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Showing 1 to 20 of 10474 for “"Land"”.
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O Land, Land, Land! Images of Land in Jeremiah and in New Zealand Poetry: Ecological Readings from Aotearoa.
… to assess critically the representations of Land in the book of Jeremiah, asking questions of the text’s contribution to the current state of environmental degradation, as well as assessing its potential to assist in alleviating the crisis. This primary analysis is supplemented by an …
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Empirical models of land conservation and land use
This dissertation concentrates on land use, both urban and rural, in United States. First, I focus on land conservation and study how state fiscal incentives can affect private land conservation on the eastern region of the country. Then, I move to urban uses of land and analyze how distance to …
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Land | Lineage
<p>Land | Lineage is an in-depth text of my thoughts and tha artistic choices I make within my work. In my thesis I use tha concept of Black Ecology to understand art rooted in tha relationship between race and geography. Black culture and city spaces in proximity to natural landscapes, or …
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Risen Land
<p>The sculptures I create are inspired by derelict manufactured spaces found within Bulloch County. Each object is created in Tabby, a historic building material comprised of oyster shells, lime, sand and water, commonly known as ‘the first American concrete.’ Tabby was often used in the Coastal …
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Deep learning for land cover and land use classification
… thus posing huge challenges in automatic land cover (LC) and land use (LU) classification. Deep learning reignited the pursuit of artificial intelligence towards a general purpose machine to be able to perform any human-related tasks in an automated fashion. This is largely driven by the …
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Dynamics of land use and land cover changes in China
… provided by natural capital, and certain land use and land cover changes (LUCC) in China. With better understanding of these trade-offs, this thesis contributes to optimum management for sustaining ecosystem services and supporting socio-economic development. The three case study areas are …
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Suburban land planning
Thesis (B.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1948
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Land Commissioner Bascom Giles and the Texas Veteran's Land Board scandals
No abstract prepared.
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Ethical Relationality in Land-based Practices: Braiding Stories, Land, and Spirit
… Tsuut’ina ninisha (way of life), and restore land-based practices that are critical for identity and survival within Tsuut’ina Nation schools. The research question guiding this study is: What is required to sustain, validate, and legitimize Tsuut’ina ninisha uwa gunaha and restore land-based …
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Dynamics and drivers of land use land cover changes in Bangladesh
Land is scarce in Bangladesh: Bangladesh occupies ~0.03 % of world’s land area, but supports over ~2% of human population. This high population to land ratio, combined with socioeconomic development has placed tremendous pressure on Bangladesh’s land resources for food, feed, and fuel. This study …
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Assessing customary land administration systems for peri-urban land in Ghana
Customary tenure is the predominant land tenure system in Ghana. It has been practiced for many years. Customary land tenure is built on the foundations of an African concept of land, distinguished by centrality of community, spirituality, and mutual dependence of the individual and the community. …
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Patterns of land cover change in Kanyati communal land in Zimbabwe
… trend with significant effects on existing land cover types and ecosystems. High rates of human population growth in southern Africa and subsequent increased pressure on land has led to the extension of cultivation and settlement into marginal lands. This study investigates the spatial …
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Land rights and land conflicts in Kibaale since the colonial settlement
… why there has been persistent conflict over land in Africa, with reference to Kibaale district in western Uganda. The land conflicts, especially in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa, are attributed to such factors as the colonial legacy which has contributed to unequal access and conflicting …
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Newfound land : urban highway removal and planning the land it uncovers
When the interstate highway system was routed through urban centers during the 1950's and 1960's, few thought these elevated expressways would have a serious detrimental impact on the cities they served. These interstates were designed to bring a new ease to travel between cities. Unhappiness with …
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Carbon dynamics of global land use, land-use change, and forestry
… from the atmosphere when the harvested land regrows. Recent studies, however, find that wood bioenergy can exacerbate climate change because it is less efficient than the fossil fuels it displaces, and because regrowth takes time and is uncertain. Other land use, land-use change, and …
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Land use and landscapes: the future of Alaska land use control
The role of the state in land use control was examined in general, and in relation to the land use context of Alaska. The study provides a brief overview of the history of land ownership and land control in Alaska as well as the particular difficulties attendant to the control and management of …
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Towards a Polyalgorithm for Land Use and Land Cover Change Detection
Earth observation satellites (EOS) such as Landsat provide image datasets that can be immensely useful in numerous application domains. One way of analyzing satellite images for land use and land cover change (LULCC) is time series analysis (TSA). Several algorithms for time series analysis have …
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Land and land conflict in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process:1990-1999
… the importance of the debates and struggle over land in the Oslo Accord and immediately post-Oslo. It does this by first situating the conflict over land in the historical context of the spread of Zionism from the 1880s, culminating in the establishment of the State of Israel in Palestine in …
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