Katmanlı kentlerde geçmişi anlamak ve geleceği planlamak için gerçekleştirilen bilimsel araştırmalarda kullanılan yöntemler genel olarak katmanlı dokunun tarihsel ve mekânsal gelişimine odaklanmaktadır. Fiziksel ve tarihi gelişime odaklanan bu çalışmalar katmanlı kentin, şekille…
"171" Result
Sort By:
The titular “House” from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 work The House of the Seven Gables is not just one house: it is an old edifice where the characters live, an intertwined family “house” of the Pyncheons and Maules, the plants and animals who live there alongside the humans, th…
Environmental damage disproportionately affects communities of color. Understanding how environmental racism uniquely affects marginalized communities is crucial to effectively develop public policies that will address the systematic racism that is rooted in many existing polici…
Land frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon continue to be dominated by the expansion of cattle ranching and large-scale deforestation events. Theory on smallholder agriculture argues that the agroecological intensification of land use—which would counteract land extensive speculatio…
This dissertation focuses on “Community Roots,” an instantiation of urban, garden-based environmental education that employs a “critical-transdisciplinary” design framework and pedagogies. The “crit-trans” construct, articulated by the Urban Environmental Studies Research Coven …
The dynamic nature of aquatic ecosystems requires extensive data to facilitate sustainable management practices but the resources to collect these data are often limited. Historical tensions between stakeholders in the fisheries management process have limited the potential for …
From 1959 – 2009, Texas has annually led the nation in the number of flood fatalities. On average the number of deaths in Texas was three times the amount of the second leading state (Sharif, Hossain, Jackson & Bin-Shafique, 2012). Quantitative studies have attempted to cons…
This dissertation proposes that transcorporeality offers an alternative to Cartesian dualistic modes of embodiment in Walker Percy’s, The Moviegoer, Zora Neale Hurston’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Richard Wright’s, Native Son, and Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hun…
Disertační práce se zabývá kvalitou vnitřního prostředí v historických objektech s ohledem na uchování kulturních památek a jejich interiérů. Práce si dává za cíl nastínit rozsáhlou problematiku vnitřního prostředí historických objektů a poukázat na možnosti, kterými je možné k …
Ground-level ozone and atmospheric fine particles (PM 2.5 ) have been recognized as critical air pollutants that act as important contributors to the toxicity of anthropogenic air pollution in urban areas. To limit the adverse impacts on public health and ecosystems of ground-le…
La presente tesis es una revisión crítica y proyectual sobre el Cerro Calán, patrimonio de la Universidad de Chile que alberga las instalaciones del Observatorio Astronómico Nacional. Ha funcionado por más de 150 años y llegó a ser pionero y uno de los más importantes en América…
En el transcurso de las últimas décadas el mundo se ha visto enfrentado a una serie de desafíos en torno a los componentes tanto climáticos, ecológicos, económicos como sociales fruto de la huella antrópica remanente en el territorio resultante de la producción industrial, una d…
Studies of modern Palestine and Israel usually highlight the struggle of European powers for control and the formation of Jewish and Palestinian nationalisms. This dissertation does otherwise. With a thesis centered on the physical "making of a Holy Land," this work combines the…
Icebergs are melting in the Arctic. The Gulf of Mexico is warming and producing hurricanes such as Katrina. The delta of the southern United States is drying. And, Yemen will be the first country in modern history to experience a lack of accessible ground water, as soon as 2017 …
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 …
This thesis examines a dispute over environmental conservation projects between people living in Kaimana District of West Papua, Indonesia and environmental non-governmental organizations. It investigates social dynamics of environmentalism through analyzing a dispute over a spe…
Urban agriculture (UA) can contribute to improving social and environmental functions depending on the way it is practiced. Urban agriculture is part of the Alternative Food Network social movement, with goals that include redefining the food production process by making it more…
This dissertation research examined the operation, circulation, and articulation of discourses associated with contemporary globalization in producing the agricultural landscape of an area of rural Jamaica. As a part of the world subject to European colonial domination from the …
This thesis explores the risk perception of climate change among Egyptians who reside in Canada and Egyptians who reside in Egypt. It applies a quantitative comparative analysis of these two populations to assess differences in risk perception of climate change and the influence…