The titular “House” from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 work The House of the Seven Gables is not just one house: it is an old edifice where the characters live, an intertwined family “house” of the Pyncheons and Maules, the plants and animals who live there alongside the humans, th…
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This dissertation focuses on “Community Roots,” an instantiation of urban, garden-based environmental education that employs a “critical-transdisciplinary” design framework and pedagogies. The “crit-trans” construct, articulated by the Urban Environmental Studies Research Coven …
The dynamic nature of aquatic ecosystems requires extensive data to facilitate sustainable management practices but the resources to collect these data are often limited. Historical tensions between stakeholders in the fisheries management process have limited the potential for …
From 1959 – 2009, Texas has annually led the nation in the number of flood fatalities. On average the number of deaths in Texas was three times the amount of the second leading state (Sharif, Hossain, Jackson & Bin-Shafique, 2012). Quantitative studies have attempted to cons…
This dissertation proposes that transcorporeality offers an alternative to Cartesian dualistic modes of embodiment in Walker Percy’s, The Moviegoer, Zora Neale Hurston’s, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Richard Wright’s, Native Son, and Carson McCullers’s The Heart is a Lonely Hun…
In the face of the twentieth-century ecological decline of American elm ( Ulmus americana ), this thesis presents new ways of approaching the species’ historical legacy. I argue that the material study of elm wheel hubs and elm bark canoes produces valuable insights into the tre…
This dissertation argues that history, values, and politics/institutions play roles in conjunction with science when there is conflict over the process of formulating and implementing environmental policy. It considers how power influences wildlife conservation, specifically bla…
Both environmental sustainability and economic development occupy a crucial place in the Islamic tradition. There are often conflicts of interest between economic development and environmental sustainability. Achieving harmony between economic development and environmental susta…
In an increasingly polarized political climate–particularly in the U.S.– environmental issues such as climate change and its effects on the environment have become hot-button partisan talking points resulting in further division. This has led to research on ways to communicate s…
Although Latinx communities are highly concerned with the environment, there is a lack of scholarship on Latinx environmentalism. Mainstream environmentalism is founded on a history of colonialism and racism, and thus this dissertation argues that Latinx communities have an envi…
Politik liderlik tarih boyunca üzerine düşünülen bir kavram olmuştur. Bir liderin nasıl yetiştiği veya çevresel faktörlerin liderlik tarzına olan etkilerinin neler olduğu soruları bu alanda büyük bir öneme sahiptir. Dahası, yönetme meşruiyetini elde ettiği kaynaklar da bu çalışm…
This dissertation seeks a redefinition of our self-understanding for addressing the ecological crisis as human being is at the center of this crisis as both - victims and perpetrators. Our environmental crisis is at the heart a humane crisis because it follows the same principle…
Understanding anthropogenic changes in rainfall in Australia is difficult as Australia experiences one of the highest variable rainfall climates in the world. Firstly, this research aims to understand the observed historical changes in various characteristics of mean and extreme…
La crisis ambiental, mencionada por algunos autores como crisis civilizatoria, representa un momento histórico que requerirá de un punto de inflexión y la revisión de las formas de desarrollo que han causado dicha crisis. Esta investigación presenta un relato acerca de este tiem…
For thousands of years, the Paso del Norte region which today includes Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, El Paso, Texas, and Sunland Park, New Mexico, has been a strategic location by virtue of its geographic positioning at the lowest and easiest passage across the continental divide. D…
The Wasatch Front is an environmentally complex region, this area of northern Utah is mountainous and fertile enough to support a varied ecology. It has also supported healthy human populations. The marshy lands surrounding the gigantic lake antecedent to Great Salt Lake and Uta…
In 1993, the affluent Washington D.C. neighborhood of Spring Valley was unaware of what lurked beneath their carefully manicured lawns and million-dollar homes. Contractors hired by a resident to build an inground pool suddenly found themselves short of breath and half the crew …
“Queer with the City” traces how urban and environmental context have shaped the commitments of queer cultural production in the United States. This dissertation articulates an urban environmental lineage of queer cultural production through a literary and visual approach to the…
This study shows how Cobb and Nasr address environmental issues with their respective religious traditions and why a comparative study of Cobb’s eco-theological view and Nasr’s eco-spiritual vision is significant for the present discussion concerning religion and ecology. In thi…