Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-288).

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Thesis (M.A.)--George Mason University, 2009. / Vita: p. 59. Thesis director: Eve Wiederhold. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 12, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-58). Also issued in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Oregon, 2000. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-152). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to UO users.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 631-642).

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

In this study I investigate the Iranian Green Movement supporters' use of slogans as political discourse on the Persian-language opposition website www.kaleme.com. Data was collected from the website's Kaleme section in the form of 22 articles and 3,500 user comments. A coding scheme was constructed to measure the presence of categories and themes in the site's comments section. Findings support the propositions of narrative theorists (e.g. Franzosi, 1998; Benford, 1993) that frequent use of slogans in the comments may reflect a unique cultural element of Persian-language political discourse and reinforce the Green Movement's narrative of opposition to the government.

Over two thousand environmental, non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) exist in Canada, many of which are concerned with biodiversity. This thesis documents a participatory action research (PAR) project that was designed to identify and explore effective ENGO strategies for protecting biodiversity, key barriers that impede progress, and to develop actions for overcoming the barriers. The qualitative findings and outcomes, which are the product of interviews and workshops conducted over a fifteen month period, primarily with eleven selected ENGOs, are discussed and recommendations made. These results have been used to identify key principles to enable ENGOs to design more effective programs. To adequately protect biodiversity, many new programs, from local, highly specific to global and broad, will be needed. The study emphasizes the importance of both ENGOs and the general public being involved in such programs, and of focusing on the underlying causes, and not the symptoms, of the biodiversity crisis.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-247). / Microfiche. / viii, 247 p. 29 cm

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