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Hazard Perception And Preparation By Cross-Country Skiers In Utah, Kevin J. Kobe
Hazard Perception And Preparation By Cross-Country Skiers In Utah, Kevin J. Kobe
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis examined how cross-country skiers perceive and prepare for winter hazards. A self-completion questionnaire was administered to cross-country skiers in northern Utah. The questions on the questionnaire were designed to explore the relationships that affect how skiers perceive and prepare for winter hazards. Additionally, the situation where skiers put themselves at risk due to lack of information as opposed to skiers placing themselves at risk through the desire to confront nature's dangers was explored. Variables that were contained in these relationships were correlated and the degree of correlation was measured.
Those that sought information on the day surveyed were …
Mathematical Programming Applications In Agroforestry Planning, Laurence H. Reeves
Mathematical Programming Applications In Agroforestry Planning, Laurence H. Reeves
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Agroforestry as a sustainable production system has been recognized as a land use system with the potential to slow encroachment of agriculture onto forested lands in developing countries. However, the acceptance of nontraditional agroforestry systems has been hampered in some areas due to the risk-averse nature of rural agriculturalists. By explicitly recognizing risk in agroforestry planning, a wider acceptance of agroforestry is possible. This thesis consists of a collection of three papers that explore the potential of modern stock portfolio theory to reduce financial risk in agroforestry planning.
The first paper presents a theoretical framework that incorporates modern stock portfolio …