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Climate Adaptation in Emerging Urban Africa: Assessing Equity in the ‘Making Cities Sustainable and Resilient’ UN Action
(2021-05)
Climate change has increasingly threatened sustainable urban development in sub-Saharan Africa, aggravating socioeconomic inequities in chronically under-resourced and overstrained cities. Global institutions and networks, ...
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Indonesia: Identifying Provincial Trends and Clusters of High Disease Incidence Within A Vast Tropical Archipelago
(2020-05)
Anthropogenic processes have a profound impact on environmental health, and by extension, on human health. This thesis uses the sporadic emergence of dengue fever (DF) to explore how ecological transformation influences ...
Developing Controls on Cyber-Surveillance Exports: Civil Society’s Role in Formulating Norms for Cyber Technologies
(2018-05)
Defining norms — appropriate standards of behavior — for the rapidly evolving landscape of information communications technologies (ICTs) is a seemingly impossible challenge for the international community. But norms for ...
Digital Development: An Interpretive Policy Analysis of Privacy and Social Inclusion in World Bank Technology Projects
(2020-05)
Despite the growing priority to leverage information and communications technology as a tool of development (ICT4D), governments and multilateral institutions have yet to arrive at a global consensus on adequate digital ...
THE SECURITIZATION OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATER RESOURCES: A Discourse Analysis of Iranian-Afghan Relations in the Helmand River Basin
(2020-05)
Over the past few decades, Iran has been facing an increasingly severe water crisis. The Helmand River Basin, which stretches from southwestern Afghanistan to eastern Iran, has been the site of an on-and-off dispute between ...
Roots: The Orientalist Tree and Stories of Deracination from the Arabian Peninsula
(Georgetown University, 2020-04-20)
Drug Use Harm Reduction Programs: Assessing Quality and Accessibility for Individuals Who Identify as Female
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Over the past 30 years, the United States has recorded unprecedented increases in drug overdose mortality, particularly from a class of drugs called opioids. Since 1999, over 770,000 people have died of a drug overdose in ...
A Lost Arab Hollywood: Female Representation in Pre-Revolutionary Contemporary Egyptian Cinema
(Georgetown University, 2020-04-20)
The Anti-Border "Imagination Battle": An Examination of the European Neighborhood Policy in Morocco
(Georgetown University, 2020-04-20)
This thesis examines the ways in which borders are enforced and imagined. The author uses public EU documents, expert interviews and anti-border scholarship to explore the oppressive nature of borders. Specifically, she ...
Optimizing mHealth Technology to Improve Health Outcomes: A Comparative Case Study
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Mobile health, more colloquially known as mHealth, has been evolving in the healthcare space for the past few years - evidenced by the 47,911 mHealth app products currently in the Apple App Store. With a surge in technological ...