Browsing by Author "Vadjunec, Jacqueline"
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Ghosts of the past or relics of the future? A geographical analysis of the hand-pulled rickshaws of Calcutta
Hyrapiet, Shireen (2012-12)This dissertation was an attempt to develop a better understanding of the use and value of hand-pulled rickshaws in the city of Calcutta and the lifeworlds of the rickshaw pullers because of a ban placed on the profession ... -
Idle No More and the Treadmill of Production: Corporate Power, Environmental Degradation, and Activism
West, Samantha Lynn (2015-07-01)Idle No More (INM) is a First Nations rights social-environmental movement that began as a response to the proposal of Bill C-45 in Canada. Bill C-45, also known as the Jobs and Growth Act of 2012, deregulated �barriers ... -
Land-use/land-cover change and vulnerability to landslide disasters in Kurseong (Darjeeling Himalayas), India
Bandyopadhyay, Samayita (2021-05)This three-article dissertation (TAD) examines the drivers and impacts of Land-use/land-cover Change (LULCC) on the social-ecological system (SES) in a Himalayan region, prone to landslide disasters. The study region is ... -
Next generation of land system science: Integrating meso-scale analysis and UAS remote sensing in changing plant communities of the United States' Southern Great Plains
Boardman, Austin L. (2020-05)As concerns about desertification, climate change, economic pressures, and reductions in global biodiversity become more prevalent, so too does the importance of research in the socio-ecological resilience of dryland ... -
Rural Oklahoma and the nexus of disaster vulnerability, risk, and resilience
Straub, Adam Michael (2022-03)The concepts of vulnerability, risk, and resilience have experienced a meteoric rise in academic attention among disaster scholars over the past three decades. Vulnerability operates as the set of social conditions which ... -
Stopping the Spread: Examining the Effectiveness of Policies in the Mississippi River Basin Aimed at Preventing the Spread of Zebra Mussels
Carey, Julie (Oklahoma State University, 2009-05-01) -
Understanding climate change discourse in China
Du, Juan (2021-07)China plays a significant role in the international climate regime. Past studies focus on analysis of climate change policies and examine micro-level climate change concerns quantitatively. Using 1736 reports from four ...