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biblioscope
AN ARCHIVAL GUIDE & BIBLIOGRAPHY
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
| Bendor, Todd K. "Redistribution Effects of Wetland Mitigation Over Space and Time." PhD dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. 117 pp. Looks at wetlands protection policies and regulations and their effect on limiting the damage to wetlands due to increased urban development. Includes an overview of the history and structure of U.S. wetland conservation policy.DeJong, David H. "The Sword of Damocles: Pima Agriculture, Water Use, and Water Rights, 1848–1921 (Arizona)." PhD dissertation, The University of Arizona, 2007. 386 pp. A study of the water rights conflicts in Arizona between the Pima Indians and the U.S. government between 1848 and 1921, and the impact of limited water supply on Pima agriculture.Demitroff, Mark Nicholas. " Pine Barrens Wetlands: Geographical Reflections of South Jersey's Periglacial Legacy." Master's thesis, University of Delaware, 2007. 244 pp. Looks at the glacial origins of the wetlands of the Pinelands National Reserve in New Jersey and the effects of 200,000 years of global climate change on this regional environment.Guthrie, William Keith. "Flood Alley: An Environmental History of Flooding in Texas." PhD dissertation, University of Kansas, 2006. 397 pp. A study of the history of flooding in the Edwards Plateau region of Texas from the times of early Native Americans through the twentieth century. Examines how humans throughout history have dealt with the region's floods, and how human impact and environmental change have affected the rate and severity of the flooding.Hall, Jeremy Nathan. "Late Prehistoric (Oneota) Exploitation of Bison, Elk, and Deer at the Howard Goodhue Site, Central Iowa." Master's thesis, Iowa State University, 2007. 162 pp. Examination of Oneota hunting of bison, elk, and deer through the study of skeletal remains in the region of modern Iowa.Hill, Jesse Jaron. "Use of Preserved Museum Fish to Evaluate the Mercury Contamination in Two Oklahoma Rivers." Master's thesis, Texas Christian University, 2007. 23 pp. Reveals temporal trends throughout the twentieth century of mercury concentrations in fish from Oklahoma's rivers using preserved museum specimens.Hill, Nancy. "The Imprint of Cotton Production on Arizona Landscapes." PhD dissertation, Arizona State University, 2007. 363 pp. An examination of the impact of cotton production in Arizona on the local environment and landscape in the early twentieth century. Looks at the impact of irrigation farming on the desert landscape as well as the urban development that resulted from the labor and technological needs of the cotton industry.Luna, Marcos. "The Biomedicalization of Public Health and the Marginalization of the Environment: A Policy History from the Environment to the Hospital and Back Again." PhD dissertation, University of Delaware, 2007. 437 pp. An examination of the shift in U.S. public health policy from environmental approaches to biomedical approaches through government legislation over the course of the twentieth century, and the de-emphasizing of environmental protection from public health policy and institutions.Patzewitsch, Wendy Winborn. "Changing Patterns and Perceptions of Water Use in East Central Texas Since the Time of Anglo Settlement." PhD dissertation, Texas A&M University , 2007. 433 pp. Examination of changes in the approach to water use in Texas from the early nineteenth century through the late twentieth century. Looks at early agrarian water use, pipes and waterworks, dam building, the threat of flood and drought, and groundwater sales.Potts, Dale E. "Woods Voices, Woods Knowledge: Work and Recreation in the Popular Literature of the Northeastern Forest, 1850–1963." PhD dissertation, University of Maine, 2007. 310 pp. A study of the representation of Maine's forests in American literature between 1850 and 1963, looking at the presentation of forests as both a working labor landscape and as a natural recreational landscape.Scott, Amy L. "Remaking Urban in the American West: Lifestyle Politics, Micropolitan Urbanism, and Hip Capitalism in Boulder, Colorado, 1958–1978." PhD dissertation, University of New Mexico, 2007. 404 pp. Looks at the remaking of urban culture in Boulder, Colorado, between 1958 and 1978, through the influences of the environmental movement and the politics of the New Left. Looks at activism through local politics, and the work done toward the creation of a projected ideal urban environment.Shulman, Peter Adam. "Empire of Energy: Environment, Geopolitics, and American Technology Before the Age of Oil." PhD dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. 318 pp. Analyzes the relationship between coal and American global expansion between 1840 and 1930, examining how the need for coal reoriented American geographic perspectives and lead to the growth of overseas naval bases and coaling stations.Watterson, Rodney Keith. "32 in '44: A Management and Environmental Study of Submarine Construction at Portsmouth Navy Yard During World War II." PhD dissertation, University of New Hampshire, 2007. 441 pp. Investigates the environmental impacts of increased submarine production during World War II at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Maine, such as the resulting toxic industrial waste, water pollution, and lost wetlands.Weber, Suzanne Weiner. "Life and Death in the Forest: Landscape Agency During the Holocaust." PhD dissertation, Florida International, 2007. 194 pp. Studies the role and meaning of forests to Jewish fugitives from Nazi oppression in the early twentieth century. Research based on interviews of Jewish Holocaust survivors who sought refuge in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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