Browsing University of Missouri-Columbia by Thesis Department "Geography (MU)"
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Crime in the city : understanding geospatial relationships among crime and the urban landscape
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The physical structure of the urban environment can have profound influence on the way space is used. Research in urban planning has indicated that ... -
Cross-walks, fire geography, and GIS at Mesa Verde National Park : a watershed approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)Land use and land cover (LULC) data are valuable resources to fire managers making important decisions regarding the future of America's National Parks and forests. The choice of available LULC GIS products varies greatly ... -
Decolonizing conservation? : co-management of natural resources in Bushbuckridge Nature Reserve (BBR NR), South Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)This case study seeks to assess the efficacy of co-management regimes in land reform initiatives through a qualitative, exploratory analysis of local perceptions of the co-management of natural resources in the newly ... -
Deterritorialization/reterritorialization of Raramuri knowledge: within the landscapes of Mulaka
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Independent video game developers are changing the game industry by creating new genres like Indigenous gaming using narratives that represent Indigenous groups. These representations form part of the video game production ... -
Development of an integrated forest management decision support system: integrating the LANDIS model and ArcGIS
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)Forest management is an important field for Decision Support System (DSS) application, but most of the current DSSs for forest management are not fully successful because: 1) the user interface is not friendly, or 2) GIS ... -
Dude, where's my internet: an examination of broadband internet access, infrastructure, and potential for expansion in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Broadband Internet is increasingly becoming a necessity in today's society. Providers of these services are expanding access to the high-speed Internet as well as its speed and capacity. With the recent release of the ... -
Emancipation of education through place
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)The purpose of education is to prepare students to address imperative concerns that face our communities and planet. Many ways exist to address these pressing issues we are confronted with. Regardless of what subjects ... -
Evoking landscape practices through ethnographic fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Landscape has long been of central concern to cultural geography. Historically, the conceptualization of landscape rested on discursive binaries of subject-object, culture-nature, and self-other. Recent developments in ... -
Finding their place in pictures : reflecting on images of international women's lives in State College, PA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)The purpose of the study was to learn about State College, Pennsylvania through the lens of immigrant and international women, and explore the range of emotions they experience in difference places. Participants identified ... -
Flood potential of Poyang Lake, China
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Poyang Lake, located in Jiangxi Province, China, is a large freshwater lake ([about]4000 km[superscript 2]) connected to the Yangtze River. Flooding ... -
Forest fire risk modeling of the Mark Twain National Forest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Changing regional climate conditions have increased the sensitivity of many forests to fire. In Missouri, this increased risk has been realized in ... -
Fountains in a desert : place-making and collective action in Snake Valley, Great Basin against southern Nevada water authority's groundwater development project
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This thesis explores how a diverse coalition of rural residents, ranchers, Native American tribes, and environmental activists -- many of them united under the grassroots organization known as the Great Basin Water Network ... -
Four decades of change in an old-growth beech-maple forest in Indiana
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Hoot Woods is a 6.6 ha old-growth beech-maple forest. Fully censused every decade since 1965, the forest is one of the most intensively monitored permanent plot stands in the eastern deciduous forest. Although it is set ... -
From box suppers and card games to vineyards and viewscapes : community discourse in the exurban American west
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Generalizing to the process of creating meaning amid exurbanization, this study considers how residents of Fremont County, Colorado have constructed community meaning as amenity-driven migration has given rise to local ... -
From research to relationship : towards affinity-based scholarship and indigenous community empowerment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Decades of technocratic development projects have been shown to mostly fail at reducing poverty. In response, decentralizing initiatives focused on community and local empowerment have become a strong trend. However, ... -
Gentrification through the eyes (and lenses) of Kansas City residents
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Gentrification is a process where the middle class migrates to decaying or predominately poor areas of a city and changes the landscape. Since the phenomenon was first recognized in the 1960s in London, it has spread to ... -
Geographic inequities in local higher education opportunities? : identifying college deserts with critical GIS
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)In a world where one's future is heavily impacted by having postsecondary education, access to college is a pertinent research topic. Access is a widely researched topic, but only recently has college access been studied ... -
The geography of domestic violence: assessing reported domestic violence in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)Despite the recognition that domestic violence is a national problem, researchers still struggle to identify the true prevalence of the problem, specifically at the sub national level. Actual numbers of reported domestic ... -
The geography of protest at the School of the Americas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)One does not need to look far for examples of protest and social unrest in the history of the United States. Segments of the population fervently opposed the Second World War and the Vietnam War, and, in another time, ...