PhD Alumni
Click the student's dissertation title to see his/her defense video, if available. Note that many videos may be password-protected by the student.
| Student Name | Dissertation Video | YEAR | Advisors | Linked In |
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| Nikit Abhyankar | Essays on Modeling Energy Future of India: Natural Gas, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency | 2012 |
John Weyant (MS&E) Larry Goulder (Econ) |
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| Garrett Adler | Social Order and Social Protection: Mechanisms and Moderators in Climate-Related Violent Conflict | 2022 |
Marshall Burke (SDSS) Kenneth Schultz (Poli Sci) |
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| Christa Anderson | Land Use Policy for Forest Management: Impacts on Forest Outcomes | 2018 |
Chris Field (Bio) Eric Lambin (ESS) |
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| Ronan Arthur | Epidemics and Adaptive Behavior as a Coupled Human-Natural System: Trust and Response to the 2014-15 Ebola Epidemic in Liberia | 2018 |
Jamie Jones (ESS) Marcus Feldman (Bio) |
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| Whitney Bagge | The landscape epidemiology of zoonotic diseases: rodent-borne bartonella and livestock anthrax | 2017 |
James Jones (ESS) Stephen Luby (Med) |
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| Austin Becker | Building seaport resilience for climate change adaptation: Problem identification, impacts assessment, and stakeholder strategies | 2013 |
Pam Matson (ESS) Martin Fischer (CEE) |
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| Elinor Benami | Shaping the Producer's Problem: The Role of Land-use Zoning and Certification in the Sustainability of Brazilian Oil Palm and Coffee | 2018 |
Eric Lambin (ESS) Marshall Burke (ESS) |
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| Rebecca Benner (Goldman) | Novel Institutional Approaches for Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | 2008 |
Gretchen Daily (Bio) Barton Thompson (Law) |
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| Nicole Buckley Biggs | Engaging Agricultural Landowners in Climate and Conservation: California Case Studies | 2022 |
Eric Lambin (ESS) Lynn huntsinger (UC Berkley) |
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| Laura Bloomfield | At the Edge of Zoonotic Spillover: Land Use, Human-Primate Contact and Social Networks in Western Uganda | 2018 |
Jamie Jones (ESS) Eric Lambin (ESS) |
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| Hilary Schaffer Boudet | Contentious Politics in Liquefied Natural Gas Facility Siting | 2010 |
Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Douglas McAdam (Sociology) |
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| Greg Bratman | The impacts of nature experience on mood, emotion regulation, and cognitive function | 2015 |
Gretchen Daily (Bio) Debra Satz (Phil) |
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| Kate Brauman | Hydrologic Ecosystem Services: Managing Land Cover to Enhance Water Resources | 2010 |
Gretchen Daily (Bio) David Freyberg (CEE) |
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| Cassandra Brooks | Policies for managing the global commons: The case of marine protected areas in Antarctica | 2016 |
Larry Crowder (Hopkins) Lisa Curran (Anthro) |
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| Nina Brooks | Global Health and the Environment: Studies on air pollution and reproductive health policies | 2020 |
Stephen Luby (Med) Grant Miller (Med) |
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| Rachel Carlson | Climate Resilience in the Coastal Zone: Coral Survival and Regrowth in the Hawaiian Archipelago | 2022 |
Greg Asner (Arizona State) Larry Crowder (Oceans) |
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| Marissa Childs | Environmental change and human health: vector-borne disease transmission and wildfire smoke pollution | 2022 |
Marshall Burke (ESS) Erin Mordecai (Bio)
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| Marilyn Cornelius | Designing Behavioral Solutions to Reduce Residential Energy Use | 2012 |
Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Tom Robinson (Med) |
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| Amanda Cravens | Evaluating software in environmental conflict resolution: The role of MarineMap in coastal planning and decision making in California | 2014 |
Richard White (History) Meg Caldwell (Oceans) |
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| Danny Cullenward | Essays in Energy Economics and Climate Policy | 2013 |
John Weyant (MS&E) Jonathan Koomey (CEE) |
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| Joann De Zegher | Toward sustainable sourcing in global supply chains | 2017 |
Chris Field (Bio) Dan Iancu (GSB) |
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| Rachel Engstrand | The Human & Environmental Dynamics of Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining inThe Peruvian Amazon | 2021 |
Greg Asner (Arizona State University) Kabir Peay (Bio) |
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| Caroline Ferguson | Lessons from Palau on Managing Fisheries for Equity and Sustainability | 2021 |
Fiorenza Micheli (Bio) William Durham (Anthro) |
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| Jenna Forsyth | Root Causes of Lead Exposure in Rural Bangladesh | 2019 |
Stephen Luby (Med) Nicole Ardoin (Edu) |
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| Jason Funk | Carbon farming in New Zealand: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Indigenous Reforestation as a Land-use System | 2009 |
Chris Field (Bio) Pam Matson (ESS) |
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| Rachael Garrett | Interactions between global supply chains, land use, and governance: the case of soybean production in South America | 2013 |
Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Eric Lambin (ESS) |
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| Joanne Gaskell | The Palm Oil Revolution in Asia | 2012 |
Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Walter Falcon (FSI) |
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| Andy Gerhart | An environmental and social history of the Chilean salmon farming industry, 1976-2009 | 2015 |
Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Richard White (History) |
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| Joshua Goldstein | Paying for Conservation in Human-Dominated Landscapes | 2007 |
Gretchen Daily (Bio) Rosamond Naylor (ESS) |
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| David Gonzalez | Upstream Oil Production, Ambient Air Quality, and Preterm Birth in California | 2021 |
Gary Shaw (Med) Marshall Burke (ESS) |
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| Rachelle Gould | The Forest Has a Story: Reforestation and Cultural Ecosystem Services in Kona, Hawaiˈi | 2013 |
Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Gretchen Daily (Bio) |
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| Kristen Green | Respect the Land: Pathways to Resource Stewardship and Resiliency in a Changing Arctic | 2021 |
Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Larry Crowder (Hopkins) |
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| Gus Greenstein | Bureaucracy Matters: Organizational Structure and Performance in Brazil's Pretected Areas Agency | 2023 |
Francis Fuyuyama (FSI) Leonard Ortolano (CEE) |
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| Emily Grubert | Improving life cycle assessment as a decision support tool using empirical data for multicriteria prioritization | 2017 |
Mark Algee-Hewitt (English) Adam Brandt (ERE) |
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| Mark Hayes | Flexible LNG Supply, Gas Storage and Price Formation in a Global Gas Market | 2006 |
David Victor James Sweeney (MS&E) |
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| Robert Heilmayr | Chile's forest transition: Foreshadowing global timber markets and governance | 2015 |
Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Chris Field (Bio) |
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| Michael Harris | Household sanitation services in Sub-Saharan Africa: coverage targets, child health outcomes, and a benefit-cost analysis | 2019 |
Barton Thompson (Law) Eran Bendavid (Med) |
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| Miyuki Hino | 2019 |
Chris Field (Bio) Marshall Burke (ESS) |
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| Randall Holmes | Strategies for Managing Naturally Occurring Contaminants in Groundwater Basins of the Central Valley, California | 2023 |
Scott Fendorf (ESS) Richard Luthy (CE) |
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| Kristen Honey | Aligning Complex, Adaptive Systems Theory and Data-Limited Assessment Strategies for Improved Fisheries Management | 2013 |
Stephen Monismith (CEE) Fiorenza Micheli (Bio) |
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| Michael Hooper | The Dynamics of Displacement: A Study of Slum Dweller Mobilization Around Urban Evictions in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 2010 |
Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Jeremy Weinstein (Poli Sci) |
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| Andrew Hume | Oceanic Influence and Sustainable Development of Large Ocean States | 2022 |
Rob Dunbar (ESS) James Leape (Center for Ocean Solutions) |
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| Holmes Hummel | Interpreting global energy and emission scenarios: Methods for understanding and communicating policy insights | 2006 |
John Weyant (MS&E) Stephen Schneider |
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| Hajin Kim | Markets, Morality, and the Environment | 2020 |
Buzz Thompson (Law) Dale Miller (GSB) |
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| Dane Klinger | Navigating emerging challenges in marine aquaculture: Toxins, temperature, and new species | 2014 |
Fiorenza Micheli (Bio) Rosamond Naylor (ESS) |
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| Adam Leising | Peer Effects within Homeowner Adoption of Solar-PV Panels: A Case-Control Study of Three Northern California Cities | 2014 |
Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Jim Sweeney (MS&E) |
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| Staci Lewis | Linking socio-political transformations to environmental change: A mixed methods approach to assessing adaptive watershed governance in the Republic of Palau | 2019 |
Rob Dunbar (ESS) Meg Caldwell (Oceans) |
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| Noa Lincoln | Agroecology of the Kona Field System | 2014 |
Peter Vitousek (Bio) Nicole Ardoin (Edu) |
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Heather Lukacs |
Sustaining the benefits of stream restoration by watershed groups in Appalachia |
2014 |
Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Walter Powell (GSE) |
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| Andrea Lund | Human-environment dynamics in the eco-epidemiology of schistosomiasis | 2020 |
Giulio deLeo (Bio) Jason Andrews (Med) |
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| Justin Mankin | Climate certainty, uncertainty, and human water availability in a warming world | 2015 |
Noah Diffenbaugh (ESS) Stephen Stedman (FSI) |
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| Michael Mastrandrea | "Dangerous" Climate Change: Probabilistic Integrated Assessment, Ecosystem Impacts, and Abrupt Climatic Change | 2004 |
Stephen Schneider Rob Dunbar (ESS) |
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| Casey Maue | Climate, Agriculture, and Economic Development: Theories and Methods for Agricultural Productivity Analysis | 2021 |
Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Charles Kolstad (SIEPR) |
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| KC McKanna | The Impact of Identity, Situation, and Action Framing on Environmental Behavior | 2022 |
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (ESS) Dale Miller (GSB) |
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| Adam Millard-Ball | Why Do Cities Care About Climate Change? Essays on Carbon Offsets and Climate Action Plans | 2011 |
Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Stephen Schneider |
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| Rebecca Miller | Wildfire Resilience Policies in California | 2021 |
Chris Field (Bio) Bruce Cain (Poli Sci) |
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| Frances Moore | Empirical Constraints on the Rate and Effectiveness of Private Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture | 2015 |
David Lobell (ESS) Lawrence Goulder (Econ) |
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| Josheena Naggea |
People and the Sea in the Mascarenes: Social-ecological Impacts of Disaster |
2022 |
Larry Crowder (Hopkins) Krish Seetah (Antro) |
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| Kimberly Nicholas | Global change in local places: Climate change and the future of The Wine Industry in Sonoma and Napa, California | 2008 |
Chris Field (Bio) William Durham (Anthro) |
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| Rebecca Niemiec | The Multi-Scalar Drivers of Resident Invasive Species Control Action in Hawai'i | 2018 |
Nicole Ardoin (Educ) Greg Asner (Carnegie) |
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| Lauren Oakes | Forests in a changing climate: social and ecological responses to yellow-cedar decline in the Alexander Archipelago, Alaska | 2015 |
Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Eric Lambin (ESS) |
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| Katrina ole-MoiYoi | Fishing for Answers: Can Aquaculture Transform Food Security in Rural Kenya? | 2017 |
Meg Caldwell (Oceans) Rosamind Naylor (ESS) |
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| Kirsten Oleson | Sustainability of comprehensive wealth - A practical and normative assessment | 2007 |
Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Debra Satz (Phil) |
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| Chikara Onda | Climate, jobs, and inequity: Models of worker mobility and distribution under carbon pricing | 2020 |
Charles Kolstad (SIEPR) John Weyant (MS&E) |
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| Michael Ovadia | Humanizing Markets: The Emergence of Community in the Sharing Economy | 2016 |
Baba Shiv (GSB) Leonard Ortolano (CEE) |
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| Andrew Perlstein | Sustainable Urban Development in China: Challenges for the Planning Profession | 2012 |
Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Karen Ching-Yee Seto |
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| Amy Pickering | Water access, hand hygiene, and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa | 2011 |
Jenna Davis (CEE) Alexandria Boehm (CEE) |
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| Rodrigo Pizarro | The Global Diffusion of Conservation Policy: an Institutional Analysis | 2012 |
Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Richard Scott (Sociology) |
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| Narasimha Rao | Distributional Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation in India: National and Global Implications | 2011 |
Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Debra Zatz (Phil) |
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| Nathan Ratledge | The Economic Impacts of Energy and Climate Technology in the Global South | 2022 |
Marshall Burke (SDSS) Stefan Reichelstein (GSB) |
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| Sudatta Ray | Rural Electrification Expansion and its Role in Shaping Agriculture and Food Security in India | 2021 |
Rosamond Naylor (ESS) Sally Benson (ERE) |
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| Dan Reineman | The human dimensions of wave resource management in California | 2015 |
Meg Caldwell (Oceans) Nicole Ardoin (Educ) |
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| Elizabeth Richards | Over-Allocation and the Doctrine of Prior Appropriation: Water Rights Settlement Agreements in New Mexico | 2008 |
Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Jim Sweeney (MS&E) |
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| Nik Sawe | The Neuroeconomics of Environmental Decision-Making: Individual Differences and Behavior | 2015 |
Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Brian Knutson (Psych) |
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| Caroline Scruggs | Minimizing Unregulated Hazardous Chemicals in Consumer Products: Challenges, Strategies, and Motivations of Proactive Companies | 2012 |
Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Richard Luthy (CEE) |
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| Samantha Sekar | Misrepresented: Understanding the gap between US public opinion and policy on climate change | 2020 |
Peter Vitousek (Bio) David Lobell (ESS) |
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| Allison Sherris | Environmental Contaminants and Health in Early Life: Studies on Air Pollution and Drinking Water Quality | 2021 |
Stephen Luby (Med) Scott Fendorf (ESS) |
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| Geoff Shester | Sustainability In Small-Scale Fisheries: An Analysis Of Ecosystem Impacts, Fishing Behavior, and Spatial Management Using Participatory Research Methods | 2008 |
Fiorenza Micheli (Bio) Lawrence Goulder (Econ) |
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| Lin Shi | Supply Chain Sustainability in the Information and Communication Technologies Industry | 2021 |
Adam Brandt (ERE) Dan Iancu (GSB) |
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| Kaitlin Shilling | Climate Change and Conflict: Identifying the Mechanisms | 2012 |
Walter Falcon (FSI) Rosamond Naylor (ESS) |
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| A.R Siders | Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change | 2017 |
Martin Fischer (CEE) Meg Caldwell (Oceans) |
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| Gemma Smith | Designing Diplomacy: Collaborative Governance in International River Basin | 2023 |
Bruce Cain (Poli Sci) David Freyberg (CEE) |
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| Carolyn Snyder | Key uncertainties in the risks of future climate change: Insights from a probabilistic analysis of climate change over the past million years | 2010 |
Chris Field (Bio) Stephen Schneider |
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| Veena Srinivasan | An integrated framework for analysis of water supply strategies in a developing world city: Chennai, India | 2008 |
Steven Gorelick (ESS) Lawrence Goulder (Econ) |
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| Charlotte Stanton | Experiments in Environment and Development | 2015 |
Gretchen Daily (Bio) Eric Lambin (ESS)
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| Andy Stocks | Uncertainty analysis and regression models for marine human impact mapping | 2017 |
Meg Caldwell (Oceans) Fiorenza Micheli (Bio) |
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| Aiga Stokenberga | Choosing a Home in a Complex Physical and Social Ecosystem: How networks shape residential location choices and livelihood strategies in Bogota, Columbia | 2016 |
Daniel McFarland (Edu) James Sweeney (MS&E) |
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| Aaron Strong | Knowledge to Action in the Anthropocene: Understanding and Managing Biogeochemical Cycles Under Anthropogenic Global Change | 2016 |
Kevin Arrigo (ESS) Meg Caldwell (Oceans) |
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| Briana Swette | Changing Land and People Across the High Divide: A Land Use Transition Analysis of the Rural American West | 2022 |
Eric Lambin (ESS) Michelle Anderson (Law) |
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| Shannon Switzer Swanson | 2022 |
Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Larry Crowder (Hopkins) |
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| Tannis Thorlakson | Sustainable Sourcing in Agricultural Supply Chains: An Analysis Across Scales | 2018 |
Eric Lambin (ESS) Rosamond Naylor (ESS) |
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| Nicola Ulibarri | Collaborating for People and Nature: Assessing the Impacts of Collaborative Governance in Federal Hydropower Licensing | 2015 |
Lisa Curran (Anthro) Leonard Ortolano (CEE) |
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| Jose Urteaga | Examining Factors that Affect Community Participation in Sea Turtle Governance: Lessons Learned from Eastern Pacific Hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) Conservation in El Salvador and Nicaragua | 2022 |
Nicole Ardoin (SDSS) Larry Crowder (Oceans) |
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| Mehana Blaich Vaughan | Holoholo i ke kai o Hiala'a. Collaborative Community Care and Management of Coastal Resources: Creating State Law Based on Customary Community Rules To Manage a Near Shore Fishery in Hawai'i | 2012 |
Peter Vitousek (Bio) Buzz Thompson (Law) |
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| Jennifer Wang | Putting Individuals in Context: Interdisciplinary and Behavioral Science Approaches for Understanding Environmental and Human Health Decisions | 2018 |
Nicole Ardoin (Edu) Dale Miller (GSB) |
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| Justin Warren | A Policy Comparison of Bacterial Pollution at Two Swimming Beaches in Southern California Using a Joint Physical-Behavioral-Economic Simulation Analysis | 2009 |
Lawrence Goulder (Econ) Oliver Fringer (CEE) |
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| Philip Womble | Water rights markets in the 21st century: Transaction costs and optimal environmental water portfolios in Colorado, USA | 2020 |
Buzz Thompson (Law) Steve Gorelick (ESS) |
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| Xuehua Zhang | Enforcing Environmental Regulations in Hubei Province, China: Agencies, Courts, Citizens | 2008 |
Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Buzz Thompson (Law) |
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| Valentina Zuin | Improving Water Services for Unconnected Urban Households in Sub-Saharan Africa: Preferences and Options in Maputo, Mozambique | 2014 |
Leonard Ortolano (CEE) Jenna Davis (CEE) |