Despite the benefits of urban greenspace, Atlanta’s Westside Park is causing gentrification and displacement pressures in Grove Park, a low-income African-American community in northwest Atlanta, Georgia. This study used data from qualitative semi-structured interviews with comm…
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The Boundary Waters Canoe Area soundscape in northern Minnesota has a long and contested history but is most often characterized today as a pristine and distinctly silent wilderness. This thesis traces the construction and perpetuation of the Boundary Waters as a silent space by…
This dissertation examines the strategies used by early Americans to collect and display data on a variety of natural phenomena. I argue that these data displays allowed Americans to enter debates and dialogues about what kind of place the North American continent was and would …
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…
The study area centers around a 6 million acre protected area in upstate New York known as the Adirondack State Park. Spatial data are gathered and manipulated, then input into the ArcGIS Pro suitability modeler tool to construct several wildfire ignition risk models, as well as…
This thesis preliminarily ascertains community feelings about a dam that impedes the passage of imperiled fishes in Juliette, Georgia. My research indicates that there is currently significant resistance to the removal of the dam. Local opposition stems from feelings that the da…
Legalization of cannabis has accelerated over the past decade, with more than a dozen U.S. states legalizing adult-use or “recreational” cannabis, dozens more permitting medical use, and varieties low in THC (“hemp”) legal nation-wide. However, legalization does not mean the end…
Environmental damage disproportionately affects communities of color. Understanding how environmental racism uniquely affects marginalized communities is crucial to effectively develop public policies that will address the systematic racism that is rooted in many existing polici…
Land frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon continue to be dominated by the expansion of cattle ranching and large-scale deforestation events. Theory on smallholder agriculture argues that the agroecological intensification of land use—which would counteract land extensive speculatio…
Katmanlı kentlerde geçmişi anlamak ve geleceği planlamak için gerçekleştirilen bilimsel araştırmalarda kullanılan yöntemler genel olarak katmanlı dokunun tarihsel ve mekânsal gelişimine odaklanmaktadır. Fiziksel ve tarihi gelişime odaklanan bu çalışmalar katmanlı kentin, şekille…
Ground-level ozone and atmospheric fine particles (PM 2.5 ) have been recognized as critical air pollutants that act as important contributors to the toxicity of anthropogenic air pollution in urban areas. To limit the adverse impacts on public health and ecosystems of ground-le…
La presente tesis es una revisión crítica y proyectual sobre el Cerro Calán, patrimonio de la Universidad de Chile que alberga las instalaciones del Observatorio Astronómico Nacional. Ha funcionado por más de 150 años y llegó a ser pionero y uno de los más importantes en América…
En el transcurso de las últimas décadas el mundo se ha visto enfrentado a una serie de desafíos en torno a los componentes tanto climáticos, ecológicos, económicos como sociales fruto de la huella antrópica remanente en el territorio resultante de la producción industrial, una d…
Across the Southeastern United States (SEUS) growing populations are increasing demand on water resources and infrastructure. Understanding the long-term natural flow regime of rivers is critical to developing accurate models of water level variability needed for appropriate wat…
Deforestation is a critical global challenge in the 21st century. Policies that effectively tackle forest loss are essential given that the consequences of deforestation can be severe for both people and nature. There is hence an urgent need to generate knowledge about effective…
Kentsel peyzaj planlamanın temel amacı; kent halkının fiziksel, sosyal, psikolojik ve ekonomik gereksinimlerini karşılayan ve aynı zamanda da kentlerin doğal ve kültürel peyzaj değerlerinin korunduğu donatı alanları oluşturmaktır. Hızlı ve düzensiz kentsel gelişimler sonucu kent…
Climate change is arguably the biggest policy challenge of this century, in large part because it involves complex and interdependent processes, as well as substantial physical, economic, social, and political uncertainties. This dissertation examines a series of puzzles related…
This thesis explores the risk perception of climate change among Egyptians who reside in Canada and Egyptians who reside in Egypt. It applies a quantitative comparative analysis of these two populations to assess differences in risk perception of climate change and the influence…
Despite efforts by the Indonesian state to reform their provision of public services, why has the Indonesian state failed to sufficiently respond to the Indonesian water crisis? To what extent can this be explained by the weak capacity of the state? To what extent can the weak c…