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Park Access And Distributional Inequities In Pinellas County, Florida, Kyle Ray Hirvela
Park Access And Distributional Inequities In Pinellas County, Florida, Kyle Ray Hirvela
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Although environmental justice research has traditionally focused on environmental disamenities and health hazards, recent studies have begun to examine social inequities in the distribution of urban amenities such as street trees and parks that provide several direct and indirect health benefits to local residents. This thesis adds to this knowledge by evaluating distributional inequities in both distribution and access to parks in Pinellas County, the most densely populated and one of the most racially segregated counties in Florida. An important objective was to determine if neighborhoods with lower levels of park access are more likely to contain a significantly higher …
Urbanization And Land Surface Temperature In Pinellas County, Florida, Bruce Coffyn Mitchell
Urbanization And Land Surface Temperature In Pinellas County, Florida, Bruce Coffyn Mitchell
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Since the early 1800's, many studies have recognized increased heat in urban areas, known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect, as one of the results of human modification to the natural landscape. UHI is related to differences in land surface temperature (LST) between rural areas and urban areas where factors of the built environment such as the thermodynamic capacities of materials, structural geometry, and heat generating activities cause increased storage and re-radiation of heat to the atmosphere. This thesis examines the correlation between factors of urbanization and differences in land surface temperature (LST) in the subtropical climate of Pinellas …