Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (4)
- Economics (3)
- Natural Resources Management and Policy (3)
- Other Environmental Sciences (3)
- Sustainability (3)
-
- Environmental Health and Protection (2)
- Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment (2)
- Geography (2)
- Human Geography (2)
- Natural Resources and Conservation (2)
- Sociology (2)
- Anthropology (1)
- Arts and Humanities (1)
- Civil and Environmental Engineering (1)
- Earth Sciences (1)
- Economic History (1)
- Engineering (1)
- Environmental Engineering (1)
- Environmental Monitoring (1)
- Environmental Studies (1)
- Geographic Information Sciences (1)
- History (1)
- Human Ecology (1)
- Hydrology (1)
- Nature and Society Relations (1)
- Oil, Gas, and Energy (1)
- Physical and Environmental Geography (1)
- Keyword
-
- Alcaligenes (1)
- Alternative energy (1)
- Bioleaching (1)
- Brooklyn (1)
- Capitalism (1)
-
- Climate change (1)
- Difference in differences (1)
- Ecosystem Services (1)
- Entrepreneurship (1)
- Environment (1)
- Environmental sustainability (1)
- Essential serrvice delivery (1)
- Extreme weather (1)
- Faecalis (1)
- GIS (1)
- Gold (1)
- Health (1)
- Historical ecology (1)
- Historical maps (1)
- Ideology (1)
- Katrina (1)
- Latin america (1)
- Marxism (1)
- Migration (1)
- Mining (1)
- Natural disaster (1)
- Public/private decision makers (1)
- Queens (1)
- Real estate (1)
- Recovery (1)
Articles 1 - 6 of 6
Full-Text Articles in Natural Resource Economics
International Migration From The Latin American-Caribbean Region: Taking Environmental Indicators Into Consideration, Chelsea Wepy
International Migration From The Latin American-Caribbean Region: Taking Environmental Indicators Into Consideration, Chelsea Wepy
Student Theses and Dissertations
International migration, the act of leaving one’s country to permanently settle in another country, is driven by many socio economic/political factors, such as lack of economic opportunity, access to education, governmental corruption, and violence. These factors have proven to be the reason that many citizens within the Latin American-Caribbean region either choose or are forced to relocate internationally. While these factors are important to consider independently; these issues are often exacerbated by changes in the natural environment. The objective of my paper is to highlight the importance of considering changes in the natural environment. In doing so, I hope to …
The Water/Energy Nexus: Climate, Consumption And Ecosystem Services, Hildegaard D. Link
The Water/Energy Nexus: Climate, Consumption And Ecosystem Services, Hildegaard D. Link
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Water and energy are drivers of living systems. This work provides an assessment of the Water Energy Nexus in the United States, comparing the well-watered north-east and the arid west. Electric grid systems are most stressed on hot summer afternoons. Grid stress can lead to cascading failures of electricity, water and wastewater treatment systems. (Zimmerman, 2017) Water for power generation and/or water supply depend on ecosystem services. The ecosystem services and resource trade-offs embedded in provision of a watt of power and an ounce of potable water, however, have yet to be comprehensively enumerated nor have the cost relationships been …
Comparison Of Gold Extraction Yields By Cyanide Treatment Vs. Bioleaching Procedure, Yilman Steven Pineda
Comparison Of Gold Extraction Yields By Cyanide Treatment Vs. Bioleaching Procedure, Yilman Steven Pineda
Dissertations and Theses
Samples from the tailings of the Picacho mine in California were leached using NaCN and native bacteria, Alcaligenes faecalis, in column experiments to compare the gold recovery yields in the effluents. Four columns were treated with a different liquid: water, bacteria, NaCN and a mixture of cyanide and bacteria. After they were leached the effluents were analyzed to determine gold yields. During experiment I the total Au recovered in the effluent in the column treated with bacteria was only 10.09% less than those treated with cyanide (C2) and 81.7% more than the control. In experiment II, Au values measured were …
Transportation And Sanitation Drivers Of Land Use/Land Cover Change: Loss Of The Jamaica Bay Wetlands, Margaret Joy Cytryn
Transportation And Sanitation Drivers Of Land Use/Land Cover Change: Loss Of The Jamaica Bay Wetlands, Margaret Joy Cytryn
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis presents an analysis (1830-2014) of the historical events of land use/land cover change in the Jamaica Bay estuary, identification of the agents of change, and a perspective on the potential drivers of transportation and sanitation in land use/land cover change.
The Effect Of Income On Health After Hurricane Katrina, Jang Wook Lee
The Effect Of Income On Health After Hurricane Katrina, Jang Wook Lee
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
There is a large literature that documents a positive correlation between income and a variety of measures of good health. This correlation may reflect causality in both directions and may also reflect omitted "third variables" that are positively related to income and health. In my dissertation, I employ an exogenous negative shock to income due to a natural disaster to estimate the true causal impact of income on health. The shock I will use is Hurricane Katrina, which severely damaged counties in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana in August 2005. I use these treatment counties and a variety of alternative sets …
Planetary Improvement: Discourses And Practices Of Green Capitalism In The Cleantech Space, Jesse Adam Goldstein
Planetary Improvement: Discourses And Practices Of Green Capitalism In The Cleantech Space, Jesse Adam Goldstein
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
There is money to be made in saving the planet. A whole host of actors, such as investors, entrepreneurs, engineers, and policy makers have mobilized around our ecological problems, seeking to innovate new `green' and `clean' technologies that can serve a rapidly changing environment. The presumption that such technologies are both necessary and necessarily profitable anchors visions of a `green' capitalism that can and must be brought into existence.
However, just as free markets have never been all that free, why should we presume that green capitalism would be all that green? Instead of attempting to arbit whether or not …