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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Human environment interactions"”.
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Discovering the patterns of human-environment interactions using scalable functional textiles
Humans perform complex tasks in the real world thanks to rich and constant tactile perceptual input. Being able to record such tactile data would allow scientists from various disciplines to study human activities more fundamentally and quantitatively. Moreover, capturing large and diverse datasets …
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Human environment interactions and collaborative adaptive capacity building in a resilience framework
Being firmly in the Anthropocene Era--a period in humanity's evolution where human behavior and dominance is significantly impacting the earth's systems, my research objective was in response to the concern and call of the National Science Foundation and of the International Human Dimensions …
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Human-environment interactions in rural and agricultural communities: identifying opportunities for sustainability efforts using quantitative, qualitative, and GIS methods
… and the consideration and integration of both human and natural systems. The goal of this research was to contribute to agriculture and rural sustainability by conducting three different research projects that each focused on an area of agricultural or rural sustainability. In chapter three, we …
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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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Post-Glacial Fire History of Horsetail Fen and Human-Environment Interactions in the Teanaway Area of the Eastern Cascades, Washington
… the last glacial maximum and more recently, by human activity. However, it is unclear how past relationships between people, fire, and climate interacted on the landscape. The purpose of this research was to reconstruct the post-glacial fire history of a wetland known as Horsetail Fen, located …
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Ecofeminism and geography: the case of Vandana Shiva and Chipko
The study of human-environment interactions by geography is traditionally conceptualized as the "man-land" theme in geographic analysis. Feminists and other post-structuralists criticize that conceptualization. Following those critiques, this study evaluates ecofeminism as a possible alternative to …
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Intelligent Textiles for Physical Interactions
Human-environment interaction is a fundamental aspect of our daily lives, involving the constant use of our sensory and motor systems to extract, process, and communicate information. However, capturing, analyzing, and reproducing these interactions pose significant challenges due to their …
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Climate change, perceived human environment changes, and adaptation responses in coastal Indigenous community of Akplabanya, Ghana
… impacts. In this thesis, I studied the perceived human-environment changes in Indigenous community of Akplabanya. Akplabanya community on the coast of Ghana is experiencing changes in their cultural heritage, environmental surroundings, and their climate. This thesis sought to explore adaptation …
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Understanding patterns of outdoor recreation in Canadian parks using volunteered geographic information and big data
Understanding human-environment interactions in Canada's non-urban natural areas is essential for strategically managing ecosystem health and services. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) sources can provide researchers and management groups with valuable insights into human activity in these …
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Advancing Ubiquitous Tactile Sensing through Comprehensive Tooling for Resistive Matrix-Based Sensors
… a scalable and intuitive approach to capturing human-environment interactions, yet deploying them in real-world systems remains challenging because they must remain portable, adaptive, and long-lasting. This thesis presents the WiReSens Toolkit, an open-source hardware and software platform for …
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The Queer Ecology of Clouds in Nineteenth-Century British Poetics
… formations and as material metaphors for human-environment interactions. These writers frequently invoke clouds to disrupt or “queer” depictions of human-environment relationships built on human domination of environmental beings. Clouds, in poetic writing, help writers (and readers) …
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A Field Survey and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Based Investigation of the Archaeological Landscape in the Niger River Valley, Republic of Benin
… theories surrounding West African urbanism and human-environment interactions. The results conveyed that settlements in this region favour areas where water is available, mainly close to perennial and ephemeral fluvial systems. Furthermore, the archaeological sites identified display strong …
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Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, Montana, USA from 1992-2011
… understand landscape-scale changes influenced by human-environment interactions. Using National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products, I identified areas that have experienced land cover change for three time periods: 1992-2001, 2001-2006, and 2006-2011. Additionally, I used case studies to further …
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Landscape dynamics from 1990--2010 and the human to apex predator (red-tailed hawk) relationship on La Gonave, Haiti
… Haitian lifestyle. Little is known about human--environment interactions on La Gonave. The first objective of this research was to investigate landscape dynamics through image classification, change detection, and landscape pattern analysis using Landsat 5 (TM) imagery from 1990--2010. …
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Connection to Nature at the Building Edge: Towards a Therapeutic Architecture for Dementia Care Environments
Residential dementia care environments were investigated to discover a potential therapeutic role for architecture by facilitating a connection to nature for residents. A study of ‘place as process’ included over two years of observational data highlighting multiple factors of the built and social …
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Pacing and opponents: the regulation of exercise intensity during competition
… and highlight the necessity to incorporate human-environment interactions into models that attempt to explain the regulation of exercise intensity.
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Considering the importance of wetlands to hunter-gatherer adaptation : a microbotanical investigation of Late Pleistocene plant-use in the Eastern Levant
… understanding of Late Pleistocene plant-use and human-environment dynamics veers significantly from previous perspectives on hunter-gatherer plant-use in the region. Firstly, in considering the local ecological opportunities, this work emphasizes the complexity of gathering strategies and the …
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Distribution of Resource Use in an Informal Learning Environment: Using Sensor Technologies to Bring Geography Indoors
… spaces have become increasingly prevalent in human lives. While scholarship in other fields has studied the relationship between humans and the indoors, it has not been readily investigated in Geography. This study draws from prior research in Building Design, Managerial Science, and Education …
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Listening to urban sound: A mixed-method approach for understanding human mobility, individual sound exposure, and psychological well-being
… fields of health geography, urban planning, and environmental health have extensively studied the relationships among human movement, environmental exposure, and their effects on human health. Urbanization brings about ever-growing noise problems in cities. Exposure to high levels of sound is …
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‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are’: A Multi-Tissue and Multi-Scalar Isotopic Study of Diet and Mobility in Early Medieval England and its European Neighbours
… with the impact of socio-economic, political and environmental shifts on Early Medieval communities, specifically England and its links with continental Europe. I have utilised multi-tissue (bone, dentine and enamel), multi-isotope (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O and 87/86Sr) and multi-proxy data to analyse the …
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