Scholars within science studies have paid a great deal of attention to climate change denial in the U.S. and have generated critical commentary for understanding larger patterns of distrust in climate science. This dissertation uses a different line of questioning and approach t…
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The primary motivation for this Thesis is to understand whether it is in fact feasible for rich countries, like the United States, to fulfill their humanitarian obligations through an international climate treaty. And if this is infeasible, why? Alongside this motivation, is a m…
This thesis advocates for landscape architecture to mitigate risk and plan for adaptation to catastrophic climate events. It develops an adaptive response and critique of Tacloban, the Philippines, as it responded to Typhoon Yolanda in 2013. As government authorities displaced p…
Though incorporating more open and green space into our urban communities is more important than ever in the United States, The Green Movement has focused on incorporating green space and walkability into heavily concentrated urban areas such as downtown Atlanta. However, there …
This research examines the political ecological processes that drive and resist extractivism. I use socio-ecological theory, mixed methods, and interdisciplinary critical analysis to better understand how El Salvador became the only country in history to ban metal mining. Though…
Decolonizing Refuse: Ecologies of Waste in Contemporary Arts and Literatures explores how literary, visual, and plastic artworks use waste to address issues of ecology, environmental justice, and human rights violations in environments ravaged by colonization, neocolonization, a…
Ecojustice and ecotheology call us to take care for creation as a serious responsibility that God has entrusted us towards nature and humans. The intent of this project is to explore the different ways in which some specific churches in Puerto Rico face environmental challenges.…
Land, Labor, Literature: Ecospheric Critique from the Margins of the Progressive Era focuses on Progressive-Era writers whose work represents three modes of relating to the land through direct fieldwork—agrarian, indigenous, and diasporic—and who articulate, through that fieldwo…
Sacred places—ranging from religious to secular structures, human created or natural areas, or places with ritual, symbolic, or cultural significance—are rarely addressed by urban planners but are sources of great meaning for many communities. One reason for this neglect is the …
The Amungme and Kamoro managed their environments for thousands of years in what is now Papua, Indonesia. In the late 1960s, seeking foreign capital to boost the nation’s economy, the president of Indonesia signed a contract with Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold, which by 1988 b…
The U.S. Census Bureau defines “rural” as “any population, housing, or territory NOT in an urban area.” At the most basic level, then, the rural is defined by what it is not. The definition comes with real consequences for rural places in the U.S., which receive disproportionate…
Background and Significance: Despite the many historical efforts by the U.S. to reduce lead (Pb) in the environment, childhood Pb poisoning continues to be a public health issue today. Pb has been identified as a child hazard because children are highly vulnerable to the effects…
The reorganization of pastoral life in the twentieth century was inextricably bound to the rise of industrial agriculture and the forms of resource extraction that accompanied it. The places that witnessed the most sweeping ecological changes, from labor-intensive plantation agr…
This study explores the idea of developing the capacity to prevent and resolve conflict through the enhancement of regional cooperation and resource management in Africa’s Great Lakes area. It examines the long-standing tensions between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and…
While social and climate scientists alike have attempted to present the crucial facts of climate change, their urgent warnings have seemingly resulted in comparatively little political action. In this project, I investigate the intersections of faith, environmental justice, and …
Climate change and human activities continue to result in negative environmental impacts that alter land productivity, ecosystem health, and their potential land-uses. However, these environmental impacts are being addressed through land restoration and conservation frameworks t…
Building upon the "tools and techniques" for socially engaged art that Pablo Helguera proposes, this dissertation provides an in-depth exploration of cross-disciplinary qualitative methods (such as oral history and citizen science) as artistic tools for engagement. In my project…
In this dissertation, I analyze the processes of implementation and application of Collective Titling as a policy that characterized rural Afro Colombian communities’ spaces and modified their property regimes, while being equally shaped by the political and economic contexts wh…
Minden is a small former coal mining town located in mountains of West Virginia. At its peak in the mid-20th Century, it was a thriving community of about 1,200. By 2010, the town’s population had shriveled to 250, about 100 of whom having been diagnosed with some form of cancer…