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- Title
- THE INFLUENCES OF URBAN FORMS ON RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION: A DEMAND-SIDE FORECASTING METHOD FOR ENERGY SCENARIOS
- Author
- Ali, Amr
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Power resources, Geography, City planning
- Description
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Current trends in energy demand impose increasing stress on the socio-ecological state of developed countries like the U.S. A major challenge lies in how to efficiently manage energy resources in a sustainable way to protect the environment. Vario...
- Title
- The Influence of Road, Road Verge and Landscape Characteristics on the Occurrence of Raptor-Vehicle Collisions
- Author
- Bates, Jennifer
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Ecology, Wildlife conservation
- Description
- The increasing prevalence of roads has had a corresponding impact on the risk of road mortality for wildlife, particularly for avian species such as birds of prey that commonly make use of foraging opportunities along roadside verges. Birds of pre...
- Title
- Learning and understanding empowerment planning: An emergent model that builds community capacity to affect neighborhood planning outcomes
- Author
- Bengle, Tara
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, City planning
- Description
- This research explores empowerment planning (Reardon, 1996) for the purpose of adding to its body of theory, in order to build better, more inclusive planning processes. Through this research I develop a more nuanced understanding of empowerment p...
- Title
- Assessing community resilience at the neighborhood level in new construction starter-homes in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Author
- Currie, Melissa
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, City planning, Social sciences--Research
- Description
- This research explores the resiliency of new construction, "starter-home" neighborhoods using the Charlotte, North Carolina area as a study location. Such developments are characterized by nearly identical homes priced at $150,000 or less (a local...
- Title
- A comprehensive geospatial knowledge discovery framework for spatial association rule mining
- Author
- Dao, Thi Hong Diep
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- Continuous advances in modern data collection techniques help spatial scientists gain access to massive and high-resolution spatial and spatio-temporal data. Thus there is an urgent need to develop effective and efficient methods seeking to find u...
- Title
- Impacts of urbanization and landscape change on native plant diversity and the distribution of exotic forest invaders
- Author
- Davis, Amy
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Environmental sciences, Ecology
- Description
- This dissertation addresses three questions focused on enhancing our understanding of the impacts of urbanization and land cover change on patterns of native biodiversity, the distribution of exotic plant species in forests, and the resistance of ...
- Title
- SPATIAL TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE: CHARLOTTE, NC
- Author
- Delmelle, Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Geodesy, City planning
- Description
- Quality of life (QoL) is an encompassing measure of a neighborhood's condition, describing the well-being an individual may expect by residing in a particular place. Over time, some or all of these conditions will change for the better or worse, y...
- Title
- A GIS-BASED EXPERT SYSTEM TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF WETLAND CLASSIFICATION
- Author
- Deng, Jing
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- Wetlands play a critical role in our natural environment, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion and flooding, and protecting biodiversity. To better protect wetland systems, a comprehensive knowledge of their spatial distribution is...
- Title
- A mixed-methods approach for vector-borne disease surveillance in Colombia
- Author
- Desjardins, Michael
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Public health, Epidemiology
- Description
- Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) affect more than 1 billion people a year worldwide, cause over 1 million deaths, and result in hundreds of billions of dollars in societal costs. Dengue fever (DENF), chikungunya (CHIK), and Zika are three emerging VBD...
- Title
- Exploring Latino Healthcare Service Provision in a Pre-emerging Immigrant gateway state
- Author
- Dixon, James
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- As Latinos continue to grow in population and impact, both nationwide and in the U.S. South, so too must the appropriate and equitable provision of services. Healthcare service provision is particularly important to Latinos as research shows they ...
- Title
- Better access to parks to improve population health in Mecklenburg County, NC
- Author
- Dony, Coline
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Geodesy, City planning
- Description
- Better access to parks can increase our level of physical activity. Increasingly aware of this association and its impact on community health; urban leaders started incorporating access to parks as an indicator of quality of life. However, two stu...
- Title
- Landscape change and human-environment interactions: implications for natural resource management in urbanizing areas
- Author
- Dorning, Monica
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- Worldwide changes in land use and land cover alter the spatial distributions of natural resources and ecosystem functions. Here I examined the pattern and process of landscape change in the Charlotte, North Carolina metropolitan region, to underst...
- Title
- TONYA E. FARROW-CHESTNUT. Defining Multimorbidity Space: Structural characteristics, spatial variation of inpatient multimorbidity networks (IMN), and coronary heart disease.
- Author
- Farrow-Chestnut, Tonya
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Public health, Government policy
- Description
- Adults in the United States suffer from two or more chronic conditions at the same time (i.e. multimorbidity). Multiple chronic illnesses, such as coronary heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, dramatically shorten life expectancy and present the i...
- Title
- LARGE-SCALE SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELING OF URBAN GROWTH WITH CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE: A SURROGATE-BASED APPROACH
- Author
- Feng, Wenpeng
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- Spatiotemporal simulations can provide critical insights to understand the underlying mechanisms of complex geographic phenomena. Therefore, spatiotemporal simulations play a vitally important role in solving the global geographic problems such as...
- Title
- The Correlates of Congestion: Investigating the Links between Congestion and Urban Area Characteristics
- Author
- Fields, Milton
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, City planning, Transportation--Planning
- Description
- Traffic congestion is a major quality of life issue, as well as being a major drain on productivity and urban competitiveness. This exploratory research seeks to identify the set of urban characteristics that are most correlated with traffic conge...
- Title
- The best deal in town? Associations between public housing and labor market inequality in the New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner MSA
- Author
- Gleave, Sara
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, City planning
- Description
- Economic inequality for racial and ethnic minority groups, exacerbated by their spatial segregation, has been a central focus in urban geography. While there is accumulating research examining the socio-spatial process of urban labor market inequa...
- Title
- MULTISCALAR MODELING OF POLYCENTRIC URBAN-REGIONAL SYSTEMS: ECONOMIC AGGLOMERATION, SCALE DEPENDENCY AND AGENT INTERACTIONS
- Author
- Gong, Zhaoya
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Geodesy, Area studies
- Description
- This dissertation aims to study the causal relationship between the underlying processes of agglomeration economies and the formation of certain spatial structures at both intra- and inter-urban scales within the extent of megaregions. First, on t...
- Title
- Planning for coastal resilience: the intersection of theory and practice
- Author
- Griffith, Adam
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Geography, Geomorphology
- Description
- In the face of accelerating sea-level rise, people continue to live near anddevelop the coast. In the United States, we have chosen adaptation andprotection, via coastal defenses, over retreat from the coast despite theunsustainable nature of effo...
- Title
- Urban Dynamics: Longitudinal Causal Relationships And Future Time Series Forecasting
- Author
- Hatami, Faizeh
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- City planning
- Description
- Studying urban dynamics is essential given the ever-increasing changes in urban areas with all its ensuing consequences, whether negative or positive. It is of paramount importance to take into account the temporal dimension of urban dynamics when...
- Title
- Multi-sensor Remote Sensing for Understanding the Interacting Environmental Disturbances of Forest Fire and Plant Disease
- Author
- He, Yinan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- Forests are increasingly affected by a variety of environmental disturbances, including emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and wildfire, which have caused extensive tree mortality in forest biomass worldwide. Those two types of disturbances may i...