Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Alison Adams Lab
Led by Alison E. Adams · Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences
What we study
Alison Adams studies how communities engage with environmental conflicts and participate in decision-making. She uses social science methods to analyze risks, health, and community organizing.
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Current projects
Framing Environmental Risk Around Chemical Weapons Disposal
Examines public perceptions of risks from chemical disposal programs.
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Recent papers, explained
- The Ecological-Symbolic Perspective and Ontological Security: An Analysis of Lead Contamination
2026 · Society & Natural Resources
Analyzes how lead contamination in Pueblo, Colorado, divides community views.
- Barriers to Hurricane Recovery in Frontline Communities: Climate Injustice on Florida’s West Coast
2025 · Environmental Justice
Examines how hurricanes Ian and Idalia affected Florida’s coastal communities.
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- Resisting coloniality in agriculture: A decolonial analysis of Florida’s agricultural migrant workers’ experiences
2024 · Agriculture and Human Values
- The Impacts of Landscape Loss on Industrial Communities: Solastalgia in Coal Regions
2024 · Social Currents
Explores how coal communities cope with landscape loss and environmental change.
- Environmental Risk and Chemical Weapons Disposal: The Case of the U.S. Army’s Chemical Demilitarization Program
2024 · Society & Natural Resources
Studies how the U.S. Army’s chemical weapons disposal was debated.
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