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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"spatial management"”.
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Spatial management of data.
Thesis. 1977. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Spatial management of groundfish resources in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank
… for the effective design of MPAs and future management of groundfish.</p>
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Understanding the nature of sacred space from the African traditional religious perspective : challenges of spatial management
… the challenges that face land use and land management in the context of the new South Africa. Approached from the African traditional religious angle the study will propose, among others, a new approach to land management and land designation. The study draws insights from literature on …
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Marine stressor and receptor interactions: A new approach to incorporate multiple stressor impacts into marine spatial management
… To support a more holistic approach to Marine Spatial Planning and better inform management decisions, spatial assessment approaches are needed which quantify the accumulating impact of multiple stressors on coastal species and habitats. This thesis investigates stressor-induced change in the …
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Valuing an ecotourism resource : a case study of the Boulders Beach African penguin colony
… with commercial fisheries. Improvements in the spatial management of these fisheries could assist with the conservation of the penguins, but would be costly. Various techniques were used to estimate the value of the colony, and to assess its impact on the economy of the southern Peninsula.
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Packaging poverty: tourism, violence, and the politics of space in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
… exploitation, problematic, and segregationist, spatial management policies, violent racism, and a linguistically enacted politics of hierarchical othering.
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Detroit : open city
… initiatives and opportunities for social and spatial development that have emerged as a result of the city's particular evolution. This thesis examines the recent transformations in Detroit's urban environment to provide a more nuanced picture of the city and to develop new planning tools that …
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Biopolitics, Borders and the Populations of Literary Space in Two Post-millennial Black British Novels: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Andrea Levy’s The Long Song
… Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, I explore the spatial and racial management of migrant bodies and, also, the ways in which the movements of migrants form a positive biopolitics, undermining the bureaucracy of the state’s immigration controls. Ultimately, the novel suggests that the movement of …
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The Effectiveness of Periodically-Harvested Closures in Meeting Ecological and Socioeconomic Objectives
… are a widespread form of community-based marine spatial management used throughout the Indo-Pacific that also is currently being intensively advocated by conservation organizations for supporting productive fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems. However, local implementation of PHCs has …
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The corral and the slaughterhouse: knowledge, tradition and the modernization of indigenous reindeer slaughtering practice in the Norwegian Arctic
… these may or may not be applicable to the human management of animal life. Individual chapters examine, in turn: the local politics of space on the Varanger peninsula, focusing particularly on links between the spatial management and the killing of reindeer; the practices and social relations of …
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Remotely operated vehicle exploring ichthyofauna association with habitat from shore-shelf, in an endemism hotspot in South Africa
… species, and thus contribute to the regions spatial management and governance.
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Protecting the deep: The combined impact of climate change and bottom trawling on VME indicator taxa in New Zealand and implications for management
… the added pressure of bottom trawling, and (iii) management strategies with policymakers and fishery regulators to fast-track spatial protection measures in the New Zealand region. In Chapter 2, species distribution models were used to predict the spatial distribution of density for several …
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Spatial ecology of adult spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, in Louisiana coastal waters
… recreational and economic importance. Still, the spatial ecology of this species is under-studied and poorly resolved, especially in Louisiana waters. To address this important knowledge gap, I examined the movements, distribution, and habitat use of adult spotted seatrout in coastal Louisiana …
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Homelessness in the West: business improvement districts as the strategic weaponization of class monopoly rent
… rent (CMR) within the broader production and spatial management of the ongoing homeless crisis in Seattle Washington. The city of Seattle Washington is home to a plethora of successful and ever-expanding international corporations. Within and around the city the headquarters of tech giants …
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Drawing the line : spatial street vendor management in Ho Chi Minh City
… whether this intervention has potential as a spatial management tool for street vendors, given existing sidewalk practices. Since Ho Chi Minh City has taken to clearing vendors in the name of tourism, this proposal uniquely positions itself at the nexus of street vendor management and urban …
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Multi-functional Holographic Acoustic Lenses for Modulating Low- to High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound
… the creation of complex pressure patterns, spatial management of the complicated acoustic field, and the degree of nonlinear waveform distortion at the focal areas, which have not been met to date. This dissertation focuses on introducing experimentally validated novel numerical approaches, …
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An Analysis of the Social and Political Elements Influencing the Emerging Kelp Aquaculture Industry in British Columbia
… that, without renewed regulations, integrated spatial management plans, and incentives that allow socio-ecological priorities to dominate the pervasive capitalistic influence on product development, aquaculture expansion in British Columbia, at best, risks failing to meet its potential, and at …
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Patterns and potential environmental drivers of mesophotic communities of the warm temperate shelf of the Amathole Region, South Africa
… biodiversity information needed to inform marine spatial planning and spatial management efforts for the newly proclaimed Amathole Offshore Marine Protected Area and the greater Amathole offshore region.
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Allee effects and the persistence of small populations
… phases of invasion. Secondly, to examine how spatial management at the point of introduction could render populations more vulnerable to the Allee effect and facilitate their eradication. Both aims are important, as despite strong theoretical findings that a demographic Allee effect can …
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Geostatistical modelling of recreational fishing data: A fine-scale spatial analysis
… fisheries resources rely on effective management of the fishery which includes monitoring of any changes in the fishery. In order to facilitate the ongoing management of the recreational fishery, an understanding of the spatial dynamics of catch per unit effort (catch rate), fishing …
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