Alan Pierce, PhD, an independent researcher, specializing in non-timber forest
products and forest policy, is a 2014 graduate of the PhD Program in Environmental Studies at Antioch University

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Submissions from 2024

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Ecotheology in Context: A Critical Phenomenological Study of Graduates of Environmentally Focused Seminary Programs in the United States of America, Cherice Bock

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From the Ground Up: A Complex Systems Approach to Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture, Karen Buchsbaum

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Aging in Place with a Warming Climate: Housing Design and Policies for Aging with Extreme Heat, Nichole M. Kain

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Navigating the Noise: Implications of Increasing Ship Noise for an Arctic Ocean Soundscape, Andrea Lynn

Submissions from 2023

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Adaptive Regulation for Ecosystem Restoration: A Context for Effective Environmental Permitting, Jennifer M. Auger

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Children Tell Landscape-Lore among Perceptions of Place: Relating Ecocultural Digital Stories in a Conscientizing/Decolonizing Exploration, Meredith Jean Bird Miller

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Artistic Engagement with Monadnock: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Jonathan W. Coffin

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Diving to New Depths: An Exploration of Aquarium Visitors' Reflection at a Shark Exhibit, Nicole Leigh Conklin

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To Change Everything, We Need Everyone: Belonging, Equity, and Diversity in the U.S. Climate Movement, Clara Changxin Fang

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Connecting Antibiotic Resistance to the Environment (CARE): Introducing a Novel Framework Integrating Chemical Cross-Resistance and Place-Based Engagement to the Blue Marsh Watershed in Reading, Pennsylvania, Jill Felker

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Eating Change: A Critical Autoethnography of Community Gardening and Social Identity, Jessica Gerrior

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The Use of a Habitat Quality Stress Index to Evaluate Stress as an Analog for Proximate Fitness in the American Crow Within a Matrix of Landcover Characteristics to Assess Its Potential Contribution to Disease Etiologies, Theodore Lee Grabarz

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Forest Bathing Increases Adolescent Mental Well-being And Connection To Nature: A Transformative Mixed Methods Study, Jennifer Keller

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Land Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring Interested Parties Perspectives on Cameroon's Land Tenure and Land Law Reform, Jacques Kenjio

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The Walls at the Ends of Empires: Towards a Political Ecology of the Imperial Border, Benjamin Allen Stahnke

Submissions from 2022

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The Diffusion of a Discipline: Examining Social Marketing's Institutionalization within Environmental Contexts, Liz Foote

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It Permeated Everything: A Lived Experience of Slow Violence and Toxicological Disaster, Tara Jo Holmberg

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Speaking of Transformation: Discourse, Values, and Climate Adaptation Planning in San Antonio, Texas, Lindsay Ratcliffe

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The Traveling Memories Project: A Digital Collection of Lived Experiences of Teachers Who Served in the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign, Kimberly Waller

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Exploring the Potential of Online Education and College Students' Connection to Nature, Michael Weinstein

Submissions from 2021

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Building Urban Resilience in New York City, Eliseo Magsambol Cubol

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Using Principles of Seascape Ecology to Consider Relationships Between Spatial Patterning and Mobile Marine Vertebrates in a Seagrass-Mangrove Ecotone in Bimini, Bahamas, Sarah Rebecca Taylor Driscoll

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Managing Natural Resources Through Vulnerability Analysis: An Applied Case Study into Recreational Activities at Coral Reefs in Puerto Rico, Karin Jakubowski

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Decolonizing Food Systems Research – The Case of Household Agricultural Food Access in Bikotiba, Togo, Katryna Maria Kibler

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White Pine Blister Rust Distribution in New Hampshire 1900-2018: Exploring the Impacts of an Exotic Pathogen on Forest Composition and Succession, Janine Marr

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Assessment of the Potential for Youth Engagement in Mountain Gorilla Conservation in Uganda, Samson Elijah Werikhe

Submissions from 2020

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Analysis of European Union Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade Efficacy: A Multi-Scale Perspective, Marshall Adams

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The Human Dimensions and Spatial Ecology of Poaching and Implications for Red Wolf Survival, Suzanne Agan

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Wildland Fire Disturbance - Recovery Dynamics in Upland Forests at Acadia National Park, Maine, Jessica E. Charpentier

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Anthropogenic Impacts and Influence On African Painted Dogs (Lycaon Pictus), Tammy Cloutier

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The Potential Role of Payment for Ecosystem Services in Protected Area Management in Rwanda: A Case Study from Gishwati-Mukura National Park, Yves Gakunde

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A Pedagogy of Hope: Levers of Change in Transformative Place-based Learning Systems, Michelle G. Heaton

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The Power of a Profound Experience with Nature, Becky N. Mathers

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Assessing Benefits and Barriers to Deployment of Solar Mini Grids in Ghanaian Rural Island Communities, Jude T. Nuru

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Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Opportunities for Reducing Human-Wolf Conflicts in Mongolia, Tuul Sukhbaatar

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Developing an Odonate-Based Index for Monitoring Freshwater Ecosystems in Rwanda: Towards Linking Policy to Practice through Integrated and Adaptive Management, Erasme Uyizeye

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Using Environmental Identity To Promote Environmental Concern and Willingness To Participate In Endangered Species Conservation, Christina M. Wesolek

Submissions from 2019

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A Multi-Scale Analysis of Jaguar (Panthera onca) and Puma (Puma concolor) Habitat Selection and Conservation in the Narrowest Section of Panama., Kimberly A. Craighead

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Emergence: Developing Worldview in the Environmental Humanities, Rhonda D. Davis

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Following the Seed: Investigating Seed Saving and Network Creation in the Appalachian Region of Southeastern Ohio, Molly Hicks

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Habitat Characteristics and Nesting Ecology of Golden Eagles in Arizona, Michele J. Losee

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Voices of Bangladeshi Environmental Youth Leaders: A Narrative Study, Paige Pappianne

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Environmental Policy Assessment in the Ghanaian Gold Mining Industry: Insights from Stakeholders, Francis Tuokuu

Submissions from 2018

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Landscape Visualization: Influence on Engagement for Climate Resilience, Christa Daniels

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Mountain Dance: A Transdisciplinary Exploration of Environmental Dance as an Autopoietic Expression of Ecological Connectivity and Synthesis, Dianne Eno

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Analysis of Land Use/Land Cover Change Impacts Upon Ecosystem Services in Montane Tropical Forest of Rwanda: Forest Carbon Assessment and REDD+ Preparedness, McArd Joseph Mlotha

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Exploring Perceptions of the Potential of Agricultural Insurance for Crop Risks Management Among Smallholder Farmers in Northern Ghana, John Bosco Baguri Sumani

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Exploring Lifelong Influence of Participating in the Junior Audubon Club During Childhood, Amy Weidensaul

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Protected Area Planning and Management: Supporting Local Stakeholder Participation with an Asset-Based, Biocultural Approach, Nicole M. Wengerd

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Smallholder Farmers, Environmental Change and Adaptation in a Human-Dominated Landscape in the Northern Highlands of Rwanda, Apollinaire William

Submissions from 2017

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From Disposable Culture to Disposable People: Teaching About the Unintended Consequences of Plastics, Sasha Adkins

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A Poetics of Food in the Bahamas: Intentional Journeys Through Food, Consciousness, and the Aesthetic of Everyday Life, Hilary B. Booker

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Russell Lord and the Permanent Agriculture Movement: An Environmental Biography, Margaret L. Eppig

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Understanding Community Character as a Socio-ecological Framework to Enhance Local-scale Adaptation: An Interdisciplinary Case Study from Rural Northwest Connecticut, Joanna Wozniak-Brown

Submissions from 2016

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Building & Measuring Psychological Capacity for Biodiversity Conservation, Kayla A. Cranston

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The Behavioral Ecology and Population Characteristics of Striped Skunks Inhabiting Piper Plover Nesting Beaches on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Luanne Johnson

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Making Meaning Together: The role of interpretation during a short-term nature excursion, Kate Jurow

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"One Narrow Thread of Green": The Vision of May Theilgaard Watts, the Creation of the Illinois Prairie Path, and a Community's Crusade for Open Space in Chicago's Suburbs, Anne M. Keller

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Designing for Online Collaborations and Local Environmental Action In Citizen Science: A Multiple Case Study, Ruth Kermish-Allen

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Nature as Spiritual Lived Experience: How Five Christian Theologians Encounter the Spirit In and Through the Natural World, Brad A. Martell

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Enhancing the Resilience of Vulnerable Groups Through Participatory Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Case Study with the Elderly Community of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Jason L. Rhoades

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Opportunities for Conversion to More Sustainable Practices by Houses of Worship through Team Performance Enhancing Strategies that Include Leadership with Facilitative Skills, Carolina Del Carmen Saiz

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Piglets and Perspectives: Exploring Sustainability Communication Through Participatory Filmmaking, Dyanna Innes Smith

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Collaboration in Conservation Networks: Regional Conservation Partnerships in New England, Jill L. Weiss

Submissions from 2015

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Weed Women, All Night Vigils, and the Secret Life of Plants: Negotiated Epistemologies of Ethnogynecological Plant Knowledge in American History, Claudia Jeanne Ford

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Smart Partnerships: How Higher Education Institutions Can Enhance the Capacity of the UN to Govern the Global Commons, Melissa Goodall

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Nurturing The Aesthetic: Learning to Care for the Environment in a Waldorf School, Melissa A. Grella

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Ecosystem-Based Management and Refining Governance Of Wind Energy in the Massachusetts Coastal Zone: A Case Study Approach, Enid C. Kumin

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Matrix and Edge Effects on the Maintenance of Ecological Function in an Afromontane Protected Area, Robin M. Martino

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Neo-Homesteading in the Adirondack North Country: Crafting a Durable Landscape, Brett R. McLeod

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Scales of Resilience: Community Stability, Population Dynamics, and Molecular Ecology of Brook Trout in a Riverscape after a Large Flood, Erin V. Rodgers

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Ramapough/Ford The Impact and Survival of an Indigenous Community in the Shadow of Ford Motor Company’s Toxic Legacy, Chuck Stead

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Ridazz, Wrenches, and Wonks: A Revolution on Two Wheels Rolls Into Los Angeles, Donald Parker Strauss

Submissions from 2014

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Just Farming: An Environmental Justice Perspective on the Capacity of Grassroots Organizations to Support the Rights of Organic Farmers and Laborers, Rebecca Elaine Berkey

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Message Matters: Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior to Increase Household Hazardous Waste Program Participation, Amy Dyer Cabaniss

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From Alarm to Action: Closing the Gap Between Belief and Behavior in Response to Climate Change, Kathryn Laing Doherty

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The Distance from Necessity: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Gathering Practices in Vermont, Alan Robert Pierce

Submissions from 2013

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Can Education Improve the Environment? Applying the Pressure-State-Response Environmental Indicator Framework to Environmental Education Program Outcomes, Brian Johnson

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A History of Place: Using Phytolith Analysis to Discern Holocene Vegetation Change on Sanak Island, Western Gulf of Alaska, Cricket C. Wilbur

Submissions from 2012

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The Effect of Disinfectants, Cleaning, and Drying Practices on Oriental Rugs Flooded with Contaminated River Water: Public Health and Policy Implications, Daniel Bernazzani

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Formative Research and Community Resilience: A Case of Under Addressed Youth Problem Gambling, Michea Caye

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Patterns of Seasonal Variation in Diet, Abundance, and Movement of the Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) in southern Belize, Mark Stephen McReynolds

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Explainers' Development of Science-Learner Identities Through Participation in a Community of Practice, Anne E. Richardson

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The Management Of Feral Pig Socio-Ecological Systems In Far North Queensland, Australia, Gabriela Shuster

Submissions from 2011

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The Role of Nature in John Muir's Conception of the Good Life, Randy R. Larsen

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Dormant Ethnobotany: A Case Study of Decline in Regional Plant Knowledge in the Bull Run Mountains of Virginia, Susan Rene Leopold

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Restoring Relationships: Indigenous Ways of Knowing Meet Undergraduate Environmental Studies and Science, Nancy Leigh Rich

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A Qualitative Approach to Spiral of Silence Research: Self-Censorship Narratives Regarding Environmental and Social Conflict, Christopher John Ryan

Submissions from 2010

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Caretakers of the Garden of Delight and Discontent: Adirondack Narrative, Conflict, and Environmental Virtue, Eric Richard Holmlund

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Female Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) Reproductive Class and Male-Female Interactions during the Breeding Season, Meagan E. Jones

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The Transition Zone: Impact of Riverbanks on Emergent Dragonfly Nymphs. Implications for Riverbank Restoration and Management, Kirsten Hope Martin

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Participatory Planning for a Promised Land: Citizen-Led, Comprehensive Land Use Planning in New York’s Adirondack Park, Ann Hope Ruzow Holland

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Monkey Brains and Monkey Bars: An ecological approach to the values of school recess, Emily L. Stanley

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Forest Edge Effects on the Behavioral Ecology of L'Hoest's Monkey (Cercopithecus lhoesti) in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, Tharcisse Ukizintambara

Submissions from 2009

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Flame, Furnace, Fuel: Creating Kansas City in the Nineteenth Century, Twyla Dell

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An Examination of Environmental Collective Identity Development Across Three Life-stages: The Contribution of Social Public Experiences at Zoos, John Robert Fraser

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Dispersion of large-seeded tree species by two forest primates: primate seed handling, microhabitat variability, and post-dispersal seed fate, Nicole D. Gross-Camp

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Toward a More Wholly Communion: Cultivating Ecological Enlightenment and Sustainable Action in Christians, Cary Hauptman Gaunt

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How Hospital Environmental Managers Learn Compliance: A Learning Process Model, Victoria Anne Jas

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Aging in Place in Suburbia: a Qualitative Study of Older Women, Marian L.G. Knapp