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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Land Use Model"”.
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A framework for guiding transportation improvements to support desired land use
… is a growing recognition that transportation and land use policies cannot succeed independently of one another. The interactions between them must be understood, analyzed, and accounted for in order for land use and transportation plans and policies to be effective and successful. A methodological …
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An information base for a decision support system for management of the Mhlathuze River
… data, which are analysed and processed by models, for utilization by catchment managers. The DSS and accompanying IB was developed during the formulation and implementation of the new Water Act (1998) in South Africa. It attempts to support the implementation of this Water Act, which …
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The dynamic interaction of land use and transport in a highly fragmented city: the case of Cape Town, South Africa
… shift in the South African transport and land use policy environment where transport and land use planning are viewed as a continuum as opposed to isolated planning aspects. Issues such as residential segregation, social exclusion, spatial inefficiencies, inequality, residential …
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A dynamic analysis of U.S. biofuels policy impact on land use, greenhouse gas emissions and social welfare
… security and as a solution to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector. This dissertation presents a framework to examine the extent to which biofuel policies reduce gasoline consumption and GHG emissions and their implications for land allocation among food and …
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Developing A Framework For Determining The Contribution Of Transportation Project To Sustainable Development
… units of any decision. The proposed approach uses these basic units, along with sustainability definitions, to build a methodological framework that can be used to reduce complex problems to two dimensional problems.</p> <p>Based on the developed methodology, a decision support framework was …
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GIS-based urban land use characterization and population modeling with subpixel information measured from remote sensing data
… of Vegetation-Impervious Surface-Soil (V-I-S) model in the urban land use characterization and population modeling, focusing on New Orleans area. Previous research on the V-I-S model used in urban land use classification emphasized on the accuracy improvement while ignoring the discussion of …
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Three Essays in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
… essay examines how the rate of agricultural land expansion in tropical countries depends on the nature and persistence of new political regimes. We use a novel panel data method that extends previous studies. We find that both new autocratic and democratic regimes have accelerated the …
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Plant growth under photovoltaic arrays of varying transparencies – a study of plant response to light and shadow in agrivoltaic systems
… and rural environments. Agrivoltaics (APV) is a land-use model that enables simultaneous cultivation of food crops and electricity generation on the same plot of land. Agrivoltaic systems integrate solar photovoltaic (PV) energy generation with agricultural operations, maximizing the utilization …
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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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Ecological legacies from grasslands to agroecosystems : microbial ecology, plant community assembly, and resource allocation
… soil degradation is pervasive across the modern landscape. The expansion of municipal infrastructure and the legacy effects of agriculture play key roles in the continued alteration of the soil profile. The response of the soil physical, chemical, and biological properties along with the plant …
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Implications of uncertain future network performance on satisfying environmental justice and tolling
… long-range uncertainty in the traffic assignment model as well as in an integrated transportation and land use model (ITLUM) are assessed in terms of the effects on network performance measures and roadway improvement decisions. A new method for accounting for correlations between the future …