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…
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This dissertation is about nation-building and the emergence of a new forestry regime in modern Turkey. I employ a historical and ethnographic approach to argue that the establishment of a national forestry paradigm was a major building block in the foundation of Turkey as a you…
The goal of this study was to examine attitudes toward the environment in the Middle East. The current study assessed the relationship between severity of environmental problems and attitudes toward the environment in Bahrain, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. It studied the extent to w…
Over the last four decades national environmental groups have become an important means of political participation for many British citizens. Since the mid-1980s these organizations have established a number of local groups. There are still some gaps in our understanding of thes…
The politicisation of environmentalism (the founding of green parties and permanent national and international campaigning organisations) was quickly followed by an attempt to identify the roots of the movement, In France, this search has had a comparatively narrow focus. That i…
The proliferation of green parties on the European political landscape in recent decades has prompted much debate concerning the explanation of their emergence and the factors considered to influence their varying levels of electoral success. This thesis critically examines a nu…
This dissertation examines the history of the controversial pesticide DDT and the U.S. environmental movement from an international perspective. It explores the domestic and international use of DDT from 1943 to 1982, a period that defined the beginning and end of U.S. DDT produ…
Environmental problems have emerged as global issues that are taken up around the world in different ways. In many developing countries, issues of quality of life, health and well-being in the context of rapid drives to industrialize, the expansive growth of urban areas, and the…
This dissertation is a biography of Charles Birch, a renowned population ecologist, religious philosopher and environmental advocate who invented the phrase (and helped spark a movement toward) "ecological sustainability." The chief intellectual merits of the project are its con…
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…
Forests throughout the world continue to be in danger as a result of human activity. Although the average rate of deforestation has recently slowed, in some countries the rate of forest degradation remains high. Currently, numerous management efforts are underway to address this…
The restoration of the southern marshes became one of the most celebrated projects of the post-2003 Iraq reconstruction era. This dissertation examines how during this period environmentalism, as an altruistic movement, enabled foreign investors to both rationalize and mystify p…
Engaged Buddhism is a modern form of Buddhism that addresses social, as well as individual, suffering; often using contemporary political-economic structural analysis to understand suffering, in addition to traditional Buddhist teachings and practices. Earth Holder Sangha is a g…
Meltwater from a receding glacier created the Des Moines River in central Iowa 12,000-14,000 years ago. Over the ensuing centuries the river overflowed its banks, flooding the plains then receding, meandering across the landscape. During the first century of statehood Iowa river…
At a time when the human population faces extreme environmental risks from the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, a search for environmentally sustainable solutions is necessary. A recent iteration of the cohousing movement in the United States is pushing for more …
The US Forest Service and Walt Disney Productions clashed with the Sierra Club over construction of a planned ski resort in California’s Mineral King Valley between 1965 and 1978. This thesis qualitatively analyzed over 120 newspaper articles to find how the Los Angeles Times an…
As the world ventures onwards dismayed by anthropogenic climate change, the built environment is increasingly complicit in the subjugation and substitution of the nature much to the dismay of those who revere nature for its sacredness. Architecture’s ability to mediate this issu…
Voices of the Earth was the composer’s first large-scale work attempting to interweave musical styles from across global history with natural soundscapes, combing natural and primordial sounds (like thunder, rockfalls, and animal calls) that are gradually transformed into sounds…
This thesis looks at Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi’s 吳明益 2015 novel The Stolen Bicycle (Danche shiqie ji 單車失竊記) and argues that it contests the dichotomous framework assumed in Taiwanese postcolonial theories by revealing contextualized and intertwined complexities. Taiwanese post…