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application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01 The student, Jesann Gonzalez Cruz, accepted the attached license on 2024-11-26 at 12:21. The student, Jesann Gonzalez Cruz, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2024-11-26 at 12:45. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2024-11-27 at 14:07. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21365 on 2025-03-28 at 14:55:04 2024-11-27 Johnson, McKenzie F Larson, Eric R Jones, Jamie Cisneros, Josue D Crisis Justice Uncertainty Disaster Invasive Species Denialism eng While crises can spark change, scholars note the underlying urgency may undermine justice, prompting political ecologists to push for critical investigations of crises. In this dissertation, I draw on mixed methods to probe diverse crisis case studies and identify where and why injustices manifest. First, I find that urgency, together with the precautionary principle, can foster an environment wherein public critiques of invasive species discourse/efforts are dismissed. Second, I demonstrate that federal efforts to preempt institutional risk of corruption in Puerto Rico significantly slowed hazard mitigation efforts, ultimately transforming local hazard mitigation plans into fantasy documents. Lastly, I identify opportunities to empower community participation in disaster waste management. These findings elucidate how uncertainty is mobilized by decision-makers at the expense of the greater public. Ultimately, this work builds on interdisciplinary crisis scholarship and identifies key tension points where change is needed to facilitate just outcomes. 2024-12 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127466 Copyright 2024 Jesann Gonzalez Cruz Towards just uncertainties: A mixed method study of environmental crises Gonzalez Cruz, Jesann Natural Res & Env Sci Natural Res & Env Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. Dissertation