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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Landscape Development"”.
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Reconnecting man with nature : post industrial landscape development
… in the 18th century, transforming the natural landscape and influencing the people directly dependant on it, this enforces to the consumer culture we experience every day. This industrial development all over the world has disregarded apparent and non-apparent relationships that humans have …
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Being San' in Platfontein: Poverty, landscape, development and cultural heritage
… dispossessed of land, or experience the altered landscapes of modernity, so their way of life, values, beliefs and understandings are transformed. For the !Kun and Khwe people living on Platfontein this has been an ongoing process. Platfontein, a dry, flat piece of land near Kimberly in the …
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Feedbacks between flow, vegetation, deposition, and the implications for landscape development
… around patches of vegetation are important to landscape evolution, and a better understanding of these processes would facilitate more effective river restoration and wetlands engineering. In wetlands and channels, patches of vegetation are rarely isolated and neighboring patches influence one …
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The impact of glaciation and climate change on biogeochemical cycling and landscape development
… to identify climate variability and characterize landscape response to glacial/deglacial climate transitions. Geochemical analysis of the Dry Lake sediment prior to the 8.2 kyr event revealed average values for percent total organic carbon to be 4% with a range of 0.2% to 15.2%. The average …
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Cultural Landscape Development and Tourism in Historic Mining Towns of the Western United States
This thesis examines the development of the cultural landscape of western mining towns following the transition from an economy based on mining to one based on tourism. The primary case studies are Bodie, California, Virginia City, Nevada, and Cripple Creek, Colorado. Each one is an example of …
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Exploring Community Colleges in the Stem Education Landscape : development of stem college major choice model
<p>Community colleges are becoming increasingly relevant as an entrance point into postsecondary education for potential science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors. These institutions are also an important education pathway for women and racial/ethnic minorities who are …
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Community Ecosystem Services Values Support Conservation and Sustainable Landscape Development: Perspectives From Four University of California Campuses
Urban landscapes homogenize our world at global scales. This sameness contributes to "extinction of experience", where people feel increasingly disconnected from native ecosystems and the services they provide. Numerous approaches have been proposed for combatting extinction of experience, all of …
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Influence of climate and the expansion of C4 grasses on sequence-scale cyclicity and landscape development during the late Miocene to Pleistocene of West Texas.
The Neogene records a period of global climate change and terrestrial ecosystem evolution; however, little is known about whether these changes influenced sedimentary and soil forming processes. The late Miocene to Pleistocene Fort Hancock and Camp Rice Formations from two adjacent isolated basins, …
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The Impact of Long-Term Glacial Erosion on the Active Chugach-St. Elias Mountains, southern Alaska
… has been demonstrated to be a primary force in landscape development. An understanding of fluvial erosion in mountain belts is fairly well documented, but the impact of glacial erosion is yet to be fully recognized. The uplift of the Chugach-St. Elias Mountains over the last 5-6 Ma under the …
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The impact of technology on the agricultural landscape: This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma in Landscape Architecture, Lincoln College
… provide a tool for interpreting the agricultural landscape. The objectives pursued concentrate on the historical development of both the New Zealand and English agricultural landscape, in the context of technological change. Knowledge of landscape development in England is important, as many New …
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Long-term exhumation of landscapes along the Pacific-North American plate boundary as inferred from apatite (U-Th)/He and ArcGIS analyses
… not been studied from the context of long-term landscape development. To determine whether mountain building along these sections of the plate boundary reflects recent, rapid exhumation as observed in bordering mountain belts, low-temperature thermochronometry and topographic analyses were …
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Sustainable landscape planting in the Negev Desert
… which will help to promote more sustainable landscape development in the region. The study combines the data collection in the field of 163 plant species located in the Negev desert and the literature review of these species. The plants’ key physical, visual and aesthetic characteristics as …
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Medieval seismicity on the Himalayan Frontal Thrust Fault at Lal Dhang, Uttarakhand, India
… local interactions between fluvial terrace development and fault scarp generation. The goal of this research was to conduct a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the seismic history at the site of Lal Dhang. The work was distributed across three intersecting objectives: 1) development of …
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The coupled development of terrain and vegetation : the case of semiarid grasslands
The distribution of vegetation in semiarid landscapes organizes as a function of moisture availability, which is often mediated by the form of the land surface. Simultaneously the processes that shape the land surface are influenced by vegetation, mainly because vegetation reduces fluvial erosion. …
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The development of geomorphic and hydraulic complexity within streams and its influence on fish communities following glacial recession in Glacier Bay, Alaska
Studies of landscape development via primary successional processes are an important area of research for understanding how landscapes evolve into stable, diverse ecosystems. This research sought to assess how geomorphic and hydraulic complexity alter as streams develop following glacial recession. …
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Mediterranean influences on horticultural and garden developments in South Australia between 1836 and 1938.
… with the Depression of 1938 having regard to its landscape development. This enables the documentation of Mediterranean influences from the earliest moments of European settlement in South Australia until the great financial crash that virtually suspended significant landscape commissions until …
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Telecommunication technologies development in countries of the former Yugoslavia : history, needs and policy options for the future
… political-economic and telecommunications sector developments in major western economies, as well as some of the advanced Eastern European countries. I use this framework to analyze the telecommunications sector development in countries of the former Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, …
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Signatures of land-ocean interactions in coastal morphology
… is essential for understanding large-scale landscape development and source-to-sink models, which rely on parameterized representations of environmental factors. Recent studies increasingly integrate empirical datasets into predictive models to better simulate coastal morphodynamics across …
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Comparative Landscape Infrastructure in Kolda, Senegal and Washington, D.C.
… Neighborhood in Washington, D.C.—explores how landscape infrastructure can decrease the scalar disconnect between the global water crisis and local water use practices. By looking at one city in the Global North and one in the Global South with similar risk of water stress, I am able to compare …
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