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- Title
- Receptivity in a New Immigrant Gateway: Immigrant Settlement Geography, Public Education, and Immigrant Integration in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Author
- McDaniel, Paul
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Government policy, Education and state
- Description
- Community receptivity expresses the degree of openness within a place to someone or something new. Receptivity is shaped by multiple components, institutions, and structures related to a community's political, economic, social, and cultural sphere...
- 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
- QUANTIFYING LIGHT RAIL’S EFFECT ON INTRAURBAN DISTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND COMMUTING PATTERNS
- Author
- Khabazi, Maryam
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Geography, Economics
- Description
- This dissertation consists of two consecutive parts. The first part examines the impact of light rail transit (LRT) investment on the type of jobs (i.e., industrial and wage composition) in neighborhoods adjacent to rail transit stations using Cha...
- Title
- Distance friction and spatial interaction dynamics of international freight transportation
- Author
- Jung, Paul
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Transportation
- Description
- The modern economy runs with heavy reliance on the free flow of goods across the international logistic and supply chain. Advances in international freight transportation systems supported by intermodal integration, freight containerization, hub-a...
- Title
- Place co-creation in death care: Opportunities to overcome obstacles to green burial in the United States
- Author
- Palko, Hannah
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- Green burial places are cemeteries and funeral homes that embrace green burial practices by providing green burial funeral services and educating their clients about green burial options. A green burial place within a cemetery may be a part or who...
- 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
- 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
- ACCELERATING THE DETECTION OF SPACE-TIME PATTERNS UNDER NON-STATIONARY BACKGROUND POPULATION
- Author
- Hohl, Alexander
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- The advancement of technology has enabled us to collect increasing quantities of spatial and spatiotemporal data at rapidly increasing rate through sensor systems, automated geocoding abilities and social media platforms, such as Facebook or Twitt...
- 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
- Gentrification in Charlotte: A Complex Tale of Urban Redevelopment Across Geographic Scales
- Author
- Yonto, Daniel
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- Gentrification research almost exclusively focuses on traditional postindustrial cities. Despite a growing number of scholars emphasizing the importance of understanding gentrification outside of traditional urban areas, its presence and modalitie...
- Title
- Hyperlink Network System and Image of Global Cities: Webpages and Their Contents
- Author
- Son, Jae Soen
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- A distinctive trend of globalization research is a conceptual expansion that mirrors the penetration of globalization in various aspects of life. The World Wide Web has become the ultimate platform to create and disseminate information in this era...
- Title
- Frontiers in invasive species distribution modeling (iSDM): Assessing effects of absence data, dispersal constraints, stage of invasion and spatial dependence
- Author
- Vaclavik, Tomas
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Geodesy, Ecology, Physical geography
- Description
- Successful management of biological invasions depends heavily on our ability to predict their geographic ranges and potential habitats. Species distribution modeling (SDM) provides a methodological framework to predict spatial distributions of org...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Labor market outcomes of recent U.S. college graduates in the STEM disciplines: Impacts of college location.
- Author
- Lysenko, Tetiana
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Education, Higher
- Description
- This research explores the relationship between place and the career experiences of STEM-educated recent college graduates in the U.S. over the 2000-2010 decade. Specifically, it seeks to understand how these graduates’ early career outcomes (earn...
- Title
- Incorporating Multilevel Geocoding and Spatial Modeling Techniques to Predict the Risk of Water Contamination Found in Private Wells Across Gaston County, North Carolina
- Author
- Owusu, Claudio
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- Water is an important basic need for human survival. Many Americans obtain water from public water systems, however, about 45 million Americans use private wells for drinking water. When water is contaminated, it becomes unsafe for consumption and...
- Title
- KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES AND METROPOLITAN ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN EXAMINATION OF THE COMPUTER SERVICE INDUSTRY
- Author
- Kozar, Jonathan
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography
- Description
- As the United States economy shifted away from manufacturing industry dominance in the 1970's, business service industries grew in size and complexity to become the dominant driver of knowledge-based metropolitan economies. Knowledge-based modern ...
- 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
- DISCOVERING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MATERIAL CONSUMPTION AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING
- Author
- Venkitasubramanian, Kailas
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Geography, Government policy
- Description
- This dissertation theoretically and empirically investigates how material consumption affects human happiness and life satisfaction in the urbanized societies around the world. In recent literature, happiness and life satisfaction is encapsulated ...