of core products returned and disassembled parts and subassemblies are known in advance. In this paper, we introduce a probabilistic approach where different quality levels of for every component disassembled are considered and different probabilities of these qualities given the quality of the returned product. The model utilizes a multi-period stochastic dynamic programming in a disassembly line context to solve the problem, and generate the best option that will maximize the system total profit. A numerical example is given to illustrate the approach. Finally, directions for future research are suggested.
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Hahn, Jeffrey L. "Characteristics and Environmental Fate of Mercury in Municipal Waste Combustor Ash Before and After Implementation of the “Maximum Achievable Control Technology” Air Standards." In 11th North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec11-1686.
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Mercury emissions from waste-to-energy facilities have been a source of public concern for more than ten years following release in the early 1990s of the EPA’s inventory of anthropogenic sources of mercury that listed MWCs as a significant source of mercury air emissions. Since 1990, source reduction, product reformulation, and increasingly effective battery recycling programs reduced mercury in trash by about 90%, according to the EPA. Pollution control equipment on waste-to-energy plants thereafter remove greater than 90% of the remaining mercury in the waste stream that is used as a fuel to generate power. The use of mercury by U.S. manufacturers will decline even further due to the virtual elimination of mercury from alkaline batteries and aggressive recycling and product substitution at hospitals, homes, and businesses. The Clean Air Act regulations promulgated in 1995 under the Maximum Available Control Technology standards have ensured that mercury emissions from waste-to-energy plants nationwide represent less than 3% of the U.S. inventory of man-made mercury sources, according to EPA, (or less than 1% of mercury emissions from all sources). Furthermore, health risk assessments completed over the past several years for new and existing waste-to-energy plants consistently reveal that the levels of mercury emissions result in exposures which are 100 times less than the threshold health effects standard established by federal and state regulatory agencies. Nonetheless, certain environmentalists and critics claim that the significant reduction in mercury air emissions has resulted in a transformation of the metal into the ash. In other words, the questions posed is whether what is not now going up the stack is instead finding its way into the ash. This paper answers that question with a resounding “no.” Based on an analysis of test data, mercury in MWC ash has not increased despite a greater than 90% reduction in mercury emissions.