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Adding Insult to Industry: Alabamian Newspaper Framing of Tennessee River Pollution 

Currier, Mary Brettlyn (2018-05-31)
Media coverage of environmental topics typically reflects the environmental friendliness of the intended audience. When local media covers environmental problems in a historically industrial, non-environmental area, the ...

Coal and Renewable Energy: History, Impacts, and Future in Alabama 

Singh, Brajesh (2010-01-08)
Coal and renewable energy have differential impacts on human society. Coal is the most abundant, cheap, and yet environmentally detrimental source of energy. Renewable sources are environmentally benign but constrained by ...

The Corporation and the DNA of Farmland Financialization 

Canfield, John Jr (2019-04-18)
Although farmland has long been understood to be an investment, policies shaping the economy, intensified by the 2007-2008 food crisis, have given rise to a new paradigm in which, for a set of major investors, farmland is ...

Exploring 'Place' in Planning and Zoning Debates Across a Rural-Urban Gradient 

Gartin, Meredith (2006-08-15)
Land use policy and zoning are examined here as socio-political forms of landscape creation. This study examined the human-place perspective of rural residents experiencing demographic and physical changes due to the ...

Honor, the State, and Its Implications: An Examination of Honor Killing in Jordan and the Efforts of Local Activists 

Ali, Yazmin (2008-05-15)
The topic of honor crimes is a controversial one that has gained a great deal of attention over the years. There are many countries such as Jordan that grants leniency to honor crime perpetrators by providing them with ...

Right-to-Farm: Dispossession of Community in Rural America 

Boutwell, Crystal (2020-05-04)
Practices of industrialization are changing rural landscapes despite oppositional efforts of community members. This thesis explores the themes of power and loss in rural areas impacted by industrial agriculture and how ...

Xi-Chi as Root Metaphor in Taiwanese Weddings 

Hong, Shihyi (2006-05-15)
Anthropologists have always been interested in implications of each societal unit in different cultures. However, they are also aware of drastic changes in these units in many cultures due to migration, technologies, gay ...