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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Department of Geography"”.
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Modelling the distribution of Seriphium Plumosum in Msukaligwa Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province
Department of Geography and Geo-Information Sciences
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Negotiation between conservation and development objectives in agrarian reform settlements in the south of Para, Brazil
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Department of Geography, 2008
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Human-environment interactions and sustainable urban development : spatial modeling and landscape prediction : the case of Nang Rong town, Thailand
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Geography, 2010
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An historical and ecological study of inclosed and uninclosed woods in the New Forest, Hampshire.
Supervised by Dr Francis Rose, Reader in Biogeography, King's College London, Department of Geography
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An 828 Year Streamflow Reconstruction for the Jordan River Drainage Basin of Northern Utah
<p>Bryan Tikalsky Department of Geography Master of Science Mountain water resources are essential to those living along the Salt Lake City urban corridor. Water resource planners base their policy on twentieth century climate conditions and streamflow records. Often these records only account for …
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The longer-term labour market and community impacts of deindustrialisation: a comparison of the Northumberland coalfield and the Monongahela Valley mill towns
The research focuses on the longer-term impacts of past regional deindustrialisation and, more specifically, the ways in which individual and household decisions have interacted with the local public welfare and cultural context to produce profound long-term community changes, critically affecting …
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California in the greenhouse: regional climate policies and the global environment
… developing at sub-national or “regional” scales of decision-making. It considers local-global connections on both the science and the politics of climate change by investigating four main research questions as they pertain to regional climate action: What triggers regional policy action on global …
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An ontology of ethnicity based upon personal names: with implications for neighbourhood profiling
Understanding of the nature and detailed composition of ethnic groups remains key to a vast swathe of social science and human natural science. Yet ethnic origin is not easy to define, much less measure, and ascribing ethnic origins is one of the most contested and unstable research concepts of the …
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Decadal rainfall variability over Southern Africa
Southern Africa is a region of vulnerability, with high seasonal and interannual rainfall variability combined with rain-dependent agriculture. This variability is underpinned by influences from ENSO and other oceanic forcing, and known to exhibit quasi-decadal variability at 16-20 years (Tyson, …
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Working Tourists: Identity Formation in a Leisure Space
… who work as they travel the world have often escaped academic attention. This thesis will begin to correct this omission by illustrating how the working and travelling practices of these young budget travellers affects their perception and construction of self. Taking an empirically …
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The illusion of community participation: experience in the irregular settlements of Bogotá
… on community participation among the poor of Bogotá, Colombia. It explores the changing relationships between poor communities, local politicians and the city government before and after the institutional reforms and changing approach to development that occurred during the 1990s. The case …
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Networks of Nature: Stories of Natural History Film-making at the BBC
… for wildlife films, providing a keystone of the BBC's public service broadcasting charter, playing an important strategic role in television scheduling and occupying a prominent position in a competitive world film market. The BBC's blue-chip natural history programmes regularly bring …
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Patrick Geddes
The essential problem in a study of Geddes is that it is difficult to cite any one particular doctrine providing his final definition of planning. He did not develop his theories in any one single systematic work. He left articles, lectures, pamphlets and innumerable reports on the subject out of …
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Reconciling biodiversity preservation and local sustainable development : the role of the "MAB biosphere reserves" in the South-Eastern European countries
The contents of this dissertation represent the synthesis of a three-years academic research activity - from November 2000 to October 2003 - carried out in the frame of the XVI cycle of the doctoral programme 'Man and Environment' ('Uomo e ambiente'), activated at the Department of Geography …
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Geological recognition of abrupt marine invasions in two coastal areas of Portugal
… deposits which is the principal focus of this thesis. In historical times the most destructive tsunami that affected Europe was the AD 1755 Lisbon. The effects and consequences of the AD 1755 tsunami are presented. The causes, propagation and behaviour of tsunamis are also discussed. …