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Environmental and Urban Studies 43 records found 1 - 25nextSearch took 0.20 seconds. 
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Climate change discourse ranges from an acknowledgement of ancestral prophecy to the most urgent crisis of our time. If the terminology – words, concepts, and expressio [...]
07 January 2024 | Environmental and Urban Studies; History | Article |
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The maintenance residential lawns require has several negative impacts on the environment such as soil and groundwater contamination. Despite this, they remain popular as [...]
2022-05 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies | Thesis |
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This socio-legal research project assesses the role of litigation in environmental justice activist movements, using the planned relocation of the General Iron metal recy [...]
2022-05 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies | Thesis |
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<p>Regenerative development is an emergent field of practice aimed to address escalating climate change and urbanization trends by incorporating holistic, systems t [...]
2022-05 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies; Geographical Sciences | Thesis |
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In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated food insecurity and caused global supply chain shortages, highlighting the vulnerability of the conventional globa [...]
2022-05 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies | Thesis |
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This paper examines the distribution of rooftop solar installations in Chicago and the factors that influence their adoption, with a particular focus on equity. Despite t [...]
2023-04 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies | Thesis |
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The City of Chicago has pursued a path of urban valorization based on advertising the city as a nexus of entertainment, leisure, and consumption made possible by its dens [...]
2023-06 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies; Sociology | Thesis |
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This study focuses on the role of language in producing and encouraging environmental frameworks and attitudes. Research within this sphere aims to determine the capacity [...]
2023-06 | Environmental and Urban Studies | Thesis |
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The City of Chicago holds over 15,000 abandoned lots throughout the city, sitting idle, gathering dust and debris as decades of neglect plague these spaces. These lots ar [...]
2023-06 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies; Public Policy Studies | Thesis |
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Since the Korean War in the middle of the 20th century, the American military has remained a disruptive force on the Korean peninsula. This increased militarization paral [...]
2023-06 | Environmental and Urban Studies; History | Thesis |
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This paper explores energy justice and the “just transition” in the context of environmental policy, utilizing stakeholder perspectives to examine how solar training [...]
2023-06 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies | Thesis |
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In his tenure as Mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019, Rahm Emanuel prioritized development that would draw corporate investment into Chicago and elevate the city on the wo [...]
2023-06 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies; Public Policy Studies | Thesis |
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This undergraduate thesis will explore how the adoption of alternative methods of disposition, specifically, alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction, interact w [...]
2023-06 | Environmental and Urban Studies; Public Policy Studies | Thesis |
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If scholarship is to describe how and under what circumstances cities can function as policy entrepreneurs of sustainability, it must give adequate attention to a key com [...]
2023-06 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies; Law, Letters, and Society | Thesis |
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<p>Decades of segregationist housing policies, disinvestment, and structural racism have stratified urban America into wealthier and whiter neighborhoods, and poore [...]
2022-04 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies; Geographical Sciences; Public Policy Studies | Thesis |
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Losing 25 square miles of land each year, Louisiana’s southern coast is one of many regions facing the destructive impacts of the ongoing climate crisis. The residents [...]
2022-06 | Environmental and Urban Studies; Public Policy Studies | Thesis |
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<p> As one of the most notoriously expensive and complicated agency-led programs in the country, the Superfund has stirred a contentious funding debate since its i [...]
2021-06 | Environmental and Urban Studies; Public Policy Studies | Thesis |
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Besides its protective function, housing also has significant cultural, social, and personal meanings; therefore, the change in housing morphology can subsequently alter [...]
2022-06 | Environmental and Urban Studies; Geographical Sciences; MA Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) | Thesis |
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The starting point for this thesis is that there is something urgently and fundamentally inexpressible at the heart of the climate change era. I have chosen to write abo [...]
19 August 2021 | Environmental and Urban Studies | Thesis |
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The starting point for this thesis is that there is something urgently and fundamentally inexpressible at the heart of the climate change era. I have chosen to write abo [...]
09 August 2021 | Chicago Studies Theses and Capstones; Environmental and Urban Studies | Thesis |
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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), even if net atmospheric warming is limited to 1.5 ̊C, threats like extreme precipitation, biodiversity [...]
14 May 2021 | Environmental and Urban Studies | Thesis |
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With the progress of the 21st century, climate change and environmentalism have risen to become key issues for people across the world. Many protests and movements have t [...]
08 June 2021 | Environmental and Urban Studies | Thesis |
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Countries in Africa have historically struggled with access to safe water. Over the past three decades, the World Bank has promoted the privatization of water systems thr [...]
16 May 2021 | Environmental and Urban Studies | Thesis |

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