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Aridity In The Literature Of The American West: Water In Stegner's Angle Of Repose And Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, Annie Frodeman
Aridity In The Literature Of The American West: Water In Stegner's Angle Of Repose And Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, Annie Frodeman
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
This thesis examines how Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose and Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang have been molded by water scarcity and in turn have shaped the discourse about water. Angle of Repose offers a reliable history of water in the West, showing how the myth of the garden permeated the lives of people who made the journey West at the end of the nineteenth century. Stegner’s narrative of the building of the West shows what comes of humanity’s desire to change the environment by making the desert bloom. The Monkey Wrench Gang complements Stegner’s Angle of Repose as …
Quantifying The Health Benefits Of Nature Contact In Cities Across The Us, Aaron J. Schwartz
Quantifying The Health Benefits Of Nature Contact In Cities Across The Us, Aaron J. Schwartz
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Urbanization, the rise of sedentary lifestyles, and increasing screen time have led to a significant decline in nature contact, or how much time people spend in greenspace. At the same time, urban populations are experiencing declining physical and mental well-being. While nature contact has been shown to have a variety of health benefits, these benefits have not been well-quantified or verified across different geographic contexts. In addition, there is a lack of clarity around how the benefits of nature contact vary temporally (e.g. seasonally) and between different types of greenspaces. In this dissertation, I investigate the health benefits of urban …
Seed Systems Of Bhutanese-Nepali Refugee Gardeners: Making Place In Chittenden County, Vermont, June Guo
Seed Systems Of Bhutanese-Nepali Refugee Gardeners: Making Place In Chittenden County, Vermont, June Guo
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
War, political unrest, and climate disasters cause major disruptions to peoples’ lives and livelihoods, and for subsistence farmers, who make up much of the world’s population, this means their agricultural practices. Among the farming habits that are disrupted are seed systems, defined in this study as the market and nonmarket institutions that affect how farmers access, store, share, distribute, and learn about propagative materials. In particular, the local varieties and knowledge, also described as Traditional Ecological Knowledge, contained in farmer-managed informal seed systems may be vulnerable when a crisis disrupts the social ties that the seed systems are built upon. …