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Culture As Sustainability: The Case Study Of Govardhan Ecovillage And Vedic Culture In India, Danielle Lella Bartolone

Theses and Dissertations

This project investigates the relationship between sustainability and Vedic culture of India. The ethnographic research at Govardhan Ecovillage seeks to understand how sustainability is embedded in culture. I employ grounded theory for my research methodology which reveals three key themes explaining fundamental and interrelated dimensions of Vedic culture as sustainability.

Karakteristik Mataair Dan Penggunaan Air Domestik Di Kecamatan Gemawang, Kabupaten Temanggung, Febby Firizqi, Muhammad Ridho Irshabdillah, Edwin Suryo Prayogo, Aulia Ika Rahmawati

Jurnal Geografi Lingkungan Tropik (Journal of Geography of Tropical Environments)

Spring is the concentration of groundwater flow out on the surface. There are several factors that cause the emergence of springs such as contacts between geological formations, and slope changes. The aim of this research is to a) inventory the springs in Gemawang district; b) to test the water quality of the springs in the Gemawang district; c) to know the springs conservation efforts conducted by the community and Local Government of Gemawang district; d) to know the number of domestic water needs of each village in Gemawang district. The method used in this research is field survey to inventory …

Geografi Kejahatan, Teori Disorganisasi Sosial, Dan Kajian Terhadap Kejahatan Di Ruang Perkotaan, Mohammad Irvan Olii

Jurnal Geografi Lingkungan Tropik (Journal of Geography of Tropical Environments)

Spatial distribution of crime at urban space has long been part of geographical studies. One theory that been used to examine such spatial distribution is Social Disorganisation Theory. This article will review the used of social disorganization theory on an article by de Melo, Andersen and Matias (2017) which studied geography of crime in a Brazilian city. This article will also briefly explain the historical context of the aforemention theory with its connection to studies of urban problems, especially crime problems, and also the basis thought of the theory that exist. The critiques of social disorganisation theory will also be …

Pemodelan Spasial Distribusi Karbon Monoksida Di Kota Bandung, Faza Arista, Ratna Saraswati, Adi Wibowo

Jurnal Geografi Lingkungan Tropik (Journal of Geography of Tropical Environments)

Air pollution is a significant problem in many urban areas. WHO declares 91% of people in the world breathe unhealthy air. Bandung, as a metropolitan city continues to experience increased population growth is causing an increase in the land area, woke up and dropped in the green area. The raises the problem of the decline in air quality. This research aims to analyze the spatial distribution of pollutants in Bandung City and its relation to distribution patterns of land surface temperature, the building density, and density of vegetation. The data used in the form of pollutant levels and Landsat 8 …

Potensi Wilayah Terdampak Keruntuhan Bendungan Matenggeng Di Sungai Cijolang, Bagus Prio Utomo, Adam Pramudji Rahardjo, Djoko Legono

Jurnal Geografi Lingkungan Tropik (Journal of Geography of Tropical Environments)

Matenggeng Dam, which plans to be built on the Cijolang River, is a multifunctional dam that has many benefits for communities to irrigate irrigation, raw water, flood control, power generation and tourism. Besides having many benefits, dam construction also keeps very high potential hazards. One of the potential hazards that can occur is the dam breach caused by a crack due to water going over the crest (overtopping) or fracture due to seepage in the body of the weir (piping). Dam breach will cause very big flood so it can cause casualties and damage to property. Using the HEC-RAS 5.0.3 …

Dinamika Erosi Tanah Dan Krisis Ekonomi-Era Reformasi Di Daerah Aliran Sungai Serayu Hulu, Andry Rustanto

Jurnal Geografi Lingkungan Tropik (Journal of Geography of Tropical Environments)

A large-scale horticulture crops practices in addition to land use / land cover changes in the upper Serayu Hulu catchment has been reported as the most responsible factor of the sedimentation acceleration in the downstream hydropower plant reservoir. This acceleration may become a serious problem for the hydropower plant because it would shorten the reservoir lifespan from the initial estimation. The problem could be further worst if the soil conservation practices application is still limited and land use / land cover changes that tend to increase run-off keep on progress. One of such situation in contrast has been occurred during …

The Contested Terrain Of The Louisiana Carceral State: Dialectics Of Southern Penal Expansion, 1971–2016, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

“The Contested Terrain the Louisiana Carceral State” examines the development of the Louisiana carceral state as produced from above and contested from below from 1971 to 2016. Through a combination of archival research, oral history interviews, and in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that Louisiana has expanded, consolidated, and adapted its carceral infrastructure in response to multiscalar political economic crises tied to global oil booms and busts, federal state interventions, and when oppositional movements gain traction. “Carceral infrastructure” refers to both the literal building of new state prisons and parish jails alongside passage of draconian sentencing laws, and bulking up of …

Limits Of The Black Radical Tradition And The Value-Form, Shemon Salam

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The Black Radical Tradition was supposed to be victorious against racial capitalism. Instead the tradition was defeated by the early 1970s never to return again. Surprisingly the scholarship still treats the tradition as if this world historic defeat never happened. Furthermore, geographers have not reckoned with this defeat. Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-formbegins the process of starting a debate, hoping to ignite radical rethinking around the nature of the Black Radical Tradition, racial capitalism, and the value-form.

Little Siberia, Star Of The North: Prisons, Crisis, And Development In Rural New York, 1968–1994, Jack Norton

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This is a study of how prisons became a common sense solution to economic and social decline in northern New York in the 1980s, about how prisons became synonymous with development in rural counties in the long wake of New York City’s fiscal crisis in the mid-1970s. The United States imprisons more people per capita than any other nation-state on earth. The number of U.S. prisoners has increased nearly six fold since 1970 and there are now over 2.25 million people incarcerated across the country. Accompanying and encouraging this rise in the prison population was an expansion of the prisons …

California Groundwater Management, Science-Policy Interfaces, And The Legacies Of Artificial Legal Distinctions, David Owen, Alida Cantor, Nell Green Nylen, Thomas Harter, Michael Kiparsky

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

California water law has traditionally treated groundwater and surface water as separate resources. The 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) broke with this tradition by requiring groundwater managers to avoid significant and unreasonable adverse impacts to beneficial uses of surface water. This paper considers the trajectory of this partial integration of science, law, and resource management policy. Drawing on legal analysis and participatory workshops with subject area experts, we describe the challenges of reconciling the separate legal systems that grew out of an artificial legal distinction between different aspects of the same resource.

Our analysis offers two main contributions. First, …

Spatial Analysis Of Landscape And Sociodemographic Factors Associated With Green Stormwater Infrastructure Distribution In Baltimore, Maryland And Portland, Oregon, Ashley Baker, Emma Brenneman, Heejun Chang, Lauren Mcphillips, Marissa Matsler

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study explores the spatial distribution of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) relative to sociodemographic and landscape characteristics in Portland, OR, and Baltimore, MD, USA at census block group (CBG) and census tract scales. GSI density is clustered in Portland, while it is randomly distributed over space in Baltimore. Variables that exhibit relationships with GSI density are varied over space, as well as between cities. In Baltimore, GSI density is significantly associated with presence of green space (+), impervious surface coverage (+), and population density (−) at the CBG scale; though these relationships vary over space. At the census tract scale …

The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production, Sanna Ojanperä, Mark Graham, Matthew Zook

Geography Faculty Publications

We propose the construction of a Digital Knowledge Economy Index, quantified by way of measuring content creation and participation through digital platforms, namely the code sharing platform GitHub, the crowdsourced encyclopaedia Wikipedia, and Internet domain registrations and estimating a fifth sub-index for the World Bank Knowledge Economy Index for year 2012. This approach complements conventional data sources such as national statistics and expert surveys and helps reflect the underlying digital content creation, capacities, and skills of the population. An index that combines traditional and novel data sources can provide a more revealing view of the status of the world’s digital …

Downscaling Smap Soil Moisture Data Using Modis Data, Le Tu

LSU Master's Theses

Soil moisture level is an important index in studying environmental changes. High resolution soil moisture data is in high demand for agricultural and weather forecasting purpose. Current daily large-scale soil moisture projects fail to provide sufficient resolution for medium or small region research. To acquire high-resolution soil moisture data, different kinds of methods are put into practice, including multivariate statistical regression, weight aggregation and so on. In this research, SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) level 3 data with 36-km resolution are successfully downscaled by MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) 1-km LST (Land Surface Temperature) product, NDVI (Difference Vegetation Index) product, …

Restructuring And Internationalization Of The European Automotive Industry, Petr Pavlínek

Geography and Geology Faculty Publications

This article draws on Harvey’s theory of uneven development and spatio-temporal fix to conceptualize the changing geography of the European automotive industry based on the spatial profit-seeking strategies of automotive firms. It employs the spatial concept of integrated peripheries, in order to explain the growth of the automotive industry in peripheral regions and its contemporaneous restructuring in existing locations. The empirical analysis is based on 2124 restructuring events of large automotive industry firms in the European Union countries and Norway between 2005 and 2016, and on 91 interviews with foreign automotive industry subsidiaries conducted in Czechia and Slovakia between 2009 …

Design For Living Complexities, Peter J. Taylor

Working Papers in Critical, Creative and Reflective Practice

Lectures from a 12-session course that addresses the intersection of design with critical thinking. Design in this course means intentionality in construction, which involves a range of materials, a sequence of steps, and principles that inform the choice of materials and the steps. Design also always involves putting people, as well as materials, into place. This happens by working with the known properties of people, as well as the known properties of material, and trying out new arrangements to work around their constraints (at least temporarily). Critical thinking, as I define it, involves understanding ideas and practices better when we …

Child Marriage In Indonesia: Practices, Politics, And Struggles, Diana Teresa Pakasi

Masyarakat: Jurnal Sosiologi

No abstract provided.

Discern Social Movements In The Digital Age, Fiel Kautsar

Masyarakat: Jurnal Sosiologi

No abstract provided.

Short Communication: Challenges And Applications Of Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry In A Physical Model Of A Braided River, Peter Ashmore, Pauline Leduc, Sarah Peirce

Geography & Environment Publications

For extending the applications of structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry in river flumes, we present the main challenges and methods used to collect a large dataset ( > 1000 digital elevation models, DEMs) of high-quality topographic data using close-range SfM photogrammetry. Automatic target detection, batch processing, and considerations for image quality were fundamental to the successful implementation of the SfM technique on such a large dataset, which was used primarily for capturing details of gravel-bed braided river morphodynamics and sedimentology. While the applications of close-range SfM photogrammetry are numerous, we include sample results from DEM differencing, which was used to quantify morphology change …

Framework For Evaluation Of Flash Flood Models In Wildfire-Prone Areas, Brian Cunningham, David Benepe, Bryan Cikatz, Evangelos Giakoumakis

SMU Data Science Review

Abstract. In this paper, we present an innovative framework for evaluating the increased risk of flash flooding in areas that have been subjected to wildfires. Wildfires cause large-scale damage to an area’s soil and vegetation thus increasing both the likelihood and severity of flash flooding. Utilizing remote sensing to analyze aerial imagery of areas that have been affected by wildfires, we can investigate how much a landscape has changed and how that may adversely affect downstream areas in the event of a flash flooding event. There are currently no established frameworks from which downstream local officials can quickly assess the …

Hrísheimar: Fish Consumption Patterns, Wendi K. Coleman

Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, I examine the fish remain patterns at Hrísheimar, which have provided archaeologists with further evidence that inland sites such as those in the Mývatnssveit Region utilized both local freshwater and marine fish from the coastal regions as a part of their subsistence pattern.