paper adapted from PhD Dissertation at UW-Madison

paper adapted from Masters thesis at UC Berkeley in collaboration with Prof. Matthew Potts

Surrounded by a highly biodiverse desert ecosystem, the Rio Grande River creates a desert oasis. Yet the land around it is dry and vast, nationally contested and controlled, and scattered with ruins that span centuries and tell stories of the past.

During my dissertation fieldwork in Botswana, cattle farmers shared with me how their homes are where the water used to be. They painted pictures of how displacement driven by international copper mines collides with climate change.