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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 ... -
The Sharing Economy, African Style: A Comparative Assessment of the Kenyan and Nigerian Digital Sharing Economies
(2019-05)The sharing economy, often hailed as the future of the crowd-based capitalism, has disrupted many industries, stagnant business models, and consumer choice with vanguard companies like Uber and Airbnb leading the way. With ... -
Creating Place: Business, Community Development, and Neighborhood Identity In Shaw/U Street and Anacostia
(2019-05)A sense of place means a neighborhood has a particular feel to it, a particular image. Determining what this sense of place should be involves the concurrent collaboration and conflict between stakeholders in local ... -
Governance And Social Entrepreneurship In India And Uganda: A Comparative Analysis
(2019-05)In recent decades, social innovation and social entrepreneurship have risen to the forefront of both international and national consciousness. Promulgated by academics, but more strongly in mainstream writings, social ... -
Expanding Conceptions of Water Security and Health: A Case Study in Anacostia, D.C.
(2019-05)Water security is traditionally conceptualized as an issue of access to a regular supply of drinking water of good quality, only affecting health when communities lack an improved water source or proper sanitation facilities. ... -
Soil Microbial Communities In An Antarctic Water Track: Identifying Potential Ecological Optimums In a Hyperarid Mars-Analog Environment
(2019-05)Polar permafrost environments commonly feature “water tracks,” areas of heightened soil moisture in which water is routed downslope above an ice-cemented permafrost interface. Water tracks are active sites of chemical ... -
"We are at a pivot in US Privacy History" : An Interpretive Policy Analysis of the Existing US Federal Privacy Regulatory Framework for Lifestyle & Wellness Wearable Technologies
(2019-05)In part as a result of numerous devastating data breaches, along with the 2018 passing of comprehensive privacy legislation by both the EU and the US State of California, the US Congress began to discuss whether the federal ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
THE TOXICITY OF BEAUTY: Local Social and Environmental Ramifications of Technological Modernization within Clusters of Textile Producers
(2020-05)The local caste community of chhipa printers and rangrez dyers in the town of Sanganer, outside of Jaipur, India, are famous for hand block printing. The centuries-old craft uses natural dyes to stamp intricate designs on ... -
Biometric Identification Systems for Welfare Distributions: A Case Study of Aadhaar
(2020-05)Personal identification is now an essential prerequisite for development in the modern world. Providing proper identification documents improves access to both public and private services for citizens and helps governments ... -
Arctic Ocean planktonic foraminifera during MIS 5: Understanding Arctic Amplification of climate change from the palaeoclimatological record
(2020-05)This palaeoclimatological study of the Arctic examines two sediment cores from the Arctic Ocean for planktonic foraminifera from the interglacial Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5). MIS 5 is of particular importance as it was ... -
"It Doesn't Matter What I Think": Perceptions and Experiences of COVID-19 in Rural Northern California
(2021-05)Much remains unknown about how COVID-19 has been interpreted in rural America. This knowledge gap is increasingly problematic as cases in rural areas have proliferated, overwhelming local health systems. For this reason, ... -
Scientists’ Understanding of Ethics and Responsibility in Astrobiology: An Empirical Study
(2021-05)With the recent launch of multiple robotic missions to Mars and developing plans for human exploration of the Red Planet, the search for life in our solar system is at a crucial juncture. Astrobiology research could ... -
Realizing Health During Crisis: Case Studies of European Austerity
(2021-05)This thesis utilizes a framework of state obligations toward progressive realizations of health by realizing how social, political, and economic influence the population's health in four European countries. My primary ... -
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, ... -
Icebreakers as a Tool for American Power Projection in the Alaskan Arctic
(2021-05)The Arctic environment is changing. In the era of great-power competition, China, Russia, the United States, and others are expanding their capabilities to operate in the Alaskan Arctic. Key among the tools used to do this ...