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Nogeire, Theresa. "Wildlife Habitat Use in Agriculture-Dominated Landscapes." UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, 2012. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3482016.

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Feuerherdt, Craig Nigel, and craigfeuerherdt@gmail com. "Towards Exploring Future Landscapes using Augmented Reality." RMIT University. Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090316.153343.

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With increasing pressure to better manage the environment many government and private organisations are studying the relationships between social, economic and environmental factors to determine how they can best be optimised for increased sustainability. The analysis of such relationships are undertaken using computer-based Integrated Catchment Models (ICM). These models are capable of generating multiple scenarios depicting alternative land use alternatives at a variety of temporal and spatial scales, which present (potentially) better Triple-Bottom Line (TBL) outcomes than the prevailing si

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Hebinck, P., and Averbeke W. van. "Livelihoods and landscapes: People, resources and land use." Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001974.

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Summary This chapter brings to a conclusion the main issues that have been raised in the book and provides some ideas on the type of policies that are needed to enhance land-based livelihoods in the Eastern Cape Province and possibly elsewhere in South Africa. In our opinion the key objective of agrarian policy should be the facilitation of a process that can be labelled as repeasantisation (chapter 1). The empirical material in this book shows that there are still remnants of a peasantry in both villages, albeit few and limited in extent. By examining these we simultaneously explored what con

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Prescott, Graham William. "Effects of land-use, landscape configuration, and management practice on biodiversity in tropical agricultural landscapes." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709023.

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Youngquist, Melissa Betty. "How Local and Landscape Factors Affect Anuran Species Distributions in Agricultural Landscapes." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1437667835.

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Nayak, Ashwin. "A tool to support outdoor use efficiency in landscapes." Thesis, Nayak, Ashwin (2016) A tool to support outdoor use efficiency in landscapes. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2016. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/34987/.

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Perth’s transition towards becoming a more water sensitive city will be marked by a challenge to improve current standards of liveability. Liveability is a term intrinsically linked to green spaces (gardens and park), which are strongly linked to physical and mental benefits. WGV by LandCorp (WGV) is a housing development in Western Australia that aims to enhance this form of liveability through creative urban greening and a leading practice water management approach. WGV will host a research program monitoring various water related housing performance indicators upon construction. The pre-con

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Gehring, Jake. "Modus operandi within landscapes wasted through attrition." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Hunt, Kevin A. Cowell Charles Mark. "Land cover changes (1815 to 2007) in the central Missouri River Hills." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6547.

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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on November 17, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. C. Mark Cowell. Includes bibliographical references.

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Fox, Rachel E. "Creating a typology of temporary landscapes." Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19068.

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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning<br>Mary C. Kingery-Page<br>Temporary landscapes are an emerging project type with in the field of landscape architecture. Pop-up parks, parklets, and temporary art installations have been gaining media attention and changing notions of open space. Landscape architects need to take a more active role in the planning, design, and execution of these temporary landscapes. Peter Bishop describes temporary land use as “an intentional phase” where the “time-limited nature of the use is generally

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Lai, Yat-man Stephen, and 黎溢文. "The evolution of Hong Kong military relics: wargame landscapes." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47543395.

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Hildner, Ann E. "Engaging landscapes with words : the use of language as a design tool in landscape architecture and architecture education." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/845971.

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The objective of the above project is to present a tool that can be used by educators in landscape architecture and architecture to affect how students, as designers, gather and manipulate poetic and descriptive material used in designing landscapes and places. The design tool, a set of skill sheets, each of which uses language, literature, and metaphorical thinking as primary components, is designed to exercise a way of seeing and thinking about landscapes that provides access to potential design material. The ultimate intended effect of the use of this tool is to enhance the descriptive sign

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Johnson, Deborah A. "New Energy Landscapes of Pennsylvania: Forests to Farms to Fracking." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1417784068.

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Ko, Dong Wook. "Evaluation of the Private Forestland Ownership Paracelization and its effects on the forest landscape in the southeastern Missouri Ozarks." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4144.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (November 8, 2006) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Richter, K. Julie. "Using attitutudes and motivations to segment the landowner audience a typology of family forest owners in the Missouri Ozarks and description of management and information behaviors /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4116.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (November 13, 2006) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Horstkotte, Tim. "Contested Landscapes : social-ecological interactions between forestry and reindeer husbandry." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-66386.

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Throughout northern Fennoscandia, reindeer husbandry is a central part in the cultural heritage of the Sámi people. In its history, Sámi culture and reindeer husbandry have undergone significant adaptations to environmental, social and political challenges. Landscape changes on the winter grazing grounds were mainly driven by resource exploitation, especially by industrialized forestry. Important grazing resources were lost, i.e. terrestrial and arboreal lichens that constitute essential key elements in the herding year. In my thesis, I explore the consequences of these transformations in Swed

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Llobera, Marcos. "Landscapes of experiences in stone : notes on a humanistic use of a Geographic Information System (GIS) to study ancient landscapes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310350.

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Mees, Kate Anna. "Landscapes of burial in early medieval Wessex : the funerary appropriation of the antecedent landscape, c. AD 450-850." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15392.

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The phenomenon of the reuse of prehistoric monuments—notably Bronze Age barrows—for early medieval burial has long been recognised as remarkably prevalent in the archaeological record. This systematic study of the landscape context of ‘Early-Middle Saxon’ burial in Wessex assumes a broader outlook, and considers all aspects of the antecedent landscape which may have influenced the siting of funerary locales. Engaging primarily with archaeological evidence, complemented by documentary and place-name sources, it examines the influence of topography, land-use, territorial organisation, and percep

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Deakin, Elizabeth Louise. "Impacts of land-use intensification on forest remnants embedded within production landscapes." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8712.

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Agricultural expansion has transformed and fragmented natural forest habitats at an alarming rate, and dramatic increases in agricultural intensification have since taken place in order to keep pace with human population growth and food demands. This simultaneously poses a considerable threat to biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, as production land is now one of the largest terrestrial biomes on the planet. Therefore, its contribution to biodiversity conservation is critical. Links between the intensification of agricultural systems and ‘in situ’ declines of biodiversity on farmland hav

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le, Brasseur Richard. "Transitional landscapes : examining landscape fragmentation within peri urban green spaces and its impacts upon human wellbeing." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31257.

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Transitional land uses produced through urbanisation continue to change the landscape and fragment ecological structures including green spaces across Europe (Nilsson et al., 2013). Green spaces offer significant benefits to humans, contributing to wellbeing and life satisfaction (Taylor, 2002). The understanding of how these unique green spaces spaces function and provide benefits to humans, and how landscape change in peri-urban contexts affects their performance, is important. The scope of this research is to contribute to an understanding of landscape fragmentation within some of Europe's

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Hurley, Patrick T. "Conserving threatened habitat types in rural landscapes through land use planning : a case study in Wasco County, Oregon /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p1405197.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Oregon, 2001.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-177). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to UO users.

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Lung, Joni M. "Mink and Raccoon Use of Wetlands as Influenced by Wetland and Landscape Characteristics in Central Ohio." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1218600551.

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Fondevilla, Moreu Cristian. "A computacional model to predict land-use and cover changes in mountain landscapes." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/284853.

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Since the second half of the 20th century, an expansion of the forest in European mountain areas due to agricultural abandonment has been observed. The reduction of the agricultural intensity implies the disappearance of semi-natural alpine meadows and pastures of great ecological and aesthetic value. This thesis proposes a computational model, using P systems, to simulate the future agricultural landscape evolution in the Catalan Pyrenees and in the Stubai Valley, located in central Alps, for a period of 30 years. In these regions, three simulated scenarios have been established: (1) Continua

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Amos, Camille. "Landscapes as mentalscapes : Saul Bellow's use of setting in Henderson the Rain King." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1989. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/157569.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Comunicação e Expressão<br>Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-08T16:15:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 79165.pdf: 2421044 bytes, checksum: ed8fe51b1591667a5fcf16c0ff64d0a8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1989<br>A diferença mais significante entre Henderson the Rain King e as outras obras de Saul Bellow é a maneira como ele usa o ambiente em vez de usar cidade, que é normalmente domínio de seus personagens. Em Henderson the Rain King o protagonista foge para a África fictícia em busca de si mesmo. O objetivo desta disse

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Meade, Keelan. "Assessing the use of photorealistic and computer simulated landscapes to understand the cumulative landscape and visual impacts of onshore wind turbines." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21029/.

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There has been considerable research into issues around the social acceptance and visual impact of wind farms. However, relatively little is known about the factors that contribute to the cumulative landscape and visual impacts (CLVI) of wind turbines. With the continued growth of onshore wind power in the UK, understanding the CLVI of wind power developments is increasingly important. The majority of research which has studied the landscape and visual impact of wind turbines has used static photomontages. Some researchers have suggested that computer simulations should be used for research, a

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Bruijn, Natasja de. "Lithic landscapes and taskscapes : obsidian procurement, production and use in west central Sardinia, Italy." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3765/.

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This thesis studies lithic landscapes and taskscapes from an explicit perspective of social practice. It explores the spatial and temporal dimensions of the three main interlocking lithic activities: procurement, production and use/discard. Five key concepts are used to explore human choice and interaction in these three fields: practice, knowledge, skill, strategy and tradition. Sardinia and the obsidian artefacts from the Riu Mannu Survey Project data have served as a case study. My research approach was developed to gain an understanding of the spatial and temporal developments of Sardinian

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Power, James. "Land use and vegetation change in agricultural landscapes : case studies from north-west Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267681.

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Uribe, Lina Cristina Vásquez. "Use of silvicultural landscapes by small mammals in the state of São Paulo, Brazil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/91/91131/tde-26072018-140321/.

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Studies in agricultural landscapes have shown that anthropogenic environments may be relevant to wildlife species. Given the extent of these areas efficient research methods are needed to assess its ecological value in terms of local diversity, such as the use of biological indicators. The main goal here was to evaluate the possible relationship between the native vegetation biomass and diversity of small mammals in a silvicultural landscape of São Paulo. The study was developed at Fazenda Três Lagoas, which is part of the \"Programa de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade\" (PPBio), at Angatuba municip

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Петлюк, Ю. С. "Міжнародний досвід правового регулювання використання та охорони ландшафтів". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2019. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/77914.

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Ратифікація Україною Європейської ландшафтної конвенції стала для нашої держави важливим кроком для євроінтеграції у сфері ландшафтного використання та охорони. Наступним етапом має стати адаптація українського законодавства до міжнародних вимог, і для цього доцільним є вивчення досвіду інших країн в означеній сфері суспільних відносин. Насамперед відмітимо, що на початковим етапі увага до використання та охорони ландшафтів приділялась представниками географічних, економічних наук, екологами. Першим із традиційних наукових зібрань із вивчення ландшафтного потенціалу у Європі стала конф

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Hamilton, Jeffrey D. "Adapting the city to meet rural desires the English urban landscape as surrogate country house /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 269 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1253509791&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Guillem, Eléonore E. "Human behaviour and ecosystem services in sustainable farming landscapes : an agent-based model of socio-ecological systems." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8751.

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Agricultural areas represent around 40% of the earth surface and provide a variety of products and services essential to human societies. However, with policy reforms, market liberalisation and climate change issues, continuous land use and cover change (LUCC) brings uncertainty in the quantity and quality of ecosystem services supplied for the future generations. The processes of LUCC have been explored using top-down approaches at global and regional level but more recent methods have focused on agents’ interactions at smaller scale. This approach is better suited to understanding and modell

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Birchfield, Gayle Livingston. "Green frog (Rana clamitans) movement behavior and terrestrial habitat use in fragmented landscapes in central Missouri /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3074372.

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Bardsley, Louise. "Use and selection of terrestrial resources by adult common toads (Bufo bufo) in agricultural landscapes." Thesis, De Montfort University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/5851.

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Josefsson, Torbjörn. "Pristine forest landscapes as ecological references human land use and ecosystem change in boreal Fennoscandia /." Umeå : Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2009. http://epsilon.slu.se/200977.pdf.

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Anderson, Jennifer Leigh. "Lives, Livelihoods, and Landscapes: A Study of Land Use and Social Change in Northeastern Nepal." PDXScholar, 2006. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2238.

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This thesis explores the forces of change in lives and landscapes that have altered the Lamosangu-to-Everest route in northeastern Nepal and shows how a transect in photographs and conversations across the east-central Himalaya allows us insight and a greater understanding into the processes and consequences of this change. Three forces of change over the last twenty-five years dominated discussions with local informants: the rise of the "People's War"-Nepal's Maoist Insurgency beginning in 1996; the Democratic Revolution of 1990; and dependence on tourism for livelihood after the establishmen

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Taylor, Brendan Dominic. "Use and effectiveness of engineered road crossing-structures for wildlife in eastern Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365203.

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Roads are primary agents of habitat fragmentation and transform landscapes on a global scale. Roads remove habitat and create barriers or filters to the movement of many wildlife species. Moreover, roads disrupt population processes by breaking up continuous populations into smaller, isolated subpopulations or metapopulations, which can suffer genetic drift and become more vulnerable to stochastic processes. Consequently, understanding and mitigating the impact of roads on wildlife has attracted increasing international interest in recent decades. Foremost in efforts to re-connect wildlife pop

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Hickman, Clare. "'Vis medicatrix naturae' : the design and use of landscapes in England for therapeutic purposes since 1800." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425108.

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Senter, Evan Andrew. "On the Use of Coarse-Grained Thermodynamic Landscapes to Efficiently Estimate Folding Kinetics for RNA Molecules." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104881.

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Thesis advisor: Peter Clote<br>RNA folding pathways play an important role in various biological processes, such as 1) the conformational switch in spliced leader RNA from Leptomonas collosoma, which controls transsplicing of a portion of the 5’ exon, and 2) riboswitches–portions of the 5’ untranslated region of mRNA that regulate genes by allostery. Since RNA folding pathways are determined by the thermodynamic landscape, we have developed a number of novel algorithms—including FFTbor and FFTbor2D—which efficiently compute the coarse-grained energy landscape for a given RNA sequence. These en

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Potter, Carole E. Carleton University Dissertation Biology. "Primary resource configuration effects on secondary resource use by ring-billed gull populations in two landscapes." Ottawa, 1997.

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Serban, Anca. "Integrated or monofunctional landscapes? : agent-based modelling for evaluating the socioeconomic implications of land use interventions." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277688.

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The effectiveness of land sharing and land sparing (LS/LS) approaches to conservation in the face of rising agricultural demands has been widely debated. While numerous studies have investigated the LS/LS framework from an ecological lens (yield-biodiversity relationship) the relevance of the framework to real life depends on broader considerations. Some of the key caveats include: i) limited knowledge regarding the feasibility of interventions given diverse stakeholders’ interests, ii) the social acceptability (uptake) of these contrasting strategies to direct land users, and iii) limited kno

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Karali, Eleni. "Investigating the effect of farmer land-use decisions on rural landscapes using an agent-based model approach." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7656.

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Land use and cover change (LUCC) is increasingly recognised as one of the most visible impacts of humans on nature. In rural areas, most of the observed LUCC is associated with agricultural activities. This has traditionally been attributed to the interplay of the socio-economic and political milieu, and the opportunities and constraints arising from the climatic conditions and physical attributes of land. Although there is no doubt that these factors influence farmer decisions, the mosaic of farming systems suggests that farmers do not always behave uniformly, even in areas with comparable so

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Malm, Charlotta. "A place apart? : Debating landscapes and identities in the Shetland Islands." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-95144.

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Based around the concepts of landscape and identity, this thesis examines several contemporary debates in the Shetland Islands with a view to finding out more about where people in this group of islands currently ‘are’ in terms of their geographical and cultural location, from both a local and non-local perspective. Drawing on a multi-method approach, including textual analysis, participant observation and semi-structured interviews, the study points to the often complex and contentious relationship between power structures and notions of local versus national interests, particularly in the ar

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Egert, Philip Rolly. "The Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus: a twenty-year journey of narratives and (in)secure landscapes." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79565.

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This dissertation is comprised of two manuscripts that explore various contestations and representations of knowledge about the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1virus. In the first manuscript, I explore three narratives that have been produced to describe the 20-year journey of the virus. The journey begins in 1996 when the virus was a singular localized animal virus but then over the next 20 years multiplied its ontological status through a (de)stabilized global network of science and politics that promoted both fears of contagion and politics of otherness. Written by and for powerful a

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Goodman, Elgar Melissa Anne. "Anthropogenic landscapes in the Andes : a multidisciplinary approach to pre-Columbian agricultural terraces and their sustainable use." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619915.

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Herringshaw, Cassie Jo. "Stream ecosystems in human-dominated landscapes investigating land use impacts and integrating public participation, restoration, and research /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1468091.

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Arthur, Jarred Bradley. "The influence of upstream forest on macroinvertebrate communities in pastoral landscapes." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Biological Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4925.

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The conversion of native forest to agricultural land has been an on-going issue threatening the health of New Zealand’s freshwater systems. However, despite the fact that this has been occurring since early European settlement, our understanding of the mechanistic relationships between riparian vegetation and stream condition are poorly developed. This research investigated: (i) how forests affect downstream benthic macroinvertebrate communities in pasture and the environmental factors driving community change; (ii) how upstream forest size impacted the rate of change in downstream environment

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Kirkpatrick, Emma. "Modeling the Suitability of Landscapes for Managed Honeybees - A Case Study in the Northern Great Plains." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1437147684.

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Solymosi, Katalin [Verfasser], and Werner [Akademischer Betreuer] Konold. "Landscape development and land use change in traditional cultural landscapes - evidence from the peripheries of Europe = Landschaftsentwicklung und Landnutzungswandel in traditionellen Kulturlandschaften - Beobachtungen aus den Peripherien Europas." Freiburg : Universität, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1123464871/34.

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Taylor, Alan H., Valerie Trouet, Carl N. Skinner, and Scott Stephens. "Socioecological transitions trigger fire regime shifts and modulate fire–climate interactions in the Sierra Nevada, USA, 1600–2015 CE." NATL ACAD SCIENCES, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622527.

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Large wildfires in California cause significant socioecological impacts, and half of the federal funds for fire suppression are spent each year in California. Future fire activity is projected to increase with climate change, but predictions are uncertain because humans can modulate or even override climatic effects on fire activity. Here we test the hypothesis that changes in socioecological systems from the Native American to the current period drove shifts in fire activity and modulated fire-climate relationships in the Sierra Nevada. We developed a 415-y record (1600-2015 CE) of fire activ

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Hurst, Laurie B. "Evidence of Agrarian Urbanism: Land Use Preferences of Residents Living on Small Acreage Farms or Large Lots with Animal Rights in Cache Valley, Utah." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1541.

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Until the last half century, land development patterns in the Intermountain West were designed after the Mormon settlement pattern. With its gridiron streets and in-town farmsteads, this pattern gave families the opportunity to grow crops and raise a few animals on their one acre or less in town with the added advantage of having a social life. Over the last century, small farms have dwindled and large farms have increased in size. However, in the Intermountain West the farmstead tradition continues with families who grow gardens and raise animals on their large city lots, who value self-suffi

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Mills-Novoa, Megan, and Megan Mills-Novoa. "Understanding Water Policy as Agricultural Policy: How IWRM Reform is Reshaping Agricultural Landscapes under Climate Change in Piura, Peru." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621847.

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One billion people currently live in basins that are likely to require action to address climate change-induced water stress. Rather than blaming dwindling resource availability as the key culprit for this global water crisis, the United Nations has dubbed the water crisis a "crisis in governance." One of the key prescriptions promoted by multilateral funders and international water experts for addressing the looming crisis has been water policy reform that follows the principles of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM). While there has been significant research on the IWRM model, few pe

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