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This dissertation is an account of conservative social movement activism. Conservative political projects are characterized by advocacy of market-centric state policies. Conservative social movement activism is one variety of...
In this study I analyzed the relationship between access to COVID-19 testing sites and neighborhood characteristics before and after federal funding cuts to determine if socially vulnerable communities were more likely to be affected by...
Marine aquaculture, the farming of aquatic species in ocean environments, has substantial potential to contribute to the global supply of seafood. However, despite the global growth of marine aquaculture (mariculture) in recent years, ...
Access to health care for a few social groups, such as migrant and seasonal farm workers and their dependents, is uncommonly low. Recent legislation targeting some of these groups have been increasingly successful, while the initiatives...
"The purpose of this study is to identify geography as a general education subject, to determine the type of geography which best serves the objectives of general education and to determine the general education value of the present...
Marine spatial planning (MSP) seeks to reduce conflicts and environmental impacts, and promote sustainable use of marine ecosystems. Existing MSP approaches have successfully determined how to achieve target levels of ocean area for...
Knowledge, Power, and the IUD: The Biopolitics of Medical Expertise in Reproductive Counseling and the Anatomopolitics of Gynecological Interventions into the Uterus
This thesis focuses on the production of medical expertise over women’s reproductive health and the normalization of biomedical interventions into women’s reproductive systems. To unpack this, I analyze the American College of...
This thesis examines the material and interpretive relations imbricated in the Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) forest as a cultural landscape. Approaching this landscape, I outline and demonstrate the utility of a neo-Sauerian...
Home range analysis involves characterizing the spatial extent that an animal occupies from sample points that record its location periodically over time. Kernel density estimation (KDE) is currently the most widely applied and accepted...
This dissertation explores the opportunities for, and limitations of, the community land trust (CLT) model for urban governance. It draws upon the theoretical lineages of urban geography, political geography, alternative and diverse...
People living in urban areas face environmental challenges resulting from the ever-increasing amount of impervious surfaces, which in turn increase the volume of stormwater runoff. Stormwater flow from impervious surfaces can lead to...
Wetlands are transitional ecosystems between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are among the most productive and diverse ecosystems and make a critical part of larger ecosystems. Functional wetlands provide numerous significant...
This dissertation examines the relationship between queer geography and gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia. This relationship is intrinsically tied to issues of urban land valuation, sexuality, race, and the material reality of a...
This dissertation presents and evaluates the use of geographic techniques for understanding the role of environmental variables as they relate to the odds of settlements being targeted for attack within a civil conflict. Geospatial...
The characteristics and trends of the literature of map librarianship, 1853-1991: A descriptive bibliometric study
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The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of the literature of map librarianship, to determine how these characteristics changed over time, and to compare these characteristics with the characteristics of the articles... Overall the characteristics of the literature of map librarianship reflect a maturing of the discipline. The findings show that the majority of source articles (1) were the product of a male author who was associated with an academic... For the cited documents the findings show that the majority of the documents (1) were written in English and were published in an English-speaking country; (2) were from the fields of map librarianship, cartography, and library science; ...
The wildlife pet trade is global in scope and generates large economic revenues. Reptiles are moved across international borders to supply an extensive network of breeders, collectors, and pet owners. This study invokes new materialist...
Big Water, Little Water: Identification of Small and Medium-Sized Reservoirs in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin with a Discussion of Their Ecological and Hydrological Impacts
Dams and reservoirs in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) Rivers have been associated with significant hydrologic change including water quality decline, habitat loss through stream fragmentation and habitat conversion, ...
Local news' mission to serve the local community is perhaps never more important than during disasters and severe or hazardous weather. Studies have examined the role of local news during such times, but the focus has rarely, if ever, ...
Human-wildlife conflicts are a major challenge for wildlife management owing to the rapid expansion of settlement growth into wilderness. Research has been conducted on human development impacts on the overall survival of wildlife, as...
This thesis examines temporal and spatial process that are reproduced and challenged through the hybrid cultural construction, Tribal Style Dance. It also examines how Tribal Style dancers use two embodied devices, signification and...
Hurricanes threaten the United States every year. It is important to quantify the risk of these events for emergency managers. Extreme value statistics are used to model hurricane characteristics at different locations. Using wind speeds...
Differential Impacts of Commodification of Agriculture on People's Livelihoods and the Environment in the Western Ghats of India: An Extended Environmental Entitlement Analysis
This study analyzed the differential impacts of commodification of agriculture on people's livelihoods and the environment in the Western Ghats of India. This study was conducted in Kodagu region of Western Ghats: a major coffee growing...
Mixtec codices are sacred books folded like accordions and composed of strips of deer hide or fig-tree bark that visually narrate activities of deities, supernatural culture heroes, and the actions and genealogies of historical Mixtec...
I am the periphery: conceptual and material space in Salvador, Brazil's capoeira angola
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To know the reasons behind the geographic placement of capoeira angola works in Salvador, Brazil, the application of models and traditional, economically driven theories of location selection are not enough; one must understand the...
My study explores the role of geography in the construction of cultural identity for place-based communities of practice. I combine recent advances in cultural geography, which focus on the role of cultural traces to culturally order and...
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) is part of an educational reform strategy that initiates competition and market forces among public schools in Florida. Students take a standardized test and their scores are aggregated at...
This study involves evaluation of a hydrological approach for the delineation of jurisdictional wetlands and the planning and monitoring of wetland restoration. The proposed process uses short-term groundwater observations for the...
My dissertation explores the Comité Pro Santa Cruz, a Bolivian rightwing social movement which developed to promote the political and economic interests of the eastern lowland department of Santa Cruz’s white and mestizo “elite” social...
Since the launch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2002, research needs have been established in the areas of disaster preparedness and critical infrastructure protection. Disaster preparedness seeks to lessen the adverse...
Tropical forests are incredibly dynamic, showing rapid and longer-term changes in growth, mortality and net primary productivity. Tropical species may be highly sensitive to temperature increases associated with climate change because of...
Urban cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning enhancement has been well documented for Atlanta, Georgia. This study builds on those investigations using modeling techniques. Numerous styles of analyses and regressions were conducted to establish...
Florida has a high frequency of tornadoes that occur throughout the United States. Together, Florida's large population and expensive property, provides a great risk for injuries, fatalities, and damage to structures for when a tornado...
In my dissertation I evaluate perspectives of development participation in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. Using semi-structured interviews and Q methodology, I assess what priorities exist in Foz economic strategies, what groups are perceived to...
The aim of these studies is to determine spatial climatological effects on hurricane intensification rates. Previous studies have noted that the skill in predict a hurricane's track has improved at a much greater rate than the skill to...
Spatial access to oral health services is essential in the physical development of children. Over the last two decades, geographers' interest in examining access to health services has burgeoned with the advancement of geographic...
The need to create effective plans for distributing aid after a hurricane is of increasing importance, as recent research suggests stronger storms will be affecting more people located throughout the southeastern United States in the...
Today's world of rapid change has yielded a multitude of modern challenges that can no longer be ignored. From food insecurity, increasing pollution, a warming planet, and overpopulation, the global community will be permanently busy...
Stone tools and mastodon bones occur in an undisturbed geological context at the Page-Ladson site, Florida. Seventy-one radiocarbon ages show that ~14, 550 calendar years ago (cal yr B.P.), people butchered or scavenged a mastodon next to...
Tupelo Forests and Honey Production along the Apalachicola River of Northwest Florida: Livelihood Preservation and Forest Conservation in a Changing Rural Landscape
This research is a case study of beekeepers, honey production, and land-use change in a rural area of Northwest Florida. The dense stands of tupelo trees that grow along the Apalachicola River and its tributaries make this region one of...
Hip-hop culture and music in South Carolina (SC) are rarely discussed in the field of ethnomusicology. My thesis crosses the intersections of ethnomusicology and Black geography to investigate how Black hip-hop artists in Charleston, SC...
This dissertation explores the way in which the U.S. news media employed the domino theory as a (or part of a) geopolitical discourse in its coverage of foreign policy challenges facing the United States in the post-Cold War era in a...
Knowledge of the relationships between environmental forcing and demographic parameters is important for predicting responses from climatic changes and to manage populations effectively. We explore the relationships between the...
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