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(University of Oregon, 2016-06)One of the key debates within American environmentalism over the past forty years has been over its applicability beyond our cultural context. Its staunchest critics find that many of its precepts (most notably the ...
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(Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022-04-11)Much of the work on the development of appetite self-regulation in early childhood employs tasks assessing Delay of Gratification (DoG). While this skill is thought to rely on “cool” cognitive processes like effortful ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)In this dissertation, I make an argument for strong sustainability, which emphasizes environmental and social justice concerns, by distinguishing it from weak sustainability. I critique the global neoliberal sustainable ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)The Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary (AMWS), located on the Humboldt Bay of northwestern California in the town of Arcata, is an excellent example of reciprocity between humans and the natural environment. The AMWS is ...
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(Center for Housing Innovation, University of Oregon, 1997-12-18)The construction of single family housing in the U.S. is growing increasingly industrialized with panelization emerging as the dominant form of industrialization. Will this trend mean that housing construction, operation, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-09)Modernism's fragmented literary style has been called "an art of cities." My project challenges such conventional understandings by exposing a strain within modernism that expresses an awareness of a broader phenomenological ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-02)The nature of advertising requires it to be a constant perpetuation of cultural ideals, flexible enough to frequently change to anticipate and capitalize on the needs and wants of a society. Increasingly, advertising is ...
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(2003-07-28)Sustainable procurement is an issue that governments at all levels have begun to address in recent years. Briefly stated, sustainable procurement is the process of integrating environmental, social, and economic factors ...
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(2007-06)Selected literature published between 1992 and 2007 is examined to provide information to technology managers of small to medium-sized organizations for making decisions that influence sustainability in the data center. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10)Around 80,000 families in Chile depend upon the fishing sector for their livelihood; however, for the one country able to boast the longest coastline in the world, many Chilean families consider having fish on the dinner ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)Extreme variations in cortisol reactivity are associated with multiple psychological and physiological diseases. These variations may be explained by sex, by genetic vulnerabilities, and by exposure to either recent life ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-05)Brands’ environmental action is becoming more and more important to the average consumer, yet existing brand sustainability reporting does not match this shift in consumer priorities. The intent of this thesis is to addresses ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-09)This thesis serves to examine to current status of experiential education within institutions of higher education in the United States, focusing on the Urban Farm at the University of Oregon. It begins with an introduction ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023)In today’s highly digitized world, we are constantly consuming media. We watch so many movies and TV shows, listen to so much music, and scroll through so much social media that we have become numb to it. Just as we are ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06)This thesis explores how the natural wildlife and complex culture along the coast of Uruguay have been and continue to be negatively impacted by the domestic and international plans for economic growth through mega-development. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-12)This thesis investigates the effects of parking lots and tree shading on microscale urban heat islands on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon. Urban heat islands form because of the high concentration of ...
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(Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2014-09)Svenson (2011) showed that choices of one of two alternative productivity increases to save production resources (e.g., man-months) were biased. Judgments of resource savings following a speed increase from a low production ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)This dissertation recontextualizes literary, critical, and popular models of nature in contemporary American fiction, and argues that the transformations in the post-Fordist economy reframe environmental concepts and their ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-03)This dissertation observes ways of speaking about environment and community in Kake, a Native Tlingit village on Kupreanof Island in Southeast Alaska. The study investigates the functions and values of legal/regulatory and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-06)The Rio Grande de Santiago-colloquially known as the Rio Santiago-has become one of the most polluted rivers in North America. The river, which spans more than 430 kilometers, directly borders numerous towns whose citizens ...
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