Recent Ph.D. Dissertation Titles
For a complete listing of all PhD dissertations since 1922 see Burnham Index
2012
Aldwaik, Safaa
Fundamental Concepts of Intensity Analysis to Understand Changes Among Categories
Aragon-Carrasco, Susan
Evaluating Biodiversity in Rural Landscapes for Conservation and Livelihoods: Combinded Botanical, Ecological and Land Use Analysis in Two Smallholder Communities in Peru and Mexico
Fontaine, Danielle
The Landscape of Potential Harm: Understanding Parents' Perceptions of the Build Environment and What This Means for Their Decisions about Their Child's Mode of Travel to School in the City of Worcester, MA
Funke, Jayson
Producing Investment Space: The International Finance Corporation, Institution Building and the Financialization of Development
Ghimire, Bardan
Biological and Biophysical Consequences of Disturbances in Forests of the Western United States
Han, Guoyi
Understanding Regional Dynamics of Vulnerability: A Historical Approach to the Flood Problem in China
Hawkins, Roberta
Cause-related Marketing: Ethical Consumption as Development Intervention
Makene, Heladius Madoshi
Gold Rush and its Implications for Communities Near Mines in Tanzania
Neeti
Implications of space-time orientations for spectoral decomposition of geographic image time series
Ojeda, Diana
Producing Paradise: The Violent Geographies of Tourism in Columbia
Parmentier, Benoit
Land Transitions from Multivariate Remotely Sensed Time Series: Using Seasonal Trends to Characterize and Categorize Land Cover Changes in Alaska over the 2001-2009 Period
Rakshit, Rahul
Accuracy Assessments of Object-Based Image Analysis Maps
Runfola, Daniel
Human-Environment Interactions across Space and Time: Examining Lawns and Land Change in the United States
Werboff, Dominique
The Role of Institutions in Shaping Livelihoods and Land Use/Cover in Northern Negros Natural Park, Philippines
2011
Adom, Cynthia
Trends in Urbanization and Implications for Peri-Urban Livelihoods in
Accra, Ghana
Cieslik, Ania
The Different Levels of Migration Decision Making. A Noneconomic
Analysis of the Polish Migration to the United kingdom After 2004
Hamm, Christina
The Complex Institutional Seascape of the Long Island Sound Lobster
Fishery
Kang, Cao
3-Article dissertation: "Cloud Computing and its application is
GIS
Lawhon, Mary
Power in the South African E-waste Transition
Machado, Elia
Assessing Vulnerability to Denuge Fever in Mexico under Global Change
Marcano, Luis Ciro
Geographic Imaginations and Power: An Inquiry on the Social Production
of the Venezuelan Territory
Millones Mayer, Marco
Fire, Flows, and Forests: Anthropogenic Land Change, Commodity Networks, and Multi-scale Sustainability in the Mexican Yucatan
Pierce, Joe
Land Tenure and Sustainable Urbanism in Portland, Oregon
2010
Christman, Zachary John
Land Change in Central Mexico: Landscape Heterogeneity, Natural
Variability, and Classification Uncertainty
Dai, Wei Wei
A spatial Decisions Support System for Multi-Objective Land Allocation: A
Conservation Reserve Design Application
Dai, Zunguo
Desertification, The Grain-To Green program and Agricultural Changes in Northern
China
Hyland, Gerard
The Political Viability of Regional Solutions in the Cincinnati
Metropolitan Area
Jiang, Ziying
Development of an Areal Object Based Network Pattern Classification in
Road Extension Simulation
Kolden, Crystal
Characterizing Alaskan Wildfire Regimes through Remotely Sensed Data:
Assessments of Large Area Pattern and Trend
Ray, Lily Amelia
Addressing Koyukon/Agency Disagreements about Wildfire Policy in
Interior Alaska: Value Differences, Ineffective Participatory Processes, and
Conflicts over Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Schwarz, Guido
The Arteries of Global Trade: Industrial Restructuring and
Technological Change in the Transatlantic Air Cargo Industry
2009
Brenner, Jacob Charles
Structure, Agency, and The Transformation of the Sonoran Desert by BuffleGrass (Pennisetum
ciliare): An Application of Land Change Science
Chen, Hao
Methods to Explore The Relationship Between Land Change Prediction and its
Variables Through Accuracy Assessment
Dickson, Rebecca Palmer
Secondary Diversity: Ecological and spectoral dimensions of secondary succession
following smallholder cultivation in the Southern Yucutan
Hayes-Conroy, Allison
Bodily Geographies of 'Slow' Food: Food activism and visceral politics
Huber, Matthew T.
Lifeblood: Geographies of Petro-Capitalism in the United States
Keenan, Kevin
Awareness of Vulnerability to Terrorism in Urban Areas: Social Network
and Mobility Effects in Boston, MA
Li, Ying
Grazing Resource Management and Grassland Degredation: The Impact of
Privatization in Northern China's Steppe Area
Liu, Chunling
The Temporal Dimension of Vulnerability: Farmers' Coping Response to the Lower
Yellow River's Low-Flows in 1991-1999
McCauley, Stephen
3-Paper dissertation: Modeling Vegetation in a Complex
Human-Environmental System: A Comparison of Approaches for Estimating Forest
Canopy
Distributions in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Modeling the Social Constraints
on Land Use Change: The Case of Peri-urban Sprawl in the Greater Boston Region
Smart Growth as Transition Management: Environmental Governance and the Neo-Gramscian
State
Pearsall, C. Hamil
Sustaining Vulnerabilities? Exploring the Sociospatial Impacts
of Brownfield Development
Sangermano, Florencia
Inferential Monitoring of Global Change Impact on the Biodiversity through
Remote Sensing and Species Distribution Modeling
Sinha, Deb Ranjan
Contaminated Futures: Economic Development Through Industrialization
Southern, Jacquelyn Hamm
Labor, Environmentalism, and the Public Interest: The United Auto Workers in the
Quiet Decade
2008
Barrett, Kirsten
Carbon Accumulation and Storage in the Amazonian Ecosystems
Blickstein, Susan Gale
Critical Mass: Bicycling Towards the More Sustainable City
Schmook, Birgit
The Social Dimensions of Land Change in the Southern Yucatan: The Intersection
of Policy, Migration and Agriculture Intensification
Tshiguvho, Thidaneli Ennie
Sacred Traditions and Biodiversity Conservation in the Forest Montane Region of
venda, South Africa
Versluis, Anna
We All Live Downstream: Disaster, Land Change and Reciprocity in the Haitian
Watershed
Waithanji, Elizabeth Muthoni
Gendered Impacts of Sedentarization of Nomads on the Somali Community in Mandera
Central Division of Northeastern Kenya
Webb, Elizabeth Tolley
The Effects of Clearcut Logging and Forest Fire on Reindeer Lichens in Reindeer
Lichen-Rich Forest Stands in Northwestern Ontario