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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"landscape change"”.
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Assessing Landscape Change in Western Honduras, 1957-2010
… and quantitative spatial statistics to evaluate landscape change in western Honduras between 1957 and 2010, and specifically focuses on changes in tree cover. Results from repeat photography and satellite classification show an increase in tree cover. Spatial statistics indicate that increases in …
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Dynamic river networks drive landscape change and biological evolution
… a continent, all-the while shaping the landscapes they flow through. My thesis investigates the processes that govern the dynamics of river basins and the ways in which these processes may influence the evolution of aquatic life. In Chapters 1-3 of my thesis I investigate river network …
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Examining Rural Landscape Change Driven by the Digitalisation of Agriculture
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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The Elwha River Restoration: Landscape Change, Salmon, and Sense of Place
… and affecting generations, this project has changed and will continue to change the landscape. This research examined the influence of the anticipated return of salmon on 18 key stakeholders' sense of place of the Elwha River. For almost all stakeholders, changes to the Elwha landscape are …
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Cycles of landscape change and place-meanings in Midwestern farming communities
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Postcards from the blue heart : landscape change In the Dutch lowlands
… Like the rest of Holland, it is a constructed landscape. The region is facing twin challenges: the need to make room for water as a strategy to deal with climate change, and the fact that the liberalization of the European dairy industry will make it exceedingly difficult for small family farms …
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Patterns and Pathways of Wetland Sedimentation and Landscape Change in Coastal Louisiana
… the spatial and temporal variability of this landscape with an emphasis on the interactions between anthropogenic landscape modifications and geological processes.</p> <p>The Mississippi River watershed underwent drastic changes during the past 200 years, beginning with widespread land …
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Piping plover habitat and demography following storm-induced and engineered landscape change
… aerial imagery and evaluated the population changes that occurred after disturbance-related habitat alterations. Following these habitat creating events, nesting habitat increased 27%–950%, and, subsequently, these plover populations increased overall 72%–622% (increase of 8–217 pairs in 3 to …
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Small-Hydroelectricity and Landscape Change in the Bitterroot Mountains: Public Perceptions and Attitudes
… 2007 Geography Small-Hydroelectricity and Landscape Change in the Bitterroot Mountains: Public Perceptions and Attitudes Chairperson: Dr. David D. Shively The development and use of renewable energy resources within America has made significant progress over the last two decades. Many state …
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Small-Hydroelectricity and Landscape Change in the Bitterroot Mountains: Public Perceptions and Attitudes
… 2007 Geography Small-Hydroelectricity and Landscape Change in the Bitterroot Mountains: Public Perceptions and Attitudes Chairperson: Dr. David D. Shively The development and use of renewable energy resources within America has made significant progress over the last two decades. Many state …
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El Milagro De Almeria, Espana: A Political Ecology of Landscape Change and Greenhouse Agriculture
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to investigate changes in the landscape of Almería in southeastern Spain, particularly in relation to the emergence of the 80,000-acre greenhouse sector. This thesis questions why the province of Almería has the highest concentration of greenhouses in the world and …
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El Milagro De Almeria, Espana: A Political Ecology of Landscape Change and Greenhouse Agriculture
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to investigate changes in the landscape of Almería in southeastern Spain, particularly in relation to the emergence of the 80,000-acre greenhouse sector. This thesis questions why the province of Almería has the highest concentration of greenhouses in the world and …
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Assessing Landscape Change in Highland Peru with an Emphasis on Tree Cover Change, 1948-2012
<p>Tree cover change was examined around three cities in the central Andes of Peru, 1948-2012, using repeat photography, remote sensing, and ethnographic methods. Forest transition theory provided a framework to study the causes of the changes observed. The repeat photography results show that …
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Rewilding in the Oder Delta, Germany-Poland: Ecological, social and economic drivers of landscape change
… and Highland cattle now feature in the rewilding landscape of the Oder Delta. Rewilding is a function of deliberate efforts by conservationists to facilitate natural processes, alongside myriad other social, economic, ecological and geomorphic factors. The relative insignificance of rewilding …
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Urban Landscape Change in New Orleans, LA: The Case of the Lost Neighborhood of Louis Armstrong
… dissertation seeks to explore the processes of landscape change through a case study of Louis Armstrong's downtown neighborhood in New Orleans. It employs an urban morphological framework to uncover the specific landscape changes that occurred in the neighborhood over time. This micro-level view …
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Ravine alluvial fans as records of landscape change in the Le Sueur River Basin, southern Minnesota
… Minnesota record post-glacial Holocene changes and modern anthropogenic disturbances to land cover and hydrology in high-latitude watersheds. Seventy meters of base-level drop at the end of the last glaciation initiated millennia of incision that continues on the LSRB today. Onto this …
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Aspects of medieval landscape change in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucestershire: evidence from the feet of fines
This dissertation is an examination of the validity and potential of a series of documents known as feet of fines. It represents the analysis of data gathered from over 5000 original, medieval fines at the Public Record Office in Kew. Computer technology, notably Geographical Information Systems …
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People, sheep, and landscape change in colonial Mexico: the sixteenth-century transformation of the Valle del Mezquital
… geographical approaches to studying historical landscape transformations. On one side of this debate, geographer Karl W. Butzer finds in the sixteenth-century Mexican Bajío little evidence for environmental degradation from introduced livestock. On the other, environmental historian Elinor G.K. …
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Spatiotemporal Patterns and Drivers of Surface Water Quality and Landscape Change in a Semi-Arid, Southern African Savanna
… feedbacks that drive spatiotemporal patterns of change are lacking. In Chapter 1 of my dissertation, I discuss some of the different theoretical frameworks used to understand complex and dynamic changes in savanna structure and composition. In Chapter 2, I evaluate spatial drivers of water …
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