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Geography
Programs
The Graduate School of Geography offers a major, minor and electives for undergraduates and a Ph.D. program. Qualified Clark undergraduates can take advantage of an accelerated fifth year program that leads to a B.A./M.A. in Geographic Information Science. An M.A. in Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment is available through a shared program with the Department of International Development, Community and Environment.
Graduate Fellowships and Grants

Ph.D Dissertation Titles since 2000

Archer, Emma R. M.
2001
Fragile Calculus:  Climate, Political Economy and Vegetation Change in the Semi-Arid Karoo, South Africa

Avram, Michal
2001
The Israeli Pharmaceutical Industry State:  From Remedies to Commodities

Benjamin, Patricia A.
2002
Land and Water in Southwest Meru, Northern Tanzania, 1895-1995

Blake, Megan K.
2001
It Takes a Village:  Women's Entrepreneurship in Worcester, Massachusetts

Brewer, Jennifer
2007
Governing the Fishing Commons: Institutions, Ecosystems, and Democracy in the Co-Management of Maine Lobster and Groundfish

Brownlow, Cecil A.
2003
The Political Ecology of Neglect:  Race, Gender, and the Environmental Change in Philadelphia

Chatterjee, Ipsita
2007
Globalization and Social Conflict:  A Case Study of Hindu-Muslim Conflict in India

Che, Deborah Lisa
2000
Tourism, Timber, and Manufacturing:  Rural Restructuring, Commodification, and Institutional Relationships in Forest County, Pennsylvania

Chowdhury, Rinku R.
2003
Livelihoods in the Balance:  The Institutional and Ecological Conditions of Smallholder Land Use in the Calakmul-Southern Yucatan Region of Mexico

Clark, George E.
2001
Vulnerability to Coastal Flood Hazards in Revere, Massachusetts:  A Social Component of Risk

Curran, Winifred S.
2004
Gentrification and the Displacement of Work:  Exploring the Links in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Duda, Mark
2002
Multiethnic Residential Segregation 1990-2000:  Results from Census and Mortgage Lending Data

Omani, Zinnias
2001
Framing, Agenda Setting, and Response:  A Case Study on the Organizational Amplification and Attenuation or Risk

Finney, Carolyn
2006
Black Faces, White Spaces:  African Americans and the Great Outdoors

Gumbo, Davison J.
2002
Socializing Miombo Ecology:  Change in Woodland Use and its Meaning for Suitable Livelihoods.

Hamilton, Trina
2006
Breaking the Brand:  The Social Regulation of Multinational Corporations

Hann, Nicholas J.
2002
Transitioning Economies, Cultures, and Woodlands - Cashews and Deforestation in Southeastern Tanzania

Holder, Curtis D.
2000
The Significance of Fog Precipitation in the Ecology of the Sierra Des Las Minas Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala

Holman, Jeremy
2005
The Changing Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and the Boston HIV/AIDS social Movement:  Framing, Identity Politics and Social Movement Decline

Hookah, Alice
2003
Exploring the Effects of Gender on Commercial (Peri) Urban Agricultural Systems in Garborone, Botswana

Hulina, Stephanie
2001
Spatial Patterns of Vector Borne Disease:  Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Northeastern Brazil

Jhaveri, Nayna J.
2000
Reconfigurations of the Commons:  Equity and Irrigation Practices in the Liagnshan Mountains, China 1958-1995

Jiusto, J. Scott
2004
Spatial Indeterminacy and Power Sector Carbon Emissions Accounting

Keys, Eric G.
2002
From Mouth to Market:  The Adoption of Commercial Chili Cultivation and Its Land Cover Effects in Calakmul, Mexico

Kisanga, Danielson R.
2006
Impact of Land-Use/Cover Change on Water Resources on Tropical Mountain Ecosystems:  Case Study of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Klepeis, Peter J.
2000
Deforesting the Once Deforested:  Land Transformation in Southeastern Mexico

Kohout, Michal
2004
Development and New Labor Culture in Mexico

Krueger, James R.
2001
Relocating Regulation:  Environmental Politics and the Montana Gold Mining Industry

Labban, Mazen
2006
The Contradiction of Space-Oil, Imperialism, and the Accumulation of Capital

Laris, Paul
2002
Burning the Savanna Mosaic:  Fire Patterns, Indigenous Burning Regimes, and Ecology in the Savanna of Mali

Levia, Delphis F.
2000
Winter Stemflow Leaching from Dedious Canopy Trees in Relation to Meteorological Conditions of Canopy Structure

Lorkin, Stuart
2006
For a Dollar More:  The spatial Politics of Unions and Massachusetts Health Care Coalitions

Manson Steven M.
2002
Integrated Assessment and Projection of Land-use and Land-cover Change in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region of Mexico

Marzouk, Abdelkrim
2006
Long Sequence Times Series Analysis of Moroccan Ecosystem Dynamics

McConnell, William J.
2000
Human-Environment Relations in Madagascar:  THe Importance of Spatial and Tempral Perspective

McEachern, Menzie
2005
Solar Energy adoption and Diffusion in Sri Lanka:  An Anallysis at Multiple Scales

Moran, Sharon D.
2000
Fluid Categories:  Water System Mangment in Post-Communist Poland

Morehouse, Holly M.
2002
A Spatial Decision Support System for Environmentally Sustainable Communities

Mwanukuzi, Phillip P.K.
2002
Diangnosis of Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Dry and Wet Spells Due to Land-Atmosphere Water Exchange in the Tropical Savanna of East Africa

Narsiah, Inbersagren
2006
Delusions of Development:  Neoliberal Development Discours and Privatization in South Africa

Neo, Harvey C.T.
2007
Profits, Politics, and Purity:  Wither the Malaysian Pig Industry?

Niles, Daniel
2007
Contemporary Ruralties:  Contrasting Visions of Food and Agriculture

Pacheco, Pablo B.
2005
Populist and Capitalist Frontiers in the Amazon:  Diverging Dynamics of Agrarian and Land-Use Change

Pieck, Sonja
2006
Crossed Paths to Eden:  Transnational Entanglements and the Amazon Alliance

Pollack, Aaron J.
2006
K'iche Uprising in Totonicapan:  The Places of Subaltern Politics

Ponniah, Thomas
2006
The world Social Forum Vision Development Radical Democracy vs. Neoliberal Globalization

Radel, Claudia
2005
Women's Participation in Conservation Projects in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula:  Effects on Land Control, Farming Practices, and Women's Empowerment

Reddy, Sunita P.
2000
Political Ecology of the Forest Commons in the Guatemala

Roth, Robin
2004
"Fixing" the forest:  The Spatial Reorganization of Inhabited Landscapes in Mae Tho National Park, Thailand

Rueda, Ximena
2007
Landscapes in Transition:  Conservation, Structural Adjustment, and Land-Use Change in the Southern Yucatan

Schiller, Andrew
2001
Signatures of Sustainability:  A Framework for Interpreting Relationships Among Environmental, Social, and Economic Conditions for Untied States Metropolitan Areas

Schneider, Laura C.
2004
Understanding Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) INvation in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region through Integrated Land-Change Science

Seethram, Mohan
2007
Geographical Determinants of Poverty and Vulnerability in Karnatka, India

Slocum, Rachel B.
2001
Possibility and Climate Politics of the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign

Smith, Lalia
2003
The Corporatization of Urban Water Supply:  Cape Town's Institutional Transformation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Snel, Mathilde A.
2001
Gender, Pastoralism and Intensification:  Changing Patterns of Resource Management in Eastern Morocco

Susarla, Arvind
2005
Arsenic and Plague:  A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Social Amplification and Attenuation of Risk

Tasch, Jeremy
2006
From Decree to Decentralization:  Resource Management in Russian Far East

Urbanik, Julie
2006
Geography and Animal Biotechnology:  How Place and Scale are Shaping the Public Debate

Vadjunec, Jackie
2007
The Role of Institutions in Land-Use/Cover Change in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve System, Acre, Brazil

Varlynguin, Dmitry L.
2001
West Siberian Boreal Mires:  Current Dynamics and Implications for the Carbon Balance

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