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How do local governments manage inter-governmental relationships in the context of urban sustainability? In an age of emerging impacts from global climate change and over-exploitation of natural resource, it is important to understand...
Upland forests in the southeastern United States (U.S.) were once dominated by the pyrogenic longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)-bunchgrass ecosystem that extended south from Virginia to Florida and west to East Texas. Historical land...
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout of 2010 released an estimated 4.5-4.9 million barrels of oil and 500, 000t of methane into the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Some of this oil rose to the surface, forming oil slicks, while an estimated 30% of...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how horizontal and vertical governance structure affects energy and sustainability policymaking at the local level. Although sustainability is an important issue at all levels of government...
This dissertation is composed of three essays dealing with renewable energy generation and the demand-side management (DSM) of electric utilities. The first two essays tackle small-scale and large-scale supply of electricity from...
Work is presented from two projects, each involving an application of machine learning to precision medicine. The first project was for the Document Triage Task of the BioCreative VI Precision Medicine Track. Teams were asked to build...
This dissertation provides a comprehensive analysis of the intricate dynamics of coastal systems under the extreme stress of hurricanes. A multi-faceted study on the interactions between hydrodynamics, morphology dynamics, and various...
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