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Title: Achieving one-planet living through transitions in social practice : a case study of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
Author: Boyer, Robert
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable development--Research, Sustainable development--Social aspects
Description: The per capita resource consumption for inhabitants of Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (DR) is less than ten percent of the average American in most major categories, approximating “one planet” living in a nation that contributes disproportionately to g...

Title: Five approaches to social sustainability and an integrated way forward
Author: Boyer, Robert, Peterson, Nicole, Caldwell, Kevin, Arora, Poonam
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable development, Sustainable development--Social aspects
Description: Sustainability is often conceived of as an attempt to balance competing economic, environmental and social priorities. Over the course of three decades of scholarship, however, the meaning and appropriate application of the ‘social pillar’ continu...

Title: Forest loss is significantly higher near clustered small dams than single large dams per megawatt of hydroelectricity installed in the Brazilian Amazon
Author: Chen, Gang, Nickerson, Samuel, Fearnside, Philip M., Allan, Craig J., Hu, Tongxi, Carvalho, Luis, Zhao, Kaiguang
Subjects--Topical: Forests and forestry, Deforestation, Hydroelectric power plants, Dams, Remote sensing
Description: Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon is a prevalent form of development, but dams have widespread and long-term environmental impacts that include deforestation in the areas surrounding the dams. Small hydropower plants (SHPs) are often perceived as...

Title: Daily surveillance of COVID-19 using the prospective space-time scan statistic in the United States
Author: Delmelle, Eric, Hohl, Alexander, Desjardins, Michael R., Lan, Yu
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was first discovered in late 2019 in Wuhan City, China. The virus may cause novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in symptomatic in- dividuals. Since December of 2019, there have...

Title: Do socioeconomic factors drive Aedes mosquito vectors and their arboviral diseases? A systematic review of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika virus
Author: Delmelle, Eric, Whiteman, Ari, Loaiza, Jose R., Yee, Donald A., Poh, Karen C., Watkins, Alexandria S., Lucas, Keira J., Rapp, Tyler J., Kline, Lillie, Ahmed, Ayman, Chen, Shi, Oguzie, Judith Uche
Subjects--Topical: Arbovirus infections, Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: As the threat of arboviral diseases continues to escalate worldwide, the question of, “What types of human communities are at the greatest risk of infection?” persists as a key gap in the existing knowledge of arboviral diseases transmission dynam...

Title: Residential mobility impacts relative risk estimates of space-time clusters of chlamydia in Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Author: Delmelle, Eric, Owusu, Claudio, Desjardins, Michael R., Baker, Kathleen M.
Subjects--Topical: Sexually transmitted diseases, Residential mobility
Description: We determine the impact of residential mobility in the prevalence and transmission dynamics of sexually transmitted infections. We illustrate our approach on reported chlamydia infections obtained from the Michigan Disease Surveillance System for ...

Title: Detecting space-time clusters of dengue fever in Panama after adjusting for vector surveillance data
Author: Desjardins, Michael R., Whiteman, Ari, Eskildsen, Gilberto
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Virus diseases--Prevention, Tropical medicine
Description: Long term surveillance of vectors and arboviruses is an integral aspect of disease prevention and control systems in countries affected by increasing risk. Yet, little effort has been made to adjust space-time risk estimation by integrating diseas...

$Introducing standardized field methods for fracture-focused surface process research$

Title: Introducing standardized field methods for fracture-focused surface process research
Author: Eppes, Martha Cary, Berberich, Samantha, Keanini, Russell, Moser, Faye, Morovati, Mehdi, Porson, Steven, Rasmussen, Monica
Date Created: 2024
Subjects--Topical: Rocks--Fracture, Earth sciences
Description: Rock fractures are a key contributor to a broad array of Earth surface processes due to their direct control on rock strength as well as rock porosity and permeability. However, to date, there has been no standardization for the quantification of ...

Title: Graduate migration, partisanship, and city preferences : an experimental approach to place‐consonant migration decisions
Author: Ewers, Michael, Shockley, Bethany
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Graduate students, Graduate student mobility
Description: How do university students evaluate prospective jobs in different cities after graduation? While the literature has identified drivers of graduate migration, research has yet to account for the role of individual social and political attitudes in ...

Title: The role of skills in Islamic financial innovation : evidence from Bahrain and Malaysia
Author: Poon, Jessie, Chow, Yew Wah, Ewers, Michael, Ramli, Razli
Subjects--Topical: Financial institutions, Finance (Islamic law)
Description: A body of work has emerged that examines human capital from the perspective of skills to better understand the types of expertise that influence innovation. The relationship between skill and financial innovation, however, is poorly understood in ...

Title: Boundaries in ground beetle (Coleoptera : Carabidae) and environmental variables at the edges of forest patches with residential developments
Author: Davis, Doreen E., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Biodiversity, Urbanization
Description: Background. Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using tria...

Title: The relative effects of forest amount, forest configuration, and urban matrix quality on forest breeding birds
Author: Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Tang, Wenwu, Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Urbanization, Forest birds
Description: Urbanization modifies landscape structure in three major ways that impact avian diversity in remnant habitat: habitat amount is reduced and habitat configuration and matrix quality are altered. The relative effects of these three components of lan...

Title: The socio-ecological factors that influence the adoption of green infrastructure
Author: Tayouga, Sarah J., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable buildings, Social ecology
Description: Green infrastructure is defined as any type of infrastructure that has the purpose of lessening the burden of development on the environment and/or has the aim of providing ecosystem services, such as runoff management, air temperature reduction, ...

Title: The traits that predict the magnitude and spatial scale of forest bird responses to urbanization intensity
Author: Paton, Grant D., Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Urbanization, Forest birds
Description: As humans continue moving to urban areas, there is a growing need to understand the effects of urban intensification on native wildlife populations. Forest species in remnant habitat are particularly vulnerable to urban intensification, but the me...

Title: Impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination of children ages 5-11 years on COVID-19 disease burden and resilience to new variants in the United States, November 2021-March 2022 : A multi-model study
Author: Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Background The COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub convened nine modeling teams to project the impact of expanding SARS-CoV-2 vaccination to children aged 5-11 years on COVID-19 burden and resilience against variant strains. Methods Teams contributed s...

Title: Charlotte's Hidden Valley : the lived experience
Author: Lash, Barbara Pinson
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Documentary films, North Carolina--Charlotte, Community development
Description: Presented by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's - Charlotte Action Research Project (CHARP) in partnership with Hidden Valley residents, and directed and produced by PhD Barbara Pinson Lash: The Hidden Valley Neighborhood has seen man...

Title: An observational analysis quantifying the distance of supercell-boundary interactions in the Great Plains
Author: Magee, Kathleen, Davenport, Casey
Subjects--Topical: Severe storms, Tornadoes
Description: Several case studies and numerical simulations have hypothesized that baroclinic boundaries provide enhanced horizontal and vertical vorticity, wind shear, helicity, and moisture that induce stronger updrafts, higher reflectivity, and stronger low...

Title: In fighting common threats, people’s deep commitment to taking collective action matters : examples from China’s COVID‑19 battle and her other combats
Author: Palko, Hannah Catherine, Xiang, Wei-Ning
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: China, Owen Lattimore, COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: In fighting against common threats to human survival and well-being, be they from natural disaster or human conflict, people’s commitment to taking collective action matters and can make a huge or even decisive difference. Throughout human history...

Title: Vultures in the southeastern United States ingest more plastic in landscapes with more developed landcover
Author: Partridge, Hannah, Barnett, Sophie, Amodeo, Joseph, Snyder, Jacob
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Vultures, Plastics
Description: Plastics are found in ecosystems worldwide and can have widespread impacts on organisms and the environment. Cathartid vultures, including the black vulture (Coragyps atratus) and the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), have adapted to urbanized envi...

Title: CO2-plant effects do not account for the gap between dryness indices and projected dryness impacts in CMIP6 or CMIP5
Author: Scheff, Jacob, Mankin, Justin S., Coats, Sloan, Liu, Haibo
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Climatic changes, Earth sciences
Description: Recent studies have found that terrestrial dryness indices like the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), and Aridity Index calculated from future climate model projections are mostly neg...