Browsing by Subject "Environment"
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Environmental Economics. Using and improving the social cost of carbon.
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Environmental Impacts of the Coal Ash Spill in Kingston, Tennessee: An 18-Month Survey
(2010)An 18 month investigation of the environmental impacts of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee combined with leaching experiments on the spilled TVA coal ash have revealed that leachable ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2013)The essays in applied microeconomics contained within this dissertation examine prices in the developing economy contexts of Indonesia and the Philippines. Prices, observed and unobserved, are determined by and incentivize ... -
Essays in Energy and Environmental Economics
(2019)This dissertation is comprised of three papers which examine important topics in energy and environmental economics. The first paper ("Averting expenditures and desirable goods: Consumer demand for bottled water in the presence ... -
Evaluation of Environmental Behavior Change Methods at Duke University
(2011-04-29)Duke University is a leader in initiating programs geared towards campus sustainability. This project aims to conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of several campus sustainability programs including Green Devil Challenges ... -
Five-Year (2000-2005) Assessment Of The Implementation Of The Protocol To The Cartagena Convention Concerning Specially Protected Areas And Wildlife (SPAW), With A Special Focus On Annex II Listed Sea Turtles
(2006)The Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (Cartagena Convention) and its Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) provide a unique ... -
Gene by Environment Investigation of Incident Lung Cancer Risk in African-Americans.
(EBioMedicine, 2016-02)BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have identified polymorphisms linked to both smoking exposure and risk of lung cancer. The degree to which lung cancer risk is driven by increased smoking, genetics, or gene-environment ... -
Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development
(Science, 2007-05)In this millennium, global drylands face a myriad of problems that present tough research, management, and policy challenges. Recent advances in dryland development, however, together with the integrative approaches of global ... -
Identification of Green Space Attributes that Optimally Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect in Los Angeles
(2022-04-20)The urban heat island (UHI) effect is one of the many challenges facing urban development as climate change and urbanization increase. The UHI effect refers to a phenomenon in which dense concentrations of impermeable building ... -
Information as an Environmental Policy Instrument: Examining Household Response to Arsenic in Tube-Well Water in Araihazar, Bangladesh
(2011)This dissertation examines the potential of information-provision in motivating behavior that reduces human exposure to arsenic in drinking-water in Bangladesh. In chapter 2, the longer-term effects of the countrywide ... -
Institutions, Innovation, and Grassroots Change: Alternatives to Transnational Governance in the Global South
(2016)Transnational governance has been advanced as a viable option for regulating commodities produced in emerging economies—where incapable or unwilling states may undersupply institutions requisite for overseeing supply chains ... -
Managing the Nitrogen Cascade: Analysis of the International Management of Reactive Nitrogen
(2006)Reactive nitrogen (Nr) plays a role in numerous environmental and human health concerns, including climate change, eutrophication, acid rain, respiratory illness and cancer. While produced naturally, increased human creation ... -
Mercury Capture in North Carolina as a Co-Benefit of Phase II of the Acid Rain Program
(2006)Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants pose environmental and public health concerns in North Carolina. Once converted to methylmercury in aquatic environments, mercury compounds can bioaccumulate in fish and other ... -
Oil and gas projects in the Western Amazon: threats to wilderness, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples.
(PLoS One, 2008-08-13)BACKGROUND: The western Amazon is the most biologically rich part of the Amazon basin and is home to a great diversity of indigenous ethnic groups, including some of the world's last uncontacted peoples living in voluntary ... -
Participatory Planning: Addressing the Disconnect between Local and External Stakeholders
(2022-04-22)Participatory approaches are being increasingly utilized in conservation projects. The idea stems from critiques of previous practice being too exclusionary resulting in poor outcomes. A broad theme in these critiques relates ... -
Physical Controls on Low and Mid-Latitude Marine Primary Productivity
(2012)Strengthened stratification of the upper ocean, associated with either anthropogenic warming trends or natural climate oscillations, is generally expected to inhibit marine primary productivity at low and mid latitudes, ... -
Potential impacts of leakage from deep CO2 geosequestration on overlying freshwater aquifers.
(Environ Sci Technol, 2010-12-01)Carbon Capture and Storage may use deep saline aquifers for CO(2) sequestration, but small CO(2) leakage could pose a risk to overlying fresh groundwater. We performed laboratory incubations of CO(2) infiltration under oxidizing ... -
Queer Muslim Environmental Futurisms: Taqwa (Introspection) and Barzakh (Liminality and Paradox)
(2023-04-20)Through Orientalism, EuroAmerican hegemony constructs nature and sexuality to control ideas and resources around Muslims and nonhumans. EuroAmerican colonizers introduced to Islamic theology the very association of sexuality ... -
Randomized Controlled Trial of Screening, Risk Modification, and Physical Therapy to Prevent Falls Among the Elderly Recently Discharged From the Emergency Department to the Community: The Steps to Avoid Falls in the Elderly Study.
(Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 2017-06)<h4>Objective</h4>To evaluate the effectiveness of a multifactorial, tailored program of physical therapy to reduce the occurrence of falls among a heterogeneous group of high-risk elderly Singaporeans recently discharged ... -
Redistributing Risk: The Political Ecology of Coal in Late Twentieth Century Appalachia
(2016)“Redistributing Risk” explains how coal, which powered the industrial revolution, continued to be a linchpin of U.S. energy production long into the post-industrial era. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, ...
