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Environmental Policy Theses and Reports—Master of Science in Environmental Policy

2008

Stacey Pilling
Perceptions and Realities of Water Quality in a Yaqui Village

2008

The Yaqui valley is an irrigated agricultural region in northwestern Mexico and home to the Green Revolution. Pesticides and fertilizers are increasingly used on crops where indigenous people work and live without regard to the well being of the inhabitants living within close proximity. Additionally, the community relies on a potable water supply that lacks filtration or chlorination processes and operates on a very limited timetable each day. Households must rely on storage water supplies throughout the day and during periods of water scarcities residents make use of alternative water sources. Two of the most prevalent water substitutes consist of the irrigation canals and hand-dug shallow wells. This paper draws from fieldwork in the Yaqui village of Potam based on household interviews with women on the cycle of water and health. The findings indicate biological and chemical contaminants are ubiquitous, involving several potential routes of exposure via public and domestic domains and the probability for diminished health affects all residents.

Pilling at Yaqui Village

2007

Smriti Dahal

Nepali Community Forestry and a Case Study of a Model Women's Forest User Group

Kate Graves

Risk Perceptions of Natural Hazards in the Volcanic Regions of Ecuado and Guatemala

Gerald Greer

Barriers Impeding Success of Local Watershed Groups in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: Examining State-level Policies and their Influence on Success

Afton Sather-Knutsen

Community Responses to Land Ownership Parcelization in the Keweenaw Peninsula

2006

Heidi Steudle

The Sustainability of Record-Setting Material Recovery Programs

Justin R. Barnes

Sustainable Energy Systems: A Review of the Barriers Currently Impeding the Expansion of the Wind Energy and Lignocellulosic Ethanol Industries

Mirit Shamir

The Status of the Precautionary Principle in International Environmental Law

2005

Katherine Kruse

We Speak for Ourselves: A Grassroots Effort to Change Wisconsin's Mining Law

Agustin Robles Morua

Environmental challenges of rural communities : a case study in Rosario de Tesopaco (northwest Mexico)

Robert Staves

Environmental Justice, Lead Issues and Children

Heidi Steudle

Katherine Strong

The Conceptualization and Implementation of the Wilderness Idea in the Porcupine Mountains

Samir Qadir

ISO 14001 in India: More than a Certificate on the Wall?

Xin (Joy) Wang

Non-agricultural Uses of Farmland and Official Decision Making Regarding Farmland Uses in China

2004

Jennifer Binkley-Power

The Expansion of Renewable Energy In Our National Parks: Powering Isle Royale

2003

Timothy Alan Evans Fillmore

Yupiaq Ecological Knowledge
A Case Study of the Fall Collection in Chefonak Alaska

Kathleen A. Miller

Community Security Through Citizen Participation Providing Web-Based Information and Training To Citizens and Emergency Responders In Houghton County, Michigan

Melanie Lynn Hiltunen Barbier

Been-Here's Versus Come-Here's? Not Necessarily. Conflict and Community In Keweenaw County Land Use Planning

Salvadora Keith

The Diffusion of Contructed Wetland Technology For Residential On-Site Wastewater Treatment In The United States

Feilin Wang

Protecting the Public Water Supply System in City of Houghton by Managing Land Use in a Comprehensive and Coordinated Way

Ying Betsy Han

Factors Determining the Marketing and Development of Alternative-Fueled Vehicles (AFVs) in the U.S.
An Exploratory Study