Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "environment"
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Beneficial Use: The Political Economy of Surface Mined Land Reclamation in North America
(2023-06-01)This dissertation investigates how energy extraction since the 1970s enabled the birth of market-based policies for environmental protection. Through an investigation of surface mined land reclamation programs in Canada ... -
Constructing Stillness: Theorization, Discovery, Interrogation, and Negotiation of the Expanded Laboratory of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
(2022-11-23)What if someone asked you to keep a four-kilometer-long ruler absolutely still so that you could measure deformations of length of ~1x10^-18m using light? On September 14, 2015, physicists and engineers at the Laser ... -
The Environment and Directed Technical Change
(2009)This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints and limited resources. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these ... -
Environmental Spiral: Scientific Mediation in Twentieth-Century American Poetry
(2013-08-28)This dissertation asks how the heightening of artistic and scientific mediation has affected the representation of the environment in modernist and contemporary American poetry. In chapters on Marianne Moore, A.R. Ammons, ... -
Essays on International Trade, Economic Growth and the Environment
(2013-02-19)This dissertation consists of three essays on Economic Growth. The first essay introduces directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints. The final good is produced from ”dirty” and ”clean” ... -
Essays on the Economics of Household Water Access in Developing Countries
(2013-02-13)This dissertation focuses on the economics of household water access in developing countries. The first paper explores whether improvements in water technology enable changes in household time allocation and, thereby, ... -
Footprints in Paradise: Ethnography of Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa
(2013-02-13)Social and political life on small subtropical islands is frequently shaped by the economic imperative of sustainable tourism development. In Okinawa, “ecotourism” promises to provide employment for a dwindling ... -
How Infrastructures Age: Engineering, Nature, and Environmental Justice in the Lower Mississippi Delta
(2023-07-11)This dissertation is about living in a world of aging infrastructure with a focus on impacts to environmental and community health rather than technological function. In this study I bring together the history of technology ... -
Phenotype Switching and Mutations in Random Environments
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)Cell populations can benefit from changing phenotype when the environment changes. One mechanism for generating these changes is stochastic phenotype switching, whereby cells switch stochastically from one phenotype to ... -
The Qing Invention of Nature: Environment and Identity in Northeast China and Mongolia, 1750-1850
(2012-10-18)This dissertation studies the nexus of empire, environment, and market that defined Qing China in 1750-1850, when unprecedented commercial expansion and a rush for natural resources – including furs, pharmaceuticals, and ... -
Recovering Green in Bronzeville: An Environmental and Cultural History of the African American Great Migration to Chicago, 1915-1940
(2013-02-14)Between 1915 and 1940, millions of African Americans migrated from the South to cities in the North. “Recovering Green in Bronzeville” examines the ways in which these migrants experienced, perceived, talked about, valued, ... -
Redefining Residency: Black Environmental Thought in New Orleans, 1929-1998
(2021-07-23)Across the U.S. and world, activists have emphasized not just the global problem of environmental degradation, but also how race in particular shapes one’s access to safe water, air, and land. My dissertation explores Black ... -
Some Dynamic Economic Consequences of the Climate-Sensitivity Inference Dilemma
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The Soviet Sanatorium: Medicine, Nature and Mass Culture in Sochi, 1917-1991
(2014-06-06)In this study, I trace the development and influence of a network of concepts, practices and ideas about nature and health in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991 that I call "turning to nature for health." Turning to nature ... -
Studying the relationship between past people and their environments
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)AGU Chapman Conference on Climates, Past Landscapes, and Civilizations; Santa Fe, New Mexico, 21–25 March 2011; The fortunes of human societies are intimately linked to the environments that sustain them. This has been ... -
Toxic Relief: Science, Uncertainty, and Medicine after Bhopal
(2014-06-06)This dissertation is a study of science and medicine after the gas disaster in1984 in Bhopal, India. It looks at the discourses, debates, suspicions, and entangled events that have shaped the narratives of causality following ... -
Verschachtelte Räume: Writing and Reading Environments in W. G. Sebald
(2012-08-15)This dissertation focuses on the construction of the narrated environment in W. G. Sebald's <em>Die Ausgewanderten</em>, <em>Die Ringe des Saturn</em>, and <em>Austerlitz</em>. Drawing on a constellation of ecocritical ...