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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.
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Murzabekov, Marat. "Political Pasture : A Governmentality Analysis of Community-Based Pasture Management in Kyrgyzstan." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-320303.
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This thesis seeks to understand the development and implementation of the community-based pasture management policy in Kyrgyzstan, which transferred the responsibility for pasture-use planning from state administrative organs to local community-based organizations. Using document analysis, this thesis contextualizes the emergence and evolution of the policy’s key premises, including the advantages of community-based management compared to state-centered management. Using interviews and observations, this thesis draws out individual experiences of herders, forestry service officials and the members of pasture committees with the implementation of the policy in the Kadamzhai district of Kyrgyzstan. Findings suggest that historical continuities in pasture governance play an important role in the functioning of such policies. On the national level, the reliance of the state on the Soviet administrative and territorial division has reinforced pasture-use fragmentation, where different institutional actors struggle for authority over pastures. These struggles can be observed on the local level, where the implementation of policy is often challenged by forestry officials believing in the advantages of the Soviet fortress conservation, rather than community-based management. Second, the local outcomes of policy depend on the compliant or resistant subject positions of individuals involved in pasture use. Policy implementation succeeded in the recruitment of compliant pasture committee chairmen, who claim to be interested in bringing good to the communities through steering the use of pastures. However, the procedures for the establishment of committees contributed to their top-down functioning, where herders often consider the committees as a state agency and find different strategies to avoid their imposed payments.
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Wang, Xiaorui. "The clash of environmentalism, neoliberalism, and socialism : a research on practices and ideologies in China’s sustainability accounting for agriculture." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PSLED019/document.
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À la lumière des perspectives critiques sur les théories et les pratiques comptables, « la comptabilité pour la durabilité » a émergé comme une discipline relativement nouvelle. Par rapport aux différents modèles développés dans le cadre de l’idéologie néolibérale, certains modèles alternatifs avec des stratégies « plus fortes » de conservation des capitaux, notamment la « Triple Ligne d’Amortissement » (TLA) (Richard, 2012; Rambaud et Richard, 2013), semblent avoir beaucoup des potentiels de faire quelques changements fondamentaux. Cette thèse est une enquête sur les conditions nécessaires et les résistances possibles rencontrées par la mise en place du modèle TLA. Le secteur agricole de la République populaire de Chine est choisi comme le terrain de recherche en vue d’étudier le contexte institutionnel et historique. L’enquête sur le contexte chinois est effectuée en référence aux théories de l’économie politique institutionnaliste, inspiré par Karl Polanyi (2002[1944]), Mancur Olson (1965), and Chang Ha-Joon (1994, 2002)In the light of critical perspectives on accounting theories and practices, sustainability accounting (SA) as a relatively new discipline has emerged. Compared to various SA models developed under the mainstream neoliberal ideology, some alternative models with “stronger” capital conservation strategies, notably the “Triple Deprecation Line” (TDL) (Richard, 2012; Rambaud & Richard, 2013), seem to have a lot of potentials to make some fundamental changes. This dissertation is essentially an investigation of necessary conditions and possible resistances faced by the establishment of the TDL model. The agriculture sector of the People’s Republic of China is chosen as the field of research in order to study the institutional environment and historical context in real-world settings. The investigation on the Chinese context is conducted with reference to theories of institutionalist political economy, inspired by Karl Polanyi (2002[1944]), Mancur Olson (1965), and Chang Ha-Joon (1994, 2002)
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Andersson, Rickard. "The politics of resilience : A qualitative analysis of resilience theory as an environmental discourse." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Sociology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8427.
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During recent years, resilience theory – originally developed in systems ecology – has advanced as a new approach to sustainable development. However, it is still more of an academic theory than a discourse informing environmental politics. The aim of this essay is to study resilience theory as a potential environmental discourse in the making and to outline the political implications it might induce. To gain a more comprehensive knowledge of resilience theory, I study it in relation to already existing environmental discourses. Following earlier research on environmental discourses I define the discourses of ecological modernization, green governmentality and civic environmentalism as occupying the discursive space of environmental politics. Further, I define six central components as characteristics for all environmental discourses. Outlining how both the existing environmental discourses and resilience theory relates to these components enables an understanding of both the political implications of resilience theory and of resilience theory as an environmental discourse in relation to existing environmental discourses. The six central discourse components I define are 1) the view on the nation-state; 2) the view on capitalism; 3) the view on civil society; 4) the view on political order; 5) the view on knowledge; 6) the view on human-nature relations. By doing an empirical textual analysis of academic texts on resilience theory I show that resilience theory assigns a limited role for the nation-state and a very important role for civil society and local actors when it comes to environmental politics. Its view on local actors and civil society is closely related to its relativist view on knowledge. Resilience theory views capitalism as a root of many environmental problems but with some political control and with changing perspectives this can be altered. Furthermore, resilience theory seems to advocate a weak bottom-up perspective on political order. Finally, resilience theory views human-nature relations as relations characterized by human adaptation to the prerequisites of nature. In conclusion, I argue that the empirical analysis show that resilience theory, as an environmental discourse, to a great extent resembles a subdivision of civic environmentalism called participatory multilateralism.
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Galusky, Wyatt. "Virtually Uninhabitable: A Critical Analysis of Digital Environmental Anti-Toxics Activism." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28117.
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In this dissertation, I analyze online environmental anti-toxics activism. Environmental activist groups have created a presence on the World Wide Web to help empower people to become aware of and struggle against pollution. The sites that I explore (http://www.epa.gov/tri/, http://www.epa.gov/enviro/wme/, http://www.rtknet.org/, and http://www.scorecard.org/) serve as devices of this empowerment and by extension recruit people to the political goals of anti-toxics activism.
In my analysis, I focus on a series of questions germane to this context. How can/does this movement go online and utilize that presence to sway others to their cause and ideology? How then is that cause represented digitally, in the online medium? What are the reciprocal impacts of that representation on the movement itself? Most importantly, what form of activist identity is being promoted through the mediation of the online interface? That is, how are the identity of the self as activist and the related understanding of space and place altered through their translation into a digital environment? What are the parameters and limitations of digitally mediated, informed empowerment?
I undertake to critique empowerment as found through the digital translation of environmental anti-toxics activism into the virtual space of the Web. I show that particular uses of this Internet application invent (reinvent/reinforce) versions of environmental anti-toxics activism, digitized versions which must be understood in terms of their wider assumptions and implications. I break the study into three main parts. The first part lays theoretical groundwork for studying Web-based entities. The second part deals with more particular foundational elements for digital environmental anti-toxics activism, especially in terms of information. In the final section, I analyze and critique the forms of digital identity and empowerment that the websites create. I conclude that digital empowerment, defined primarily through access to expert information, actually represents an impoverished version of empowerment which may do little to aid real-world toxic struggles.Ph. D.
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Muller, Martina. "Mothers, men and mind control : an analysis of Sheri S. Tepper's novels : Grass and The fresco." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18034.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sheri S. Tepper, one of the most prolific feminist science fiction writers, uses her novels to address humanity‟s ignorance about, and indifference towards, various social, gender and environmental issues, and in so doing, she attempts to rectify these issues by creating an awareness of them. Her novels generally focus on four main issues: motherhood, both as ideology and experience; the essentialized nature and acceptance of the superiority of masculinity; the influence of religions, traditions and ideologies; and an ever-increasing concern for environmental preservation. These issues are all interlinked in her novels. Though some of her works have received critical attention, most notably The Gate to Women’s Country (1988) and Gibbon’s Decline and Fall (1996), most have received little. I will present a critical analysis of Tepper‟s Grass (1989) – a novel which has received some critical attention – and The Fresco (2000) – a novel which has received very little critical attention. Although these novels deal with the same issues, they do so in different ways: Grass is a much more layered critique of modern society, whereas The Fresco is a rather blatant critique and the passionate voice of its author filters through more prominently than in Grass. I will be examining Tepper‟s portrayal of motherhood, masculinity and the influence of ideologies, religions and traditions in both of these novels. Although there will not be a section devoted to Tepper‟s environmental views, these will be highlighted within the other sections. Tepper ultimately stands for women‟s rights to opt for motherhood as a free choice. She also insists that ideologies, religions and traditions – society‟s oppressive straitjackets – should adapt to modernity, and that the acceptance of masculinity as the dominant gender be destabilized. Rectifying these problems, in Tepper‟s view, would also lead to the preservation of the environment for future generations. In my conclusion I address the most frequent critique directed against Tepper‟s work, namely that her novels are repetitive with regard to thematic content, by suggesting that her work is repetitive because she feels the need to reiterate the same issues in her novels, to indicate that the same societal problems of the past are still prevalent.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Sheri S. Teper, een van die vernaamste feminis-wetenskapfisksie skryfsters, gebruik haar romans om die mensdom se onkunde oor, en onverskilligheid teenoor, verskeie sosiale-, geslags- en omgewingskwessies aan te spreek in „n poging om hierdie kwessies op te los deur mense meer bewus te maak van die kwessies. Haar romans fokus gewoonlik op vier hoof kwessies wat aan mekaar verbind is: moederskap, beide as ideologiese en fisiese ervaring; die genoodsaakte aanvaarding van manlikheid as die dominante geslag; die invloed van gelowe, tradisies, en ideologieë op die samelewing; en „n toenemende besorgheid oor die bewaring van die omgewing. Alhoewel sommige van haar romans kritiese aandag ontvang het, in besonder The Gate to Women’s Country (1988) en Gibbon’s Decline and Fall (1996), het die meeste baie min kritiese aandag ontvang. Ek beoog dus om twee van Tepper se romans, Grass (1989) en The Fresco (2000), krities te ontleed. Alhoewel Grass ietwat meer kritiese aandag ontvang het, het The Fresco byna geen kritiese aandag ontvang nie. Beide die romans spreek dieselfde kwessies aan, maar in verskillende maniere: Grass is a baie meer subtiele kritiek van die moderne samelewing, terwyl The Fresco „n baie meer flagrante kritiek is en die passievolle stem van die outeur is baie meer opmerklik in diè roman. Ek beoog om Tepper se uitbeelding van moederskap, manlikheid en die invloed van ideologieë, gelowe en tradisies in beide hierdie romans ondersoek. Hoewel daar nie „n spesifieke seksie gaan wees wat opgedra is aan die ondersoek van Tepper se omgewingsboodskap nie, sal dit tog uitgelig word in ander seksies. Daar sal gewys word dat Tepper vir die regte van vroue staan om moederskap vrylik te kan kies. Sy beveel ook aan dat dat ideologieë, gelowe en tradisies moet aan pas by die vereistes van moderne samelewing, en dat die aanvaarding van manlikheid as die dominante geslag omgekeer moet word. Deur hierdie probleme reg te maak, in Tepper se opinie, sal dit lei tot die bewaring van die omgewing vir toekomstige generasies. In my gevolgtrekking spreek ek een van die algemeenste kritieke teen Tepper se romans aan, naamlik dat die tematiese inhoud herhalend is. Ek voel dat die werklike probleem is dat Tepper dit nodig ag om dieselfde kwessies uit te beeld, aangesien dit aan dui dat probleme van die verlede steeds voorkom in die huidige samelewing.
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Etchells, Oli. "The Securitisation of Natural Resources : A Post-structural Policy Analysis of the United Nations Environmental Peacebuilding Programme." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-46111.
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Increasingly, natural resources have come to be considered in dual dimension as objects that both increase the risk of violence and pose an opportunity to build peace. This linking of natural resources to question of conflict, peace, and security denotes the ‘securitisation’ of natural resources, taken to mean the “discursive construction of an existing threat to a referent object legitimizing extraordinary means.” This begs the question, what might these ‘extraordinary means’ entail? This thesis investigates this question by analysing the United Nations Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding’s 2016 report, a body tasked with researching the resource/conflict nexus and producing policy to address it. Utilising a post-structural policy analysis method, I denaturalise the claims made by the policy, applying governmentality, environmentality, and critical security theories to explain the logics and rationales underpinning resource securitisation, and the effects those rationales have. The analysis suggests that the policies security framing serves to represent resource conflict as manageable only through liberal governmental reforms associated with mainstream development practice, the UNEPs monopoly of technical peacebuilding expertise, and surveillance measures placed on unsuitable countries. By emphasising these as the primary solutions, the policy removes natural resource management from public control, downplaying populations agency, and maintaining existing power relations and inequalities.
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Aquino, Filipe Cantanhede. "O que vale para a Vale: a construção do imperativo verde na comunicação publicitária." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4434.
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This research investigates, in their contracts of communication, schedules themes of advertising of mining Vale in the state of Maranhão. It is examining the social construction of the idea of sustainable development and the importance that this issue has acquired social-environmental agenda in communication, especially to understand the transformations in the Brazilian advertising, and in particular, the time that the socioenvironmental commitment became the focus of construction of identity. Are studied regimes of visibility established considering the before and after the change of visual identity of the company, which was implanted in 2007. The corpus of work shall consist of advertisements in print media by mining between 1999 and 2011. Analyses verb-visuals to be developed will be based in plastic-semiotic discursive from Diana and Vicente Barros Pietroforte, as well as the social theory of discourse, from Norman Fairclough, in the communication contracts, as Patrick Charadeau points and the discursive theories from Ernesto Laclau, focusing the research on constructions of sense of environmental responsibility within a totalizing ideological discourse which selects this theme as a standard. From theorical considerations from Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Anthony Giddens, Luc Ferry and, in particular, Joan Martínez Alier, we will discuss the green discuss, the figures of the different currents of environmentalism and its implications in Brazilian advertising
Esta pesquisa investiga, nos respectivos contratos comunicacionais, os agendamentos temáticos da publicidade da mineradora Vale no estado do Maranhão. Trata-se de examinar a construção social da ideia de desenvolvimento sustentável e a importância que a temática socioambiental vem adquirindo na agenda comunicacional, sobretudo para compreender as transformações ocorridas na publicidade brasileira, e, em especial, o momento em que o compromisso socioambiental tornou-se o foco da construção identitária. São estudados os regimes de visibilidade estabelecidos considerando-se o antes e o depois da alteração da identidade visual da empresa, que se implantou em 2007. O corpus do trabalho será constituído pelos anúncios publicados pela mineradora na mídia impressa entre 1999 e 2011. As análises verbi-visuais a serem desenvolvidas embasar-se-ão na semiótica plástico-discursiva a partir de Diana Barros e Vicente Pietroforte, assim como na teoria social do discurso, de Norman Fairclough, nos contratos comunicacionais, conforme aponta Patrick Charaudeau e nas teorias discursivas de Ernesto Laclau, centrando a investigação nas construções dos sentidos de responsabilidade socioambiental dentro de um discurso ideológico totalizante que elege esse tema como estandarte. A partir de reflexões teóricas de Laymert Garcia dos Santos, Anthony Giddens, Luc Ferry e, em especial, Joan Martínez Alier, discutiremos a questão verde, as figuras das diferentes correntes do ambientalismo e suas implicações na propaganda brasileira
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Alves, Ana Paula Zaguetto. "O Jornal Nacional e a crise ambiental: uma análise crítica do discurso das notícias sobre as mudanças climáticas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/91/91131/tde-08082011-084151/.
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As mudanças climáticas são, no momento, uma das questões ambientais que mais recebe atenção no debate científico, econômico e político. Os estudos sobre esse fenômeno apontam que a ação humana está interferindo no clima ao aumentar a concentração dos gases de efeito estufa, principalmente o gás carbônico. Os relatórios produzidos pelo Painel Intergovernamental para Mudanças Climáticas, o IPCC, são a principal referência para o entendimento das mudanças climáticas, suas possíveis conseqüências e as opções para adaptação e mitigação. No entanto, as soluções apontadas pelos relatórios desenvolvimento de tecnologia e mecanismos de mercado referem-se aos mesmos fatores que causam a crise ambiental, dando continuidade ao mesmo modelo de desenvolvimento econômico. A incorporação da questão ambiental à política e à economia resultou na eliminação das contradições que existem entre equilíbrio ambiental e capitalismo. Segundo a Teoria Social do Discurso, o discurso está presente em todas as dimensões da vida social, contribuindo para a constituição das identidades sociais, das relações sociais e dos sistemas de conhecimento e crenças; é uma prática de representação e significação do mundo. O discurso possui diversas orientações e uma delas é a orientação ideológica: o discurso como meio de reproduzir e naturalizar ideologias. As ideologias são construções e representações de mundo que contribuem para a reprodução e a transformação das relações de dominação. O discurso do desenvolvimento sustentável tem a função de legitimar o desenvolvimento econômico perante a crise ambiental, afirmando que esse pode internalizar as condições de sustentabilidade ecológica e social. O principal fórum de legitimação dos problemas ambientais são os meios de comunicação de massa, que sendo parte e parcela do desenvolvimento das sociedades capitalistas, e, portanto, identificados com seus valores reproduzem o discurso do desenvolvimento sustentável. O discurso das notícias sobre as mudanças climáticas legitimam as medidas apontadas pelo IPCC como a solução para o problema. As notícias também constroem um discurso centrado no medo, baseado na ameaça de catástrofes naturais, que suscita na sociedade a preocupação sobre o problema. Mas ao mesmo tempo a solução é apresentada: mais tecnologia e mais mecanismos de mercado, legitimando a continuidade do mesmo modelo de desenvolvimento que causa a crise ambiental.Climate change is at present one of the environmental issues that receive more attention in scientific, economic and political debate. Studies about this phenomenon suggest that human action is interfering with the climate by increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide. The reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, are the main reference for the understanding of climate change, its possible consequences and options for adaptation and mitigation. However, the solutions suggested by these reports - the development of technology and market mechanisms - refer to the same factors that cause the environmental crisis, continuing the same economic development model. The incorporation of environmental issues to politics and to the economy resulted in the elimination of the existing contradictions between capitalism and environmental balance. According to the Social Theory of Discourse, discourse is present in all dimensions of social life, contributing to the formation of social identities, social relations and systems of knowledge and beliefs; it is a practice of world mening and world representation. The discourse has different guidelines. One of them is the ideological orientation: the discourse as a means of reproducing and naturalizing ideologies. Ideologies are constructions and representations of the world which contribute to the reproduction and transformation of relations of domination. The sustainable development discourse serves to legitimize the economic development before the environmental crisis, by saying it can internalize the conditions of ecological and social sustainability. The main forum for legitimizing environmental problems are the means of mass communication, which - being part and parcel of the development of capitalist societies, and therefore identified with their values - reproduce the discourse of sustainable development. The discourse of news about climate change legitimize the measures identified by the IPCC as the solution to the problem. The news also build a discourse centered on fear, based on the threat of natural disasters, raising society concern about the problem. But at the same time the solution is presented: more technology and more market mechanisms to legitimize the continuation of the same model of development that cause the environmental crisis.
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Vallejo, José Luis. "La dette écologique dans l'analyse économique. Le cas du projet Yasuni-ITT en Équateur." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SACLV038.
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L’objectif de cette recherche est d’analyser et représenter la dette écologique, puis l’évaluer, dans le cadre du projet Yasuni en Equateur. A présent, il n’y a pas de consensus sur la formalisation d’une définition standard, dont il ressort la nécessité de délimiter la signification du concept de dette écologique, à l’aide d’une définition de travail. A cet égard, il nous semble adéquat de reprendre la proposition faite par Erik Paredis. Celle-ci permet de moduler sa portée en fonction de chaque cas étudié, ainsi que de considérer les débiteurs écologiques à une échelle spatiale ou temporelle.Le défi porte sur la possibilité de construire un cadre analytique adéquat à la problématique du projet Yasuni, en particulier quant à l’extraction de pétrole. Ainsi, nous nous concentrerons d'abord sur la caractérisation de la notion de dette écologique sous l'angle de la justice environnementale. Pour cela, il a été envisagé de reprendre les travaux menés par le projet EJOLT, puis de l'articuler dans le cadre du système monde, en concevant la dette écologique comme un processus cumulatif d'injustices environnementales.En ce qui concerne l'évaluation, cette recherche est fondée sur la méthode d'analyse multicritères, notamment celle proposée par REEDS et la plateforme Eplanete. On procède dans un premier temps à la représentation de la dette écologique dans le cadre du projet équatorien Yasuni, à l’aide d’un ensemble de théories, puis à son évaluation avec l'outil matrice de délibération proposant une liste d’indicateurs associés à chaque théorie, en tenant compte des critères et de la typologie des inégalités et des principes de la justice environnementale.De même, une analyse est faite des évaluations et des méthodes ainsi utilisées pour les comparer à la proposition du présent travail. Le processus de délibération semble conforter l’idée selon laquelle, dans le cas du projet Yasuni, des injustices environnementales sont générées, qui ne sont ni récompensées, ni restituées avec le temps, ce qui accroît la dette écologique qui en résulteThe objective of this research is to analyze and represent the ecological debt, and then to estimate it, within the framework of the project Yasuni in Ecuador. As there is currently is no consensus on the formalization of a standard definition, it highlights the necessity of bounding the meaning of the concept of ecological debt by using a working definition. In this respect, it seems appropriate to implement the proposal made by Erik Paredis. This allows to modulate its scope according to each case studied as well as to consider ecological debtors on a spatial or temporal scale.The challenge lies in the possibility of constructing an adequate analytical framework for the Yasuni project, particularly with regard to oil extraction. Thus, we will first focus on the characterization of the notion of ecological debt from the perspective of environmental justice. For that, consideration was given to building on the work carried out by the EJOLT project, then to articulating it within the framework of the world system, by conceiving the ecological debt as a cumulative process of environmental injustices. For that, we considered to take in account the work carried out by the EJOLT project, then to articulate it within the framework of the world system, by conceiving the ecological debt as a cumulative process of environmental injustices.As far as evaluation is concerned, this study is based on the multicriteria analysis method, especially that proposed by REEDS and the Eplanete platform. Firstly, we proceed to representation of the ecological debt in the context of the Ecuadorian Yasuni project, using a set of theories, and then evaluating it with the deliberation matrix tool which proposes a list of indicators associated with each theory, taking into account the criteria and the typology of inequalities and principles of environmental justice.Similarly, an analysis is made of the evaluations and methods thus used to compare them with the proposal in this study. The deliberation process seems to support the idea that, in the case of the Yasuni project, environmental injustices are generated, that are neither rewarded nor restored over time, thereby increasing the resulting ecological debt
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Strömsten, Henrik. "Military and Nature : An environmental history of Swedish military landscapes." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-302652.
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This thesis, an environmental history of a selected number of Swedish military training environments, is based on observation of military landscapes with a permanent presence of military-related objects and activities, all of which leave their traces in the environment, and how continued military activity is legitimised with environmental arguments. By also observing military policies and documents, I look into how the Swedish military frame their own training environments, and how ‘environmentalist’ discourses is adopted to justify past and present activities. The military landscapes must also be considered in a wider context of geopolitics and security; hence I also include an historical analysis of military land appropriation and defense policy in Sweden. An important contribution with this thesis, besides provide a Swedish context to studies of military landscapes, lies also in testing a historical ecological framework in analyses and methods when approaching research on military landscapes, as I consider this thesis as a pilot-project on Swedish military landscapes providing incentives for further studies. The Swedish military landscapes studied in this thesis have both a centennial and decadal presence of military activities. Some training sites such as Marma and Revinge, which are also Natura 2000 areas, have had a military presence since the 19th century, and the various military structures and buildings promote a kind of military biography, an identity tied to landscapes, reinforcing military presence. The presentation of military sites as ecological refuges for rare species and habitats is evident in the management plans for the studied landscapes. The way military space is understood, legitimised and produced from the perspectives of the military policy level is, as I will argue, centred on two core motivations. First, it is that military presence in a landscape is the product of a militarisation processes, considering a geopolitical context and defense policies. The military presence has long-term effects in form of an alteration of physical nature and development of a high biodiversity. Second, the long-term positive effects, enhances an environmentalist discourse within the military when it comes to legitimise past and present military space, and to justify a continued military presence in a landscape.Denna uppsats, en miljöhistoria av ett utvalt antal svenska militära övningsområden, är baserat på en observation av militära landskap med en permanent närvaro av militärrelaterade objekt och aktiviteter vilka lämnar sina spår i miljön, och hur fortsatt militär aktivitet legitimeras genom miljöargument. Jag analyserar militära riktlinjer och dokument, för att se på hur svensk militär förhåller sig till dess övningsområden, och hur diskurser om miljövård används för att motivera fortsatt militär aktivitet. De militära landskapen bör studeras i en större geopolitisk säkerhetskontext; därför inkluderar jag också en historisk studie av svensk försvarspolitik och militära markanskaffningar. En viktig insats med denna uppsats, förutom att bidra med en svensk kontext till militära landskapsstudier, är att testa ett historiskt-ekologiskt ramverk i analys och metod vid studier av militära landskap då jag anser att denna uppsats är ett pilot-projekt för militära landskapsstudier i Sverige och ger incitament till vidare forskning i ämnet. De svenska militära landskapen som studeras här har upp till en hundraårig närvaro av militär aktivitet. Vissa övnings- och skjutfält såsom Marma och Revingehed, vilka också är Natura 2000- områden, har haft militär aktivitet sedan slutet av 1800- talet, och de varierande militära ytorna och byggnaderna främjar en militär biografi, en identitet knuten till landskapet, vilken förstärker fortsatt militär närvaro. Presentationen av de militära fälten som ekologiska refuger av sällsynta arter och habitat är uppenbar i skötsel- och vårdplanerna av de studerade landskapen. Sättet som det militära landskapet förstås, legitimeras och produceras ur militärperspektiv i policy och dokument är, som jag kommer argumentera, koncentrerade kring två faktorer. För det första, militär närvaro i ett landskap är ett resultat av en militariseringsprocess baserat på en geopolitisk kontext och försvarsbeslut. Militär närvaro har en långsiktig effekt i form av en förändring av den fysiska naturen och utvecklingen av en biologisk mångfald. För det andra, de långsiktiga positiva effekterna underbygger en naturvårdsdiskurs inom militären när det kommer till att motivera dåtida och nuvarande militär landskapsanvändning, och för att rättfärdiga en fortsatt militär närvaro.
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Kibele, Karolin Maria. "Who’s the preferred environmentalist?: and for whom?: a multidimensional approach to impressions of environmentalists using a conjoint analysis." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/23257.
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Previous research found stereotypes of environmentalists as barriers to public engagement and
identification with environmentalism (Bashir et al., 2013; Pearson et al., 2018), but missed to
identify which attributes of an environmentalist affect people’s impressions and self-
identification, as well as how perceiver’s own group membership(s) influence this relationship.
The present work tried to fill this gap by measuring responses to diverse fictitious profile
descriptions of environmentalists (Stenhouse & Heinrich, 2019), investigating the complex
influence of the profiles’ multiple features (e.g., gender, occupation, type of pro-
environmentalism, etc.) on stereotypes (competence, friendliness, and trustworthiness),
perceived typicality, and participants’ self-identification with the described profiles.
Through the novel application of a conjoint experiment, a sample of 678 U.S. residents
generally perceived, among other results, profiles of women, Asian, cleaners or office clerks,
political moderates or liberals, private to moderate behaviors, with mainly global environmental
concerns to be more typical. Moreover, they identified most with profiles of women, cleaners,
and privately pro-environmental. Atypical profile descriptions only improved the participants’
impressions regarding private pro-environmental behaviors and the occupation cleaner. Also,
responses were influenced by self-assessed categorizations (e.g., political orientation).
In spite of limitations such as multiple sampling strategies, these findings extend the
knowledge on dimension-specific perceptions of the strongly stereotyped and politicized social
category of environmentalists in the U.S. Hereby, we open new directions regarding impression
formation research, and the application of conjoint analyses in psychological research.
Moreover, we provide the environmental movement valuable input regarding message source
and content in relation to the targeted audience.Investigação anterior indicou que os estereótipos acerca de ambientalistas são barreiras ao envolvimento do público e identificação com o ambientalismo (Bashir et al., 2013; Pearson et al., 2018), mas não identificou que atributos afetam as impressões de e identificação com ambientalistas, e de que formas próprias pertenças grupais afetam essas relações. Este trabalho procurou preencher essa lacuna medindo respostas a descrições fictícias de perfis de ambientalistas (Stenhouse & Heinrich, 2019), investigando a complexa influência de múltiplas características (p. ex. género, profissão, tipo de ambientalismo, etc.) nos estereótipos (sociabilidade, competência e confiabilidade), tipicalidade, e identificação com os perfis. Aplicando uma nova análise conjunta experimental, 678 residentes nos Estados Unidos percecionaram, entre outros resultados, que perfis mais típicos foram os de mulheres, Asiáticos/as, empregados/as de limpeza ou de escritório, politicamente moderados/as ou liberais, com comportamentos na esfera privada ou moderados, com preocupações globais. Identificaram-se mais com perfis de mulheres, empregados/as de limpeza e com ambientalismo na esfera privada. Perfis atípicos melhoraram as impressões apenas para comportamentos privados e para a profissão de empregado/a de limpeza. Além disso, as respostas foram influenciadas por categorizações dos próprios participantes (p.ex. orientação política). Apesar de limitações tais como estratégias de amostragem diferentes, os resultados ampliam o conhecimento sobre as perceções de ambientalistas, um grupo muito estereotipado e politizado nos Estados Unidos. Assim, abrem-se novas direções sobre formação de impressões e a aplicação de análises conjuntas em investigação psicológica, e fornecem-se aos movimentos ambientalistas contributos valiosos sobre a fonte e conteúdo de mensagens, relativamente às audiências-alvo.
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Tambeau, Murray Alan. "Understanding anti-environmentalism : content analyzing the blogosphere for insight into opposition to environmentalism." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10170/666.
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Environmentalism, like any other noteworthy social movement, has been met with some resistance. Opposition to this movement has come both from the general public and from organized anti-environmental groups. The closeness, or lack thereof, between the organized groups' messages and those of the public has yet to be clearly defined. Given that organized groups are often more capable of getting their message out to a larger audience, it is important to know to what extent the thoughts and ideas they put forward are representative of those of the public. Without examining this relationship, responding to anti-environmental sentiment in the public will be difficult.In an effort to understand opposition towards environmentalism in the general public, this project examined the blogosphere. Anti-environmental weblog (blog) postings were subjected to a content analysis in order to reveal common themes present within them. The specific focus of the analysis was on the manner in which environmentalism was portrayed by its opponents, as opposed to points of factual disagreement. Comparisons were then made to the arguments of the organized anti-environmentalism factions, and a more complete picture of the opposition toward environmentalism was constructed. From this basis, recommendations for a response to anti-environmental sentiment from leaders in the area of sustainable development were given.
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Gurung, Hari Bhagat. "Everyday environmentalism in Clarke County, Georgia an analysis of perception, concern, and behavior /." 2005. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/gurung%5Fhari%5Fb%5F200508%5Fphd.
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Silvers, Julie Elizabeth. "An analysis of environmental conflicts involving transnational corporations, states and environmentalists in Latin America." 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/54671558.html.
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Gonzales, Jim. "Environmentalism as a manifestation of ideological conflict a time-series analysis of environmental media coverage /." 1993. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/28951765.html.
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Connolly, James J. T. "Institutional Change in Urban Environmentalism: A case study analysis of state-level land use legislation in California and New York." Thesis, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7916/D87942RH.
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This study examines how community development and mainstream environmental groups form coalitions in state-level urban environmental legislation and the effect these coalitions have upon larger processes of institutional change. I argue that the alignment of community development and environmental interests is essential in the efforts to flatten the existing power hierarchy around land use decision-making and open up new possibilities for urban form. It helps to form a "counter-institutional" response which combines "pragmatic" and "purist" interests to resolve the social and environmental dilemmas of land use. This study begins by establishing the extent of the institutional divide between community development and environmentalism through an archival analysis of the 1970s debate over national land use legislation. It then presents two case studies of policies which seek to close this divide: (1) the New York Brownfield Opportunity Area Program of 2003 which was initiated by community groups and (2) the California Senate Bill 375 of 2008 which was initiated by environmental groups. The case studies employ interview data, surveys of organizations, observations of public meetings, and document review. The cases examined provide examples of attempts to expand potential governance outcomes by forming "heterarchic" alliances across policy silos in order to make land use regulation responsive to the wider concerns of urban environmentalists. I find that heterarchy is achieved in the California case, but not in the New York case. The varying degrees to which urban and environmental advocacy groups are able to bridge the institutional divide between them is determinant of these outcomes. The extent to which heterarchic governance is achieved, in turn, impacts the ability of each policy to change the institutional structure of land use regulation.
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Fardpour, Tohid. "Islamic environmentalism in the architectural domain: architectural crisis in Islamic countries analysed through the lens of Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Traditionalism." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1393488.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This study explores one of the essential aspects of the environmental crisis, an architectural crisis in the Islamic world. This subject in various ways impacts many residents in urban areas. To understand this subject this study considers a wide range of aspects. The study claims that for Muslims the subject of an architectural crisis seems to stem from the same source. Moreover, the study bases its hypothesis on the idea that it is possible to treat all available concerns in Islamic countries regarding their built environment in one integrated study. The study employs a naturalistic approach to interpreting phenomena in their natural settings, which means studying a Muslim architectural crisis from a perspective that has a strong connection with the inhabitants’ worldview in these lands, ‘an Islamic perspective’. Considering these concerns, Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s viewpoint and his Traditionalism have been chosen as a lens to look through onto the subject of the architectural crisis. Nasr brings a new perspective to mainstream Islamic Studies; while he never goes beyond the Islamic traditional teachings, he expresses them in more universal and contemporary terms. Thus, the study aims to criticise the totalitarian principles in contemporary Muslim architecture and to establish a framework, from which the issue of architectural crisis is seen from a religious viewpoint in the cosmological and sacred sense, which Nasr presents to us. To address the research question and fulfil the research aim and objectives, in the first stage, the study seeks to consider all relevant studies of and directions towards a Muslim architectural crisis along with understanding Nasr’s Traditionalism. It results in recognising the main problems for Muslims in mainstream architectural works, and a categorisation of Nasr’s philosophy.
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Ndethiu, Maureen K. "Environmental justice in Kenya : a critical analysis." Diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24460.
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Environmental justice, a new but rapidly developing concept in international environmental law, arose in the United States of America during the Environmental Justice Movement of the late 1970s and 1980s. It starkly highlighted injustices faced by people of colour and low-income communities as regards racially skewed environmental legal protection and allocation of environmental risks. The movement radically changed the meaning of ‘environment’ from its conventional green overtones to include issues of social justice at the core of environmental thinking. I critically examine the concept of environmental justice in the Kenyan context by highlighting the injustices, and the formulation and application of laws and policies that significantly impact on environmental regulation and equitable distribution of social services.Private Law
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Cahill, Stephanie. "Imagining alternatives in the Emerald City: the climate change discourse of transnational fossil fuel corporations." Thesis, 2017. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/8631.
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Discourse has the power to organize thought—and therefore, to limit imagination. The purpose of this project is to trace the contours of climate change discourse constructed by transnational fossil fuel corporations, to make visible the ideological barriers it creates to imagining post-capitalist alternatives. It is undertaken in the context of a well-established urgency for global collaboration to halt, mitigate, and adapt to the social, economic, and ecological impacts of climate change, and takes as its point of departure the fundamental link between ecological degradation and the capitalist mode of production (with its accompanying imperatives of accumulation and profit), as well as the necessity of counter-hegemonic praxis to pursuing system-transformative change on the scale required for humanity to negotiate the looming crisis in a just and ecologically viable way.
Conceptualizing popular media as a discursive battleground in which the voices of corporations (through the evolving mediums of advertisement) are privileged, I employ critical discourse analysis to explore the framing of climate change messages by five major transnational oil and gas corporations, toward developing an analytical framework for the burgeoning climate change movement grounded at the intersection of global corporate capitalism and ecological degradation.
Climate change messages included images, videos, and narratives intended for public consumption which spoke to the source, resolution, and/or future of human-induced and climate-related ecological problems. These were drawn from corporate websites, blogs, Facebook and Twitter feeds, and YouTube channels over the course of 2016.
As action research, I have undertaken this project with the explicit aim of empowering climate movements – of which I count myself a part – to imagine alternative futures. To contribute to this aim, I have created a media literacy toolkit that links corporate climate change messages with the interests they represent to make visible the dynamics of power that mobilize those interests.Graduate
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Hayes, Katie. "Chinese perspectives on environmental sustainability : the shaping of public opinion." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10170/396.
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This study explored the current opinions of Chinese citizens on environmental sustainability in China, while inquiring about the role of the Chinese government in shaping public consciousness on environmentalism. This case study was a qualitative analysis that was informed by both grounded theory and ethnographic content analysis (ECA) conducted through fifteen open-ended interviews with Chinese citizens and content analysis of government documents and media coverage that pertain to environmentalism. During the data collection and analysis process, the researcher considered the cultural landscape of China and reflected on how the media, Chinese spirituality, and communication patterns affect the conceptualization of environmentalism by citizens. This research found that public awareness of environmental sustainability is influenced by a social hierarchy of needs, philosophical legacies, allegiance to authority, and China‟s global position. Consequently, this research uncovered the importance of cultivating cultural awareness when non-Chinese citizens approach the topic of environmentalism in China.
Keywords: Chinese Government, Environmentalism, Public Opinion, Grounded Theory
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Vidug, Kristina. ""It Doesn't Need to be Industrial Strength": An Analysis of Women's Adoption of a Chemical-Free Lifestyle." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/3223.
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This thesis seeks to uncover women’s concerns about chemicals in the household, and, more specifically, in cleaning products. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with women who are primarily responsible for household cleaning and who consciously avoid conventional cleaning products. From a sociological standpoint, the topic remains unstudied. The women were critical of greenwashing and the institutions responsible for chemical regulation. Further, the women’s chemical-free lifestyle defied conventional definitions of activism. Sociological theories of risk are used to help understand women’s avoidance of chemicals. It was found that tenets of the precautionary principle were reflected in their reasoning for avoiding chemicals. Recent biomonitoring and body burden studies have influenced women’s knowledge of chemical risk and their decision to avoid them. The thesis demonstrates that risk-management, in this context, has become an individualized pursuit reflective of the neo-liberal ideology informing chemical regulation.Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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Laisani, John. "Assessment of impact of corporate social responsiblity on sustainable development of Shamva Mining Community in Zimbabwe." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/858.
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