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Njiru, Henry Muriithi. "Eco-Techno-Cosmopolitanism: Education, Inner Transformation and Practice in the Contemporary U.S. Eco-Disaster Novel". Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1429560750.
Texto completo da fonteSipic, Toni 1981. "Political economy of environmental disasters and voluntary approaches in environmental policy". Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11581.
Texto completo da fonteIn Chapter II I analyze eco-labeling in the tourism industry, specifically the impact of the Blue Flag label for marinas and beaches on prices of marina slip rentals, weekly sailboat charter prices and hotel accommodation prices. The principal findings include that Blue Flag certified marinas appear to enjoy an average premium between 6.6% and 22% for their daily slip rental prices, between 40% and 49% for their monthly slip rental prices, and 23% for their yearly slip rental prices. Within the sailboat charter sector, vessels whose home marina is awarded the Blue Flag on average carry a price premium between 14% and 20% on a weekly sailboat rental. When it comes to hotel accommodation, hotels managing a Blue Flag certified beach enjoy a price premium between 45% and 270%. In Chapter III I employ a dataset on the global frequency of climate-change-related natural disasters to explain the probability of the start and occurrence, in a given year, of civil war and civil war durations during the last half of the 20th century. Extreme cold events are found to have a measurable positive effect on the probability of civil war starting in the affected countries, previous years' extreme heat events have a positive effect on the probability of a civil war occurring in a given year, and droughts have a positive effect on civil war duration. These findings can be used by policymakers as they contemplate climate change mitigation policies. In Chapter IV I investigate the determinants of ratification delay of a major oil pollution international environmental agreement, MARPOL. Importantly, I analyze the impact of oil spills, as well as various country characteristics, on the time a country takes to ratify MARPOL. The major contribution lies in the examination of impacts of environmental pollution events on international political decision making. I find that the amount of oil spilled decreases the time to ratify MARPOL. This is the first study that seeks to address this issue in a quantitative fashion. The results should inform policymakers by giving them insight into relevant determinants of legislative delay in ratifying treaties.
Committee in charge: Dr. Trudy Ann Cameron, Chairperson; Dr. Wesley W. Wilson, Member; Dr. Benjamin Hansen, Member; Dr. Ronald Mitchell, Outside Member
Alnawaiseh, Ali M. "Natural Disasters and Citizenship: Belonging Through Ecology in African American Writing". Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1571755777462077.
Texto completo da fonteArsenault, Denis. "Environment, security and natural disasters, contesting discourses of environmental security". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0018/MQ36809.pdf.
Texto completo da fonteBennett, Paul. "Mutual risk : moral economy in environmental insurance". Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313039.
Texto completo da fonteFara, Katiuscia. "How natural are 'natural disasters'? : vulnerability to drought in Southern Namibia communal areas". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4850.
Texto completo da fonteMay, Elizabeth Marie. "Human Response to Environmental Hazards: Sunset Crater as a Case Study". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193470.
Texto completo da fonteKita, Stern Mwakalimi. "Adapting or maladapting? : climate change, climate variability, disasters and resettlement in Malawi". Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/72668/.
Texto completo da fonteKane, Virginia M. "Taoism and Contemporary Environmental Literature". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3047/.
Texto completo da fonteBoyle, Kirk. "The Catastrophic Real: Late Capitalism and Other Naturalized Disasters". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1250625590.
Texto completo da fonteMasamvu, K. S. "Satellite remote sensing for the monitoring of environmental hazards and assessment of disasters in Southern Africa". Thesis, University of Bristol, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376614.
Texto completo da fonteTigere, Diana. "An evaluation of flood risk communication efforts based upon the values judgements of the inhabitanats of a selection of informal settlements in the Cape Town municipal area". Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/813.
Texto completo da fonteIt is widely believed that experts often have a more rational approach towards risks. This is because they are known to use algorithms, formal logic, risk assessments and normative rules to make decisions about risks. The central tenet of this research is that communication based on an understanding of how people conceptualise and evaluate risk communication efforts is critical for translating risk management knowledge into effective risk practices necessary for value generation in flood risk mitigation. Rational decisionEmaking requires both analytic and intuitive systems to operate on a parallel level. Therefore, this research proposes a Flood Risk Communication Model that takes cognisance of lay perceptions. The model emphasises on how risk communication efforts are evaluated by the lay using a combination of descriptive psychological and social construction theories. In particular, the prospect theory, heuristics and biases, cultural theory and trust theory are used to provide explanatory sketches on how flood risk communication efforts are perceived in highly vulnerable environmental contexts such as informal settlements. The challenge in this research however, lies in verifying the model empirically. The associative group analysis technique will be used to generate empirical data from a case study population. Two basic analytic methods will be employed to measure psychological dispositions of respondents. Firstly, word associations are scored and weighted based on frequency of occurrence to generate a dominance score. The higher the dominance score, the greater the interpretation and the more meaningful the theme is for that particular group. Secondly, the different theories of the model are factored into a questionnaire to measure priorities. All the responses are then compared to the proposed model and also used to evaluate actual lay perceptions and feelings towards the current risk communication interventions. The results showed a high level of consistency with the FRCM and hence with the descriptive psychological models of Kahneman and Tversky. However, we conclude that what is has been proposed to be biases are intuitive tendencies to adapt and make sustainable decisions in the face of applicable contextual influences. Thus, these contextual hierarchies determine the reference point and status quo of the recipient in decision making. Therefore, these influences and hierarchies need to be factored in the designing of a risk communication.
Wishart, Hannah. "The Economic Impact of Natural Disasters on Food Security and SNAP Benefits". Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1492706056382996.
Texto completo da fonteSouthard, Nicole. "The Socio-Political and Economic Causes of Natural Disasters". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1720.
Texto completo da fontePaaz, Carolina. "A consideração dos deslocados ambientais na deliberação e as consequências do rompimento da barragem de fundão em Mariana/MG". reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2017. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/3511.
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Roosli, Ruhizal. "Managing disasters in Malaysia : the attitude of officials towards compliance with the MNSC Directive 20". Thesis, Northumbria University, 2010. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/2925/.
Texto completo da fonteMaughan, Christopher. "Activism Ltd : environmental activism and contemporary literature". Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/79823/.
Texto completo da fonteFranklin, Katherine. "Disasters Are Not, They Become: An Understanding of Social Vulnerability in the United States Gulf Coast with Respect to Hurricanes". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/828.
Texto completo da fonteVergani, Vanessa. "Os direitos humanos e a proteção aos migrantes ambientais frente aos riscos e desastres ecológicos". reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2010. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/482.
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The present work develops a study concerning the humanitarian consequences as far as environmental degradation is concerned, as well as the attention given to it by the international community over the last years. Thus, it observes, particularly, the interaction between the impact of both risks and natural or technological environmental disasters and the human migratory movements within the countries or abroad, which have been little explored and studied so far. It also analyzes the quest for a legal system of international cooperation of the countries aiming at the protection of the human rights of these populations which are forced to flee due to environmental causes, granting themselves access to the basic human rights such as , life, health, housing and human dignity, among others. From that, and considering the existence of environmental problems associated to the human migration, this work examines that environmental risks are not equitably distributed, therefore professing the Environmental Rights Movement. Factors as the poverty associated to the vulnerability of populations and entire communities are in the core of this risk distribution. Owing to that, the exposure of vulnerable people to environmental risks and disasters contribute to a greater feasibility for human rights violation. This essay holds as challenges to analyze the relation among environment, risks, environmental disasters and human migration caused by ecological risks and disasters.
Al-Rubaee, Rasha Hassan. "A conceptual model to effectively prioritise recovery of roads damaged by natural/man-made disasters". Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3699/.
Texto completo da fonteNyman, Jon. "Nature and Culture: Teaching Environmental Awareness Through Literature". Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-25701.
Texto completo da fonteJacobus, Robert J. "Defining environmental theology content analysis of associated literature /". Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1885.
Texto completo da fonteTitle from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 45 p. : ill. (some col.). Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-27).
Osbaldiston, Richard. "Meta-analysis of the responsible environmental behavior literature /". free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3144447.
Texto completo da fonteZweifel, Aara. "Spiralist Interconnection and Environmental Consciousness in Caribbean Literature". Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20511.
Texto completo da fonteWeatherall, Ashley Marie. "Assessing Hurricane Preparedness Among Residential Staff at Louisiana State University: A Case Study on Hurricane Isaac". Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4608.
Texto completo da fonteIsmayilov, Orkhan M. "Economic Resilience, Disasters, and Green Jobs: An Institutional Collective Action Framework". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062807/.
Texto completo da fonteVargas, Melissa. "Confronting environmental and social crises : Octavia E. Butler's critique of the spiritual roots of environmental injustice in her Parable novels /". [Boise, Idaho] : Boise State University, 2009. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/18/.
Texto completo da fonteCabat, Melissa. "Interrogating The "And": A Study of Environmentalism and Disability". Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1502030946268842.
Texto completo da fonteBarcessat, Ana Clara Aben-Athar. "Os desastres e o Direito Ambiental: governança, normatividade e responsabilidade estatal". Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20763.
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The so-called natural disasters have been the subject of much debate and study, both within and outside the field of Law. They entail, therefore, demands that require regulation, preferably in a more direct and effective way in the prevention and mitigation of the phenomena. In the present study, it has been chosen to use only the denomination 'disasters' due to the understanding that, although they have factors of natural origin in its causes, it is not possible to dissociate human action when these events occur. The main focus of this theoretical approach is the disasters that occur in Brazil, its most frequent causes, its most significant damages, the existing regulation in Brazil and in comparative Law, and the existence or not of effective legal accountability. To do this, research done in the institutes of Environmental Law is used, in view of its transversality with this branch of Law and in several fields of knowledge that surpass the orbit of Law, due to the understanding of the intrinsic interdisciplinarity in this matter and the necessity of the expansion of Its scope of action in the country, since disasters are events that generate, to a greater or lesser degree, destruction wherever they pass, impacting the environment, such as human relations, private goods and very often, even the survival of the populations on the affected sites
Os chamados desastres naturais tem sido objeto de muito debate e estudo, dentro e fora do âmbito do Direito. Acarretam, portanto, demandas que urgem regulamentação, de preferência mais direcionada e efetiva na prevenção e mitigação desses fenômenos. No presente estudo, preferiu-se utilizar apenas a denominação ‘desastres’ por entender que, ainda que tenham em suas causas, fatores de origem natural, não se pode dissociar a ação humana quando da ocorrência desses eventos. O foco principal dessa abordagem teórica são os desastres ocorrentes no Brasil, suas causas mais frequentes, seus danos mais significativos, a regulamentação existente no Brasil e no Direito comparado e a existência ou não de efetiva responsabilização legal. Para isso, utiliza-se de pesquisa nos institutos próprios do Direito Ambiental, tendo em vista sua transversalidade com esse ramo e em diversos campos do conhecimento que ultrapassam a órbita do Direito, por entender-se a interdisciplinaridade intrínseca nessa matéria e a necessidade da ampliação de seu escopo de atuação no país, uma vez que os desastres são eventos que geram, em maior ou menor grau, destruição por onde passam, impactando o meio ambiente, as relações humanas, os bens privados e, com muita frequência, até mesmo a sobrevivência das populações humanas dos locais afetados
Pires, Filipe Miguel Leandro. "O impacto das alterações climáticas nos fluxos migratórios : o caso do Bangladesh". Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12877.
Texto completo da fonteAs alterações climáticas têm mudado a forma como as populações vivem no planeta Terra. Em concreto, os habitantes do Bangladesh têm presenciado graves mudanças ambientais. Cheias, secas, erosão nas margens dos rios e aumento do nível médio das águas do mar são alguns exemplos de desastres naturais que têm afectado o sustento das pessoas num país com uma enorme escassez de recursos e riqueza. Os fluxos migratórios devido às alterações no clima constituem um dos principais problemas que este país tem enfrentado nos últimos anos. Daca - capital e maior cidade no Bangladesh - encontra-se superpovoada, uma vez que as pessoas se têm deslocado para esta cidade à procura de refúgio em virtude dos desastres ambientais provocados pelas alterações climáticas. Os bairros de lata têm aumentado exponencialmente, visto que esta cidade não possui infra-estruturas suficientes para encarar os milhares de pessoas que chegam à cidade diariamente. Assim, este trabalho procura analisar os fluxos migratórios que têm resultado como resposta aos impactos das alterações climáticas no Bangladesh. O primeiro capítulo aborda a questão das alterações climáticas desde os primeiros sinais até aos dias de hoje, bem como o debate sobre os refugiados ambientais. O segundo capítulo retrata a realidade por detrás das migrações forçadas como resultado das alterações climáticas no país sob análise.
Climate change has been transforming how people live on Earth. Particularly, those who live in Bangladesh have witnessed serious environmental changes. Floods, droughts, riverbank erosion and sea level rise represent several examples of natural disasters which have affected people's livelihoods in a country with a huge lack of resources and wealth. Migration flows due to climate change are one of the main issues that this country has been facing in the past few years. Dhaka - the capital and largest city in Bangladesh - is now overpopulated, as people have fled to the city seeking refuge from environmental disasters brought about by climate change. The number of slums has risen rapidly because Dhaka does not have enough infrastructures to deal with the current number of people who arrive to the city every day. Thus, this study aims to analyze the migration flows which have resulted as a response to climate change impacts in Bangladesh. The first chapter addresses the climate change from its verification until now as well as the debate over the term "environmental refugee". The second chapter sheds light on the reality behind forced migration due to climate change in the country under analysis.
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Rao, Smitha. "Before the Lightning Strikes: Preparedness, Capacities, and Social Welfare Policy ; Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Correlates of Disaster Preparedness". Thesis, Boston College, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109100.
Texto completo da fonteThesis advisor: Samantha Teixeira
Anthropogenic climate change will push 100 million of the world’s population into poverty in the next decade, and worsen economic, food, and housing insecurity. Natural disasters are some of the most manifest markers of climate change impacts, set to become more intense and frequent as a result of the climate crisis. The brunt of these stressors falls disproportionately on the most marginalized populations across the world - women, children, people with disabilities, and older adults, among other disadvantaged groups. Despite a surge of interest in scholarship on disasters and their unequal impacts, studies on preventative strategies and action have been relatively fewer even though it is widely agreed that post-disaster recovery is enhanced when coupled with pre-disaster readiness and planning. There are multiple empirical and theoretical unknowns around factors promoting or hindering preparedness at micro, mezzo, and macro levels, which are all critical avenues for interventions. This three-paper dissertation addresses this gap in the context of the United States to understand individual and household capacities in dealing with natural disasters. The human capabilities approach helps to frame the overall dissertation examining the associations of social and structural vulnerabilities, self-efficacy, disaster experience, disaster-related information, and participation in social welfare policy with household disaster readiness. The individual papers are further informed by self-efficacy theory and concepts spanning Vulnerability, Absorptive Capacity, and Resilience. Three aims guide this research resulting in three separate papers: Paper 1 examined associations between social vulnerabilities, disaster self-efficacy, and preparedness using nationally representative data from Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Household Surveys 2018. Disaster preparedness was found to vary across self-efficacy and social vulnerability. The confidence in one’s abilities to carry out necessary preparatory action and socioeconomic status were consistently associated with higher preparedness controlling for social vulnerability indicators. Paper 2 assessed the role of social and structural (housing and neighborhood) vulnerabilities in disaster risk reduction employing household-level data from nationally representative American Housing Survey (AHS) 2017. Results suggested that housing insecurity and social vulnerability concurrently were associated with disaster readiness. Further, this paper examined if the association of social vulnerability with disaster preparedness varied by housing insecurity among households in the U.S. Results suggested that housing insecurity moderated the association between minimal preparedness and socioeconomic status, sex of the householder, marital status, and presence of older adults in the house. Paper 3 probed the effects of social vulnerability and welfare policy participation on disaster readiness in U.S. households using the AHS 2017 data. Further, the paper examined the direct and indirect effects of household demographics and participation in social safety net programs (TANF, SSI, SNAP, Housing Vouchers) on household disaster preparedness and found that income, education, race, and having a person with disability at home were statistically mediated at least partially by welfare recipiency. This dissertation examined fissures between intent, capacities, and disaster preparedness with implications for vulnerable communities in the U.S. Results from this three-paper dissertation offer multiple takeaways and intervention points at individual and household levels for social work scholarship, education, and policy. In probing factors that enable or prevent households from taking steps to safeguard themselves against future threats, this dissertation helps inform and affirm values of human dignity and human rights, particularly among vulnerable groups. Overall, the dissertation extends the conversations around individual, contextual, and policy interventions needed to assist vulnerable populations in absorbing and overcoming the multitude of shocks they face. Social and structural barriers to improved household capacities to deal with disasters and other shocks can be addressed through effective policy interventions and a robust safety net. This dissertation examines these elements separately and offers key considerations for research, practice, and policy
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2021
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work
Discipline: Social Work
Sanderson, Kristin Alayne. "Planting the seeds of environmental sensitivity using children's literature". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2805.
Texto completo da fonteStagl, Sigrid. "Delinking economic growth from environmental degradation? A literature survey on the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis". Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1999. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1490/1/document.pdf.
Texto completo da fonteSeries: Working Papers Series "Growth and Employment in Europe: Sustainability and Competitiveness"
Tien, Hsien-Jen. "A literature study of the arching effects". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39056.
Texto completo da fonteKey, Heather Joann. "Tornado Fatalities: An In-Depth Look at Physical and Societal Influences". Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5714.
Texto completo da fonteDrugan, Joanna Marie. "Environmental themes in French literature and politics of the 1930s". Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323737.
Texto completo da fonteCruz, Miguel A. "A State and Territorial Survey Regarding Utilization of Environmental Health Shelter Assessments during Disasters, and a Secondary Analysis of Available Shelter Assessment Data". FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1738.
Texto completo da fonteBoudreaux, Becky. "The Representation of the Environment in Children's Literature". ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/335.
Texto completo da fonteWaage, Frederick O. "Raintree County, the Foremost American Environmental Novel: Uncovering the Deep Message of an Undervalued Text". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://amzn.com/0773415165.
Texto completo da fontehttps://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1099/thumbnail.jpg
Willis, Lloyd Elliott. "Looking away the evasive environmental politics of American literature, 1823-1966 /". [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0013720.
Texto completo da fonteCostello, Paige E. "Prose and Polarization: Environmental Literature and the Challenges to Constructive Discourse". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/388.
Texto completo da fonteShamansky, Amy Helene. "Use of crafts, games, and children's literature to enhance environmental education". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1335.
Texto completo da fonteBardin, Jessica. "“In Wildness is the Salvation of the World:” An Ecocritical Examination of Aldo Leopold’s “Land Ethic” and Its Influence on Contemporary Environmental Literature". Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1449421920.
Texto completo da fonteFranciose, Michelle M. (Michelle Marie). "Supply chain integration : analysis framework and review of recent literature". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11551.
Texto completo da fontePeabody, Seth. "Environmental Fantasies: Mountains, Cities, and Heimat in Weimar Cinema". Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467382.
Texto completo da fonteGermanic Languages and Literatures
Kennedy, Robert Oran. ""And a soul in ev'ry stone"| The ludic natures of Pale Fire and Gravity's Rainbow". Thesis, The University of Utah, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10001410.
Texto completo da fonteThe author argues that ecocriticism has overlooked important works of mid-20th-century American literature because of their unorthodox approaches to writing about nature. These unorthodox approaches revolve around the use of humor and play to formulate arguments about nature. The author argues that because ecocriticism as a political critique emphasizes ecological catastrophe, humor and ludic writing tend to get ignored in the critical discussion. The author expresses the desire to expand the conversation on ludic texts. The author argues that two texts with relatively little ecocritical attention, Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, use the aesthetic theories of Friedrich Nietzsche to explain the role of the non-human in human civilization.
In the first chapter, Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire is argued to be a novel that is about the natural source of human aesthetic production. The author synthesizes studies of the novel and argues that Nabokov’s novel, both in its language and form, valorizes mimesis as the source of all aesthetic production. Nabokov’s belief in some form of design is examined through mimicry, and is found to permeate the novel through structural and descriptive references to games and nature. Nabokov is found to be influenced by the theories of Friedrich Nietzsche, Johan Huizinga, and Walter Benjamin. Nabokov ultimately finds that the justification for the world is aesthetic, that nature is important to humans as the origin of all artistic impulses.
The second chapter reads Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow through the many references to Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy, finding that the novel sets nature against civilization according to Nietzsche’s distinction between the Dionysian and the Apollonian. The author finds that the novel holds up the natural world as a counter-force to the capitalist impulse to control and exploit the natural and human worlds. The author examines how Pynchon uses Dionysian tropes like drunkenness, absurdity, music, and feelings of oneness in the novel in moments of resistance to the dominant order.
The conclusion suggests that the work of Friedrich Nietzsche ought to be examined as an influential source for modern views on the value of nature.
O'Connell, Nicholas. "On sacred ground : the landscape literature of the Pacific Northwest /". Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9398.
Texto completo da fonteWesterman, Jennifer H. "Landscapes of labor : nature, work, and environmental justice in Depression-era fiction /". abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3342624.
Texto completo da fonte"May, 2009." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-212). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2009]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.
Cook, Barbara J. "Women's transformative texts from the Southwestern Ecotone /". view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095241.
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Sakai, Rafael de Oliveira. "Estudo do impacto de Debris Flows: caso da bacia do rio Santo Antônio em Caraguatatuba (Brasil)". Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3145/tde-29122014-115910/.
Texto completo da fonteThe study here proposed aims to define the real impacts of the debris flows phenomenona, caused by a very intense rainfall, based on the disaster occurred in March of 1967, in Caraguatatuba, Brazil. The risk regarding mainly human casualties and material losses associated to such events in the region is higher nowadays, due to the increasing population rates and the settling of large companies such as oil industry, with reduced defense measures and works. Considering these factors, the region needs more detailed studies that will enable more effective master plans, decision making guidelines, contingency plans, population distribution regulation and structures of mitigation and remediation. In order to achieve these results, it was defined a digital terrain model through analysis of topographic, geographic, hydrographic and soil occupation data. The simulation of a similar extreme event as of 1967\'s on this model will result in valuable information to define evacuation plans, zoning guidelines, demobilization criteria, master plans and structural defenses.