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CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY: NAVIGATING POLICY, IMPACT, AND EQUITY
Tyler Halligan
This master's portfolio, "Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Navigating Policy, Impact, and Equity," explores the profound impact of corporations on environmental degradation. It comprises three key pieces:
The first piece, "Understanding Factors Shaping Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility: Navigating a Path Towards Greater Accountability," examines seven critical ... Read More
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Rethinking Food Waste to Mitigate Climate Change: Actions and Conversations on Zero Waste
Keilin Elizabeth Huang
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And Food Justice For All: Advancing Access to Just and Sustainable Food Systems
MaKenna Grace Landry
A collection of work exploring food justice and food access programming in Western Montana, as well as a critique of the Bayer-Monsanto merger.
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(DE)COMPOSITION: Earthen Storytelling for Collective Liberation
Priya Subberwal
This interdisciplinary portfolio is an investigation into ecological communication through pedagogical design, online collaborative learning spaces, digital and print media, and creative writing. Braiding lenses of queer ecology, decolonial studies, anarchism, and collaborative and creative practice, this work hopes to explore the field of environmental ... Read More
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'My Body Is Fertile Ground': Exploring Relational Agriculture Through Gender, Body, and Local Food Policy
Erin M. Tansimore
This master's portfolio, "'My Body Is Fertile Ground': Exploring Relational Agriculture Through Gender, Body, and Local Food Policy," explores the concept of relational agriculture through multiple forms of practice. It comprises three parts: a personal essay discussing the author's experiences with the land as a ... Read More
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Keep Working Hands on Working Land
Elyse Caiazzo
Strategies for Effective Farmland Transitions, Succession Planning, and Landowner Education
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Approaches and Tools to Solving Complex Problems in Private Land Conservation
John T. Curnyn
The central theme throughout my four portfolio pieces is: approaches and tools that can be used to address complex problems involving private land conservation. I consider the broader human and environmental community health to be factors in successful private land conservation. The first portfolio piece ... Read More
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PROTECTING WESTERN WATERSHEDS: REGULATORY SCHEMES AND RESTORATION LIABILITY PROBLEMS
Gardner W. Dee
This M.S. Environmental Studies portfolio combines two academic and technical reports and one work product from a summer internship. The first piece discusses in detail the selenium pollution crisis in the Elk River watershed and the updated canadian coal mining effluent regulations proposed for the ... Read More
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Supporting Effective and Just Responses to Climate Change Through Policy Analysis, Cumulative Impact Assessments, and a Conservation Initiative Assessment
Rashail DeMinck
The first element of my portfolio discusses vulnerable populations in China who are facing climate change and highlights the need to change top-down systems, so impacted populations will be treated fairly when severe circumstances affect their lifeways. It is critically important to identify cases and ... Read More
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Environmental Education In Informal Learning Spaces: Integration, Design, and Access
Maya S. Gutierrez
In this portfolio, I will focus on using learning spaces to facilitate environmental education and promote environmental literacy. I will discuss the incorporation of the framework of environmental education into an experiential and informal learning environment; the creation of a curriculum that fuses formal and ... Read More
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Strategies for Combatting the Climate Crisis: Policy, Organizing, and Community Resilience
Shannon F. James
This portfolio synthesizes work I have done throughout graduate school through research and experience. I have had the opportunity to focus the majority of my work on the climate crisis and be involved in work to address this wicked problem. Though detrimental impacts are already ... Read More
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Co-op to Cafeteria: Building a Food Value Chain for Farm to School
Blake D. Lineweaver
The central theme of this M.S. Environmental Studies portfolio considers farm-to-school as a medium for food system transformation within an innovative regional partnership of producer-owned food hubs and a state education agency. The portfolio consists of three main elements.
The first element is a literature ... Read More
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LIVING AMONG WILDLIFE: ELEVATING HUMAN-WILDLIFE INTERACTIONS AND COEXISTENCE
Bridget Rebecca Murphy
After a semester of learning, both in class and in nature, my writing honed in further on this human-nature divide. To me, I see humans as part of nature – as we are mammals, animals, part of the food chain, biological beings no higher than ... Read More
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Climate Adaptation Across Contexts: Barriers and Creative Solutions in Wildfire Planning, Landscape Conservation, and Species Restoration
Lucia Jones Portman
This portfolio consists of three different explorations of the barriers in climate work and creative solutions to adaptation and mitigation. The first component is an academic piece that is regionally and species specific and seeks to investigate the potential for tribally managed bison herds in ... Read More
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Creating Connections to Landscapes and Cultures through the Plants of Montana and the Interior Northwest
Susan Elise Teitelman
This portfolio ties together concepts from the disciplines of ethnobotany, botany, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). It draws on themes of native plant preservation and restoration as well as ethics of plant collection and public education regarding the native flora of Montana and the broader ... Read More
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Development and Demand: Businesses and Organizations Through the Lens of Community Economic Development
Olivia S. Alexander-Leeder
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Mountains to the Sea: How Climate Change Influences People, Cultures and Communities
Stephanie L. Maltarich
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Increasing Environmental Education Accessibility Through New Media
Farrah Masoumi
This portfolio shows projects that aim to create a larger outreach for environmental education through digital education content and expand already existing programs to enhance the learning and teaching experience. All of these components highlight the integration between environmental education and new media. By being ... Read More
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Group Development in Natural Resource Collaboration in the Crown of the Continent: Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing
Meghan Rene Neville
This portfolio brings together three experiences of natural resource collaborative groups each in a different stage of development. Researcher, Bruce Tuckman, theorized that collaborative groups go through different stages in order to grow, face new challenges, tackle problems, deliver results, and become an effective team ... Read More
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Conservation Education: Using Birds to Connect Communities to their Natural Environment
Kathryn A. Olson
The theme of my portfolio is conservation education, using birds as an example of how to connect people of all ages to their natural environment. Birds were chosen as an example because of a personal curiosity for the animal, and because they are an accessible ... Read More
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Full Circle: Building a Local Economy through Pollinator Enterprises in the Food System
Catherine M. DeMets
As the alternative food movement gains traction in mainstream American society, it is essential to document how enterprises in the movement are building robust local economies. As Eric Holt-Giménez (2010: 1) points out, the movement “has successfully shone the spotlight on hunger and food access ... Read More
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Watershed Management Tools: Hazardous Site Case History, Reference Stream Analysis, and GIS Analysis of Fire Risk
Patrick Doyle
My portfolio explores some tools that are used to protect or assess watershed health and the experiences and lessons I learned during my time in the Environmental Studies program. The first piece in my portfolio is a case study that looks at the history of ... Read More
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