Undergraduate Research in Geography -- Links to Group
Research Project websites:
Political
Geography
A Critical Geopolitics of the 'Project
for a New American Century'
Transportation
and Urban Growth Politics in
North Carolina
http://www.geocities.com/urbangrowth1/
On the politics of urban
development:
Urban
Development Trends in Piedmont
North
Carolina
http://www.unc.edu/~jharmon/geog153/
Environmental
Politics
Environmental health in
North
Carolina: Industrial Hog Farming
http://www.unc.edu/~bsykora/
North
Carolina: Hog Heaven or Hog Hell?
http://www.unc.edu/~acrowley/hog.html
Science and
environmental politics in global climate change
http://www.unc.edu/~bowerman/
Urban
sprawl in the Triangle Region of North
Carolina
http://www.unc.edu/~gmyers/
unSuperfund? How
Funding Cuts by the George W. Bush Administration Have
Impacted the Effectiveness of the Superfund
Program
Case Studies
in New Jersey and Florida
http://geog135.tripod.com/index.html
Environmental Politics & the Law:
Grassroot Coalitions Empowered to Promote Corporate
Environmental Policy Change through the Court
System
http://www.unc.edu/~nicolep/geog/
The web pages linked above are
summaries of, and complements to, larger research projects.
Names of individual authors are included within the web pages.
These projects from Kirsch's Political Geography and
Environmental Politics classes have been supported through the
Graduate Research Consultant (GRC) Program, which is sponsored
by UNC's Office of Undergraduate Research
(www.unc.edu/depts/our). Special thanks to the GRCs who worked
with students on these projects.
