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Fires in semi-arid forests in the western United States tended to burn periodically and at low severity until the policy of fire suppression put an end to these low-intensity events and created the conditions for the destructive fires seen today. Understanding the benefits of these periodic fires and the forest structure that they maintained may help land managers and communities avert megafires in the future, according to researchers.
Douglas Miller, who earned three degrees from Penn State; worked as a research assistant, research associate and professor in two colleges; and created and led the Center for Environmental Informatics for 20 years, retired in July and was granted emeritus status.
112 Walker Building, Meetings with Graduate Program Officer, Trevor Birkenholtz,
Concurrent: When not meeting, go to 302 Walker Building to complete working papers with Judy Heltman and get office keys from Darlene Peletski
noon–1 p.m. lunch on your own
Experiences of health and disease in the United States are heavily predicated on two intertwining factors -- racial discrimination and place, the latter both as geographic location and as reflective of place attachments. These issues are more salient than ever as recent events demonstrate, such as the American Medical Association finally acknowledging racism as a threat to public health, environmental justice becoming a key presidential policy priority, and covid-19 taking a dramatically uneven toll on Black, Indigenous and Latinx adults. In this seminar, we will discuss how the structural foundations of racism have developed to impact health and disease across nearly all outcomes, including inscribing disease in place. We will further evaluate these topics analytically from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.
In this seminar we will examine recent research on infrastructural geographies with a specific focus on natural resource infrastructures and “green infrastructure.” In recent years, infrastructure has been conceptualized as a mediator of nature-society and state-society relations, but also as an active agent in reworking access to and control over resources (e.g., water, energy, financial, healthcare, economic, political). Theoretically, infrastructure has been variously conceived as a network, assemblage or as nature-society-technical hybrid, among other perspectives.
Our goal for the semester is threefold. First, we will build a typology of theoretical approaches for the study of infrastructural geographies by examining the histories, assumptions, and strengths and weaknesses of these different conceptual frameworks. Second, we will ground them with specific case studies to identify their contributions to our understanding of natural resource & green infrastructure. Finally, we will identify ongoing and future research lacunae to apply to our own research projects. We will meet these goals through weekly response papers, in-class mini lectures and presentations, fieldtrips, and a final research paper and presentation.
