Bacalar Chico Channel in Belize - photo provided by Allison Guy '08.

Senior Essays 2008

Full manuscripts for these excellent papers are available in the Environmental Studies program office. (See Contact Us for office location, etc.)

Nathalie Alegre
Senior Essay: Coping with Environmental Disaster in the High Andes: Social Aspects of Approaches Taken by the Peruvian Government in the Face of Heladas

Kathryn Au
Senior Essay: Wolves and Ranchers: Finding a Common Interest in the Southwest

Emily Biesecker
Senior Essay: Subsistence Management in Alaska: 364 Million Acres and No Common Ground?

Sonia Cooke
Senior Essay: The Convention on Migratory Species: U.S. Decision Not to Accede

Daniel Friedman
Senior Essay: Market Barriers and Failures and Investment in Energy Efficient Technology: Research on Consumer Behavior and Discount Rates and Applications to Government and Utility Programs

Allison Guy
Senior Essay: Profiting from Paradise: Maximizing the Value of Bacalar Chico National Park and Marine Reserve to Balance Business, Nature, and National Politics

Angel Hertslet
Senior Essay: Life on the Margins: An Ethnographic Study of Livelihood Strategies in Santo Tomas, Honduras

Margaret Howard
Senior Essay: Can Housing be Green and Affordable?  A Case Study of New Haven, Connecticut

Emily Jack-Scott*
Senior Essay: A Tale of Two Shore Towns: Avalon and Wildwood, New Jersey

Xiaodong Jessica Jiang
Senior Essay: The DICE Model with Uncertainty: An Analysis of Global Climate Change Modeling

Anna Johnson*
Senior Essay: Climate Change and Agriculture: Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils

*A special congratulations to the students who were awarded the Gaylord Donnelley Prize for distinguished work in environmental studies at this year's Commencement.

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