Negotiation of access to resources, rights, and space is a key theme in Human-Environment Geography and allied social sciences. This session features independent research projects from this semester’s Geography senior seminar, examining access issues from seven different places and perspectives:
Property rights and rising seas on the US East Coast: when does private land stop being private and who stands to lose most?
Lea LeGardeur (Geography – 2017)
Discovering obstructions to rural revitalization through understanding the barriers to entry for land-based livelihood activities in rural Vermont
Julianna Childs (Geography – 2017)
Foreigners and access to the city in Beijing: negotiating space, place, and belonging
Emma Auden (Geography – 2017)
Origins and fates of land for Olympic games infrastructure and the potential for changing social access to land resources
Katy Greene (Geography – 2017)
Access to morels in northwestern Montana’s National Forests: trends in habitat suitability and harvest permits
Mairin Wilson (Environmental Studies and Chemistry – 2017)
Shifting gears: can mountain bikers and other constituencies move from confrontation to collaboration to further US wilderness preservation?
Spence Peterson (Geography and Studio Art - 2018)
Tragedy of the commons and comedy of the privates: attempts to develop social institutions to manage condoms as open access resources on a college campus
Tabitha Mueller (Geography - 2018)
