Dr. Martha Geores

 
Education

PhD  Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993
JD  New York University School of Law, 1977
BA  Sociology, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine), 1973

Research Interests

• Society and Sustainability
• Social construction of landscapes
• Common property
• Human Dimensions of Global Change

Dr. Geores' research interests center on the interaction between human and physical systems as they are played out on the landscape. Of particular concern is the sustainability of social and cultural systems in the face of local and global economic and environmental change. The cultural meaning attributed to natural phenomena and landscapes is an essential element of social sustainability. Systems of ownership and management of resources along the continuum from public to private are central to this theme.

Representative Publications

Geores, Martha (2002, in press)

The Relationship Between Resource Definition and Scale: Considering the Forest
Chapter in:   The Commons in the New Millennium,: Challenges and Adaptation, Nives Dolsak and Elinor Ostrom, Editors, MIT Press, 2001.

Geores, Martha and Gesler, Wilbert (1999)

Compromised space: The Negotiated Reality of the Therapeutic Environment
In Therapeutic Landscapes: The Dynamic Between Place and Wellness, A. Williams, Ed., (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), pp.99-122

Prince, S.D. and M. E. Geores (1999)

Global Vegetation production and human activity: a case study
In GIS in Natural Resource Management: Balancing the Technical-Political Equation, S. Moran, Ed., (Santa Fe, NM: High Mountain Press).

Geores, Martha and Cirrincione, J. (1998)

Teaching about ethnicity and gender in the developing world: "Burying Otieno" as a Role-Play
Women's Studies Quaterly, Fall/Winter 1998, 26(3/4): 202-214

Geores, Martha (1998)

Surviving on a Metaphor: How Health = Hot Springs Created and Sustained a Town
In Place and Health: Making Connections in Geographic Research, Robin Kearns and Wilber Gesler, editors, Syracuse University Press, 1998, pp. 36-52.

Geores, Martha (1998)

The Historic Role of the Forest Community in Maintaining the Black Hills National Forest as a Complex Common-Pool Multiple Use Resource
Mountain Research and Development, 18(1): 83-94.

Geores, Martha (1996)

Common Ground: The Struggle for Ownership of the Black Hills National Forest
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.