Browsing by Author "Stronza, Amanda"
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Choi, In Huck (2012-07-16)Is the biggest tideland reclamation project in the world (the STRP) sustainable? Since 1991, the STRP which aims at converting mudflats into 401 km2 farmland and industrial complex has been carried out in the southwestern ...
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Ueda (Maruyama), Naho (2010-07-14)In the era of advanced communication and transportation technology, immigrants and their descendents can be reunited with their ancestral land from where they or their forebears once were displaced. Visiting the ancestral ...
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Weber, Laura (2012-07-16)Previous research shows that socio-cultural factors play an important role in determining the outcomes of natural resource conservation. Conservationists have discovered that when such factors are not properly incorporated ...
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Schalk, Christopher Michael (2016-05-18)Ecological communities are organized by historical, biotic, and abiotic factors and the strengths of these factors vary across multiple spatial and temporal scales. I sought to disentangle the drivers of community assembly ...
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Hurst, Kristin (2013-04-08)The availability of clean water is fundamental to the survival of all living things. Humans have altered fresh water cycles in a number of ways that affect both water quality and quantity. This has led to a global water ...
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Merritt, Lavell (2011-02-22)Local communities, individuals, visitors, and special interest groups are often called upon to participate in the decision making processes of the National Park Service (NPS). Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CAHA) engaged ...
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Joo, Dongoh (2018-08-07)Tourists often travel in anticipation of affective bonds or emotional solidarity that comes from their relationships with other tourists. Studies on pilgrimage tourists (Kaell, 2014), heritage tourists (Caton & Santos, ...
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Wilcox-Moore, Kellie J. (2010-07-14)Fuelwood is an important source of domestic energy in rural regions of Brazil. In the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais, native species from the Atlantic Forest are an important source of fuelwood, supplemented by wood from ...
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Duerden, Mathew D. (2010-01-14)This study utilizes longitudinal, mixed-method data drawn from participants in an environmental education/international immersion program for middle high-school students to study outcomes and processes associated with ...
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Kassam, NataliaArchitecture is about relationships. The inception of this project began by questioning how the current attitude of architectural density and lack of architectural diversity in the East Austin neighborhoods creates a generic ...
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Songhurst, Anna; McCulloch, Graham; Stronza, Amanda (2015-10-08)In an area of Botswana known as the eastern Okavango Panhandle, roughly 15,000 elephants compete with 15,000 people for access to water, food, and land. The elephants are not confined to any park, reserve, or nation. They ...
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Clifton, Kyle Leann (2018-08-08)Protected conservation areas are increasingly threatened as the need for land and resources grows. South Africa has a storied past of wildlife conservation and its protected areas continue to be popular nature tourism ...
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Redmore, Lauren Elizabeth (2020-03-23)Negative interactions between humans and elephants are a concern in places where they cohabitate. Elephants threaten the lives and livelihoods of individual people, and people are an existential threat to the survival of ...
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Buchholtz, Erin Kathleen (2019-11-01)Human-wildlife conflict is a considerable challenge for wildlife conservation. An increasing global human footprint that overlaps with wildlife population ranges may increase the opportunity for negative interactions between ...
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Cronan, Megan Kelly (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This study examines women's use of leisure as politics, especially as related to leisure as resistance, leisure and social worlds, and women's body image. Interviews were conducted with fifteen participants and coaches in ...
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Granados-Dieseldorff, Pablo (2013-11-07)Artisanal fisheries constitute a considerable source of employment, income, and protein for many coastal communities in the Caribbean. One of the region’s most valuable fisheries is for mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis), ...
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Evans, Jonah Wy (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Indirect signs of species presence (e.g., tracks, scats, hairs) are frequently used to detect target species in occupancy, presence/absence, and other wildlife studies. Indirect signs are often more efficient than direct ...
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Dennis, Katherine Anne (2016-12-07)Deforestation and forest fragmentation continue unabated in many parts of the world. Scholars point to the expansion of the agricultural frontier as a driver of forest and biodiversity loss. Government agencies and ...
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Katju, Dhananjaya (2018-05-09)This research investigates the interaction between environmental conservation and management in a protected area and the livelihoods of rural producers set against the political backdrop of an ethnically diverse and ...
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Goel, Abhineety (2013-08-08)Proposed Omkareshwar National Park Complex (ONPC), is a planned park in Madhya Pradesh (central India) that is being designed as a compensatory conservation plan to overcome the loss of wildlife and forest by the construction ...