Browsing by Subject "Environmental studies"
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Culture, Capture, and Disease: Shrimp Production in the Age of Industrial Aquaculture
(2019)This dissertation focuses on the relationship of industrial shrimp aquaculture and shrimp diseases, with an emphasis on the agency of disease in shaping the history of shrimp production. Shrimp aquaculture is concentrated ... -
Depolarizing Environmental Policy: Identities and Public Opinion on the Environment
(2019)High levels of partisan polarization on environmental policies, and on climate change in particular, have led to policy gridlock in the United States. While most Americans rely on their partisan identities to guide their ... -
Devil in the Water, Lights on the Mountain: Climate Change in Andean Peru
(2018)This dissertation examines everyday life and storytelling in Peru's Huaylas Valley: a transnational mining hub beneath melting Andean glaciers. During one year of ethnographic fieldwork, I listened to citydwellers and villagers ... -
Digital Environmental Metabolisms: An Ecocritical Project of the Digital Environmental Humanities
(2017)By combining literary, ecocritical, and media techniques with a mindfulness of the environment, “Digital Environmental Metabolisms: An Ecocritical Project of the Digital Environmental Humanities” contributes to the urgent ... -
Ecological Limitations and Potentials of Artificial Aquatic Systems
(2018)An abstract of a dissertation: As humans increasingly alter the surface geomorphology of the Earth, a multitude of artificial aquatic systems have appeared, both deliberately and accidentally. Human modifications to the ... -
Fishing for Food and Fodder: The Transnational Environmental History of Humboldt Current Fisheries in Peru and Chile since 1945
(2011)This dissertation explores the history of industrial fisheries in the Humboldt Current marine ecosystem where workers, scientists, and entrepreneurs transformed Peru and Chile into two of the top five fishing nations after ... -
Full of Hot Air? Three Examinations of Climate Change in the American Political Information Environment
(2016)Climate change is thought to be one of the most pressing environmental problems facing humanity. However, due in part to failures in political communication and how the issue has been historically defined in American politics, ... -
Ground Plans: Conceptualizing Ecology in the Antebellum United States
(2015)"The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions," writes Thoreau: "Let us spend our lives in conceiving then." This dissertation depicts how Thoreau's fellow antebellum antislavery writers discerned the ... -
"Inhabitants of the Deep": Water and the Material Imagination of Blackness
(2017)This dissertation undertakes a black ecocritical study of the trope of water in African Diasporic Literature. Over the course of three chapters treating fiction, drama, and photography, in a study both multi-generic and ... -
Institutions, Innovation, and Grassroots Change: Alternatives to Transnational Governance in the Global South
(2016)Transnational governance has been advanced as a viable option for regulating commodities produced in emerging economies—where incapable or unwilling states may undersupply institutions requisite for overseeing supply chains ... -
Sacrifice, Sabbath, and the Restoration of Creation
(2015)Sacrifice often connotes death or some form of lack within popular discourse. The association of sacrifice with death is assumed in some strains of the Christian tradition that employ sacrifice within a penal substitutionary ... -
Sources, Quality, and Fate of Organic Matter in Deep-Sea Sediments in the Larsen A Embayment, Weddell Sea: Changes by Global Warming and Ice Shelf Melt
(2016)Ice shelf coverage in Antarctica is declining due to recent global warming. The northern part of Larsen Ice Shelf, the Larsen A in the Weddell Sea, has been decreasing since the 19th century and in 2000 finally disappeared. ... -
Strong Institutions in Weak States: Institution Building, Natural Resource Governance, and Conflict in Ghana and Sierra Leone
(2017)Since the end of the Cold War, natural resources have assumed an increasingly prominent role in security, conflict, and peace studies. Scholars and development practitioners alike view the development of strong institutions, ... -
Tangled Lines: the Origins, Performance, and Effects of Commercial and Recreational Fishing Discourses in Carteret County, North Carolina
(2012)Through a case study of Carteret County, North Carolina, this research explores historic and contemporary narratives about fishery resource-use issues (e.g., conflicts over ocean spaces and species, disputes over fisheries ... -
The Geographies of Policy: Assembling National Marine Aquaculture Policy in the United States
(2015)In the United States, marine aquaculture is increasingly viewed as way to offset stagnating wild fisheries production, help faltering coastal community economies, and address a growing national seafood trade deficit. The ... -
The Justice Gap in Global Forest Governance
(2014)Claims of injustice in global forest governance are prolific: assertions of colonization, marginalization and disenfranchisement of forest-dependent people, and privatization of common resources are some of the most severe ... -
The Political Economy of Climate Adaptation and Environmental Health: The Case of Ethiopia
(2016)The environment affects our health, livelihoods, and the social and political institutions within which we interact. Indeed, nearly a quarter of the global disease burden is attributed to environmental factors, and many ... -
The Role of Intermediaries in Mexico’s Payments for Environmental Services Programs
(2017)This dissertation analyzes the role of two types of intermediaries – nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and state governments – in Mexico’s National Payments for Environmental Services (PES) programs. It consists of three ... -
When the Canals Run Dry: New Institutions and the Collective Governance of Irrigation Systems in Tajikistan
(2018)I present a study of how water users, namely farmers, choose to participate in new institutions for irrigation governance and how these new institutions contribute to irrigation infrastructure conditions. Institutions are ...
