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Environmental Impact Of Rock Climbers At Woodcock Cove, Tennessee, Gavin Woodard
Environmental Impact Of Rock Climbers At Woodcock Cove, Tennessee, Gavin Woodard
Masters Theses
Rock climbing, among many outdoor recreational activities or sports, is seeing rapid growth in participation (Statista, 2022). The rise in participation has led to new environmental impacts which have yet to be fully researched, although evidence of these issues has been presented by numerous land managers of climbing areas and is one of their main focus (Access Fund, 2019). Understanding the relationship between the number of users of a climbing area and the level of impact the environment endures would be greatly beneficial to land managers. Although there has been minimal data collected on the number of users at climbing …
"And No Birds Sing": The Environmental Ethics Of Carson, Keats, Sagan, And Oliver, Savannah Bloom
"And No Birds Sing": The Environmental Ethics Of Carson, Keats, Sagan, And Oliver, Savannah Bloom
Undergraduate Theses
This project aims to create resonances and synchronicities between the works of science writers Rachel Carson and Carl Sagan and poets John Keats and Mary Oliver. It puts their environmental ethics in conversation with one another with a focus on shared literary practices and ecocritical and ecocentric sensibilities. Is the work of poetry, particularly poetry participating in the Romantic tradition, compatible with science writing? The ultimate goal is to demonstrate the symbiosis between science and literature and the necessity of bridging scientific and poetic discourse in regard to addressing climate and the environment. Each chapter pairs a science writer with …
The Climate Crisis And The Class System: An Ethical Analysis, Alia Baig
The Climate Crisis And The Class System: An Ethical Analysis, Alia Baig
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Climate change is a concerning subject that more and more people are beginning to care about. The climate crisis is continuing to affect populations across the globe and shows no signs of slowing. While everyone has been affected by climate change in some capacity, the climate crisis disproportionately affects low-income communities around the world and, specifically, within the United States. I plan to research the ethics of the relationship between climate change and the class system and the goal o f this project is to prove the claim that the class system is the reason for climate change's disproportionate effect …