The discourse of climate change has become important in the field of political science, as well as in the policy-making community. Climate change has become a political phenomenon that has and will greatly impact political stability regionally and globally. Using the ecological …
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Previous research on ecotourism in Southeast Asia has focused on its positive and negative effects for conservation. However, the focus in this particular study is to look at what it takes to run a successful ecotourism site in four diverse areas in Indonesia using communication…
The aim of this study is to advance understanding of air pollution governance in Iran through examination of supporting policy and the ‘thought-styles’ of various stakeholders. The study will focus on four stakeholder groups: international stakeholders, government affiliated Ira…
This thesis explores how, for more than four millennia, neighboring Afghan tribal communities have exercised highly decentralized, community-based freshwater management practices. I argue that these practices can act as both a model for how to structure Afghan polity at large as…
The sedimentary deposits of the Hadar Formation at Dikika and the Mount Galili Formation at Galili preserve a wealth of paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic records spanning the last 5.29 Ma. Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions of herbivore tooth enamel were analyzed …
A considerable amount of money for high-energy consumption is spent in traditional buildings located in hot climate regions. High-energy consumption is significantly influenced by several causes, including building materials, orientation, mass, and openings' sizes. This paper ai…
Indonesian peatlands cover ∼21 million ha and estimated to contain a substantial store of above, but especially below ground carbon (∼57.8 Gt). Kalimantan contains 5.9 million ha of peatlands ∼ 11% of Kalimantan's land area. Over the previous three decades, tropical peatland for…
This study explores the relationship between women's participation and sustainability of community-managed drinking water supply projects in developing countries and answers a question - Does women's participation contribute to project sustainability? The findings of a comprehen…
In this dissertation, I explore and analyze smallholders’ perceptual and cultural understandings of environmental opportunities and constraints regarding land, soil, rain and trees in mixed-crop-livestock agriculture among rural communities of Wärräbabbo in Wello, northeast Ethi…
This dissertation focuses on a central question for six countries in Asia: what factors affect environmentalism? Numerous studies have proposed mixed theoretical explanations for the relationship between diverse values and beliefs regarding environmentalism. Although these diver…
Community-based decision-making for development requires an integrated understanding and prioritizing of the risks that different groups in affected communities face. Optimizing this risk reduction requires methodologies for vulnerability identification, analysis, and assessment…
Teaching Religion and Literature provides a practical engagement with the pedagogical possibilities of teaching religion courses using literature, teaching literature classes using religion, and teaching Religion and Literature as a discipline. Featuring chapters written by awar…
Fen eğitiminde bilim tarihinin eğitimde kullanımının önemi pek çok makale, tez ve doktora çalışmalarıyla birlikte birçok eğitimci tarafından dile getirilmektedir. Pek çok fen bilimleri eğitimcisi bilim tarihinin bilimsel içeriğin ve bilimsel bilginin doğasının öğretilmesinde pot…
Climate change impacts are evident throughout the world, particularly in the low lying coastal areas. The multidimensional nature and cross-scale impacts of climate change require a concerted effort from different organizations operating at multiple levels of governance. The eff…
In 1974 protesters in Wyhl, a taciturn village in Germany’s Kaiserstuhl area on the edge of the Black Forest, ushered in a crusade against nuclear energy. Inevitably, this particular movement challenged the perceived authoritarian rule of the West German government. Protesters i…
Monsoon crops play a critical role in Indian agriculture, hence, monitoring these crops is vital for supporting economic growth and food security for the country. However, monitoring these crops is challenging due to limited availability of optical satellite data due to cloud co…
This dissertation examines the history of natural gas in twentieth-century Iran, foregrounding the interactions between energy technologies, the natural environment, and the politics of national development. In joining Iran-as-state, Iran-as-society, and Iran-as-geology, it argu…
This thesis is a comparative examination of the relationship between climate change, violence and ‘land grabbing’ in the Sahelian African states of Sudan and Ethiopia. An extensive debate has been raging for a decade within academic and policy circles regarding the possible cons…