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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author:

Clay, Nathan Jared

Title:

Adaptive livelihoods? Climate change, agrodiversity, and food security amid development transitions in Rwanda

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

food security
climate change
agroecology
sustainable intensification
adaptive capacity
environmental governance sub-Saharan Africa
development geography
political ecology
climate change
food security
agroecology
sustainable intensification
adaptive capacity
environmental governance
sub-Saharan Africa
development geography
political ecology

File:

Download Nathan_CLAY_PhD.Diss.final.pdf

Committee Members:

Karl Stephen Zimmerer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Stephen Zimmerer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brian Hastings King, Committee Member
Heather D Karsten, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Outside Member