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Socioeconomic Geographies And Municipal Decision Making Of New York's Climate Smart Communities Program, Stephen Corbisiero Dec 2023

Socioeconomic Geographies And Municipal Decision Making Of New York's Climate Smart Communities Program, Stephen Corbisiero

Digital and Data Studies Student Scholarship

Nearly all of New York’s residents live in a municipality designated as a Climate Smart Community, but few are familiar with one of the state’s major legislative accomplishments. The initiative allows municipalities to earn points toward a climate smart certification by implementing sustainable technologies in their communities, which in turn makes them eligible for increased grant funding from New York State. As climate change begins to have a greater impact on human and natural life, investing in green infrastructure has never been more important. New York’s Climate Smart Communities program is widespread, but adoption rates vary greatly throughout the state …


Wildfire Risk Governance From The Bottom Up: Linking Local Planning Processes In Fragmented Landscapes, Matthew Hamilton, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Cody Evers Aug 2023

Wildfire Risk Governance From The Bottom Up: Linking Local Planning Processes In Fragmented Landscapes, Matthew Hamilton, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Cody Evers

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

The growing scale of natural hazards highlights the need for models of governance capable of addressing risk across administrative boundaries. However, risk governance systems are often fragmented, decentralized, and sustained by informal linkages among local-level risk mitigation planning processes. Improving resilience to the effects of environmental change requires a better understanding of factors that contribute to these linkages. Using data on the patterns of participation of 10,199 individual stakeholders in 837 community wildfire protection plans (CWPPs) within the western U.S., we document the emergence of a locally clustered but spatially extensive wildfire risk governance network. Our evaluation of factors that …


Kulpmont Pocket Park Survey Results, Matt Mcmullen, Shaunna Barnhart, Steve Motyka Feb 2023

Kulpmont Pocket Park Survey Results, Matt Mcmullen, Shaunna Barnhart, Steve Motyka

Student Project Reports

No abstract provided.


Pathways To Sustainability: Industry, Development, Business, Agriculture, Economy, And Politics, Andreas Hernandez, Pablo Arias-Benavides, Dayana C.M. Machada, Ousmane Pame, Alice Main, Per Moller Jan 2023

Pathways To Sustainability: Industry, Development, Business, Agriculture, Economy, And Politics, Andreas Hernandez, Pablo Arias-Benavides, Dayana C.M. Machada, Ousmane Pame, Alice Main, Per Moller

Geography and Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

In this chapter we examine six compelling on-the-ground experiences, which are demonstrating pathways to sustainability, resilience and regeneration. Each case opens a pathway to sustainability in a key sphere of human activity: industry, development, business, agriculture, economy and politics. These experiences are creating new social imaginaries embodied in the practical forms of new politics and economics aimed at profound democratizations of human life, and towards a creative realignment of humans with the rest of the web of life. These social imaginaries are both open and encompassing. They are open in the sense that they can be filled with new possibilities …


Acid Mine Drainage In The Shamokin Creek Watershed: A Spatial Analysis Of Economic And Environmental Consequences Of Coal Mining, Ben Shimer Sep 2022

Acid Mine Drainage In The Shamokin Creek Watershed: A Spatial Analysis Of Economic And Environmental Consequences Of Coal Mining, Ben Shimer

Student Project Reports

No abstract provided.


Union County Solar Energy Awareness, Amanda Pennett Aug 2022

Union County Solar Energy Awareness, Amanda Pennett

Student Project Reports

No abstract provided.


The Politics Of The Self: Psychedelic Assemblages, Psilocybin, And Subjectivity In The Anthropocene, Joshua Falcon Jun 2022

The Politics Of The Self: Psychedelic Assemblages, Psilocybin, And Subjectivity In The Anthropocene, Joshua Falcon

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines how psychedelic substances become drawn into particular sociohistorical and political arrangements, and how psychedelic experiences with psilocybin ‘magic mushrooms’ are used as tools of subjectivation. Guided by literatures in philosophy, critical theory, and the social sciences that focus on subjectivity, assemblage theory, and critical posthumanism, I argue that psychedelics are drawn into variegated assemblages, each of which conceptualizes the nature of psychedelics in highly specific ways that reflect implicit conceptions of the world and the self. In developing the concept of psychedelic assemblages, this research provides a window onto the politics of the self in the Anthropocene. …


Structural Problems Of Latin American Cities 450 Years After Caracas’ Foundation, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro Mar 2022

Structural Problems Of Latin American Cities 450 Years After Caracas’ Foundation, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro

Faculty Publications

Latin American cities face many problems that compromise them from different angles such as lack of infrastructure, government fragmentation, and environmental degradation. At the same time, each city tries to come up with its own solutions, but there are so many difficulties that in many cases it is difficult to keep attention and efforts focused on all these directions. For these reasons, this research aims to define some of the most common problems faced by cities in Latin America. Disseminating these similarities could help to face those problems, since, if local governments recognize that they face the same situations as …


Undersea Cables: The Ultimate Geopolitical Chokepoint, Bert Chapman Dec 2021

Undersea Cables: The Ultimate Geopolitical Chokepoint, Bert Chapman

FORCES Initiative: Strategy, Security, and Social Systems

This work provides historical and contemporary overviews of this critical geopolitical problem, describes the policy actors addressing this in the U.S. and selected other countries, and provides maps and information on many undersea cable work routes. These cables are chokepoints with one dictionary defining chokepoints as “a strategic narrow route providing passage through or to another region."


The Case Against The Case For Zoning, Michael Lewyn Nov 2021

The Case Against The Case For Zoning, Michael Lewyn

Scholarly Works

Power points used in a presentation on a work in progress, responding to Christopher Serkin's "Case For Zoning" article at 96 Notre Dame L. Rev. 749.


Green Spaces With Playgrounds In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Green Spaces With Playgrounds In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Parks With Restroom Facilities In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Parks With Restroom Facilities In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Parks With Bike Racks In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Parks With Bike Racks In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Parks With Security Cameras In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Parks With Security Cameras In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Parks With Basketball Courts In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Parks With Basketball Courts In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Green Spaces With Picnic Shelters In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Green Spaces With Picnic Shelters In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Presence Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Presence Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Count Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Count Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Presence Per Zip Code In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Presence Per Zip Code In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Presence Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Presence Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Count Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Count Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Presence Per Zip Code In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Presence Per Zip Code In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Quality Per Zip Code In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Quality Per Zip Code In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Quality Per Zip Code In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Quality Per Zip Code In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.


Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson Aug 2021

Amenity Quality Per Census Tract In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Jennifer L. Bradham, Drew Wilson

Green Space Equity

No abstract provided.