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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"landscape assessment"”.
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Global Health Security Agenda Legal Landscape Assessment
… the components performed for the GHSA Legal Landscape Assessment. The first component focused on identifying the legal domains and legal approaches for each of the response action packages. The second component included a literature review and human rights analysis on the subjects of …
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The landscape adjective check list: a descriptive technique for landscape assessment
… is systematic, yet flexible, for the descriptive assessment of landscapes, and second, to develop a minimal set of basic dimensions or scales that are invariant across observers and places described. The Landscape Adjective Check List (LACL), first developed by Kenneth Craik (1971), and modeled …
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An evaluation of visual and verbal based standards for landscape assessment
… 1980) as a reference for evaluating the landscape have certain shortcomings. One hypothesis is that visual images of the landscape which are used as a basis or standard along with landscape descriptions for measuring different levels or categories of a landscape attribute (visual …
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A multi-scaled approach to vegetation and landscape assessment in the Barents region: Reindeer habitat in a climate of change
… region, increases understanding of the landscape and its relationships to reindeer habitat and climate change through multi-scale assessments, and creates the potential for analysing consequences of change. Three primary scales of vegetation analysis and their limitations, uses and value …
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Wilderness And Aesthetic Values In The Antarctic
… 'aesthetic values', interpretations given to landscape are considered, before examining the techniques developed in the United Kingdom for landscape assessment, and those used in the United States which are termed visual resource management. Procedures, primarily based on the most recent …
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Assessment of Watershed Condition and Vulnerability to Forecasted Land-Use/Land-Cover Change in the Northwestern Great Plains of Western South Dakota
… used U.S. EPA’s Analytical Tools Interface for Landscape Assessment (ATtILA) to analyze landscape spatial data to determine the condition of wadeable, perennial stream watersheds in the Northwestern Great Plains level III ecoregion of western South Dakota (n=1,025). We incorporated forecasted …
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Policy capturing with the use of visual stimuli: a method of quantifying the determinants of landscape preference
… a potential methodology for evaluating landscape preference, was described and tested. This methodology, tested and applied in industrial psychology since 1960, results in a mathematical model that theoretically represents the human decision-making process. Under experimental conditions, …
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WE ARE HERE: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY’S EXPANSION ON MANTUA AND POWELTON VILLAGE
… for generations. This research is a qualitative assessment of the social changes to the two communities as a result of Drexel’s expansion activities. A social sustainability framework was developed based on the results of a cultural landscape assessment and structured and semistructured …
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Biophysical and Climate Analysis of the Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) Infestations in the Crown of the Continent, 1962 to 2014
… additional geospatial analyses may enable a landscape assessment of factors contributing to variability of MPB infestation and damage as this insect continues to spread.
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Multifunctional perennial landscape: small farm design in the Upper Sangamon River Watershed
… Findings will be used to support educational landscape-based design research and to develop decision-support tools for land owners who want to integrate MPCS on marginal farmland. This thesis explores using MPCS in the projective design of marginal areas of an actual 171 acre ranch north of …
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Leveraging Digital Phenotyping to Predict Outcomes in Youth at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis
… and clinical symptoms, is limited by current assessment methods. Digital phenotyping (the use of mobile devices to collect data) may address these limitations and holds promise given the ubiquity of smartphones. The current study combined passive and active digital phenotyping data to examine: …
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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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Assessing the costs and benefits of native plant species for electric transmission line right-of-way revegetation within the Tennessee Valley Authority power service area
The safe operation of electric transmission lines necessitates the suppression of tall, woody vegetation on associated rights-of-way (ROWs). Native warm season grasses (NWSG) are more expensive for ROW revegetation compared to typical exotic cool season grasses (ECSG), but they may alter the …
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The relationship between the meaning of water and sense of place : a grounded theory study from northern Thailand
The literature suggests that a subtle relationship exists for communities between the meaning of water and sense of place, making fertile ground for systematic investigation. The relationship has obvious importance in today’s world, where people’s reliance on water, and the need for reliable …