This dissertation examines the relationships between the physical environment and the history of public housing in Washington, D.C. from the 1940s to the 1960s. The environmental features of public housing complexes, as well as those of the landscape around them, significantly s…
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Even in the modern era, when the effects of climate change can be felt all over the globe, the majority of what we know about the phenomenon comes from computer simulations. The reason for this is that climate change is an unbelievably large phenomenon—it’s happening everywhere …
Places matter to people, especially the familiar places that embody their personal and cultural histories and support the social interactions and routines of everyday life. My primary goal in this dissertation is to show how the mattering of places to people is at root an aesthe…
In recent years, government-ENGO relations in China have evolved to a point where collaboration is now evident. For example, the government is now purchasing a variety of services from ENGOs, such as pollution monitoring and projects to promote sustainability. This research rais…
Constructed between 1972 and 1978, Vail Pass is a 16-mile section of Interstate-70 that crosses the continental divide in the Central Mountains of Colorado. It connects the ski resort communities of Copper Mountain and Vail and has played a significant role in the development of…
This thesis situates Yann Martel’s Life of Pi within the area of sea studies, analyzing the novel at the intersection of ecocritical ethics, social histories at sea, shipwreck allusions in literary texts, and the burgeoning field of blue cultural studies. My thesis also features…
This dissertation traces a colonial history of the Colombian Amazon through extractive botanical economies from rubber to cocaine to bioprospecting. It centers the botanical in alignment with the Indigenous Uitoto philosophy that it seeks to translate, as an archive of the Uitot…
Fort Collins, Colorado, home to over 150,000 people along the northern Front Range, is prone to flood. This natural disaster threat is not a recent development nor a strictly natural problem. Rather, flooding in Fort Collins is informed by the interaction of the local environmen…
This thesis analyzes Signal Fire, a Portland-based arts organization founded in 2008. The organization produces extended, reading-intensive, and practice-oriented backpacking artist residencies in wild places. My own participation as both artist and researcher in a summer 2019 p…
Anthrozoology is a relatively new field of study in the world of academia. This discipline, which includes researchers ranging from social studies to natural sciences, examines human-animal interactions. Understanding what affect these interactions have on a person’s perception …
Lansing, Michigan, is a Mid-Michigan city with a growing urban agriculture system, including over 100 community gardens facilitated by the Greater Lansing Food Bank Garden Project (GLFBGP). It is also a place with a large refugee resettlement population. Twenty percent of the ga…
The Specter of Extinction: Environmental Nihilism in British Science Fiction (1800–1945) argues that the history of British science fiction is inextricable from the career of human extinction as a concept. Charting literary depictions of human extinction through the end of the S…
This study puts forward a world-historical analysis of the origins, development and contradictions of the concatenation of global oil production, world accumulation and socioecological transformations during the long twentieth century. I explain why global capitalism needs cheap…
Mountain building processes have profound impact on both local and large-scale hydrology and climate change, and climate change interacts with mountain growth to form feedbacks. Numerous effects have been given to study the mountain-climate interactions, primarily by linking cli…
Earthquakes affect millions of people across the earth. Earthquakes cause billions of dollars of damage and hundreds of thousands of deaths per year. For these reasons that seismic resilience is a field of immense concern for government, stakeholders and researchers. As the fiel…
Controlled rocking steel braced frames (CRSBFs) have been developed with the goal of minimizing the post-earthquake impact of primary building functions. While there has been significant research to date to demonstrate the viability of the CRSBF as a high-performance system, muc…
Urban ecology, evolution, and conservation are important disciplines in our urbanized and urbanizing world. In the last twenty years, academic work has elucidated generalizable patterns about how urbanization affects the natural world. In this talk, I will approach these pattern…
Fieldwork for this thesis was undertaken in the Country of the Ndrrua'ngaith / Wathayn people on the Weipa Peninsula, western Cape York, far north Queensland, Australia. My research formed part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project (LP110100180) Enhancing Cultu…