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Author:: Bee, Beth Anne
Title:: Women weathering the climate: Gendered knowledge and adaptive capacities in central Mexico
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: food secuirty
feminist theory
adaptive capacity
climate change
risk perception
Mexico
File:: Download Bee_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Melissa Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Petra Tschakert, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

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Author:: Retchless, David Pahl
Title:: Public Perceptions of Spatial Analogs for Climate Change: A Survey of Centre Region, Pennsylvania Residents
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: Pennsylvania
communication
spatial analogs
perceptions
climate change
File:: Download RetchlessThesisFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Brenton Yarnal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brenton Yarnal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Whitehead, Jessica Chenault
Title:: Building Scenarios of Adaptive Capacity: A Case Study of Community Water Systems in Central Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: mediated modeling
drinking water management
adaptive capacity
community water systems
climate change
system dynamics
File:: Download Whitehead_dissertation_06-21-09.pdf
Committee Members:: Brenton Yarnal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Gregory Knight, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Member

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Author:: Dietrich, Kathleen Ann
Title:: MANAGING WATER RESOURCES UNDER CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE: PERSPECTIVES OF COMMUNITIES IN THE AFRAM PLAINS, GHANA
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: adaptation
climate change
water resources
Afram Plains
Ghana
participatory methods
File:: Download whole.kad.final3re.pdf
Committee Members:: Petra Tschakert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Petra Tschakert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Biermann, Mary Maureen
Title:: Building Resilience: Integrating Climate Change into a Local NGO Agenda
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: Africa
climate change
non-governmental organization
adaptive capacity
resilience
collective learning
File:: Download Biermann_Thesis_13Apr09.pdf
Committee Members:: Petra Tschakert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Petra Tschakert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Chhetri, Netra Bahadur
Title:: UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF AGRICULTURAL ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE: ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE-INDUCED INNOVATION IN RICE BASED CROPPING SYSTEM OF NEPAL
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: agriculture
climate change
climate-technoligy interaction
adaptation
induced innovation
Nepal
File:: Download Netra_Chhetri_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: William Ewart Easterling Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member
James Mc Carthy, Committee Member
David Gerard Abler, Committee Member

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Author:: Terando, Adam James
Title:: Quantifying the effects of climate change on crop yields.
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: climate change
crop yields
agro-climate indices
uncertainty
File:: Download AJTerando_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: William Ewart Easterling Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Petra Tschakert, Committee Member
Denice Heller Wardrop, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Committee Member

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Author:: Howe, Peter D.
Title:: Fingerprints of global warming on public perceptions and beliefs
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: human-environment geography
climate change
global warming
public perceptions
spatial analysis
File:: Download Howe_dissertation_2012-8-10.pdf
Committee Members:: Brenton Yarnal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Stephen Zimmerer, Committee Member
Frank Hardisty, Committee Member
Janet Swim, Committee Member

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Author:: Crisfield, Elizabeth Ann
Title:: Climate change impacts on forests: modeling relationships between static landscape patterns and dynamic vegetation responses
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: climate change
topography
migration networks
Appalachian forests
resilience
File:: Download Crisfield_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Erica A H Smithwick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan H Taylor, Committee Member
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member

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Author:: Read, Mark Robert
Title:: Embracing Uncertainty: Scenario Planning for Climate Change-security Challenges and Opportunities
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: scenario planning
environmental security
climate change
national security
foresight
File:: Download Read_Dissertation_Aug_2014.pdf
Committee Members:: William Ewart Easterling Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Ewart Easterling Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Committee Member
John Anthony Kelmelis, Committee Member
Petra Tschakert, Committee Member
Bryan Lee Mcdonald, Committee Member
Elizabeth Malone, Special Member

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