Nicholas School of the Environment
Master's projects by Nicholas School of the Environment students, including the Duke Marine Laboratory.
The masters project is done in partial fulfillment of the degree requirements for the professional Master of Environmental Management or the Master of Forestry degree. While the MP may include original laboratory or field research, it may also take the form of management plans, handbooks, educational curricula, or other such products. Each student is advised by a faculty member who reviews and approves the project prior to completion.
A masters projects that is original research should not be as large as a masters thesis although it should be of publishable quality but not necessarily comprehensive enough to stand alone as a publication. A masters projects that does not follow the usual format for scientific research should follow a framework that is considered good practice in an appropriate field.
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Recent Submissions
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(2017-08-18)Sea level rise (SLR) and severe weather events have already exposed the vulnerability of coastal cities to flood events. Regional planning bodies are developing comprehensive plans to build resiliency utilizing both hardened ...
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(2017-04-28)Objective: Air pollution is a major public health threat in cities across the world, especially in India. To protect local communities from rising air pollution levels, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and the ...
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(2017-04-28)The RILA (Retail Industry Leaders Association) Department of Sustainability tasked the Duke team with exploring and defining sustainable consumption and production in the next generation of the U.S. retail market. The Duke ...
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(2017-04-28)In the past five years, significant advances have been made in providing energy access to base of the pyramid African consumers. Increased attention to energy poverty on a global scale has galvanized innovative business ...
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(2017-04-28)In recent years, Paraguay has become one of the top five countries with the highest acceleration in deforestation rates. Between 2000 and 2015, Paraguay lost 20 percent of its tree-covered area. The two main drivers of ...