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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Land Resources"”.
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Spatial and temporal Allocation of water and Land Resources for optimal cereal production in Kenya
… determine the spatial and temporal allocation of land and water resources for the optimal calories produced by maize, wheat and rice two optimization models were used. The first optimization is a least squared estimation used to calibrate the model and reproduce current conditions. The second …
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Effect of Grazing Pressure on Cattle Grazing Cool Season Annual Forages
… behavior to allow more efficient use of forage resources. Many management strategies based on manipulation of grazing behavior are simple and cost effective. Optimal performance of individual animals and amount of animal products produced per unit of land are often the primary goal of many …
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Fort Berthold Indian Reservation: A Land Use Study to 1971
<p>Can the land resources of a contemporary Indian reservation provide the basis for a self~sufficient community? To help answer that question, this study traces the agricultural development as well as other land use programs and problems of the Three Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation …
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Growth equilibrium modeling of urban sprawl on agricultural lands in West Virginia
… increasing pressure is exerted on natural resources management. Agricultural land resources particularly face growing pressure of conversion to non-agricultural uses from population and development demands for land. The continual conversion of agricultural land may have implications in …
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Environmental Planning of the Ebenezer Quadrangle, Missouri
… of the Ebenezer Quadrangle, for use by the land owners, developers, planners, and educators, as a tool to utilize the land resources more efficiently and with less environmental damage. The inventory includes karst, hydrologic, soil, and geologic features. The Ebenezer Quadrangle, located in …
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Tracing Pathways of Resource Use in the World Economy: An Analysis of National and Sectoral Influence across the Global Water-Energy-Land System
… interactions and risks across the water-energy-land (WEL) system. Consequently, priorities drawn from nexus studies might simply be an artefact of the partial scope of nexus assessment rather than a reflection of major risks to the WEL system and the activities which it supports. This thesis …
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Manufactured landscape : strategies for peri-urbanism in Dongguan
… of urban processes. In particular, rural hinterland are increasing being exploited as a vacuum for industrial expansion. The mono-functional spread of industrial estate has a limited life span, it is vulnerable to economic downturn, and undermine the possibility of small scale farming, an …
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From hunters to fisherman? Developing marine resource specialization on the Santa Barbara Channel Analysis of the artifacts and midden constituents from Ca-Sba-71
… acquisition, distribution, and consumption of resources, will be used. It is postulated that the political economy, resource management strategies and environmental conditions are critical to understanding cultural development that culminated in the historic Chumash; Specific questions relating …
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Challenges and opportunities of Catchment Management Approach in Mitigating Land degradation: The case of Mkuwazi catchment, Malawi
Land degradation is a major environmental challenge affecting many parts of the world, including Malawi, with significant impacts on agricultural productivity and livelihoods. The government of Malawi, with support from the World Bank, is implementing integrated catchment management (ICM) as a …
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NEW HIGH DENSITY HOUSING PROTOTYPES : LANDED HOUSING SITUATIONS [2002]
As Singapore is a country with finite land resources, there is an ever valid case towards the pursuit of new architectural housing types which would alleviate the ever present problem of shortage of land. This project begins with a study of the guidelines which define the typology called landed …
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Optimal land allocation for Hawaiian agriculture using an entropy-based approach
… from industrial mono-cropping plantation landscapes to small stakeholder farms, it is more important than ever to challenge these issues in the most efficient and sustainable way that is conscious of both environmental resources and resident values. This thesis aims to quantitatively …
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Energy Systems Analysis for a Solar Economy
… constrained availability of renewable carbon and land resources. This study uses systems analysis tools to identify carbon and energy efficient transformations of solar energy for different purposes, including transportation fuels and grid-scale energy storage. These efforts have been complemented …
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A Qualitative Analysis of the South African Just Transition
… – namely an Energy Transition, Restoring Land Resources, providing Safe Water for All, and utilising Green Growth.
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Host Country Institutions and the Politics of Transnational Land Acquisitions: A Case Study of Egypt
This thesis examines farmland investments in the Nile region with a special focus on Egypt. It analyses how the contextual conditions of land governance influences the patterns of land investment activities in host countries. The literature recognizes that the institutional environment of land …
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Understanding urban assets : using remote sensing to manage stormwater run-off
… leave city center is search of affordable land prices available at the cities periphery. As one might expect this increased growth is have an effect on the visual and environmental character of these communities. In some areas the rapid growth is also causing increases in stormwater …
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Assessing the ecological vulnerability of natural flood defences and risks to agricultural land following seawater flooding
… against these effects and protect natural resources. Furthermore, with increased pressures placed on agriculture to meet food demand, protecting arable land resources in coastal regions from the rising threat of flooding is imperative. This thesis explores how simulated storm surge flooding …
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Quantifying China's carrying capacity : using optimization to explore sustainable food production
… in a particular region for given natural resources and diet (the carrying capacity). A quantitative assessment of carrying capacity provides insight into the food security of the study region as well as the stress on the environmental system; in addition, this methodology can be used to …
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Black Collective Memory as Economic Development Practice: Resistance and Renaissance in Louisiana’s River Parishes
… epistemologies” rooted in “...monopoly of land, resources, and capital…and the immobility of Black labor” (Woods, 2017, p. 215). An economic transition rooted in this plantation logic may soon produce heirs promoting “false solutions” to the intertwined environmental justice and climate …
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Life Cycle Analysis of Biomass Derived Hydrogen and Methane as Fuel Vectors, and a Critical Analysis of their Future Development in the UK
… or a significantly greater<br/>commitment of land resources to fuel production, will be required in the future.
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Financing affordable urban high-rise middle-class residential property development in Malawi
… finance, imbalanced demand and supply forces in land resources, and disincentivised property development environment. Luckily, a strong demand for housing in Lilongwe City was for the first time met by the provision of urban high-rise residential plots. However, it remains untold if the mortgage …
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