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Research Interests
Representative Publications Geores, Martha Common Ground: The Struggle for Ownership of the Black Hills National Forest Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Carter, Catherine L. and Martha E. Geores, 2006. “Heaven on Earth: The Shakers and their Space” Geographies of Religion and Belief Systems 1(1) October 2006 http://www.gorabs.org/journal/issues/2006/index.htm. Geores, Martha E. 2003. “The Relationship between Resource definition and Scale: Considering the Forest” in Nives Dolsak and Elinor Ostrom (eds) The Commons in the NewMillennium: Challenges and Adaptation, MIT Press, pp. 75-97. 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, E. 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 Recent PhD Dissertations Directed Christopher Steele. 2007. “The Emergence of a Local Memorial Landscape in the Aftermath of a Violent Tragedy: A Study of Baltimore’s Dawson Murders 2002-2005. Barbara Kearney 2006. “Exerting Local Power Over a Federal Process: Stakeholder Negotiation Process in the Canyon Forest Village Land Exchange Process, 1992-2002” Catherine L. Carter. 2005. “The Role of Theology in the Production of Space in Shaker Societies. (Best Student Paper, GORAB Speciality Group, AAG) Claire Jantz. 2005. “Analyzing Forest Change and Policy in Washington, D.C. Suburban Counties. Francis Lindsay. 2005. “Discerning Intra-Metropolitan Patterns of Producer Service Establishment Local Using Geographic Information Systems. James W. Wilson. 2005. “Historical and Computational Analysis of Long-Term Environmental Change: Forest in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia” (Best Student Paper: Historical Geography Specialy Group, AAG).
James W. Wilson. 2005. “Historical and Computational Analysis of Long-Term Environmental Change: Forest in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia” (Best Student Paper: Historical Geography Specialy Group, AAG).
Teaching Director, Geography Honors Program Environmental Science and Policy Program, Advisor for Land Use Concentration Affiliate Faculty Department of Women’s Studies Graduate Courses Offered: Population and the Environment, Human Dimensions of Global Change, Qualitative Methods, Introduction to Human Geography Undergraduate Courses Offered: Culture and Natural Resource Management (capstone for ENSP Land-Use), Population Geography, Regional Geography of the Caribbean (Study Abroad).
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