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Building Momentum: An Urban And Regional Geography Of Municipal Food Waste Composting, Timothy P. Wall

Social Sciences - Honours Theses

Abstract The economic and environmental consequences of household food waste have become widely recognised in popular and policy spheres. This is particularly so in consumer societies. Because 40% of landfill, by weight, is made up of household food waste (Kane, 2020) there are also growing concerns about the environmental and economic costs to regional and urban municipalities. Such concerns are also combined with interest about how to better value food waste as a resource. As household food waste continues to increase, municipalities in many consumer societies have taken steps towards implementing food composting strategies as part of diversification strategies to …

Did The End Justify The Means? An Exploration Of How Australian Newspapers Portrayed People With Disability When Reporting On The National Disability Insurance Scheme (Ndis) And What People With Disability Say About The Coverage., Shawn Burns

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

This thesis is about media coverage of disability. Specifically, it is concerned with four issues, namely (1) the extent to which Australian newspapers provide people with disability a voice when reporting on issues that directly affect them; (2) the language adopted by journalists and media organisations when reporting on disability; (3) whether that language is traditional or progressive (that is, does it present disability as a significant part of the human condition or fallback on stereotype and negative models of disability); and, most importantly, (4) what people with disability think about their representation in Australian news media.

The thesis uses …