Geography

Stained glass from the Geography building at Clark

Ph.D Dissertation Titles since 2007

For a complete listing of all PhD dissertations since 1922 see Burnham Index


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

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


2007

Brewer, Jennifer
Governing the Fishing Commons: Institutions, Ecosystems, and Democracy in the Co-Management of Maine Lobster and Groundfish

 Chatterjee, Ipsita
Globalization and Social Conflict:  A Case Study of Hindu-Muslim Conflict in India

Danielson, Stentor Benjamin
Discourse about Wildfire in New Jersey and New South Wales

Neo, Harvey C.T.
Profits, Politics, and Purity:  Wither the Malaysian Pig Industry?

Niles, Daniel
Contemporary Ruralties:  Contrasting Visions of Food and Agriculture

Rueda, Ximena
Landscapes in Transition:  Conservation, Structural Adjustment, and Land-Use Change in the Southern Yucatan

Seethram, Mohan
Geographical Determinants of Poverty and Vulnerability in Karnatka, India

Vadjunec, Jackie
The Role of Institutions in Land-Use/Cover Change in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve System, Acre, Brazil