Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "O'Reilly, Kathleen"
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Keenen, Daniel Benjamin (2023-07-03)This study offers a geographic interpretation of state failure using the case study of Mexico from 1521, when Cortés conquered the Aztecs, to 1848 when the United States defeated Mexico in the Mexican American War. This ...
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Lee, Heather Nicole (2016-07-08)In the twentieth century, central governments managed water supply through largescale infrastructure, known as the water hard path. Water experts advocate for an alternative paradigm for the twenty-first century, or the ...
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Santos, Anna Nunes (2015-01-23)This dissertation investigates the intersection between environmental conservation and livelihoods of small-scale producers. Conservation territories have been expanding into coastal-marine environments because of processes ...
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Mgendi, Mlenge 1971- (2012-12-03)Pneumonia is the main killer of under-five children worldwide. The developing nations suffer the most. But within such countries, the spatial and temporal distribution of pneumonia cases is not uniform; yet little is known ...
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Loder, Thomas Andrew (2018-06-22)The US shale energy boom of the late 2000s and 2010s has brought both economic growth and negative externalities to communities undergoing extraction. Building on previous research on fracking landscapes – as well as ...
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Saguin, Kristian Karlo Cordova (2013-10-31)The dissertation tells the story of the production of socionatures through the development of aquaculture in Laguna Lake. The state introduced lake aquaculture to supplement fisherfolk livelihoods and improve fish production ...
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Joslin, Audrey (2015-12-09)This dissertation investigates how a market-based mechanism for water and biodiversity conservation generates value from ecosystem services, rendering them as a recognizable commodity to be exchanged in a market. Through ...
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Goel, Abhineety (2013-08-08)Proposed Omkareshwar National Park Complex (ONPC), is a planned park in Madhya Pradesh (central India) that is being designed as a compensatory conservation plan to overcome the loss of wildlife and forest by the construction ...
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Dhanju, Richa (2012-02-14)This dissertation focuses on the nature of governance of the urban poor and examines the 'behind the scene' politics as well as the 'side effects' of a recent good governance project designed to serve six million poor ...