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Title: A Constellation of Economic Possibilities: Latinx Food-Based Diverse Collaborative Economies as Catalysts for More Sustainable Economic Futures
Author: Tornabene, Sara
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Area studies, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Diverse and alternative forms of economies have recently gained increased attention for their potential to transform conceptually and empirically the mainstream economic system. Around the world, scholars have documented the emergence and impact o...

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 Web-based Geographic Framework to Detect and Visualize Space-time Clusters of Infectious Diseases
Author: Lan, Yu
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Infectious diseases pose a significant threat to public health worldwide as evidenced by the recent coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite significant human losses, the advent of web-accessed, map-based "data dashboards" that can monitor di...

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: 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: 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: An Athlete's Humble Beginnings: A Place-Based Narrative in Need of Repair
Author: Lash, Barbara
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Sports play a unique role in American culture and act as sources of entertainment and community identity. Events that include sports are also a microcosm of society that simultaneously reflects and guides cultural and racial differences that are i...

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: 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: Building Healthy Communities: An Exploration of a Place-based Initiative, Participant Characteristics, and Preliminary Outcomes
Author: Tynan, Jacqueline
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Public health, Psychology
Description: Decades of discriminatory housing policies have resulted in geographic segregation, forcing low-income minorities into areas of concentrated poverty (Massey & Kanaiaupuni, 1993; Stoloff, 2004). Areas of concentrated poverty are typically marked by...

Title: COMPETING RATIONALITIES: CAPITAL, POWER, GENTRIFICATION AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Howarth, Thomas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: This dissertation sought to understand uses of power embedded in gentrification processes that threaten affordable housing. Rather than an abstract force acting on its own volition, gentrification is driven by dominant powerholders who employ stra...

Title: Choosing a Regional Resilience Partner: A comparative study of urban, suburban, and rural natural hazard preparedness conditions
Author: Danis, Christina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Government policy, Area studies
Description: Whether urban, suburban, or rural or from different United States (US) geographic regions, communities expect public officials to guide them to better prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and recurring natural hazard threats. Natural hazar...

Title: Choosing a Regional Resilience Partner: A comparative study of urban, suburban, and rural natural hazard preparedness conditions
Author: Danis, Christina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, Government policy, Geography
Description: Whether urban, suburban, or rural or from different United States (US) geographic regions, communities expect public officials to guide them to better prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and recurring natural hazard threats. Natural hazar...

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 ...

Title: Demystifying the Charlotte Way: Towards an Understanding of Collective Action for Education in the Queen City.
Author: Owens, Cache
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Education and state
Description: This qualitative grounded theory study sought to understand how different stakeholders collaborate to improve schools in Charlotte, North Carolina. 52 diverse individuals participated in this study. A new hybrid approach of collective action, refe...

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: Environmental impacts of rapid urbanization: Non-point source pollution in Lingang New City, Shanghai, China
Author: Meng, Xuchu
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geography, City planning
Description: Lingang New City is a new urbanization project in Shanghai, China. It is planned and designed artistically with emphasis on water protection given lake view is the highlight of the landscape. However, water quality degrades soon after the urban de...

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: 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: HOT SPOTS IN THE CITY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS AND THE DEMAND FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY SERVICES
Author: Wodicka, Reid
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Government policy, Urban forestry
Description: There is a common understanding among members of local government emergency services professionals that some neighborhoods require a substantially larger amount of services than others. This phenomenon is primarily driven, it is believed, by the c...