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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:: Ghosh, Koel
Title:: THREE ESSAYS ON ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY
Graduate Program:: Agricultural Economics
Keywords:: adaptation
climate change
expected value of information
spatial statistics
File:: Download Koel_Ghosh_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: James Samuel Shortle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann N Fisher, Committee Member
Stephan J Goetz, Committee Member
Stephen L Rathbun, Committee Member

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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:: Badayos-jover, Mary Barby P.
Title:: Mainstreaming Gender in Philippine Institutional Responses to Climate Change
Graduate Program:: Rural Sociology
Keywords:: gender mainstreaming
climate change
adaptation
Philippines
File:: Download mpb234_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann Rachel Tickamyer, Committee Member
Cynthia Clare Hinrichs, Committee Member
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member
Petra Tschakert, Committee Member

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Author:: Ware-Gilmore, Fhallon
Title:: Exploring the role of thermal performance in shaping dengue virus transmission and its implication for human health under a changing climate
Graduate Program:: Entomology (PHD)
Keywords:: Thermal tolerance
evolution
aedes aegypti
heat waves
wolbachaia
thermal sensitivity
arboviruses
adaptation
climate change
flaviviruses
aedes albopictus
dengue virus
dengue fever
thermal tolerance
mosquitoes
insect physiology
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Committee Members:: Elizabeth Mcgraw, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Katriona Shea, Outside Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Rudolf Schilder, Major Field Member
Matthew Thomas, Special Member
Ganesh Anand, Outside Unit Member
Moriah Szpara, Outside Field Member

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Author:: Torhan, Sarah
Title:: A Global Characterization of Adaptations Addressing Vulnerabilities Across the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering (MS)
Keywords:: climate change
adaptation
food-energy-water nexus
food security
water security
energy security
File:: Download Torhan_Masters_Thesis_Fall_2021.pdfDownload Table_B-1.xlsx
Committee Members:: Caitlin A Grady, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lauren Mc Phillips, Committee Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member

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Author:: Ritchie, Michelle
Title:: A Novel Framework for the Development of a Spatial Social-Ecological Systems Model of Climate Change Adaptation: An Arctic Case Study Application in North Central Iceland
Graduate Program:: Geography (PHD)
Keywords:: human-environment geography
social-ecological systems
Arctic
climate change
adaptation
File:: Download Ritchie_Dissertation_2021.pdf
Committee Members:: William Easterling, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erica Smithwick, Co-Chair of Committee
Karl Zimmerer, Major Field Member
Richard Alley, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair

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