Dissertations

Name

Year

Title

Melissa Zoe Fryer

2023

“Hydraulic Fracturing and the Corporate Colonization of the Subsurface”

Morgann Means

2023

“Pillars of Stone or Pillars of Sand? An Analysis of Sustainability Discourse in U.S. Cities”

Rudy Leal McCormack

2023

“Towards a Dialectical Account of Eco-Neurosis: Developing a Framework on the Unconscious in an Age of Ecological Degradation”

Mary Witlacil

2023

“Pessimism and the Anthropocene”

Sharmini Nair

2022

South Africa and India’s Support of the ILO’s Green Initiatives: A Comparative Study Using the Postcolonial Lens.

Julianne Liebenguth

2022

Environmental Security: A Source of Legitimacy and Contestation in Global Environmental Governance

Nathaniel Bork

2022

Failure to Communicate How American Progressive Neoliberal Campus Policies Contribute to Conservative Mistrust of Higher Education and Skepticism Towards Research on Anthropogenic Global Warming

Hyeyoon Park

2021

China and Transparency Norm Development in Global Extractives Governance

Seth Crew

2021

Regulatory Drift and Path Dependence in Distributed Generation Policies Across US States

Chelsea Walker

2019

Re-imagining the Ecological Subject: Toward a Critical Materialism of Entangled Ecologies

Mike Angstadt

2019

Green Courts and Global Norms: Specialized Environmental Courts and the Global Governance of Environmental ChallengesGreen Courts and Global Norms: Specialized Environmental Courts and the Global Governance of Environmental Challenges

Katherine Hoffer

2018

Policy Innovation and Change: The Diffusion and Modification of the Renewable Portfolio Standard, 1994 – 2014

Jeff Cook

2017

Setting the Record Straight: Interest Group Influence on Climate Policy at the Environmental Protection Agency

Megan Demasters

2017

Solving the Rubik's Cube: Understanding the Many Sides of the Municipal Stormwater Program

Megan Ruxton

2017

This Budworm's For You: How Framing, Trust and Participation Affect Attitudes on Natural Resource Management Issues in Atlantic Canada and New England

Matt Luizza

2015

Integrative Geospatial Modeling: Combining Local and Indigenous Knowledge with Geospatial Applications for Adaptive Governance of Invasive Species and Ecosystem Services

Theresa Jedd

2015

Accountability and Legitimacy in Transboundary Network Forest Governance: A Case Study of the Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent

Jonathan Fisk

2015

Fracking and Goldilocks Federalism: The Too Loud, Too Quiet, and Just Right Politics of States and Cities

Samantha Mosier

2014

Examining the Policy Diffusion of Organic Food and Agriculture Legislation in the U.S.: The Role of the States in Developing Organic Standards

Young-soo Huh

2013

Justice, Democracy and the Siting of Nuclear Waste Repositories: The Buan and Gyungju Cases

Janeane Harwell

2012

The Impacts of National Security and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Study of Shared Protected Areas

John Hultgren

2012

American Environmentalism, Sovereignty and the “Immigration Problem”

Timothy Ehresman

2012

Liberal International Environmental Justice and Foreign Direct Investment at the International Finance Corporation

Andrew Kear

2011

Unconventional Politics of Unconventional Gas: Environmental Reframing and Policy Change

Dallas Blaney

2010

Understanding Global Civil Society: Theory, Governance and the Global Water Crisis

George Stetson

2010

Hydrocarbon Conflict in the Peruvian Amazon: Indigenous People’s Decolonization of Development and Sustainability

Mariah Dawn King

2010

The Role of Perceptions on Effective Judicial Access for the Gay and Lesbian and Environmental Social Movements in Chile and Argentina

Nicole Detraz

2009

Gender, Security, and the Environment: Lessons from the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Water Basin

Katherine Young

2008

The Animal Paradox: Animals, Sovereignty and the Politics of Eating

Oscar Ibàñez

2008

Policy Change and Environmental Governance at the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Creation and Development of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission/North American Development Bank.

Brad Clark

2007

River Restoration and Dam Removal in the American West: An Examination of Policy Change across Political Jurisdictions

Nicole Freiner

2007

Gender, Political Participation and the Environment in Japan

Soonja Lee

2006

Decentralization and Local Challenges in Environmental Resources Policy: The Korean Cases

Martin J. Adamian

2006

International Environmental (In)Justice:  Critical Legal Studies and Justice in Climate Change

Elizabeth Mayhall Sherr

2006

Understanding the International Joint Commission: A Comparative Case Study Approach

R. Christopher Burnett

2003

Wildlife Policy in the State: A Comparative Case Study of Policy Change in California, Colorado, and Ohio

Kurt Cline

2003

EPA and the States: Working Relationships in Environmental Protection

Lisa Dale

2003

Community Forestry in Ethiopia: Finding the Locus of Governance

Pamela Duncan

2003

Subnational Impacts of NAFTA’S Environmental Regime: A Comparative Analysis of Canada, The United States, and Mexico

Donna Lybecker

2003

Decentralization of Mexican Environmental & Water Policy: Baja California and Sonora

Margaret Corwin

2002

The Dynamics of Policy Change in Dominant Subsystems: Colorado, Oregon, and the Politics of Growth

Lilias Jones Jarding

2001

“Shadow Federalism”: Natural Resources, Native Americans, and National Interactions

Kyle Gardner

2001

Analyzing Policy Change: The Greening of the Department of Energy

William Salka

2000

Direct Democracy and Environmental Conflict in the States

Miles L. Burnett

1999

Implementation of Pollution Prevention Policy: A Comparative Analysis of State Program Implementation

Thomas J. Cioppa

1999

Institutional vs. Environmental Effectiveness in Antarctica: The Agreed Measures and the Madrid Protocol

Rick S. Kurtz

1999

Policy Change in Resources Protection Statutes for Federal Public Lands: Testing the Punctuated Equilibrium Model

John M. Riley

1999

Critical Collaboration, NGOS, and the State in India’s Rural Development

Eligar Sadeh

1999

Dynamics of International Space Cooperation: Evaluating Missions for Exploring Space and Protecting the Earth

Eric Yoichi Shibuya

1999

“Mice Can Roar”: Small Island States in International Environmental Policy

Georgia Ottoni Carvalho

1998

The Evolution of Amazon Policy in Brazil Since 1988: A Case Study of the Grande Carajás Program

Gerald B. Thomas

1998

Analyzing Environmental Policy Change: U.S. Landsat Policy, 1964-1998

Robert A. De Lapp

1998

The Politics of Weather Modification: Shifting Coalitions

Stephen D. Ryder

1997

National Parks and the Politics of Adjacent Lands

Hans Bruynickx

1996

Environmental Degradation and Violent Social Conflict: A Theoretical Framework of Analysis

Susan E. Kirkpatrick

1995

Public Policy in the Aftermath of a Disaster

Shu-Shiang Hsu

1994

Water Resources Protection in Taiwan: A Case Study of Taipei Water Management Commission

John D. Redifer

1994

Intergovernmental Policy Formation: Subsurface Polities in Policy Design

Brian A. Ellison

1993

The Denver Water Board: Bureaucratic Power and Autonomy in Local Natural Resource Agencies

Darrell J. Downs

1992

Policy Search: Diffuse Pollution Control in Colorado

Denise L. Scheberle

1991

Scratching the Surface: State Implementation of the Surface Mining Reclamation and Control Act

Leslie Alm

1990

Acid Rain and the United States Congress: A Case Study of Issue Maintenance and the Agenda-Setting Progress

Emmett Nicholas Lombard

1989

Intergovernmental Determinants of Air Quality Policy: A Multilevel and Multimethod Analysis of State Outputs

Leach J. Wilds

1988

Organizational Behavior in the Implementation of Regulatory Water Policy

Charles A. Boateng

1986

Nkrumahs’ Consciencism: Its Relevance to Ghanaian Development

John C. Freemuth

1986

The Politics of External Threats: Visibility, Mining, and the National Parks

Michael S. Hamilton

1984

The Politics of Power Plant Siting: Regulation and Decision Making in Search of the Public Interest

Jessica S. Kozloff

1983

Representational Congruence of Colorado State Senators

R. McGeggor Cawley

1981

The Sagebrush Rebellion