Nick Buchanan's research focuses on questions of indigenous peoples, rural communities, and environmental legality. Motivated by concern for the struggles engendered by the profound environmental and social transformations underway today in rural America, his dissertation is an exploration of resource management in action. The dissertation follows environmental disputes over water, land, and endangered species and considers the oft-fraught interactions between different ways of knowing environments; the strengthening interconnections between scientific and legal authority and the responses of different groups to this situation; the interplay of cultures and environments; and the emergence of new configurations of governance meant to compliment top-down environmental regulations.
Nick received his BA in Geography from UC Berkeley.
environment, indigeneity, rural life, law and society, expertise, governance and regulation
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