• QUANTIFYING VULNERABILITY OF PENINSULAR MALAYSIA’S TIGER LANDSCAPE TO FUTURE FOREST LOSS 

  Shevade, Varada (2018)

  Agricultural expansion has been the dominant driver of tropical deforestation and increased consumption of commodities and resulting global trade have become distal drivers of land cover change. Habitat loss and fragmentation ...

• Natural Resources, Civil Conflict, and the Political Ecology of Scale 

  Wayland, Joshua James (2018)

  This dissertation adopts a multi-scalar and mixed methods approach to interrogate the widely observed but underdefined relationship between natural resources and civil conflict. The results of three largely independent ...

• The role of the government in the creation of Places and, the impact that that action has on Identity: A case study in Puerto Rico 

  Sanchez-Rivera, Ana Ivelisse (2018)

  Identity is at the crux of a person’s life. People’s pursuit of uniqueness strongly motivates the process of constructing identity. Place has a major role in that process but present theories focused on identity consider ...

• FUSING GEDI LIDAR AND TANDEM-X INSAR OBSERVATIONS FOR IMPROVED FOREST STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS MAPPING 

  Qi, Wenlu (2018)

  The upcoming NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission presents an unprecedented opportunity to advance current global biomass estimates. However, gaps are expected between GEDI’s ground tracks, requiring ...

• TOPICS IN MODELLING ADAPTATION DYNAMICS OF CHINESE AGRICULTURE TO OBSERVED CLIMATE CHANGE 

  Zhong, Honglin (2018)

  Chinese farmers have adopted multiple adaptation measures to mitigate the negative impact of, and to capture the opportunities brought by, the observed climate change in the last several decades. Such adaptations will ...

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