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  • Food for Axiology : Acknowledging Relationships

    Creator:
    Piquette, Daniel S.
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    An overarching explanation for environmental degradation has been humans' disconnection from the natural world. Utilizing Whiteheadian theory, I offer that there is no disconnection. Rather, I propose that there is a dearth of relational acknowledgement. I suggest that the Cartesian dualism and modern science led to an illusory belief that...
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    the environment. I utilize ethics of care to demonstrate our need for recognizing relationships

  • Fishing Guides in the Anthropocene

    Creator:
    Wind, Thad A.
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    How do fishing guides of the Cascade and Coast Range rivers negotiate the conflicting tensions between their client’s desire to experience the wild and the extractive nature based tourism of their role as fishing guides? How do they position their services relative to the environment and an imagined landscape that...
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    least the impending peril for systems and inhabitants of the global environment (Steffen et al 2011

  • Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

    Creator:
    D'Alessandro, Erica
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    Limited research has analyzed how the values espoused by Western alternative food systems, such as taste and territoriality, are adopted and refashioned in post-socialist societies. Muscovites now echo the global quality turn that reconnects consumers to their food sources. This research qualitatively explores the perspectives of the cosmopolitan consumers of...
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    environment presented a wealth of novel retail outlets that changed the way Russians interacted with

  • Neo-Ottoman perspectives : Turkish identity and culinary culture in a sociopolitical context

    Creator:
    Kinoğlu, Sera D.
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    As Turkey's cultural and economic climate has experienced dramatic shifts in accordance with its changing role in global society, a neo-Ottoman movement has taken root in recent years which can offer insight into the new Turkish identity. This sociopolitical movement captures a diverse set of cultural attributes through a contemporary...
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    and neo-Ottomanism, taking into account the intricacies of Turkey’s sociopolitical environment. In

  • Public perceptions of wave energy on the Oregon coast

    Creator:
    Hunter, Daniel A.
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    Oregon’s coastal communities grew from the booming logging and fishing industries of the 19th century, but in recent decades have faced not only major declines in both timber and fish resources but also an increasing reliance on tourists and retirees and the resultant glut of seasonal service-sector jobs. As a...
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    the marine environment, and the socio-economic value of historic and competing ocean uses. These

  • Development projects and questions of empowerment: a Salvadorean women's cooperative

    Creator:
    Hannigan-Luther, Kristen L.
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    Many development organizations now recognize the importance of culturally sensitive project design and implementation. Unfortunately most of these groups continue to disregard the significance of gender. This qualitative research examines a women's cooperative in rural El Salvador which formed in order to find a means of generating income and to...
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    strives to equalize that relationship. Women, Environment and Development (WED) is a focus of certain

  • Current Use of Dietary Guidelines in Private Clinical Nutrition Practice and its Impacts on the Dietary Patterns of Office Workers in Mexico City

    Creator:
    Grabinsky, Lisa
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    For the last 30 years, the population of Mexico has grappled with overweight, obesity, and associated chronic diseases, such as type-2 diabetes and hypertension. To standardize care among healthcare providers and dietitians, an official nutritional guideline was published in the early 2000s, which included a non-modifiable food-based dietary guideline in...
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    Journal of Nutrition showed that, regardless of the extended use of such guides worldwide as a

  • Civic agriculture : the successes, trials, and future of the local food movement in the Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Klingensmith, Thomas S.
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    This study investigated the local and sustainable food movements in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The aim of the research was to better understand the current condition of the phenomenon, what it means to the communities studied and the future role it will play in the state. Other research objectives...
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    the world and what kind of environment they developed in, swidden agriculture as opposed to rice

  • Evaluation of the 2001 pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

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    Saylor, Kirsten N.
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    The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), piloted in Oregon in 2001, provided $100 worth of vouchers (aka coupons) to low-income seniors to buy fresh local produce from farmers at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Presented in a political ecology framework, this research integrated the perspectives of beneficiaries and their...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF: Kirsten N. Saylor for the degree

  • Advocacy travel, creating social and ideological change : a comparison of travelers to Cuba and Chiapas

    Creator:
    Donckers, Jana L.
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    As a result of academic research into the effects of mass travel, an industry of alternative tourism has emerged. Application of this research has resulted in myriad forms of tourism, two of these being ecotourism and educational travel. Ecotourism represents a response to what is the destructive nature of the...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jana L. Donckers for the degree of