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International Courts as Venues for Climate Activists: Conceptualizing the Effectiveness of International Climate Litigation Through Norm Development
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Ciara McMillan Tran
Access: Open access
- This thesis explores the emergence of international courts as venues for climate activists, and how climate litigation connects climate change-related damages to human rights law to broaden human rights norms related to the environment. Through three case studies of international climate cases, this project evaluates the effectiveness of international climate litigation through direct effectiveness, indirect effectiveness, and normative effectiveness. It argues that international climate cases are involved in the work of larger transnational advocacy networks who engage with issue framing that presents their causes to both a legal and a public audience. Framing is an ongoing, contested process that both activists and respondent states engage with, but the processes of norm development and socialization it prompts may ultimately work to advance the idea of climate and environment-related rights.
Suite For a Changing Climate
Date: 2025-01-01
Creator: Hayden Byrne
Access: Open access
- Suite for a Changing Climate is a set of compositions inspired by the changing rhythms of the New England seasons and the evolving ways in which we experience them in the shadow of climate change. Each piece captures a distinct facet of the seasonal year, whether rooted in sensory experience or in cultural memory, while reflecting on how these once-familiar patterns are being reshaped by environmental instability.
Songs for Birds: An Exploration of Climate Change and the Changing Soundscape Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Logan Paige Gillis
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community
Effects of Origin Environment and Temperature Acclimation on the Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2026-05-18
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Deva K Holliman
Access: Embargoed
An Investigation on Data Gaps in Scope 3 Emissions Accounting and Disclosure using 2010-2021 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Questionnaire Responses This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2027-05-17
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Samara Nassor
Access: Embargoed
Counter-Futurisms: Collaborative Survival and Communal Healing in a Climate-Changed World This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2026-05-20
Date: 2021-01-01
Creator: Lianna Harrington
Access: Embargoed
The impact of temperature on the sea star oscillatory gait This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2025-05-14
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Emma Victoria Bertke
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Linking genotype to phenotype in a changing ocean: inferring the genomic architecture of a blue mussel stress response with genome-wide association
Date: 2018-03-01
Creator: S. E. Kingston, P. Martino, M. Melendy, F. A. Reed, D. B., Carlon
Access: Open access
- A key component to understanding the evolutionary response to a changing climate is linking underlying genetic variation to phenotypic variation in stress response. Here, we use a genome-wide association approach (GWAS) to understand the genetic architecture of calcification rates under simulated climate stress. We take advantage of the genomic gradient across the blue mussel hybrid zone (Mytilus edulis and Mytilus trossulus) in the Gulf of Maine (GOM) to link genetic variation with variance in calcification rates in response to simulated climate change. Falling calcium carbonate saturation states are predicted to negatively impact many marine organisms that build calcium carbonate shells – like blue mussels. We sampled wild mussels and measured net calcification phenotypes after exposing mussels to a ‘climate change’ common garden, where we raised temperature by 3°C, decreased pH by 0.2 units and limited food supply by filtering out planktonic particles >5 μm, compared to ambient GOM conditions in the summer. This climate change exposure greatly increased phenotypic variation in net calcification rates compared to ambient conditions. We then used regression models to link the phenotypic variation with over 170 000 single nucleotide polymorphism loci (SNPs) generated by genotype by sequencing to identify genomic locations associated with calcification phenotype, and estimate heritability and architecture of the trait. We identified at least one of potentially 2–10 genomic regions responsible for 30% of the phenotypic variation in calcification rates that are potential targets of natural selection by climate change. Our simulations suggest a power of 13.7% with our study's average effective sample size of 118 individuals and rare alleles, but a power of >90% when effective sample size is 900.
Measuring the Relative Importance of Different Agricultural Inputs to Global and Regional Crop Yield Growth Since 1975
Date: 2016-09-01
Creator: Erik Nelson, Clare Bates Congdon
Access: Open access
- We identify the agricultural inputs that drove the growth in global and regional crop yields from 1975 to the mid-2000s. We find that improvements in agricultural technology, increased fertilizer use, and changes in crop mix around the world explained most of the gain in global crop yields, although impacts varied across the latitude gradient. Climate change over this time period caused yields to be only slightly lower than they would have been otherwise. In some cases cropland extensification had as much of a negative impact on global and regional yields as climate change. To maintain the momentum in yield growth across the globe 1) use of agricultural chemicals and investment in agricultural technology in the tropics must increase rapidly and 2) international trade in agricultural products must expand significantly.
Monteverde: ecología y conservación de un bosque nuboso tropical
Date: 2014-12-01
Creator: Nathaniel T Wheelwright, Nalini M Nadkarni
Access: Open access
- La Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde ha capturado la atención mundial de biólogos, conservacionistas y ecólogos y allí se han hecho vastas investigaciones durante los últimos 40 años. Unos 40.000 ecoturistas visitan el Bosque Nuboso cada año y se considera el bosque lluvioso arquetípico de las altitudes altas. Este libro, una traducción actualizada de "Monteverde: Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest", editado por Nalini Nadkarni y Nathaniel T. Wheelwright (Oxford University Press, 2000) presenta capítulos sintéticos y recuentos específicos escritos por más de 100 biólogos y residentes locales. En un solo volumen documenta todo lo que se sabe en 2014 de la diversidad biológica de Monteverde, Costa Rica, y cómo protegerla. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve has captured the worldwide attention of biologists, conservationists, and ecologists and has been the setting for extensive investigation over the past 40 years. Roughly 40,000 ecotourists visit the Cloud Forest each year, and it is often considered the archetypal high-altitude rain forest. This book, an updated and expanded version of "Monteverde: Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest", edited by Nalini Nadkarni and Nathaniel T. Wheelwright (Oxford University Press, 2000), features synthetic chapters and specific accounts written by more than 100 biologists and local residents. The 862-page book includes 12 new short chapters and documents in a single volume everything known in 2014 about the biological diversity of Monteverde, Costa Rica, and how to protect it.