Browsing by Author "Kreuter, Urs P."
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Williams, Amy M. (2009-05-15)Sargassum fluitans and natans, types of brown algae, wash up on Galveston Island, Texas annually from May to August. Sargassum smells bad, hurts tourism and impairs sea turtle hatchings. Coastal managers are confronted ...
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Burgner, Gerald Shane (2019-06-13)The purpose of this research is to provide decision-makers of publicly managed landscapes with a systematized assessment of existing decision-support tools that can estimate environmental, social, and economic impacts. ...
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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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Lai, Po-Hsin (2009-05-15)Landscape change induced by population growth and urban development is impacting the ecosystem goods and services provided by open space, which is essential to supporting many urban and rural populations. Conserving open ...
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Van Liew, Dustin Bruce (2009-05-15)This component of the Conservation Innovation Grants Summer Burning project evaluates the economic feasibility of using prescribed fire that exceeds the current Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) technical standards ...
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Machingambi, Memory (2010-07-14)Market land prices ignore the non-market value of ecosystem goods and services; hence, too much agricultural land may be developed. Correct land valuation must include these non-market values. Values of ecosystem services ...
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Twidwell, Dirac (2012-07-16)Conceptual and theoretical advancements have been developed in recent years to break down the assumptions and traditional boundaries that establish seemingly independent disciplines, and the research outlined in this ...
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Bachmann, Veit (2009-06-02)At the beginning of the twenty-first century Germany geopolitics can be characterized by its grand strategy as a civilian power. Germany has come to depend on a civilianized international system based on multilateralism, ...
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Tang, Zhenghong (2009-05-15)The lack of early integration with the planning and decision-making process has been a major problem in environmental assessment. Traditional project-based environmental impact assessment has inadequate incentives and ...
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Narayanan, Christopher Ram (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)With the expanding population of Texas and the resulting increase in demand for water, the scarcity of water is becoming an increasingly urgent issue and research is being conducted to find ways to improve water yield, the ...
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Limesand, Craig Milton (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Since Texas contains less than 5% public land, private landowners are critical to the success of environmental management initiatives in the state. This has implications for resources that traverse property boundaries, ...
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Woodard, Justin Bradley (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)The purpose of this project is to determine landownersâ perceptions on the use of prescribed fire as a management tool. The majority of Texas rangelands are privately owned, and the sustainable management of almost ...
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Dube, Sikhalazo (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)A stochastic, compartmental Model for Adaptive Livestock Management (MALM) was developed for cow-calf enterprise for Rolling Plains of Texas from an existing model, Simple Ecological Sustainability Simulator (SESS). The ...
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Nair, Malini Vasudevan (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)The debate over allocation of rangeland resources has gained increasing momentum in the 1990s. These days, several constraints are facing landowners, including high estate taxes, reduced profit margins of agricultural/ranching ...
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Davis, Amber Marie (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)The Edwards Plateau is the drainage area for the Edwards Aquifer, which provides water to over 2.2 million people. The plateau also provides other ecosystem services, such as wildlife habitat and the sequestration of ...
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Peschel, Joshua Michael (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Changes with land cover and land use are closely integrated with water and other ecological processes at the land surface. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the Edwards Aquifer region of southcentral Texas. The Edwards ...
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Toledo, David; Sorice, Michael G.; Kreuter, Urs P. (Ecology and Society, 2013)
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MacOpiyo, Laban Adero (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)An agent based-model of mobility of pastoralists was developed and applied to the semi-arid rangeland region extending from southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. This model was used to investigate temporal adaptation of ...
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Narayanan, Christopher R.; Kreuter, Urs P.; Conner, J. Richard (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2002-08-14)With the current population boom, the number of Texas residents will almost double by 2030. With the expected increase in demand for water, the scarcity of water is an urgent issue and research is being conducted to find ...
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Martin, Laura Elizabeth (2011-10-21)Increasing resettlement in and around Austin, decrease in water discharge rates and loss of endangered species habitat led to the creation of the City of Austin wildlands. The study consisted of a mail survey of 1,000 ...