The Social Life of REDD is an ethnography of an environmental conservation mechanism called REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), that addresses the problem of climate change by reducing greenhouse gases emissions through the financial compensation of avoided...
Although benefit assessment principles are well established for defined populations, there has been very little attention to how one defines the scope of the pertinent population for the assessment. Whose social welfare matters and whose benefits should be included in the assessment? Should there...
The industrial sector accounts for approximately 30% of global CO2 emissions as of 2015 and lacks mature technologies to substantially reduce emissions. Many industrial processes, such as cement production, emit carbon dioxide (CO2) without a viable low carbon alternative. Carbon Dioxide Removal...
This dissertation contains three essays which explore pathways through which weather can impact economic activity and social outcomes. The first essay attempts to fill a gap in a growing literature examining the global economic implications of weather shocks. Past research has found significant,...
Arctic communities have shifted from being relatively self-sufficient to being a mixed subsistence based community – relying on traditional and nontraditional food to survive. Climate change has also made dramatic physical impacts on the region, affecting the ability to meet their dietary needs....
Scholars of political communication have viewed globalization as a process fostered by changing media systems and communication technologies. They have held that the emerging media systems can promote a more de-territorialized and re-territorialized socio-economic and political space--a global...
This thesis examines how the number of veto points and level of information communication technology (ICT) in different political systems influences policy resilience to extreme weather events, or climate shocks. Using the framework of punctuated equilibria advanced by Baumgartner and Jones, and...
The Canadian Arctic and specifically the region known as the "Northwest Passage" (NWP), was historically defined by its ice-bound nature. However, with the contemporary reduction in year-round Arctic ice cover, and the subsequent realization of ice-free summers, the geopolitical significance of...