Essays about: "Pacific Northwest"
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1. The Semantics of Numeral Classifiers in the Pacific Northwest Languages of North America : An areal-typological study
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikAbstract : .... READ MORE
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2. The Tangled Web We Weave: Investigating the Barriers to Change in Plastic Recycling Policy Development
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : At the core of the sustainable solid waste management challenge lies increasing rates of consumption which contribute directly to problems of resource extraction and degradation. Recycling is a tool designed in part to address this problem of scarcity, however on its own it is not enough to solve the problem, particularly in relation to plastics, which are challenging to manage and often are not recycled well or at all. READ MORE
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3. Size and Abundance of Late Pleistocene Reticulofenestrid Coccoliths from the Eastern Indian Ocean in Relation to Temperature and Aridity
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : Measurements on coccolith abundance and mass can be used as a signal of primary productivity and pelagic calcification in response to environmental change. The Leeuwin Current (LC) is known to transport warm and low-salinity waters from the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP) southwards along the coast of West Australia. READ MORE
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4. Orders of Geo-Kinetic Manifestation in Ivan Doig´s The Sea Runners
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : This phenomenological study presents a map of spatial forces in Ivan Doig’s The Sea Runners. The investigation calls attention to forms of space-experience that come across as a sense of embeddedness in environment. READ MORE
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5. About dam time! The emergence of dam removal in river management policy : lessons from the Elwha River restoration project
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Dams are pervasive features of the river systems in the United States. More than 80,000 large dams, and as many as 2.5 million small dams, are spread throughout every major watershed in the country. READ MORE