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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
Spatial Analysis Of Pedestrian Accidents, Tomoyuki Hashimoto
Spatial Analysis Of Pedestrian Accidents, Tomoyuki Hashimoto
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Improving traffic safety for pedestrians is an urgent task for the Hillsborough County. The objective of this research is to understand the contributing factors that cause pedestrian accidents in Hillsborough County in the State of Florida. Specifically, this research attempts to determine the effects of demographic, land use, roadway and traffic volume factors on the number of pedestrian accidents. Five hypotheses were proposed to examine these factors. GIS was used to perform spatial analysis. Based on pedestrian accident records from 1999 to 2001, accident density map was created using Kernel density method. The value of the accident density was assigned …
Public Participation In Environmental Management: Seeking Participatory Equity Through Ethnographic Inquiry, John V. Stone
Public Participation In Environmental Management: Seeking Participatory Equity Through Ethnographic Inquiry, John V. Stone
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation reports the activities, methods, and key findings of a doctoral research project in applied anthropology and an environmental anthropology fellowship. The research project was conducted through the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, while the fellowship was sponsored jointly by the Society for Applied Anthropology and the United States Environmental Protection Agency and was conducted through the Great Lakes Fellowship Program of the Great Lakes Commission, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Together, these projects demonstrated the utility of an ethnographic approach called Risk Perception Mapping (RPM) to the public consultation and social research interests of the Commission …