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Irish, Bradley J. "Hieronimo in The Waste Land." Thesis, Boston University, 2005. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/32870.
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Sallis, E. K. "Looking to death for what life cannot give : the Waste Land and F.H. Bradley /." Title page and contents only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09arms168.pdf.
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Li, Mun-wai Julie. "Narration in Heart of Darkness, The Waste Land and Lolita." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161707.
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Tsoi, Sze-pang Pablo. "Modes of intertextuality in The waste land and Ulysses two contrasted cases /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31381467.
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Lindqvist, Jennifer. "Traduttore, traditore? När The Waste Land blev Det öde landet : En studie av Karin Boye och Erik Mestertons översättning av T.S. Eliots The Waste Land." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66490.
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After the publication of T.S. Eliotʾs famous modernistic poem The Waste Land in 1922 it took about nine years until two Swedish literature theoreticians decided to translate it into Swedish. The translation was made for a publication in a modernistic journal, Spektrum, for which they both were co ̶ founders and editors. The two Swedes were Karin Boye, a famous modernistic poet, writer and literature critic, and Erik Mesterton, also a literature critic with a deep interest in English poetry generally and T.S. Eliot particularly. This essay aims to compare the translation of The Waste Land that Boye and Mesterton made during the winter of 1931 ̶ 1932, with Eliots original poem, with the ambition to determine what kind of translation Boye and Mestertonʾs work resulted in. Starting from Schleiermacher, modern translation theories are examined and finally the translation named Det öde landet from 1932 is analyzed from a model by Mats Malm from his 1996 book Minervas äpple. By using the distinctions of mimetic, analogue, organic and external forms in the area of the poem's metre and style, and the distinctions of metaphrase, paraphrase and imitation in the area of the poemʾs content, the essay examines what has been the translatorʾs priorities during the process of translation, how Boyeʾs modernistic style shines through in the translation and how Mestertonʾs knowledge about Eliotʾs style in poetry shows in the finished work. The analysis shows that the translation leans toward a mimetic form, and is to be considered a paraphrase when it comes to the content. This shows that Boye and Mesterton had an intention to reproduce both Eliotʾs meaning and poetic style to the swedish readers, but also that the translators are capable of being dynamic both when it comes to meaning and form.
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Silva, Tania de Fátima da. "A intertextualidade do mito pagão e cristâo em The Waste Land, de T. S. Eliot." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2006. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2292.
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Previous issue date: 2006-02-24This work aims at analysing the Anglo-American poet and essayist Thomas Stearns Eliot s use of intertextuality in his poem The Waste Land, published in 1922.Our analysis focuses on myth and its function within the poem. We have chosen four myths, three of them Pagan (Sibila, Tiresias and The Fisher King) and one Christian (The Holy Grail). The latter has a deep relationship to The Fisher King myth. We will mention theoretical concepts referring to intertextuality and myth and will present a survey of the poem as a whole. We will also report form briefly on the political-social situation of Europe at the time in which the poem was written, and the poet s main achievements in his career. Our next focus will be the analysis of the above mentioned myths as well as their function and relevance within the context of the poem.
O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a intertextualidade no poema The Waste Land, do poeta e ensaísta anglo-americano Thomas Stearns Eliot, publicado em 1922. Focaliza o mito e sua função dentro do poema. Foram escolhidos particularmente quatro mitos, três pagãos (Sibila, Tirésias e Rei Pescador) e um cristão (Santo Graal), sendo que este último tem uma relação estreita com o mito do Rei Pescador. Examinar-se-ão postulados teóricos sobre o mito, a intertextualidade e a situação político-social da Europa, na época em que Eliot compôs o poema, bem como da trajetória do poeta.
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Bedecarré, John. "T.S. Eliot's Anti-Modernism: Poetry and Tradition in the European Waste Land." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/472.
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This thesis hopes to contribute to a reconciliation of the apparent conflict between Eliot's conservative outlook and his formally innovative poetry. I do not advocate stripping Eliot of his modernist label. I would rather amend the term "modernism." This qualification is important because the modernist label carries connotations that simply do not do justice to Eliot. For example, the label implies that modernists wanted to move forward, away from the past. Eliot wanted to move backwards, partly because he felt other artists had left the past behind. In an essay introducing the early twentieth-century modernists, the Norton Anthology of British Literature describes T.S. Eliot's critical and creative projects as "efforts to reinvent poetry."4 That is exactly the opposite of what he was doing. He wanted to stop people from trying to reinvent poetry, because he thought doing so would only lead to bad poems. How can the editors of the Norton Anthology, the closest thing I know to a record of the academic consensus, so completely misunderstand Eliot's project? They fail to appreciate the relationship between Eliot's literary ideas and his attitude toward modernity. I believe the best way to think about Eliot's intellectual project is as an effort to save poetry from the threatening forces of modernity and modernism.
The modernist movement and Eliot's ideas are both responses to the same set of dramatic historical changes. Europe transformed itself from 1890 to 1918. In the context of drastic political, technological and social changes described by historians as "the emergence of modernity," Europe's dominant artistic and intellectual value system reorientated itself in favor of newness and forward movement. T.S. Eliot had a different response to historical change. He felt the ongoing historical transformations, self-perpetuated by the resultant emphasis on progress, threatened to uproot and destroy England’s literary tradition. So he took it on himself to save that tradition.
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Cook, Corina K. "Hollow at the core apocalyptic visions in Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness and T.S. Eliot's The waste land /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2002. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2002.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2842. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaves 1-2. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-86).
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Waterman, Sally. "Visualising 'The Waste Land' : discovering a praxis of adaptation." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/311.
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This research examines the issues and visual processes that arise in the production of self-representations derived from literary texts. The construction of a series of photographic and video installations drawing upon T. S Eliot’s poem 'The Waste Land' (1922) allowed for the exploration and analysis of how literature functions as a device to represent autobiographical experience within my media arts practice. The study considered the relevance and usage of the literary source in relation to specific adaptation procedures, in terms of what complexities were encountered and how these were understood. Whilst orthodox film adaptation provided a theoretical framework for initial experimentation, it is argued that my practice is positioned outside this domain, employing alternative methods of visual translation within a fine art context. Having investigated the purpose of my literary interpretations, I conclude that I respond subjectively to the source materials, forming autobiographical associations with particular lines, images, characters, themes or concepts within the text. It was discovered that this fragmentary method of extraction into isolated elements, corresponded with ambiguous visual representation of the self. Placed within the critical context of relevant female practitioners, I was able to detect a number of recurrent, elusive strategies within my own practice that signified a shifting subjectivity. However, it was the identification with Eliot’s subversion of his impersonality theory in later life, which enabled the realisation that literature is used in my work as a means of projection for visualising past trauma and operates as a form of displacement for a confessional practice. The thesis that emerges from my research is that by allowing oneself to respond emotionally and selectively to an existing text through transformative processes of re-enactment, literary adaptation can act as catharsis for the recollection and re-imagining of previously repressed memories.
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Compton, Regina F. "He Do the Police to the Tune of a Valkyrie." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275918014.
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Fletcher, Martin John. "The view from The Waste Land : how Modernist poetry in England survived the Great War." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/149526.
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O poema icônico de T. S. Eliot The Waste Land, publicado em 1922, é indiscutivelmente o texto principal de poesia moderna em inglês. Eliot residia em Londres no momento da sua composição, e embora o poema contenha numerosas citações literárias e culturais, The Waste Land não é considerado como tendo sido influenciado por nenhum dos poetas ingleses que foram contemporâneos de Eliot. Pelo contrário, o poema é tido como um afastamento radical e uma reação contra, a poesia inglesa escrita antes e durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Neste artigo, eu argumento que The Waste Land contém ecos da obra dos poetas ingleses Harold Monro e Herbert Read, ambos os quais conheciam Eliot bem. Olhando retrospectivamente a partir de 1922, tendo The Waste Land como meu texto modernista base e ponto de partida crítico, eu conduzo uma reavaliação da cena poética inglesa do período 1910- 1922, a partir dos Georgian Poets do pré-guerra até o aparecimento, no pós-guerra, da obraprima de Eliot. Ambos Monro e Read foram influenciados pelo movimento radical 'Imagism' de Ezra Pound, que formou um elemento central na cena da poesia progressiva de Londres nos anos que antecederam a guerra. Portanto, utilizo ambos The Waste Land e os experimentos 'Imagist' de Pound como modelos de prática modernista através dos quais comparar e contrastar a obra dos Georgian Poets (especificamente Wilfrid Gibson), a poesia produzida durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, e a obra de Monro e Read. Os princípios orientadores da minha abordagem analítica são dois: em termos de prática poética, eu avalio o trabalho de Eliot e seus contemporâneos, comparando as suas abordagens quanto à forma, a fim de demonstrar como a forma poética não apenas define o conteúdo, mas também revela mudanças nos valores culturais. Em segundo lugar, minha abordagem teórica é baseada nos conceitos mutantes da função estética da poesia, buscando demonstrar como valores estéticos estão historicamente relacionados a, e determinam, a produção e a recepção da poesia, expondo como os experimentos modernistas de Eliot e Pound estão historicamente relacionados com princípios estéticos românticos.T. S. Eliot’s iconic poem The Waste Land, published in 1922, is indisputably the key Modernist poetry text in English. Eliot was living in London at the time of its composition, and although the poem contains numerous literary references, The Waste Land is not thought to have been influenced by the poetry of Eliot’s English contemporaries. On the contrary, the poem is regarded as a radical departure from, and reaction against, the English poetry being written before and throughout the Great War (1914-1918). In this paper, I argue that The Waste Land contains echoes of the work of English poets Harold Monro and Herbert Read, both of whom knew Eliot well. Looking back retrospectively from 1922, with The Waste Land as my exemplary Modernist text and critical starting point, I carry out a reassessment of the English poetry scene from 1910 to 1922, from the pre-war Georgians to the post-war appearance of Eliot’s masterpiece. Both Monro and Read were influenced by Ezra Pound’s radical ‘Imagism’ movement, which formed a central plank in the progressive London poetry scene in the years leading up to the war. I therefore employ both The Waste Land and Pound’s ‘Imagist’ experiments as models of Modernist practice by which to compare and contrast the work of the Georgians (particularly Wilfrid Gibson), the poetry produced during the Great War, and the work of Monro and Read. The guiding principles of my analytical approach are twofold: firstly, in terms of poetic practice, I evaluate the work of Eliot and his contemporaries by comparing their approaches to form, assessing how poetic technique both defines content and offers insight into shifts in cultural values; secondly, my theoretical approach is based on changing concepts of the aesthetic function of poetry, revealing how aesthetic values are historically relative to, and determine, the production and reception of poetry, ultimately exposing how Eliot and Pound’s Modernist experiments are historically related to Romantic aesthetic principles.
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Aberkane, Idriss Jamil. "Ballade de la conscience entre Orient et Occident : une perspective soufie sur la conscience occidentale, connectant "The Kasidah" de R.F. Burton et "The Waste Land" de T.S. Eliot." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAC005/document.
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Le rapprochement du Waste Land de T. S. Eliot et de la Kasidah de R. F. Burton produit une théorie littéraire. Cette théorie est fondée sur le principe de l'Unité de la Conscience (Wahdat al Wayy) d'après l'exégèse d'Ibn Arabi (Wahdat al Wujud et Wahdat al Adyân). Elle postule également que toute vie n'est qu'un courant de conscience. L'action est une forme d'écriture de la conscience dans le monde, et l'expérience vécue est une forme d'écriture du monde dans la conscience. Or l'expression de la conscience en perspective est un invariant profond des littératures, qui relie The Waste Land et The Kasidah mais également Al Aaraaf de Poe, le Voyage de Baudelaire, le Testament de Villon ou encore le Canto Notturno de Leopardi. Un autre invariant, fondé par le précédent, est l'invariant de la gâtine, que l'on peut résumer par le mythe de l'Ortolano Eterno : Homo : locatus est, damnatus est, humatus est, renatus est : in Horto. Or la Septième sourate du Coran est une expression notable de l'invariant de la gâtine. Ainsi comme il existe une cartographie dynamique des connexions cérébrales, la connectomique, il existe une connectomique des littératures et une biologie des littératures. Une partie du corps calleux des littératures, le faisceau de connexions directes entre Orient et Occident, est la "chaîne de la gâtine", un linéament de textes qui se fascinent pour l'interaction entre le monde et la conscience. Concernant Eliot, ses influences soufies directes vont de Omar Khayyam à Guénon ou Schuon, et ses influences indirectes relèvent de l'influence soufie sur les troubadours. Eliot influence lui-même la poésie de l'aire musulmane depuis au moins 1950Connecting T. S. Eliot's Waste Land to R. F. Burton's Kasidah produces a literary theory. The founding principle of this theory is the Unity of Consciousness (Wahdat al Wayy), after the exegesis of Ibn Arabi (Wahdat al Wujud and Wahdat al Adyan). It also postulates that any life is but a stream of consciousness. Action is thus the way by which consciousness writes in the world, and experience is the way the world writes in consciousness. The expression of consciousness in perspective is in turn a profound literary invariant, connecting The Waste Land and The Kasidah but also Poe's Al Aaraaf, Baudelaire's Voyage, Villon's Testament or Leopardi's Canto Notturno. Another invariant, based on the precedent, is the invariant of the wasteland, which can be summed up by the myth of the Ortolano Eterno : Homo : locatus est, damnatus est, humatus est, renatus est : in Horto. Now the seventh surah of the Quran is a notable expression of the invariant of the wasteland. In the same way that there is a connectomics of the human brain, there is a connectomics and also a biology of literatures. A sample of its corpus callosum, connecting the Western and Eastern literatures, is the "chain of the wasteland", a lineament of texts which leitmotiv is the interaction between consciousness and the world. Regarding Eliot his direct sufi influences range from Omar Khayyam to Guénon and Schuon, and his indirect ones regard the known sufi influence over the troubadours. In turn Eliot has been influencing the contemporary poetry of the muslim area since at least 1950
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Fernández, Biggs Braulio. "La mujer en Tierra Baldía, de T. S. Eliot: Un viaje de liberación." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2005. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/108849.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Lingüística.La tesis propone que el poema La Tierra Baldía es la dolorosa expresión del colapso de una época y la síntesis del derrumbe de la mujer; que T.S. Eliot, apoyándose en la inversión de las leyendas del Grial, logró fusionar con su propia tragedia personal. El poema sería la evidencia de la esterilidad y el fracaso del amor entre un hombre y una mujer, configurada poéticamente teniendo a la base una riquísima simbología sobre la infertilidad, el vacío y la muerte; en la que el sexo, por su radical función generativa y amorosa, ocupa un lugar eminente aunque no exclusivo.
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Gibe, John. "Bortom skyltfönstret den levande döden : En undersökning av relationen mellan Karin Boyes Astarte och T.S. Eliots The Waste Land." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-187753.
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Uppsatsen utforskar relationen mellan Karin Boyes Astarte och T.S. Eliots The Waste Land, särskilt med avseende på modernistisk tematik och med avstamp i tidigare forskning som kommenterat relationen mellan verken, främst Gunilla Domellöfs och Caroline Hauxs. Analysen omfattar den senares upptäckt att ”Det öde landskap som skrivs fram hos Eliot existerar dolt och outsagt i Astarte.” Verken jämförs med avseende på: Skildringen av den moderna staden; Krig, trauma, våld och utvecklingsskepticism; Den ofruktbara masskulturen; (Naturens, Guds och Kärlekens död); Verkens mytkomplex; Psykoanalytiska perspektiv på gemenskap, behov och begär. Uppsatsen innehåller även en sammanställning av likheter mellan episoderna som utspelar sig mellan Viola och Hill i Astarte och mellan maskinskriverskan och kontoristen i The Waste Land. Undersökningen bekräftar betydande beröringspunkter mellan verken vad gäller såväl tematik som de positioner författarna intar – det gäller utvecklingsskepticismen, masskulturen (där Astarte i högre utsträckning intresserar sig för handel och konsumtion), samt fruktbarhetsförlusten med avseende på Naturen, Gud och Kärleken. Myter har en betydelsefull roll i båda verken. I Astarte är Gudinnan/belätet Astarte i och för sig närvarande, men hon fyller inte sina ursprungliga funktioner. Undersökningen identifierar nya tolkningsmöjligheter gällande Astartes potentiella roll, kopplade till våld och skydd. På ett övergripande plan finns en korsställning mellan verken, där det som utgör The Waste Lands förgrund tenderar att blottas genom sprickor i ”Astartesamhällets” fasad, genom Boyes didaktiska exposéer, samt vid kritisk läsning. Den sammanlagda effekten av dessa aspekter är att Eliots ödeland – den levande döden – är mer av en tydlig referenspunkt än något dolt och outsagt i Astarte.
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Cechinel, André. "O espaço tensionado em The Waste Land." Florianópolis, SC, 2007. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/89623.
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Esta dissertação se propõe a estudar o poema The Waste Land, do escritor anglo-americano T. S. Eliot, a partir de uma perspectiva tensionada, ou seja, em vez de recorrer a polarizações em torno do "próprio" e do "impróprio", o estudo objetiva preservar os conflitos irresolúveis que estruturam a epopéia moderna de Eliot. Para tanto, além de discorrer sobre leituras consagradas e de tomar o vidente Tirésias como "personagem" paradigmático em The Waste Land, a pesquisa oferece a análise de alguns grupos de versos, com o intuito de constituir zonas de tensão (recortes) que evitam abordagens conclusivas ou totalizantes. Em suma, a dissertação busca sustentar a mobilidade que traduz as tensões do poema de T. S. Eliot. This dissertation intends to study the poem The Waste Land, by Anglo-American writer T. S. Eliot, from a tensioned perspective, that is, instead of resorting to the polarization around "proper" and "improper" aspects, the study aims at preserving the continuous conflicts that compose Eliot's modern quest. For this purpose, besides working with previous readings and placing Tiresias as a paradigmatic "character" in The Waste Land, the research offers an analysis of some groups of verses, in order to constitute zones of tension (fragments) that avoid either conclusive or totalizing approaches. In short, the dissertation attempts to sustain the mobility that leads us to the tensions in Eliot's poem.
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Heisel, Jean Marie. "The architecture of TS Eliot's "The Waste Land"." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24151.
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Wallace, Amy. "Waste Land or Promised Land: T.S. Eliot's The Idea of a Christian Society." TopSCHOLAR®, 1987. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2945.
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In T. S. Eliot's The Idea of a Christian Society, the poet questions the nature of our society's foundations; he believes that Western culture is moving dangerously closer to the liberal and secular and that this shift could be disastrous. Instead, Eliot suggests that we return to what is at the very roots of Western tradition: Christianity. To facilitate this change in direction, Eliot stresses the importance of an educational system which takes a Christian perspective. Also important in his thinking is a Community of Christians, who would act as leaders, and the Christian community (encompassing most of the population), which would restore unity to what has become a depersonalized existence. The philosophical validity of Christianity is integral to Eliot's scheme, and is explained well by author C. S. Lewis. Historian Christopher Dawson outlines the intertwining of religion and culture and the debt Western civilization owes the Christian faith. Eliot's poem The Waste Land is a picture of a society whose barrenness is ironic in light of the promise of life which surrounds it. Both the individuals and their society are blind to their own spiritual deaths. Also echoing Eliot's ideas concerning a Christian society, The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party are plays of rejuvenation, in which a sacrificial death--whether literal or figurative--brings new life, both to the individual characters and their broken relationships. As allegories of the family of man, Eliot uses the families in these plays to illustrate the change that could turn a waste land into a promised land.
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Ribeiro, Maria Manuel Mendes. "Waiting for rain : uma leitura de The waste Land." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 1997. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000064637.
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Esta dissertação consiste numa leitura pessoal e pormenorizada de "The waste land" como representando um processo interior de consciencialização niilista, aliado de algum modo a uma demanda espiritual e a um início de uma conversão agostiniana, da parte de um protagonista. No capítulo introdutório, uma breve panorâmica sobre a poesia eliotiana anterior pretende evidenciar continuidades entre esta e "The waste land", a nível estilístico e, sobretudo, de visão do mundo.
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Ribeiro, Maria Manuel Mendes. "Waiting for rain : uma leitura de The waste Land." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/18119.
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Esta dissertação consiste numa leitura pessoal e pormenorizada de "The waste land" como representando um processo interior de consciencialização niilista, aliado de algum modo a uma demanda espiritual e a um início de uma conversão agostiniana, da parte de um protagonista. No capítulo introdutório, uma breve panorâmica sobre a poesia eliotiana anterior pretende evidenciar continuidades entre esta e "The waste land", a nível estilístico e, sobretudo, de visão do mundo.
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Kilmartin, Marianne P. "Runoff generation and soils on reclaimed land, Blaenant, South Wales." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261520.
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Khosravi, Robab. "The generic affiliations of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land." Thesis, Keele University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.484900.
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This thesis explores the generic affiliations ofT. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, investigating the logic of the text's fragmentary aesthetics, while also highlighting the political ends met by literary genres. Eliot's avant-garde experimentation with genres.i.n The Waste Land makes the. poem generica.1ly obscure. Yet the key to the text's generic.. rationale could be its very fragmentariness. The building blocks ofthe historical . romance can be sought in the poem's fnigmentary passages, while a tendency to 'exceed' temporal and aesthetic boundaries makes it a 'post-modem romance'. The text also parodies certain elements of romance; used in its post-modem sense, the technique of 'parody' connotes a stylistic confrontation with the past - one that establishes a dialogUe with the historical 'other' - and challenging its intimidating legacy, re-writes the present in a self-reflexive enterprise. Echoes ofromance are then 'historicized' to map the poem's 'political unconscious', as the scattered, irrepressible corpses throughout the poem's psychological landscape embody the aftermath of a destructive' war, hinting at the relationship between literary form and the socio-'political milieu. .':fragmentation as incarnated in the poem's proliferating mini-narratives thus' becomes an anticipation ofthe eclipse ofmeta-narrative inthe 'post-modem condition'. A structuralist perspective also allows establishing the poem's affinities with Menippean satire, the genre through which the logic of carnival is transmitted to literature. The notion of 'carnival' is used as. an analytic metaphor for examining the implications of . the premeditated suspension ofgeneric hierarchies in the poem: The carnivalesque also proves a useful cultural analytic for mapping domains of 'transgression' in Eliot's theory and practice. Constantly undermining the 'law ofgenre', the text also encapsulates the ultimate non-fixity of generic boundaries. The. thesis takes literary genres beyond their traditional role as taxonomic categories, and demonstrates their communicative value as a means ofpolitical representation.
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Li, Mun-wai Julie, and 李敏慧. "Narration in Heart of Darkness, The Waste Land and Lolita." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952203.
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姚潤昆 and Yun-kwan Yiu. "Harvesting The waste land: critical views 1922-1932 and 1965-1975." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B2700997X.
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Wills, Julian Gawain Clifford. "The dynamics of the development of techniques for the remedial treatment of contaminated land." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/793.
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The aiin of this research is to investigate the process by which techniques for the remedial treatment of contaminated land evolve. This is accomplished through the study of the relationships between: environmental policy and law; industrial practice; and research and development. Previous studies of the barriers and driving forces of such development have tended to be from a technical point of view. However, this research aims to explore the dynamics of technological innovation. Structured interviews, questionnaires and case studies were used to collect qualitative data from a cross section of the contaminated land industry. Interview transcripts were produced and subsequently, after consultation with the interviewees, presented as synoptic summaries including contextual information. Ile interview, questionnairea nd case study information is critically assessedw ith referencet o relevant contextual information. The following areas are discussed: public opinion; regulation and policy; uncertainty and development; political lobbying; measures intended to stimulate the use of treatment techniques; and, the relationship between vendors, consultants and property developers. It is concluded that: the development of treatment techniques is dependent upon the incremental accumulation of knowledge by politicians, scientists and the developers of remedial treatment techniques and that differences in these phenomena can result in "friction" in relation to the development of remedial treatment techniques. Particular emphasis is placed upon the adoption of pragmatic, deregulatory approachest o the regulation of contaminatedl and and the adoption of risk managementa pproachesI.t is emphasised that uncertainty relating to the performance of treatment techniques remains, particularly in relation to treatment time and cost. It is concluded that the commercial success of a treatment technique depends as much upon its ability to comply with the managerial constraints on the redevelopment process as upon its technical proficiency.
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Tsoi, Sze-pang Pablo, and 蔡思鵬. "Modes of intertextuality in The waste land and Ulysses: two contrasted cases." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31381467.
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Hassan, El Mabrouk. "Remediation of contaminated land and solutions with binders derived from waste material." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2010. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19770/.
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Metal leaching behaviour was investigated in synthetically prepared soils which were contaminated with lead in the laboratory and to which ordinary Portland cement (OPC), lime, magnesia, fly ash (PFA), or ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) were added to stabilise the contaminant. The optimum amounts were determined by fly ash added gradually to contaminated soil until full reduction of leachable lead was reached. Five grams of the soil thoroughly mixed with 0.1g stabilising material was transferred into a 100ml polypropylene container to which 50ml of de-ionised (DI) water or 50 ml of 0.1M HNO[3] or 0.01M HNO[3] was added. The mixture was shaken on a flat bed shaker for 2 hours, and then filtered using a Whatman No 542 filter paper. The lead concentration in the filtrate was determined by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). All theses stabilizers resulted in about 99% of the added lead being retained on the filter. However, in similar experiments with 0.1 M HNO[3] effective lead retention was found only when OPC or GBFS were used where amounts retained were 90 and 95% respectively. The effect of changes in pH on lead retention was investigated using Raman Spectroscopy, X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transformation Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Raman Spectroscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and X-ray photo spectroscopy (XPS) and ion chromatography. In a second series of experiments Lead contaminated solutions containing 10, 50, 100, and 500 mg/1, respectively of Pb were treated by the addition of known quantities of OPC, lime, magnesia, GGBFS or fly ash. The resulting lead-containing precipitate was collected and characterised using XRD, FTIR, Atomic emission Spectroscopy ICP-AES, SEM-EDX , Raman and XPS. Analysis of the supernatant by Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometry showed that about 99% of lead in solution was removed after the addition of 0.1g of OPC, lime or magnesia, PFA, or GGBFs to the 50ml of lead solution. Characterisation of the cement treated samples showed the formation of PbCO[3], PbSO[4] and PbSiO[3]. The addition of lime resulted in the formation of Pb2OCO[3], PbSiO[3], PbCO[3] and Ca(PbO[3])[2]. In the presence of magnesia, the following compounds were formed: Mg[2]Pb, PbMgV[2]O[7] and PbO[2]. Results from both IR and SEM-EDX confirmed the presence of lead in the precipitate. When deionised water or 0.1 M HNO[3] was used in the presence of GGBFS, the concentration of lead in the leachate was less than 1% of the added lead in the soil. Results from X-ray diffraction measurements on soil samples retained on the filter paper showed lead calcium silicate and a mixed compound of lead sulphate carbonate hydroxide were formed in the presence of GGBFS. These investigations show that the addition of cement, lime or magnesia, GGBFS and PFA can result in the removal of lead from the solution to form stable compounds, thus providing a potential means of clean-up of solutions contaminated with lead. In addition to the work on contamination with lead, contamination with seven other elements was also investigated: Zn, Pb, Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Al. The levels of the concentration of the solution were varied: 10, 50, 100 and 500 mg/1. The solidification procedures were applied with 20,000 mg/l of Pb solution on cube shape 50x50 x50mm samples that were cured for 7 days. Then tank leaching test was conducted on solidified samples together with an acid digestion test. This work was extended to the examination of the leaching behaviour of the compounds formed by subjecting lead contaminated OPC cubes (50x50x50mm), cured for 7 days, to leaching in a tank of DI water. Results showed that less than 1% of the lead had leached out within 15 days. In addition, similarly treated cubes with varying amounts of OPC replaced with fly ash or GGBFS were subjected to the leaching tank and compressive strength tests. The results of the tests showed better retention of Pb where OPC was replaced by PFA or GGBFS.
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Leland, Jarrod Ethan. "Evaluating the Hazard of Land Applying Composted Diazinon Waste Using Earthworm Biomonitoring." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/10079.
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A process for disposing of pesticide rinsewater generated from the rinsing of application equipment is being developed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. This process involves the sorption of pesticides onto an organic matrix followed by degradation in a composting environment. We are now evaluating the hazards that might be associated with land-applying composted pesticide waste. Diazinon was the first pesticide selected for evaluation, which consisted of two studies. The first used the earthworm species Eisenia foetida to evaluate the toxicity of soil amended with composted diazinon waste. The second study determined the bioavailability of delta-2-14C-diazinon and its degradation products to E. foetida in soil amended with composted delta-2-14C-diazinon.
Results from the first study indicate that uncomposted diazinon sorbent and 30-day composted diazinon sorbent were toxic to E. foetida at sublethal and lethal levels. However, E. foetida exposed 60-day composted diazinon sorbent did not experience mortality or demostrate sublethal effects commonly associated with acetylcholinesterase inhibition.
Earthworms exposed to diazinon that was uncomposted or composted for 30 days in the radiolabelled study experienced higher mortality than in the field study. After 30 and 60 days of composting 14C-diazinon became unextractably incorporated into organic matter and very little was mineralized. Earthworms were shown to accumulate radioactivity when exposed to soil amended with 60- day composted delta-2-14C-diazinon. The majority of this radioactivity was unextractably bound to earthworm tissue and that which was extractable contained only trace levels of delta-2-14C-diazinon. Based on the absence of toxicity in the field study and the low levels of 14C-diazinon present in earthworm tissues, 60 days of composting appears to greatly reduce the hazard that diazinon rinsate poses to E. foetida.Master of Science
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Hossain, Mohammed Kamal. "Effect of sewage sludge in Sitka spruce plantations on a reclaimed site." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1992. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU550384.
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Severely nitrogen and phosphorus deficient restored opencast coal mine sites planting with Sitka spruce ( Picea sitchensis , Bong. (Carr.)) were treated with both sewage sludge and inorganic fertilizer. Cake sludge was applied before planting at the rate of 100 and 200 tds/ha and liquid sludge at the rte of 227 m3/ha at the age of 3 in selected plots. The highest treatments (S200L) supplied approximately 2051 kg N/ha and 983 kg P/ha which is sufficient to establish an internal nutrient cycle in such degraded sites. Sewage sludge significantly increased the tree growth and foliage N and P concentrations both over the control and inorganic fertilizer treatments. Foliage N concentrations up to 1.95&'37 increased the maximum height growth above which the height growth declined due to excess N concentrations. Both the mean needle weight and height growth increased in response to the increased foliar P concentrations and the response is still not complete. Whole tree sampling showed that there was significantly more tree biomass in sludge treatments in comparison to the control treatments. Regression equations based on independent variables of stem diameter at 5 cm from the ground were developed to estimate total tree dry biomass. Ground vegetation dry matter, nutrient content and species diversity significantly increased in sludge treatments. Soil pH increased, bulk density decreased and organic C, total N, available P, K and Mg increased following sludge application in comparison to the control treatments. Nitrate leaching losses increased immediately after the liquid sludge applications in highest sludge treatments but with time fell down and remained within the standard limit for potable water. Drain water nutrient leaching losses remained well below the soil leachate except for magnesium. Nitrogen mineralization potential increased with increased application rate indicating increased cycling of N within the ecosystem and hence long-term growth response potential to the applied treatments.
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Whang, Jooho. "Migration of radioactive wastes from shallow land burial site under saturated and unsaturated conditions." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/16925.
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Chapman, Jeanette. "Land disposal of winery and distillery wastewaters /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc4658.pdf.
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Kennedy, Paul James. "Investment valuation of contaminated land and UK practice : a study with special reference to former gasworks." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262853.
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Dair, Carol Margaret. "An evaluation of the UK regulatory system for the redevelopment of contaminated land." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341543.
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Contaminated land can pose risks to human health, buildings and the environment. In principle, the regulatory mechanisms already exist in the UK to minimize the risks that can arise from the redevelopment and use of contaminated sites. However there is known to be wide variation in way the redevelopment of contaminated land has been controlled by various regulatory authorities. This thesis examines the control system for the redevelopment of contaminated land in the UK and assessesh ow and why variation in regulatory standards occurred. The empirical investigation is based on a comparative case study methodology. Four regulatory regimes, representing contrasting standards of regulation have served as case studies. The focus of the study is the redevelopment of former gasworks sites as it is common for such sites to be contaminated with harmful substances such as coal tar, phenols, spent oxide, cyanide, sulphur and asbestos. The recommended procedures and activities presented in official policy and guidance notes provide a benchmark for the assessment of regulatory practice. For an analysis of variation this thesis uses a theoretical framework developed from a critical review of the main approaches within the policy implementation literature and insights from organizational studies. The regulatory regime is complex and effective regulation requires input, and action, by various technical experts. For this reason the research, empirically and theoretically, focuses primarily on the linkage, and/or relationship between expert knowledge, communication and action for explanations of variation. The thesis argues that the level of commitment by individual regulatory experts and officers to the policy aims was a critical factor in explaining the variation in the standards of regulation. Moreover, for those redevelopments where contaminated land had been raised as an issue by certain institutional actors then regulatory performance was good
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Hoetmer, Derek. "CenterScapes : waste landscapes into thriving communities." Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15777.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jason Brody
Within the past decade, waste landscapes of decaying regional shopping centers and malls have been transformed into new buildings, streets, and towns— otherwise known as greyfield redevelopments. The most successful of these greyfield redevelopment projects are designed as vibrant town centers that exhibit traits of larger 24-hour cities. Unfortunately, landscape has been less relevant within these projects than they have in historical town center precedents. Landscape architecture originated from societal, cultural, and environmental needs and emerged as a profession to meet those needs. Theory, research, and design principles have emerged as well from studying the importance of landscape within the urban realm. Based upon the theory of Landscape Urbanism, landscape should be the primary element of urban order and that landscape architects possess the ability to enhance these multi-disciplinary projects. In CenterScapes, explorative design projects act as experimental subjects for a landscape architecture approach to current successful greyfield-redevelopment-into-town-center design. This masters project illustrates design research in theory, precedent, design principle, analysis, and explorative design through two applications. While both applications exhibit traits of a greyfield-redevelopment-into-town-center typology, one is designed solely by landscape architects and the other is designed by an interdisciplinary team represented by architectural, landscape architectural, and real estate development disciplines. This report functions to reveal the importance of strategically allocated and designed open space to act as catalysts for new town center developments.
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Wong, Man-yee. "Transforming rubbish into nourishment in a no man's land : food wastage and recycling in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B24534389.
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Compton, Mary Katherine. "The Quest for Meaning in "The Waste Land" and "Sanctuary": A Comparative Study." W&M ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625352.
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Bennett, Matthew. "The Roadmap: exploring T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land with World War One literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/545.
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Through careful analysis paired with poetry, war memoirs, and novels from the same period, one can break down T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land to recognize the impact of The Great War on the world's modern memory while pondering the possibility of memory as a tool to overcome trauma.
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Langer, Annekatrin. "The valuation of contaminated land as exemplified by the case of Germany." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25940144.
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Choong, Peng Kee. "A comparison of uncertainty analysis methods for the modeling of land disposal of petroleum exploration and production waste." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08182009-040359/.
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Zakaria, Zarina. "Stakeholder engagement in waste management : understanding the process and its impact on accountability." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12951/.
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This thesis examines the operationalisation of stakeholder engagement process in sustainable waste management setting. The study aims to establish role of stakeholder power in the prioritisation process and add to empirical understanding of the way engagement affect accountability, which evaluates both the `process', and the `outcome' of engagement. This research is based on a three mini cases of local government authorities, which involve in-depth interviews, observations and document analysis. A broader insights of the engagement process from several stakeholder groups, namely the residents, NGOs, councillors and private waste contractors, are considered and compared with managerial views, and several aspects of stakeholder engagement practices are analysed, including the mechanisms used as well as the challenges faced by the LGAs in engaging. In addition, the intentions behind engagement undertakings are analysed and evaluation of the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement practices are made. Drawing on stakeholder theory, the role of power is explored as a stakeholder attribute in determining salience and in the engagement process. Insights from the interviewees are analysed in relation to the extent of participation and perceived level of power held which are then used to map the extent of their involvement on the ladder of engagement. The findings indicate that power does play an important role in the engagement process. Managers also give greater consideration to those demonstrating certain extent of power i.e. the private waste contractor and councillors. It has also been proved that managers' perceptions of the levels of power held by stakeholders play a significant role in establishing their priorities and deciding between competing interests. The use of stakeholder engagement as a mechanism for accountability has led to the recognition of a deficiency underlying the many processes of engagement. The study also has identified an additional feature of accountability, namely the interactive nature of engagement, which is unrecognised in other established measures of accountability.
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Lange, Bettina. "Empirical compliance : a study of waste management regulation in the U.K. and Germany." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36203/.
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This thesis deals with the concept of compliance. Its main argument is that the concept of formal compliance has shortcomings and therefore needs to be complemented with a concept of empirical compliance. At the heart of the concept of compliance is the relationship between rules and social practices. This relationship is conceptualized as involving a "gap", in the case of formal non - compliance, or as indicating the fulfilment of legal requirements in the case of formal compliance. Instead, as the concept of empirical compliance shows, rules and social practices can be linked through a process of integration. This changes our understanding of a concept of law. Formal concepts of law which are based on formal legal rules have to be modified in order to understand empirical compliance. An empirical concept of law which is based both on enforement officers' and the regulated companies' definitions of what is considered as normative in everyday practices has to be adopted. I discuss commercial aims, technology, information ani the formal law as normative contexts which shape a notion of empirical law. The thesis adopts a social construction approach by exploring how actors in the field establish and manipulate the various normative constraints under which they work. The research explores empirical compliance in the area of waste management regulation in the U.K. and Germany. It draws on qualitative data on the implementation of waste management regulation in the everyday practices of handling waste at two waste treatment plants and the day to day enforcement activities of two waste regulation authorities. The thesis focusses on the behaviour of staff on the lowest level of the organizational hierarchy in both the waste treatment plants and the waste regulation authorities. The main research techniques employed were observation and participant observation over a three months period with each of the four organizations involved in the research.
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Mercer, Theresa. "An experimental study of the environmental impacts of CCA-treated wood waste land application." Thesis, University of Hull, 2010. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:2683.
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Chromated copper arsenate (CCA) has been the most commonly used wood preservative in the UK; up until its partial ban in 2004. The preservative prolongs the service life of wood by 20-50 years by making it resistant to biological attack. As such, in-service CCA treated wood is expected to be a major component of the UK wood waste stream in the future. Concerns over the impact of the chemical constituents of this treatment on both the environment and human health have prompted the introduction of legislation to ensure that such waste is disposed of safely in Hazardous Waste Landfills. Despite this, studies have shown that this waste can still enter into the landscape mulch market due to inadequate detection methods and increasing societal pressures to recycle. A series of laboratory and field-based simulations were used to quantify leaching of copper, chromium and arsenic from CCA-treated wood waste mulch and evaluate the factors involved in promoting leaching. The distribution and behaviour of the metals in the soil column and leachate were also assessed. The samples generated in the study were analysed for a range of physico-chemical measurements, elemental and speciation concentrations. Results show that arsenic, chromium and copper leaches from CCA waste wood; at times to levels exceeding regulatory thresholds by two to three orders of magnitude. Furthermore, the more toxic and mobile species of arsenic (As III) and chromium (Cr VI) were detected in both soil and leachate samples. A mass balance was produced which demonstrated that CCA wood tends to leach on initial exposure to a leachant and also during weathering of the wood. When in contact with soil, metal(loid) transport is reduced due to complexation reactions. With higher water application or where the adsorption capacity of the soil is exceeded, the metal(loid)s are transported through the soil column as leachate. Overall, there was a loss of metal(loid)s from the system that could be due to loss of water, volatilisation of arsenic and plant uptake. Due to the toxicity and concentration levels of the leached elements identified in the current study, it is apparent that adverse environmental and human health impacts may result from direct and indirect exposure to the environmental media.
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Aston, Robert L. "A legal perspective of integrated surface mining, solid waste landfill reclamation and land conservation." Thesis, Aston University, 1996. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/14309/.
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In the area of international environmental law this thesis proposes the formulation of one-step planning and permitting regulation for the integrated utilisation of new surface mines as depositories for municipal solid waste. Additionally, the utilisation of abandoned and currently operated surface mines is proposed as solid waste landfills as an integral step in their reclamation. Existing laws, litigation and issues in the United Kingdom, the U.S. and Canada are discussed because of their common legal system, language and heritage. The critical shortage of approved space for disposal of solid waste has caused an urgent and growing problem for both the waste disposal industry and society. Surface mining can serve three important environmental and societal functions inuring to the health and welfare of the public: (1) providing basic minerals for goods and construction; (20 sequentially, to provide critically needed, safe burial sites for society's wastes, and (3) to conserve land by dual purpose use and to restore derelict land to beneficial surface use. Currently, the first two functions are treated environmentally, and in regulation, as two different siting problems, yet they both are earth-disturbing and excavating industries requiring surface restoration. The processes are largely duplicative and should be combined for better efficiency, less earth disturbance, conservation of land, and for fuller and better reclamation of completed surface mines returning the surfaces to greater utility than present mined land reclamation procedures. While both industries are viewed by a developed society and its communities as "bad neighbours", they remain essential and critical for mankind's existence and welfare. The study offers successful examples of the integrated process in each country. The study argues that most non-fuel surface mine openings, if not already safe, can economically, through present containment technology, be made environmentally safe for use as solid waste landfills. Simultaneously, the procedure safeguards and monitors protection of ground and surface waters from landfill contamination.
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Hong, Xin. "Exploring the Influence of Urban Land Use and Land Cover Change on Land Surface Temperature Using Remote Sensing: A Case Study of Cuyahoga County, OH." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1463136423.
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Hormenu, Michael Commander. "Municipal Organic Waste Composting as Management Option for Urban Agriculture: A case of Accra Metropolis, Ghana." Thesis, KTH, VA-teknik, Vatten, Avlopp och Avfall, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-96301.
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The ever-increasing population in the metropolis of Accra, Ghana resulting in con-cerns for finding lasting solutions to manage large volumes of waste produced can be tackled through composting for urban agriculture. With insanitary land filling serving as the major disposal option in the metropolis, plans to build the first ever sanitary landfill facility in the metropolis calls for measures to be taken in order to prolong the lifespan of the facility. This therefore necessitates the need to look into an alternative means of diverting organic waste from landfills. The objective of this research is to re-view the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management situations in Accra Metropolitan Assembly upon which an investigation is made into the various process steps involved in aerobic windrow composting and also finding out the possibility for integrating composting with urban agriculture. The study relied mainly on secondary data obtained from books, published articles, governmental documents, internet, and master thesis reports on related topics. By the help of a causal loop diagram, the interdependence of various policy actions and sys-tem elements in the waste management process are linked to illustrate the possibility of a composting programme for urban agriculture. Even though the metropolis for some time back has been operating a centralized composting facility, the facility is confirmed to be closed down due to problems ema-nating from financial inadequacy, power failure and mechanical breakdown. The study delve into the process steps in windrow composting and finally identified potentials for composting in the metropolis but however enumerated constraints ranging from human and environmental health, financial, institutional, policy directives, to public and leadership attitudes as stumbling blocks to the implementation of a centralized composting scheme. It finally concluded that the metropolis has the potentials to embark on composting for urban agriculture however, until measures are taken to overcome these constraints, implementing a centralized composting scheme in the metropolis may not be a sustainable option. It is further recommended that whiles the city authorities continue to tackle the constraints to pave way for the implementation of the program, efforts must be made in promoting small scale composting that rely on manually operated tools to help reduce organic waste loads in the municipal waste stream.
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Shibuo, Yoshihiro. "Modelling water and solute flows at land-sea and land-atmosphere interfaces under data limitations." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6834.
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Torr, Leigh Christine. "Applications of dairy wastewater as a fertilizer to agricultural land : an environmental management perspective." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1641.
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Thesis (MSc (Geography and Environmental Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.As with any form of intensive agriculture, there are potential environmental impacts associated with the management and housing of livestock on dairy farms. Within the field of dairy farming, particular focus falls to the issue of environmental degradation of water resources, as this form of pollution is currently a major environmental issue around the world. Conventional agricultural practices involving the application of chemical fertilizers to land and crops are causing environmental problems as a result of poor management practices. Dairy wastewater and manures could however be a valuable resource for agricultural producers in the form of an alternate fertilizer for their crops. Waste application as a fertilizer is more environmentally friendly than chemical fertilizers, and could drastically reduce costs for farmers, whilst alleviating storage and management problems often associated with farmyard manures (FYM). The application of organic wastes, notably livestock manures, to land has historically been important for maintaining soil fertility on farms in terms of nutrient status and organic matter levels, as well as helping to reduce soil erosion and improve waterholding capacity. The research sought to investigate the environmental and economical feasibility of using dairy wastewater and manures as an alternative form of fertilizer within agriculture in South Africa.
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Parco, Gerardo Francisco. "Restoration of derelict land: a Macau perspective." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31252710.
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Zhao, Titi. "Community revitalization by reuse abandoned areas Kennedy Town." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42664524.
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Ramos, Reynaldo Perez. "Infrastructure siting development for land surface disposal of toxic and hazardous wastes in the Philippines /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19147.pdf.
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Solem, Håvard. "Environmental and economic efficiency in recycling of household waste, pollution control and land-use changes." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Economics, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-1989.
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