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biblioscope

AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Buzzetto-More, Nicole. "The Black Rock Forest Consortium: A Narrative." Ed.D., Columbia University Teachers College, 2004. 154 pp. Narrative history of the Black Rock Forest in New York's Hudson Valley, a wilderness area established in the 1920s near Cornwall, New York as a research center and demonstration of sustained yield management. Focuses on the development and operations of the Black Rock Forest Consortium, a unique amalgamation of educational, scientific, and cultural institutions that collaborate to enhance research, conservation, and education.

Checkovich, Alex. "Mapping the American Way: Geographical Knowledge and the Development of the United States, 1890–1950." PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. 277 pp. Environmental and social history of American cartography, focusing on the opening of a distinctive historical-geographical frontier from 1890 to 1950. Explores the history of the constitutive practices of mapping, the explosion of scientific and commercial maps in the twentieth century, and the evolution of land-use mapping.

Culver, Milton Lawrence, Jr. "The Island, The Oasis, and the City: Santa Catalina, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and Southern California's Shaping of American Life and Leisure." PhD Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004. 402 pp. Examines the promotion of leisure in Southern California, 1870s-twentieth century, addressing questions of the effects of promotion on the region's development and population diversity, and the role of Southern California leisure in shaping national culture.

Dameron-Hager, Irene. "The Contribution of Environmental History to the Development of a Model to Aid Watershed Management: A Comparative Study of the Big Darby Creek and Deer Creek Watersheds in Ohio." PhD Dissertation, Ohio State University, 2004. 266 pp. Develops a model to help explain variations in watershed quality and integrity by combining elements from environmental history and natural resource management. Applies model to Ohio's Big Darby Creek and Deer Creek watersheds.

Diamond, David. "Migrations: Henderson Luelling and the Cultivated Apple, 1822–1854." PhD Dissertation, Northern Arizona University, 2004. 344 pp. Draws on biology and botany as well as history in studying the life of Henderson Luelling, who in the early nineteenth century transported, propagated, and dispersed the first grafted fruit trees in the American far west. Seeks to recognize the historical agency of plants and nature as well as people.

Durrant, Mari Bradshaw. "Communities, Place, and Conservation on Mount Kilimanjaro." PhD Dissertation, Brigham Young University, 2004. 187 pp. Analyzes the interaction between the 1970s organization of Kilimanjaro National Park and Forest Reserve (KINAPA) in Tanzania and the Chagga people living near its boundaries, emphasizing the cultural roots of the Chagga sense of place and its influence on their interaction with the mountain.

Filipiak, Jeffrey M. "Learning from the Land: Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson on Knowledge and Nature." PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2004. 429 pp. Seeks to identify the sources of the ideas of conservationists Wendell Berry (b. 1934) and Wes Jackson about acquisition of knowledge about nature, and to study the development of those ideas into proposals for sustainable agriculture. Argues for understanding both of these figures within the context of the American environmental movement.

Foley, Christina Gail. "Understanding the Connection Between People and the Land: Implications for Social-Ecological Health at Iskatewizaagegan No. 39 Independent First Nation." M.N.R.M., University of Manitoba, 2004. 95 pp. Documents the cultural history of significant sites in the Iskatewizeegegan Independent First Nation (IIFN) community of Shoal Lake, Ontario, examining the relationship between the health of the land and the health of the people.

Forbes, William. "Revisiting Aldo Leopold's 'Perfect' Land Health: Conservation and Development in Mexico's Rio Gavilan." PhD Dissertation, University of North Texas, 2004. 299 pp. Assesses impacts of past cultures and current land health status of the Rio Gavilan watershed in Mexico's northern Sierra Madre Occidental, identified in the 1930s by conservationist Aldo Leopold as the best picture of land health he had seen.

Guhl, Andres. "Coffee and Landscape Change in the Colombian Countryside, 1970–2002." PhD Dissertation, University of Florida, 2004. 343 pp. Analyzes the landscape impacts of commercial intensification of coffee agriculture in Colombia between 1970 and 2002.

Husmann, John Paul. "Transplantations: A Comparative History of Afforestation in Nebraska and South Australia, 1870s–1940s." PhD Dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004. 402 pp. Comparatively examines the history of afforestation in the forest-poor states of Nebraska and South Australia, 1870s–1940s, analyzing settler-conducted expansion and modification of forest cover in these two locations. Theorizes that although both areas embraced afforestation, the two ultimately pursued distinct policies due to unique environmental, economic, and political contexts.

Laliberte, Andrea S. "Human Influences on Historical and Current Wildlife Distributions from Lewis & Clark to Today." PhD Dissertation, Oregon State University, 2004. 130 pp. Argues for greater understanding of historical human-wildlife interactions, using journals such as those kept by Lewis and Clark on their 1804–1806 expedition to assess the influence of humans on wildlife distribution and abundance in North America.

McMullen, Patrick T. "Federal Environmental Legislation and Tribal Sovereignty: An Empirical Study of Social Power." PhD Dissertation, Arizona State University, 2004. 265 pp. Examines and interprets selected United States federal environmental regulations that contain differing definitions of tribal jurisdictional authority, arguing that social power groups have influenced regulation with varying effects on tribal sovereignty.

Mercier, Stephen Mark. "Revaluing the Literary Naturalist: John Burroughs's Emotive Environmental Aesthetics." PhD Dissertation, University of Rhode Island, 2004. 295 pp. Argues that emotion, or sentimental attachment to animals and their habitats, is a central feature in the literary naturalism and environmental aesthetics of John Burroughs (1837–1921). Examines Burroughs's role in environmental legislation for the protection of birds in the 1910s.

Parkins, John Russell. "Forest Management and the Public Sphere: The Case of Public Advisory Committees in Alberta." PhD Dissertation, University of Alberta (Canada), 2004. 164 pp. Critically assesses three forest sector public advisory committees in Alberta, Canada, providing a history of public participation in forest management.

Petrie, Ian C. "Village Visions: Science and Technology in the Bengal Countryside, c. 1860–1947." PhD Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. 295 pp. Traces the emergence of official and popular discourses on rural poverty and "backwardness" and the prospect of their amelioration through science and technology in colonial Bengal, mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.

Sachs, Aaron. "The Humboldt Current: Avant-Garde Exploration and Environmental Thought in 19th-Century America." PhD Dissertation, Yale University, 2004. 691 pp. Examines nineteenth-century American exploration, questioning the assumption that explorers were primarily agents of empire and arguing that instead, many helped lay the groundwork for ecology-based environmentalism. Traces the influence of Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt, considered the founder of ecology, as reflected in the writings of J. N. Reynolds, Clarence King, George Wallace Melville, and John Muir.

Shaw, Keith Michael. "Sustainability in the History of Liberal Thought." PhD Dissertation, Stanford University, 2004. 247 pp. Examining the work of philosophers including Thomas Hobbes, John Stuart Mill, and John Rawls, argues that the concept of sustainability developed principally within the confines of the liberal tradition.

Stromberg, Joseph Allen. "World War II Defense Plants and their Environmental Legacy: In Whose Defense?" M.A. Thesis, University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2004. 119 pp. Examines the environmental impact and management of several U.S. government-owned defense plants, primarily the Longhorn Tin Smelter in Texas City, Texas, both before and after they became Superfund sites in 1980.

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