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Britt Crow-Miller

Britt Crow-Miller

Affiliate Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory

bcrowmiller@umass.edu

Titles

  • Affiliate Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory

Biography

Dr. Britt Crow-Miller is a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Environmental Conservation and Geosciences at UMass Amherst. Her academic research is focused on environmental politics, sustainability, global development, and water resource management in China and cities of the Western U.S. In 2018, Britt founded CityWild, a nonprofit organization with the mission of inspiring curiosity about nature through fun, exploration, and hands-on learning for kids and families, including those in underserved communities. The foundation of CityWild was laid in Portland, Oregon, and the organization relocated with Britt to New England in 2020.

Education

  • PhD, Geography, University of California-Los Angeles, 2013
  • MA, Regional Studies-East Asia, Harvard University, 2009
  • BA, History and Asian Studies, Bard College, 2006

Expertise

Journal Articles

In Press

Stoker, P., H. Chang, B. L. Crow-Miller, E. A. Wentz, G. Jehle and M. R. Bonnette. Building water efficient cities: A comparative analysis of how the built environment influences water use in four western U.S. cities. Journal of the American Planning Association

2017

Chang, H., M. R. Bonnette, P. Stoker, B. Crow-Miller and E. Wentz. 2017. Determinants of single family residential water use across scales in four western US cities. Science of the Total Environment 596-597(Oct):451-464. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.164. (link )

2016

Crow-Miller, B., H. Chang, P. Stoker and E. A. Wentz. 2016. Facilitating collaborative urban water management through university-utility cooperation. Sustainable Cities and Society 27(Nov):475-483. DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2016.06.006. (link )

2015

Crow-Miller, B. 2015. Discourses of deflection: The politics of framing China’s South-North Water Transfer Project. Water Alternatives 8(2):173-192. (link )

2013

Crow, B. and J. Carney. 2013. Commercializing nature: Mangrove conservation and femail oyster collectors in the Gambia. Antipode 45(2):275-293. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01015.x. (link )

2010

Crow, B. L. 2010. Bare-sticks and rebellion: The drivers and implications of China's reemerging sex imbalance. Technology in Society 32(2):72-80. DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2010.04.001. (link )

2007

Crow, B. 2007. Environmentally-instigated rural rebellion on the North China Plain: The persistence of late Imperial mobilizationary tactics and implications for China today. The Science in Society Review 3(2):47-54.

Book Chapters

2012

Carney, J., B. L. Crow and H. Ceesay. 2012. Wild oysters, female harvesters, and mangrove forests of the Gambia. In: Saine, A., E. Ceesay and E. Sall eds., The Gambia: State and Society in the Gambia since Independence. Africa World Press. Trenton, NJ.

Presentations

2016

Crow-Miller, B. 2016. Sustainable urban water management in North China. Presentation at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 29-April 2, 2016, San Francisco, CA. (link )

2015

Crow-Miller, B. 2015. Taking a nexus approach: Transboundary Implications of Chinese hydropower development. Presentation at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 21-25 April 2015, Chicago, IL. (link )

Crow-Miller, B. L. 2015. Toward sustainable water management in urban North China. Presentation at the American Water Works Association Sustainable Water Management Conference, 15-18 March 2015, Portland, OR. (link )

2014

Crow-Miller, B. L. 2014. Discourses of deflection: The politics of framing China’s South-North Water Transfer Project. Presentation at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 8-12 April 2014, Tampa, FL. (link )

2011

Crow-Miller, B. L. 2011. Placing collective action: Place and the politics of environmental protest in a Chinese town. Presentation at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 12-16 April 2011, Seattle, WA. (link )

2010

Crow, B. 2010. Social responses to environmental pollution in China: The role of institutional context. Presentation at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 14-18 April 2010, Washington, DC. (link )

2008

Crow, B. 2008. On the ground and in the air: Social implications of residential hyperdensity in Hong Kong. Presentation at the Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference, 1 March 2008, Cambridge, MA.

Crow, B. 2008. The adaptive cycle applied to history: The tranformative progression of dynasties in Imperial China. Presentation at the International Science and Policy Conference, 16 April 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.

2007

Crow, B. 2007. Bare-sticks and rebellion: The drivers and implications of China's reemerging sex imbalance. Presentation at the Boston University Graduate Conference on Asian Studies, 1 December 2007, Boston, MA.

Thesis (PhD)

2013

Crow-Miller, B. L. 2013. Water, Power, and Development in Twenty-First Century China: The Case of the South-North Water Transfer Project. PhD Dissertation. University of California-Los Angeles. (link )