Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Kaiser, Ronald A."
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Rapier, Richard Edward (2011-02-22)Since 1989, the United States Federal Government and the State of Texas have targeted water and wastewater infrastructure development spending in the colonias to improve access to safe, reliable and adequate water supplies ...
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Heggie, Travis Wade (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)The U.S. National Park Service has recognized visitor health and safety as an important component of protected area management. Despite this recognition, research investigating visitor health and safety issues in national ...
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Kelly, Vanessa Christine (2009-05-15)Senate Bill 1 and HB 1763 have greatly changed Texas water planning. With SB1 the planning process became a bottom-up approach that allowed 16 regional water planning groups (RWPGs) to create a plan that would be combined ...
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Baker, Justin Scott (2012-10-19)This dissertation explores the combined effects of biofuel mandates and terrestrial greenhouse gas GHG mitigation incentives on land use, management intensity, commodity markets, welfare, and the full costs of GHG abatement ...
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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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Sanchez Flores, Maria Del Rosario (2010-10-12)This dissertation examined declining groundwater availability and management strategies for addressing water shortages in the Laguna region located in the states of Coahuila and Durango. Excessive pumping of groundwater ...
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Switzer, David L (2017-05-09)The privatization of drinking water utilities is a topic of increasing importance in the United States and abroad. In the United States, increasing populations, aging infrastructure, and the growing threat of climate change ...
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Ruiz Alvarez, Osias (2020-01-17)The main goals of this dissertation were to determine the trend of monthly evaporation, study the trend in extreme temperature indices, analyze trends in extreme precipitation indices, and explain the implications of trends ...
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Joshi, Champa (2013-05-06)Near-surface soil moisture is a key state variable of the hydrologic cycle and plays a significant role in the global water and energy balance by affecting several hydrological, ecological, meteorological, geomorphologic, ...
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Bardenhagen, Eric Karsten (2012-07-16)Including values for non-market natural and cultural resources in decision processes present challenges to resource managers. This dissertation uses a place-based resource-driven approach to assess the values associated ...
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Wildlife and water: collective action and social capital of selected landowner associations in Texas Wagner, Matthew Wayne (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)In Texas, landowner associations for the management of common-pool resources such as wildlife and groundwater have become increasingly popular. Successful management of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) depends ...