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Blending Borders: Transboundary Protected Areas And Their Role In An Intersectional Future, Alexandra Rogalinski Jan 2022

Blending Borders: Transboundary Protected Areas And Their Role In An Intersectional Future, Alexandra Rogalinski

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Protected areas serve the vital role of designating spaces worthy of protection from and for human use. Transboundary protected areas are especially useful in thinking about the interconnected nature of the relationship between human societies and ecological systems as the latter, despite not conforming to the former, are managed as though they did. By learning from frameworks developed specifically for the two in tandem, systems can adapt to different locales and communities world-wide and build resilience in place for the future in which resilience will most assuredly be needed.


Lithium Mining: Unearthing Old Mining Practices In A New Age Of Extraction, Claire Isabella Dickson Jan 2022

Lithium Mining: Unearthing Old Mining Practices In A New Age Of Extraction, Claire Isabella Dickson

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Litigation As Integration And Participation: The Role Of Lawsuits In The U.S. Environmental Justice Movement, Tomas Sebastian Forman Jan 2022

Litigation As Integration And Participation: The Role Of Lawsuits In The U.S. Environmental Justice Movement, Tomas Sebastian Forman

Senior Projects Spring 2022

What is, has been, and could be the role of litigation in the U.S. environmental justice movement? To what ends do Indigenous communities, federally-recognized tribes, and rural Black communities choose to engage with the U.S. legal system, an institution which has, over history, consistently subjugated and dispossessed them? How do these groups' particularistic relationships to natural and built environments, conceptions of justice and fairness, and understandings of what effective environmental regulation look like inform that choice? This paper draws from in-depth qualitative research to demonstrate the following things: (1) how environmental justice lawsuits differ from canonical environmental and civil rights …


Coastal Cities: How Efficacious Are Climate Change Policies In Urban Settings? Examining New York City:, Alexander James Hilliker Jan 2022

Coastal Cities: How Efficacious Are Climate Change Policies In Urban Settings? Examining New York City:, Alexander James Hilliker

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Rocket Ships, Emotions, And Disgusting Wealth: The Emotional Significance Of The Billionaire Space Race, Melissa J. Toney Jan 2022

Rocket Ships, Emotions, And Disgusting Wealth: The Emotional Significance Of The Billionaire Space Race, Melissa J. Toney

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Adapting To Drought In The Colorado River Basin: A Case Study Of Indigenous Voices In Water Management, Ross Sounart Jan 2022

Adapting To Drought In The Colorado River Basin: A Case Study Of Indigenous Voices In Water Management, Ross Sounart

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College