Thesis (Ph. D.)--Antioch University New England, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 7, 2009). "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England (2009)."--The title page. Advisor: Mitchell Thomashow, Ph. D. Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-196).

Urban planning plays an essential role in preparing cities to handle and counteract the climate changes – and connected consequences – of today and the future. Municipal ecologists are specialists in environmental protection and therefore carry a crucial role when developing contemporary and future cities. However, the literature on municipal ecologists’ partaking in contemporary urban planning in a Swedish local planning process has not been extensive. This study explores how municipal ecologists experience and view the main challenges when seeking to contribute with their expertise in local planning processes in Stockholm County, Sweden. The study also explores what kind of strategies municipal ecologists implement to handle these challenges. This study uses an explorative qualitative methodology and a thematic analysis applied to empirical data from semi-structured interviews. To revisit the research field, a focus group discussion of the result was conducted. Key findings from this study are that the main challenges municipal ecologists face are i) the organisational difficulties and capacity for prioritising ecological issues in municipal planning, ii) lack of regulatory framework and political support, and iii) stress due to tensions in local planning processes. The ecologists handle this challenging context by implementing strategies such as speaking through others’ legitimacy, creating authority, and articulating the values of ecology. This study contributes to the understanding of how ecologists struggle to contribute with their expertise in local planning practice. This implies the challenge of including environmental perspectives in local planning practices. Therefore, this study points to important aspects of where it is necessary to focus future efforts to better integrate an ecological perspective in urban planning.

The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed Stories explore the author's experiences in dozens of Oregon watersheds. Using the genre of the personal essay, the author, a fifth-generation Oregonian and amateur ecologist, writes about her life and family relationships in stories that are saturated with the waters in which they have lived, logged, fished, and died. These stories are no defense of her family's past. but neither are they a condemnation. Rather, these personal essays are an inside look at the conflicts that arise in the author and in her family relationships when she discovers a protective love of her watersheds, marries an environmental scientist and then tries to negotiate her family's values with environmental values attached to her home waters. This negotiation dives deep into personal waters that flow from childhood anger to religious ecstasy. The author's negotiation of these waters demonstrates the personal essay's unique use as a tool for exploring issues that underlie the science of watershed; specifically: people and their relationships to each other and to their waters. These essays are drawn from the author's experiences in watersheds as wild as Lawson Creek in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, where her family was lost, and as tame as Ash Creek in the Willamette Valley, where she now lives. / Graduation date: 2005

Orientador: Salvador Antonio Mireles Sandoval / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T08:32:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Goncalves_FernandoCesar_M.pdf: 21588400 bytes, checksum: 4371170ea56cb1d46274a2dd80f44246 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: A presente dissertação de mestrado historiografa e analisa o movimento social contrário à instalação da Unidade Geradora de Energia Termelétrica Carioba II no município de Americana, estado de São Paulo, movimento este ocorrido no período correspondente ao Licenciamento Ambiental do empreendimento, que foi de 2000 a 2002. Através da realização de 42 entrevistas com lideranças do movimento em estudo, de levantamento de fontes documentais e de artigos e demais publicações veiculadas na imprensa, busca-se aprofundar o olhar nas características principais do fenômeno social estudado, em especial nas três cidades em que se manifestou com maior força, a saber: Americana, Santa Bárbara d¿Oeste e Piracicaba. Utilizam-se, principalmente, os ensinamentos de Alberto Melucci e Manuel Castells para o entendimento da nossa sociedade pós-industrial, dos movimentos sociais e da participação popular, aplicando estes ensinamentos ao movimento social contrário à Carioba II. Associam-se os efeitos da modernidade aos indivíduos, modificando as suas rotinas e a percepção de tempo e espaço, acentuando a individualização e a necessidade de se manter as citadas rotinas, entre outras conseqüências, enquanto obstáculos a sua adesão ao movimento social, adesão esta também influenciada pelos seus conhecimentos, experiências, crenças, redes sociais de que participa, entre outros fatores. Enfatiza-se o caráter plural, poli-classista e fragmentário, decorrente da resistência das comunidades locais, baseadas em sua identidade coletiva e nas tendências econômicas globalizantes, características essas oriundas e somente possíveis em sociedades complexas, pós-industriais e em rede. Abordam-se também a apropriação, a produção do conhecimento, pelos atores sociais pertencentes ao movimento, e a sua distribuição, utilizando inclusive as modernas tecnologias para a comunicação direta entre as lideranças do movimento e desta para com as suas bases / Abstract: The present master¿s dissertação analyzes the social movement against the installation of the Termo-Electric PlantEnergy of Carioba II in the city of Americana, state of São Paulo. The movement occurred in period during the Environmental Licensing of the plant between 2000 and 2002. Through the 42 interviews with leaders of the movement , a survey of documentary sources and articles and many publications in the local press, the study seeks to understand the main characteristics of the movement studied as it emerges in the three cities to be affected by the plant and where one finds the strength of the movement: Americana, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste and Piracicaba. We rely on the works of Alberto Melucci and Manuel Castells for theoretical support on the study of the social movement and the popular participation it mobilized in the case of the opposition to the Carioba II plant. We associate the effects of modernization through the Plant on the individuals, modifying their routines and perception of time and space, accenting the individualization and the necessity of if keeping their routines as excellent elements for their joining the social movement, also influenced by their knowledge, experiences, beliefs, social networks where theyt participated, among others factors. The emphasizes the plural, polyclass aspect of the movement and its fragmentary character, which emerges during the resistance of the local communities, as expressed in the collective identity with respect to the globalizing economic trends exemplified by the Plant. It also exams the appropriation and production of information for recruiting and securing social actors to the movement and its distribution of this information using concomitantly the modern technologies based on computer communication and the direct communication between the leadership of the movement and its base supporter / Mestrado / Educação, Sociedade, Politica e Cultura / Mestre em Educação

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The thesis is based on a qualitative research realized in summer 2008 in several municipalities in Šumava. Focus groups organized within this research aimed at the relationship of different stakeholders to the Šumava National Park and more generally to nature and environmentalist thoughts and actors. The research design and the data gathered are presented in the introduction. Then the theory of general principles of consensus is described, which serves as the main theoretical framework for the study of focus groups participants' arguments. Using particular arguments, I show that against the protection of nature as it is realized by Šumava National Park Authority, critical citizens build their arguments on values that are considered legitimate and important in Czech society. The next part of the thesis studies the ecological principle of consensus as a new general principle of consensus: I discuss the conditions for existence of such a principle, its form in the controversy about the management of Šumava and the implications its form can have, supporting broader acceptance of the principle or, on the contrary, its rejection. An important point there is the relationship between expertise and participation, which are, together with the concept of nature, main elements of the ecological principle of...