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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Landscape Studies"”.
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The decline of Fowler's Toad (Bufo fowleri) in southern Louisiana: molecular genetics, field experiments and landscape studies
… predation on the two species. The results of the landscape level analyses of species' distributional changes in different disturbance levels showed that both species' distributions have changed significantly. The distributions of the two species are inversely affected by habitat disturbance; the …
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Nature Unsettled: the making of the wilderness imaginary and the Canadian settler state
… I attempt a fuller understanding of these landscapes. Paying particular attention to how settler colonial difference has historically intersected with the cultural framing of nature in Canada, this thesis aims to bring to light histories of racialized labour and non-settler migration …
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Activity and Activism: Lewis and Nathan Clark and the Evolution of Sierra Club Photography, 1924-1961
… explores the relationship between image and landscape in the rise of outdoor recreation in early and mid twentieth century America. Focusing on the role of photography in the construction, articulation, and representation of landscape, I trace two concurrent shifts in Sierra Club history. …
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Art as Contemplative Place, with Reference to Isamu Noguchi's Sited Works
… in France - Noguchi's early attempt at using the landscape as an art form; the California Scenario in the USA -a corporate park where Noguchi successfully creates a meaningful sense of place; and the Domon Ken Museum of Photography in Japan -a simple reductive approach that addresses its context …
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Community-based Mixed Method Research to Understand Rapidly Changing Cultural Landscapes
… and intangible heritage values of cultural landscapes are becoming lost or transforming under the threat of rapidly changing landscapes. Researcher-oriented documenting methods are missing significant meanings of landscapes for local communities. Community-based methods can reveal both …
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Recuperando la Tierra: Understanding the Legacies of Social Movements through the Entanglement of Home and Urban Housing Landscapes in Costa Rica
… dynamics of both households and urban housing landscapes. In this dissertation, I traverse the entanglements of home and city to better understand the legacies of a social movement. Where geographers and social movement theorists have addressed question of how social movements arise and are …
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Managing nature, constructing the state: the material foundation of Soviet Empire in Tajikistan, 1917-1937
… unique. Drawing on human geography and landscape studies, I show that the construction of the first railroads and highways in Tajikistan was a distinctive form of Soviet state-building and nation-making. Second, I comment on the nature of Stalinism. This eponymous period is known for the …
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Terra Nullius: Encountering the Non-Place
… transitional areas of land situated in the urban landscape that are viewed as interstitial - without a clear function or meaning compared to more valued spaces in the city, such as parks, and memorial sites. In general, these non-places are prohibited sites, which to some degree, adds to their …
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Understanding the disparity of educational attainment: the role of socio-demographic and school factors on GCSE attainment in Northern Ireland
… unique cultural, historical and political landscape, studies from the rest of the UK cannot be relied upon to fully understand the effects of socio-demographics and school factors on attainment trends in Northern Ireland. This study aimed to address the gap in the current literature by …
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A river of memory: landscape, narrative and identity in the Lee Valley, Co. Cork, Ireland
… decades, cultural geographers have argued that landscape is more than just a view or a static text of something symbolic. The emphasis seems to be on landscape as a dynamic cultural process – an ever-evolving process being constructed and re-constructed. Hence, landscape seems to be a highly …
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Recreation Capital: Natural Resources, Amenity Development, and Outdoor Recreation in Bend, Oregon
… of resource development related to amenity landscapes. As a result, these scholars have overlooked insights concerning the production of resource spaces and evolving relationships between the city and the countryside. The dissertation utilizes insights from critical resource geography, the …
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
… employing both trees as symbols of a British landscape that praises the monarch by welcoming exotic flora from across the globe. Chapter 2 tracks the ways in which exotic flora represent the masculine aesthetic of the “genius of the place,” formulated by Alexander Pope and the Royal Society …
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Modelling mitigation of bird population declines in the UK through landscape-scale environmental management.
… are also indirectly affected by the surrounding landscape, indicating the need for local and landscape-level studies and management. This study takes a multi-scale approach to examine the consequences of habitat and landscape changes on bird populations in two contrasting and mixed land-use …