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Access to health care for a few social groups, such as migrant and seasonal farm workers and their dependents, is uncommonly low. Recent legislation targeting some of these groups have been increasingly successful, while the initiatives...
Seagrasses are valued for the range of ecosystem services they provide such as nursery and adult habitat for commercially and recreationally fished species, a critical food resource for threatened species, and filtration systems for...
Urban growth causes environmental changes on a global scale. Coastal regions which undergo fast landscape transitions and population growth are facing higher risks from ecological degradation and severe natural hazards. However, the...
This dissertation is an account of conservative social movement activism. Conservative political projects are characterized by advocacy of market-centric state policies. Conservative social movement activism is one variety of...
Hurricanes threaten the United States every year. It is important to quantify the risk of these events for emergency managers. Extreme value statistics are used to model hurricane characteristics at different locations. Using wind speeds...
Tropical forests are incredibly dynamic, showing rapid and longer-term changes in growth, mortality and net primary productivity. Tropical species may be highly sensitive to temperature increases associated with climate change because of...
Urban cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning enhancement has been well documented for Atlanta, Georgia. This study builds on those investigations using modeling techniques. Numerous styles of analyses and regressions were conducted to establish...
Mixtec codices are sacred books folded like accordions and composed of strips of deer hide or fig-tree bark that visually narrate activities of deities, supernatural culture heroes, and the actions and genealogies of historical Mixtec...
I am the periphery: conceptual and material space in Salvador, Brazil's capoeira angola
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To know the reasons behind the geographic placement of capoeira angola works in Salvador, Brazil, the application of models and traditional, economically driven theories of location selection are not enough; one must understand the...
Florida has a high frequency of tornadoes that occur throughout the United States. Together, Florida's large population and expensive property, provides a great risk for injuries, fatalities, and damage to structures for when a tornado...
A combination of field work, modeling, and remote sensing was used to determine mass balances for the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru and for parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet. A 40-year history of deglaciation on Quelccaya derived from...
Knowledge of the relationships between environmental forcing and demographic parameters is important for predicting responses from climatic changes and to manage populations effectively. We explore the relationships between the...
Stone tools and mastodon bones occur in an undisturbed geological context at the Page-Ladson site, Florida. Seventy-one radiocarbon ages show that ~14, 550 calendar years ago (cal yr B.P.), people butchered or scavenged a mastodon next to...
Hip-hop culture and music in South Carolina (SC) are rarely discussed in the field of ethnomusicology. My thesis crosses the intersections of ethnomusicology and Black geography to investigate how Black hip-hop artists in Charleston, SC...
Tupelo Forests and Honey Production along the Apalachicola River of Northwest Florida: Livelihood Preservation and Forest Conservation in a Changing Rural Landscape
This research is a case study of beekeepers, honey production, and land-use change in a rural area of Northwest Florida. The dense stands of tupelo trees that grow along the Apalachicola River and its tributaries make this region one of...
This dissertation investigates housing redevelopment and neighborhood change as a gentrification process in Seoul, Korea. Chapter 2 presents a reveiw of the literature regarding debates over gentrification and outlines what forces have...
Since the launch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2002, research needs have been established in the areas of disaster preparedness and critical infrastructure protection. Disaster preparedness seeks to lessen the adverse...
My study explores the role of geography in the construction of cultural identity for place-based communities of practice. I combine recent advances in cultural geography, which focus on the role of cultural traces to culturally order and...
This study involves evaluation of a hydrological approach for the delineation of jurisdictional wetlands and the planning and monitoring of wetland restoration. The proposed process uses short-term groundwater observations for the...
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) is part of an educational reform strategy that initiates competition and market forces among public schools in Florida. Students take a standardized test and their scores are aggregated at...
My dissertation explores the Comité Pro Santa Cruz, a Bolivian rightwing social movement which developed to promote the political and economic interests of the eastern lowland department of Santa Cruz’s white and mestizo “elite” social...
In my dissertation I evaluate perspectives of development participation in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. Using semi-structured interviews and Q methodology, I assess what priorities exist in Foz economic strategies, what groups are perceived to...
The official tornado report record is limited by a significant bias. Termed the "population bias", it communicates misleading climatological trend information by displaying an increasing number of reports from 1950 through the early...
This dissertation seeks to establish the relationship between formal political processes, such as NATO and EU expansion, and the formation and reconstruction of identity, in this case "Western" identity and "European" identity. By...
This dissertation includes a series of studies that present innovative methodologies to improve tornado risk and vulnerability assessments. Limitations of the historical tornado dataset are well known and relate to inconsistencies in...
The simulation of overland flow accumulation is critical for drainage network extraction, soil moisture monitoring, and hydrological modeling, etc. A variety of flow accumulation algorithms have been developed, but the complex and...
North Atlantic hurricanes constitute a threat to both life and property. The warm seas found in tropical low-latitudes provide a breeding ground for hurricanes, with nearly continuous heat and moisture fluxes into near-surface air....
Taiwanese identity has been defined, redefined and challenged at various spatial scales. At the local level, the renaming of streets in Taiwan after 1949 reflected the nationalist identity that was manifested in the Kuomintang (KMT)....
An increasing body of research has linked the geographic distribution of lead with various indicators of criminal and antisocial behavior. The current study, using data from an ongoing project related to lead exposure in St. Louis City, ...
Environmental justice studies tend to deemphasize political economic processes, social relations between various social groups, scale and the social constructions of environmental issues which hide environmental injustice. Political...
Heat-related mortality rates increase significantly during heat waves, in some instances even more than doubling. Climate change projections indicate that the frequency and intensity of these extreme heat events may increase. Well-known...
The question of who is Puerto Rican is constantly raised in Puerto Rico as much as within the diaspora. Historically, the Puerto Rican diaspora has concentrated in New York, New Jersey, and other northeastern and midwestern states....
This dissertation adds to ongoing research efforts that seek a better understanding of the complex relationships between human beings and their environment. Specifically, the impact of natural disasters on coastal communities from the...
Urban sprawl is a descriptive term of art commonly referring to low density, scattered development extending out from cities. Although many studies have examined the causes, costs, and solutions to sprawl, consensus on what to do about...
This program was carried out in the two sections of the fourth grade at the Agnes McReynolds Elementary School in Pensacola, Florida. In investigating the place of geography in the elementary curriculum, and the teaching and testing of...
Traits, Species, and Communities: Integrative Bayesian Approaches to Ecological Biogeography across Geographic, Environmental, Phylogenetic, and Morphological Space
Assuming a methodological perspective, this dissertation proceeds through a series of studies that cover levels of biological organization ranging from the morphological traits of individual specimens to community assemblages. The...
This research examines the geographical manifestations of the debates in 2002 over adding sexual orientation antidiscrimination protections within three Florida communities: Miami-Dade County, the City of Orlando, and Collier County....
Since the start of the 21st century—and mostly in the past five years—Sigur Rós, Dan Deacon, Sō Percussion, and Nick Zammuto actively investigated their homes and found them to be inspiring, if sometimes difficult to confront or...
Outward urban growth, driven by increasing population, economic development, and technological advancement, has become a worldwide phenomenon. Such growth is often viewed as the vitality of a regional economy. But it has brought negative...
Urban growth or sprawl has been an interesting research topic for contemporary urban studies. The availability of remote sensing and GIS techniques facilitate a large number of empirical and practical studies in addition to traditional...
The tracking of hurricanes, largely controlled by the organization of the presiding pressure systems, determines whether or not any given hurricane will strike a coastline. Some of the climatic influences, such as the North Atlantic...
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