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Steens Mountain Divide: Beyond Compromise In The Oregon High Desert, Tara Rae Gunter Jan 2001

Steens Mountain Divide: Beyond Compromise In The Oregon High Desert, Tara Rae Gunter

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.


Up| A Non-Climber's Account Of His Climbing Self, Kyle Mcclure Jan 2001

Up| A Non-Climber's Account Of His Climbing Self, Kyle Mcclure

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.


Vision For Restoring And Protecting Eastern Forests, Kristen Sykes Jan 2001

Vision For Restoring And Protecting Eastern Forests, Kristen Sykes

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.


Growth And Distribution Of Populus Trichocarpa On An Alluvial Flood Plain In Northwestern Montana, Mary J. Harner Jan 2001

Growth And Distribution Of Populus Trichocarpa On An Alluvial Flood Plain In Northwestern Montana, Mary J. Harner

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.


Evaluation Of In Situ Bioremediation Approaches In Meeting International Standards For Organic And Residual Metals Toxicity In Soils, Jason Allan Mcdonald Jan 2001

Evaluation Of In Situ Bioremediation Approaches In Meeting International Standards For Organic And Residual Metals Toxicity In Soils, Jason Allan Mcdonald

LSU Master's Theses

Drilling fluids and muds are an essential component of the rotary drilling process used to drill for oil and gas on land and in offshore environments. However, the bioaccumulation of petroleum contaminated soils/drilling mud due to oil and natural gas exploration has posed a major environmental concern due to its prolonged environmental persistence and its leachability below the rhizosphere. The main objectives of this research were: (i) To assess initial toxicity of drilling mud and related contaminated soils from an agricultural setting in Galliano, Sicily (Phase one) and (ii) To develop a low intervention bioremediation approach using bioplug technology to …


Dune Restoration At Sunset State Beach In Northern California, Eryn Leigh Caster Jan 2001

Dune Restoration At Sunset State Beach In Northern California, Eryn Leigh Caster

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Is The Science Academic Center A Sustainable Building?, Meryka Blumer Jan 2001

Is The Science Academic Center A Sustainable Building?, Meryka Blumer

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

his is a capstone project that looked at if the future Science Academic Center (SAC) being developed at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB), fits the criteria to be a sustainable building. The project also looked at if a few of the incorporated sustainable features in the SAC were cost effective for the university, and what kind of sustainable rating the SAC would get. It also determined how the SAC and CSUMB fit into the global scale of sustainable development. To determine if the SAC was a sustainable building, a definition that encompassed several views of sustainable development was created. …


Evolving Tenure Rights And Agricultural Intensification In Southwestern Burkina Faso, Michael Kevane, Leslie C. Gray Jan 2001

Evolving Tenure Rights And Agricultural Intensification In Southwestern Burkina Faso, Michael Kevane, Leslie C. Gray

Economics

Popular and official representations of the environment in Burkina Faso present soils as fragile and potentially subject to catastrophic collapse in fertility. In the cotton growing zone of southwestern Burkina Faso, researchers and policy makers attribute changes in land cover and land quality to population growth. This paper presents evidence questioning the dominant "population-degradation narrative" as applied to Burkina. We find that farmers are intensifying their production systems. While population has led to land scarcity, farmers are responding to both the resulting uncertainty in land rights and reductions in soil quality by intensifying the production process. Investments are used both …


Vantage Point - Show Notes - 2001, David Unumb Jan 2001

Vantage Point - Show Notes - 2001, David Unumb

Vantage Point Documents

No abstract provided.


Travel Cost Method (Tcm) : A Case Study Of Taman Pertanian Malaysia Shah Alam, Selangor, Bakti Hasan Basri Jan 2001

Travel Cost Method (Tcm) : A Case Study Of Taman Pertanian Malaysia Shah Alam, Selangor, Bakti Hasan Basri

Student Works (2000-2009)

This research paper uses the Individual Travel Cost Method (Visit Per Annum) to assess the consumer surplus of Taman Pertanian Malaysia (MAP), the first agro­ forestry park in the world The value of consumer surplus per visit is different, depending on the functional form of the model (linear or semi-log), types of travel cost applied and the type of trips taken (expected trips taken or true trips taken). The average consumer surplus per visit derived from this study Is RM 2. 70, RM 88.60 and RM 91.48for semi-log (expected trips), semi-log (true trips) and linear, respectively. It is important to …


Fenomena Banjir Kilat Di Lembangan Sungai Kelang : Proses, Sebab, Kesan Dan Strategi Pengawalan, Mariney Mohd Yusoff Jan 2001

Fenomena Banjir Kilat Di Lembangan Sungai Kelang : Proses, Sebab, Kesan Dan Strategi Pengawalan, Mariney Mohd Yusoff

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Thesis presents overall view of processes, causes, effects and control strategies in flash flood issue in the Klang River Basin. The selected study areas involved are as follows a. Flat Seri Perlis in Kampung Keramat, Kuala Lumpur in upper catchment area. b. Kampung Haji Abdullah Hukom, Kuala Lumpur in middle catchment area. And  Kampung Padang Jawa, Klang, Selangor Darul Ehsan in lower catchment area of the Klang River Basin. The above three areas had been chosen due to frequent of flash flood occur and represents each area so-called upper, middle and lower catchments. Indirectly, It shows that flash flood …


X -Ray Absorption Fine Structure (Exafs And Xanes) And Microscopic Investigations Of Supramolecular Systems., Pierre Nicolas Floriano Jan 2001

X -Ray Absorption Fine Structure (Exafs And Xanes) And Microscopic Investigations Of Supramolecular Systems., Pierre Nicolas Floriano

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Self-assembled monolayers of n-alkanethiols, CH3-(CH 2)x-SH, on Au, Ag, and Cu have been studied with Grazing incidence EXAFS (GIXAFS) at the sulfur K-edge. Characterization of the bonding of self-assembled monolayers is of great interest because of their ability to tailor physical and chemical properties of surfaces. For both pentanethiol and decanethiol monolayers on Ag and Cu, the three-fold hollow site is found to be the most probable sulfur binding site. However, observations for octadecanethiol indicate that the three-fold-hollow site is not the exclusive binding site. In addition, the possible existence of disulfide bonds on the metal surface (adsorbed dialkyldisulfides) is …


The Across-Shelf Distribution Of Larval, Postlarval And Juvenile Fishes Collected At Oil And Gas Platforms And A Coastal Jetty Off Louisiana West Of The Mississippi River Delta., Frank Joseph Hernandez Jr Jan 2001

The Across-Shelf Distribution Of Larval, Postlarval And Juvenile Fishes Collected At Oil And Gas Platforms And A Coastal Jetty Off Louisiana West Of The Mississippi River Delta., Frank Joseph Hernandez Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A cross-shelf transect of three petroleum platforms and a coastal rock jetty (another hard-substrate, artificial habitat) in the northcentral Gulf were sampled to examine the role that oil and gas platforms (hard substrate habitat) may play in the early life history stages of reef-dependent and reef-associated fishes. The ichthyoplankton and juvenile fish assemblages were sampled at Green Canyon 18 (GC 18; 230 m depth, shelf slope); Grand Isle 94 (GI 94; 60 m depth, mid-shelf); and South Timbalier 54 (ST 54; 20 m depth, inner shelf) with passive plankton nets and light-traps and at a coastal rock jetty (Belle Pass; …


Testing The Potential Of System Dynamics Models For Improving Public Participation In Resource Management, Sarah Williams Cloud Jan 2001

Testing The Potential Of System Dynamics Models For Improving Public Participation In Resource Management, Sarah Williams Cloud

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis describes and discusses research which proposes that a system dynamics based-workshop can promote meaningful public participation in the resource management decision making process. The research tested the effectiveness of a system dynamics computer model for: (1) improving communication about technical data and stakeholder views; (2) increasing learning and insight into resource management issues; and (3) enhancing public trust in the decision making process. Seven research workshops were conducted to test the effectiveness of the model-based workshop for facilitating public participation in the management of the Las Vegas, NV water system. Workshop analysis showed that the system dynamics-based approach …


Challenges For The New West: Economic Impacts Of Wilderness In Nevada's Rural Counties, Lesley Regina Argo Jan 2001

Challenges For The New West: Economic Impacts Of Wilderness In Nevada's Rural Counties, Lesley Regina Argo

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Public lands designated as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System are removed from multiple-use management for protection of their natural condition. Opponents argue that "locking up" the natural resources on these lands through designation will undermine the rural economies in the west that are dependent upon extractive industries such as mining and logging. Proponents argue that the "Old West" reliance on extractive industries is declining and, in the "New West", wilderness promotes economic development in rural communities by preserving the amenity values that draw population and employment to the region. Characteristics of Nevada's economy, population and land challenge the …


Sedentism Among The Archaic Fisher-Folk Of Northern Chile: A Malacological Perspective, Sally D Llull-Billings Jan 2001

Sedentism Among The Archaic Fisher-Folk Of Northern Chile: A Malacological Perspective, Sally D Llull-Billings

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Oxygen isotope analysis of shell material from the Camarones West Shell Midden and from the site of Quiani has revealed that year-round collection of shellfish for food by the people of the Chinchorro Culture was not practiced. Additional shell demographics from the site of Quiani further support the oxygen isotope results. Radiocarbon dating revealed that the midden sample spanned the Classic Chinchorro and Transitional Chinchorro epochs, from 5590 to 3830 B. P. Shell classification and quantification of these sites also revealed that shellfish collection and the types of shellfish harvested has been consistent from Chinchorro times to the present; This …


Electrochemical Techniques For Detection Of Tnt And Other Explosives Using Disposable Screen-Printed Carbon Electrodes, Rebecca Ann Pearson Jan 2001

Electrochemical Techniques For Detection Of Tnt And Other Explosives Using Disposable Screen-Printed Carbon Electrodes, Rebecca Ann Pearson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Nitroaromatic and nitramine explosives have been found in the soil and water from many government military bases due to improper storage, weapons testing and production. Run-off from contaminated soil and water can enter underground water and potentially contaminate drinking water for near-by communities. With the closing of military bases throughout the U.S. and Europe, contamination will need to be assessed and remediated before the land and water can be used again for other purposes. The use of a fast and inexpensive field screening technique can save time and money typically incurred during intensive laboratory analysis of clean samples; Screen-printed thick …


Bio 3002g : Environmental Life Sciences, Biological Sciences Jan 2001

Bio 3002g : Environmental Life Sciences, Biological Sciences

Approved Course Proposals

No abstract provided.


Food Security And Coping Mechanisms In Kenya's Marginal Areas: The Case Of West Pokot., Anne Kisaka Nangulu Jan 2001

Food Security And Coping Mechanisms In Kenya's Marginal Areas: The Case Of West Pokot., Anne Kisaka Nangulu

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study analyzes food security and coping mechanisms in semi-arid West Pokot between 1920–1995. Based on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, the study analyzes the historical role of indigenous irrigation, specifically furrow irrigation, rain-fed farming and livestock keeping, in food production and food security among the Pokot of northwest Kenya. Besides farming and herding, the study also analyzes trade, hunting and gathering, as well as lending and borrowing (for example of food) based on reciprocity, and their contribution to food security in the area. In the colonial and post-colonial West Pokot, income from wage labor and mining …


Spring 2001 Jan 2001

Spring 2001

University of Richmond Magazine

No abstract provided.


Winter 2001 Jan 2001

Winter 2001

University of Richmond Magazine

No abstract provided.


Nova Quarterly: The University Of Texas At El Paso, The University Of Texas At El Paso University Communications Jan 2001

Nova Quarterly: The University Of Texas At El Paso, The University Of Texas At El Paso University Communications

NOVA

Winter 2001, Vol. 38, No. 2; No. 148


Removing Dam Development To Recover Columbia Basin Treaty Protected Salmon Economies, Rollie Wilson Jan 2001

Removing Dam Development To Recover Columbia Basin Treaty Protected Salmon Economies, Rollie Wilson

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.


Conservation Preservation And Restoration Plan For The Alta Ski Area Alta Utah U.S.A., Rebecca F. Lawrence Jan 2001

Conservation Preservation And Restoration Plan For The Alta Ski Area Alta Utah U.S.A., Rebecca F. Lawrence

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.


Selected Chapters From : Behind The Rocks, Mattie H. Allen Jan 2001

Selected Chapters From : Behind The Rocks, Mattie H. Allen

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.


Building Public Support For Responsible Coal Bed Methane Development In Montana, Amy Inman Frykman Jan 2001

Building Public Support For Responsible Coal Bed Methane Development In Montana, Amy Inman Frykman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.


Reflections On Environmental Justice, Michael B. Gerrard Jan 2001

Reflections On Environmental Justice, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

Environmental justice is a very hot topic. Yesterday's New York Times on the front page of the Metropolitan section had a story stating: Mid-Sized Plants Headed to Poor Areas. The story stated, "The Pataki administration acknowledges in its own study that the electric generators that it wants to install around New York City would go into poor heavily minority communities, a finding that supports some of the arguments of the project's opponents. This is quoting an unreleased environmental justice analysis that may or may not be valid, but it certainly shows how hot a topic it is. This morning …


The Alleopathic Potential Of Conium Maculatum, Janet Andrew Jan 2001

The Alleopathic Potential Of Conium Maculatum, Janet Andrew

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Successful Enviornmental Supply Chain Management In An Electronics Firm, Linden Skjeie Jan 2001

Successful Enviornmental Supply Chain Management In An Electronics Firm, Linden Skjeie

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


The Effect Of An Educational Garden On Environmental Attitudes And Knowledge, Weston Miller Jan 2001

The Effect Of An Educational Garden On Environmental Attitudes And Knowledge, Weston Miller

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.