Essays about: "Pacific Northwest"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Pacific Northwest.

  1. 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 lingvistik

    Author : Mika Matthis; [2022]
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  3. 2. The Tangled Web We Weave: Investigating the Barriers to Change in Plastic Recycling Policy Development

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Holly Griffith; [2021]
    Keywords : Plastic Recycling; Policy Change Barriers; Strategy Change Barriers; Lock-In; Sunk Cost Fallacy; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : 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

  4. 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 geovetenskaper

    Author : Jeroen van Dijk; [2017]
    Keywords : coccoliths; abundance; biometry; circular polarized light microscopy; Late Pleistocene; Marine Isotope Stage 11; kokkoliter; mängder; biometri; cirkulär polariserat ljus; pleistocen; Marine Isotope Stage 11;

    Abstract : 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

  5. 4. Orders of Geo-Kinetic Manifestation in Ivan Doig´s The Sea Runners

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Erika Liste; [2013]
    Keywords : Ivan Doig; The Sea Runners; Pacific Northwest; phenomenology; landscape; movement; space; embedding; gyration; place; cartography; New Archangel; Sitka; Astoria; paddling;

    Abstract : 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

  6. 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/LUCSUS

    Author : Bjorn Berg; [2012]
    Keywords : river management; policy change; Elwha River; dam removal; river restoration; sustainability science; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : 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