An important, contemporary focus of environmental sociology is on the necessary conditions to promote a sustainable transition. This debate typically centers institutions within a capitalist world-economy, specifically business, government, and civil society, and their capacity …
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This thesis analyzes the role of the plywood industry in the industrial sector and its contribution to the development of the Indonesian economy. In analyzing this industry, the study is mostly based on a historical presentation. The Indonesian government has consisted of two re…
Turkey has experienced a sea change since 1980 when it turned to an export orientation in the economy after exhausting the accumulation possibilities under import substitution. In the new period, the Turkish textile and clothing industry. which has quickly taken advantage of exp…
Background and Aims: The Sohar Industrial Zone (SIZ), Oman, which started to operate in 2006, contains many industries that possibly affect the health of the local population. This study was carried out to evaluate the health effects in a population living near SIZ. Methods: Ret…
This dissertation explains the whys and hows of Americanization of management education at the Iranian Industrial Management Institute (IMI), which is the largest management institute that offers an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) in Iran. The Iranian context …
What explains the variation in industrialization strategies across countries? In this thesis paper, I explore the influence of the business environment and economic elites in the varieties of industrial policy. I theorize that differences in how firms are integrated into an econ…
The use of geophysics in conjunction with archaeology has been shown to be highly advantageous in assessing the potential and existence of archaeologically significant features. In investigating sites with little to no surface features or historical documentation, geophysics can…
This thesis is a study of the processes involved in the making, unmaking and potential remaking of a Pacific phosphate island. It is a history of Makatea, an uplifted coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia), mined by a French private company from 1908 to 1966 a…
Knowledge of denudation rates over geologic timescales provides important insight into the processes that govern soil formation, the regulation of Earth’s climate, and the evolution of landscapes. Accurately establishing long-term denudation rates is also key to understanding ho…
Bustling warehouse districts, rumbling railways, and flaring refineries were once the soul of midwestern cities. Industrialization was the genesis for the regions presently known as the rust belt region. Many now associate these regions with fallow parking lots, hollow warehouse…
This dissertation examines civic planning initiatives for the Pittsburgh Parks System from the late nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries to illustrate how citizenship and urban identity are rhetorically figured in, with, and through green public space. Parks are often fram…
This thesis project explicates the proliferation of “authentic” goods in urban millennial consumer culture. Whether a product makes appeals to its historicity, uses labels such as “Ethically Sourced” and “Fair Trade,” or advertises with cinema verité aesthetics, the production o…
Despite the rise of social studies to address craft economy or production in modern society, how the value can be added to a craft-made product is poorly explained. By exploring the global context of the guitar-making industry in the 1960s and interviewing guitar makers in four …
This study aims to understand the determinants of Zimbabwe’s economic policies on socio-economic development from 1980 to 2015. Since independence, a number of economic policies have been developed and achievement of policy objectives has been varied. It is the purpose of this s…
The September 2017 issue of the National Geographic magazine contained an article wondering why the Netherlands, this small, urbanized, and densely-populated country in Western Europe, is the second world exporter of food. The answer is found in the innovativeness of Dutch agric…
The evolution of the Syrian industrial bourgeoisie during the French Mandate and the first decade of Syrian independence was conditioned by overlapping economic, political, and economic factors. The most significant of these was the changing relationship between the industrialis…
The main objective in this research is to offer an analytical and empirical analysis of the process of economic development in post-revolutionary Iran. I maintain that Iran's development shortcomings in modern times are a result of arrested or incomplete industrialization caused…