Gabriel Tamariz completed his Ph.D on “Illegal-crop cultivation and the emergence of nontraditional peasant livelihoods and agrobiodiversity-containing landscapes in Oaxaca, Mexico” and published a second Geoforum article, co-authored with lab member Megan Baumann on “Agrobiodiversity change in violent conflict and post-conflict landscapes.”
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– Happy news / huge congrats to Ramzi and Gabriel for finishing their PhDs
Congratulations to Ramzi Tubbeh (2021) and Gabriel Tamariz (2022), for finishing their PhDs. This is a great step for GeoSyntheSES and our networks.
– Zach passes PhD milestones, initiates research, and publishes new articles
Zach Goldberg passed his PhD preparations with flying colors while publishing three journal articles and a magazine piece. The title of his PhD research, currently underway, is “The rural land resources-justice nexus: utility-scale solar development on agricultural lands in the mid-Atlantic United States.” Zach has published a suite of new articles have appeared in Human Ecology, Agriculture and Human Values, and Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, as well as in the magazine Edge Effects that is published by the University of Wisconsin.
– Available! Human-Environment Seminar in Spring 2021
All graduate students and advanced undergrads are welcome to take the new environment-society seminar that Karl will teach in Spring 2021. The seminar will focus on “nexus” integrative approaches that provide advances beyond technical FEWS frameworks. It will cover nexus approaches involving societal resource transformations (land/food/biodiversity, water/climate change, urbanization) and justice at the expanding interfaces with energy.