Post-industrial ports are an armature to be approached heedfully. They offer a rich maritime history, serve vital economic roles, and carry significant environmental burdens. Further, they are gems of relatively undeveloped waterfront real estate. The debate for who and what takes priority in these abandoned pockets is a long and messy one. Additionally, opening these neighborhoods to potential development brings the question of how transportation can play into the infrastructure, and if the current transportation networks can support the traffic these new neighborhoods will bring. This has been a constant tension at the now mid-point in Boston’s planning of the Seaport District. The contemporary zone is stuck in a state of being isolated from the rest of the city in both its physical infrastructure and programmatic ideologies, simultaneously creating two worlds within the context of the historic port. With this district-wide disconnect between the new and old comes need for new bonds, those which weren’t originally considered when developing the existing infrastructure of the city's core. The Seaport needs to be smoothly integrated into public transportation without overburdening a congested system. Planning needs to be reconsidered at a city-wide scale, and brought back down to specific applications relevant to this controversial, ambiguous district. The subway is over-utilized, the highways bursting, and there are limited vacant channels to expand train tracks. New means of transit need to be implemented that are enticing to commuters, residents and tourists alike. Maybe the solution isn’t embedded in the current routes, but rather looking to the waterfront as a way to reposition an alternate artery, reclaiming the port in its initial state. Proposals for waterfront redevelopment and transit have been contemplated for decades, yet they fade out as water transit systems are underutilized, making funding improvements ironically more difficult. Terminals weren’t planned to correlate with desirable landmarks or additional transit links, and simply fail to stretch vast enough distances to make them necessary; until now. This thesis explores the symbiotic relationship between water transit and the post-industrial port. Through architectural analysis, transit stops can foster success through re-modeling their network, amenities, branding, and program. In reestablishing this relationship, the city can re-link physically and in reflection of its historic identity with the coast. / 0 / SPK / specialcollections@tulane.edu

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Brenda Pitts, Florida State University, College of Education, Dept. of Recreation Management, Sport Management, and Physical Education. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 7, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC, 1999. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-194).

An extensive compulsory cattle dipping programme was introduced in Venda from 1915 to counter rinderpest and East Coast Fever (ECF). This study approached the sustainability of cattle dipping from environmental, economic, social and governance perspectives against the backdrop of the country’s history and political ecology, focusing on the effects of dipping strategies and operations in Vhembe district of Limpopo Province (the former Venda) in response to ECF. Dipping infrastructre continues to be used in Venda after the eradication of ECF in 1954 and even to the present, albeit below capacity. Arsenic residues occur in soils around all sampled dip sites, especially within 20 m from dip tanks and where red clays and organic-rich loamy soils prevail. Ecologically, dipping practice has therefore not been sustainable, while economically, farmers perceive dipping to enhance livestock health, and they gain benefit from continued use of cattle in agriculture and transport. Being close to watercourses and villages, most dip tank sites pose community safety and health risks, with even fatalities occurring at untended and abandoned tank facilities. Yet the social sustainability benefits of dipping practice, such as the creation of forums where cattle owners and veterinarians interact, the resultant formation of cattle owners’ associations, and the occurrence of recreational opportunities on dip days are also evident. Government has been the main role player in providing dipping services, resulting in limited involvement of and cooperation between other role players; therefore the contribution of the Limpopo Draft Policy on Cattle Dipping (2011) to efficient dipping governance was evaluated. A Sustainable Community Cattle Dipping Model was consequently developed to address the shortcomings in governance, as well as ecological, economic and social issues of the sustainability of dipping practice. This thesis contributes to an understanding that cattle dipping in communal areas are spatial entities that reflect the dynamics of structure-agency. It underscores environmental injustices like arsenic contamination occurring around dip tanks, and the effects of inequitable distribution of dip sites on human health and safety. The economic benefits and limitations of existing dipping practice are also highlighted. It culminates in the development of a Sustainable Community Cattle Dipping Model to enhance the sustainability of dipping practice. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology / PhD / Unrestricted

Coastal flooding has been increasing in frequency and severity across the US East Coast, adversely impacting the human population. Preferred adaptation strategies, such as protection and accommodation, may prove insufficient under current climate change scenarios and projected future sea level rise, prompting the coastal population to consider relocation as a more efficient disaster risk reduction strategy. This study focuses on the flood-prone urban areas along the US East Coast where residents are more willing to relocate due to coastal flooding. Using the survey data, it evaluates the flood experiences, considerations toward relocation, and preferences for relocation destinations. The extent of top concerns influencing respondents' willingness to relocate, such as crime rate, buyout programs, access to critical services and amenities, and availability of comparable housing, were further explored as indirect relocation drivers. Four study locations with heightened relocation potential were identified across urban areas on the US East Coast. Relocation drivers such as crime and limited access to services and amenities are not significantly present in these study locations. However, the absence of buyout programs and affordable housing options in similar communities leaves low-income households trapped in high-risk zones, exacerbating socioeconomic disparities, and increasing the disproportionate risk faced by marginalized populations. The findings have important implications for policymakers, urban planners, and stakeholders involved in climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction efforts. They highlight the need for targeted interventions to address socioeconomic vulnerabilities, promote equitable access to housing, and enhance the resilience of communities facing coastal hazards. / Master of Science / Coastal flooding is increasing in both frequency and severity along the US East Coast, significantly impacting local populations. Traditional adaptation strategies, such as building protective structures and making accommodations, may not be sufficient under current climate change scenarios and projected sea level rise. Consequently, some coastal residents are considering relocation as a more effective strategy for reducing disaster risk. This study focuses on flood-prone urban areas along the US East Coast, where residents are more inclined to relocate due to coastal flooding. Using survey data, it assesses their flood experiences, considerations towards relocation, and preferred relocation destinations. The study also examines indirect factors influencing the willingness to relocate, such as concerns about crime rates, buyout programs, access to essential services and amenities, and the availability of comparable housing. The research identifies four study locations of urban areas with a high potential for relocation. In these study locations, issues such as crime and limited access to services and amenities are less significant. However, the absence of buyout programs and affordable housing options in similar communities traps low-income households in high-risk zones, exacerbating socioeconomic disparities and increasing the disproportionate risk faced by marginalized populations. These findings have significant implications for policymakers, urban planners, and stakeholders involved in climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. They highlight the need for targeted interventions to address socioeconomic vulnerabilities, promote equitable access to housing, and enhance the resilience of communities facing coastal hazards.

The research will investigate the East Coast Radio Corporate Advertising Campaign which ran from early 1996 through until the end of March 1998. The 'catch phrase' or title of the campaign was "Hot Days, Cool Waves". The research will also focus on the station's constructs of its' audience. The thesis will follow through the agency's pitch to the client the end of the campaign. The campaign incorporates print, billboards, cinema and electronic media. The corporate advertising campaign preceded a large increase in East Coast Radio listenership. East Coast Radio began life as Radio Port Natal, part of the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Under the management of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Port Natal developed a particular image and specific audience profiles The new private station needed to establish an identity autonomous from the South African Broadcasting Company, in terms of both inherited and new listeners. The thesis will investigate the extent to which East Coast Radio retained the original audience after the transfer of ownership and the modality through which it was able to construct an extended audience for the station. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2001.

Summary: In order that one may approach the main theme of this thesis, the massacre at Poverty Bay, the events leading there to, and the effects thereof, some slight knowledge is required of the general situation in New Zealand in the years immediately preceding. The writer considers that no apology is needed for introducing into a work that has for its title "The Poverty Bay Massacre of 1868", such apparently unrelated topics as the campaigns of 1845 to 1868 and the cult of Pai-Marire. In any historical review, cause and effect are so closely related that it is difficult, when choosing a particular field of research, to decide how much to include and, more important, how much to discard. The Maori Wars in the Waikato and Taranaki districts spread through the whole of the North Island and in time to the East Coast. Here they were intensified by the blend of Christianity and savage barbarity that is known as Pai-Marire or Hauhauism. It was during this campaign on the Coast that Te Kooti Rikirangi first came into political prominence. A study of Hauhauism is interesting in itself; reviewed in connection with the central figure of this thesis, Te Kooti, it acquires new significance. It is doubtful how far he was sincere in the religious ritual he instituted, itself a modification, and an adaptation of the old Pai-Marire cult, but out of it he fashioned a powerful weapon against the Pakeha. Perhaps it deserves a place as a psychological study of the influence of community worship in a mysterious and militant ritual upon the religious emotionalism of any sect and when, as here, that sect was composed of semi-civilised or wholly savage Maoris at a critical period in the history of their race, it was inevitable that it should issue in action. This thesis represents an attempt at more than merely collecting loose threads about the massacre into one narrative. It has been the writer�s aim to place the massacre in its right setting in the history of New Zealand, and thus to show its significance. The method chosen has been that of grouping the events round one central figure, that of the perpetrator of the massacre, and the first four chapters therefore are incidental though necessary. The history of this man continues long after 1868, the date of the massacre and a small section has been added to cover the period 1868 to 1893, the year of his death on the plea that though irrelevant to the subject of the thesis it gives a rounded effect that might otherwise be lacking--Introduction.

Theileria parva is a complex protozoan parasite causing East Coast fever in Eastern and Central Africa. Vaccination using live parasites is an effective control measure and has been used in Zambia based on locally isolated and introduced T. parva stocks. Diversity among T. parva populations was investigated in parasites from two Zambian provinces with different disease epidemiologies and control histories. Isolates from the pre-vaccination era, local and exotic stocks used for vaccination, and one recent field isolate were cloned and passaged in vitro to study genomic stability over time. The results of the data from three genome-wide probes indicate a marked homogeneity and stability among the Zambian isolates in contrast to East African isolates. Results from Southern blot profiles and the polymorphic immunodominant molecule (PIM) sequence analysis suggest a common origin for the Zambian isolates from the pre-vaccination era, except for one isolate (Zam5) from Southern Province. This isolate showed characteristics suggesting a buffalo origin. Assays for genotype characterisation were developed using five allelic markers. Multilocus characterisation revealed identical profiles in a recent Zambian isolate from Southern Province and two components of an exotic cocktail vaccine, indicating the escape of one of the vaccine stocks in the field. Characterisation of T. parva field populations by RFLP-PCR assays after immunisation revealed the presence of dominant genotypes from those that had been used for vaccination. Circumstantial evidence for the involvement of one of the exotic vaccine parasites in epidemics in Southern Province is presented and a hypothesis formulated for the rapid spread of this genotype. Analysis of the characterisation data suggested the existence of two groups of T. parva parasites of different origin. The classic T. parva group, characterised by a dimorphism of the p150, p104 and p32 loci and the absence of a p67 insert and a buffalo-derived group which showed a polymorphism of p150, p104 and p32 and the presence of a p67 insert. There is evidence that recombination occurs, resulting in parasites that have characteristics of both groups. The relevance of these recombinant parasites in the epidemiology of the disease seems low. Characterisation of larger samples from areas of regular buffalo-cattle contact is necessary to clarify this. Sequence analysis of the most discriminative locus (PIM) was undertaken and gene conversion could be the main mechanism generating diversity. A more appropriate nomenclature for T. parva is proposed based on the growing evidence of molecular differences among isolates and stocks.

Summary: In order that one may approach the main theme of this thesis, the massacre at Poverty Bay, the events leading there to, and the effects thereof, some slight knowledge is required of the general situation in New Zealand in the years immediately preceding. The writer considers that no apology is needed for introducing into a work that has for its title "The Poverty Bay Massacre of 1868", such apparently unrelated topics as the campaigns of 1845 to 1868 and the cult of Pai-Marire. In any historical review, cause and effect are so closely related that it is difficult, when choosing a particular field of research, to decide how much to include and, more important, how much to discard. The Maori Wars in the Waikato and Taranaki districts spread through the whole of the North Island and in time to the East Coast. Here they were intensified by the blend of Christianity and savage barbarity that is known as Pai-Marire or Hauhauism. It was during this campaign on the Coast that Te Kooti Rikirangi first came into political prominence. A study of Hauhauism is interesting in itself; reviewed in connection with the central figure of this thesis, Te Kooti, it acquires new significance. It is doubtful how far he was sincere in the religious ritual he instituted, itself a modification, and an adaptation of the old Pai-Marire cult, but out of it he fashioned a powerful weapon against the Pakeha. Perhaps it deserves a place as a psychological study of the influence of community worship in a mysterious and militant ritual upon the religious emotionalism of any sect and when, as here, that sect was composed of semi-civilised or wholly savage Maoris at a critical period in the history of their race, it was inevitable that it should issue in action. This thesis represents an attempt at more than merely collecting loose threads about the massacre into one narrative. It has been the writer�s aim to place the massacre in its right setting in the history of New Zealand, and thus to show its significance. The method chosen has been that of grouping the events round one central figure, that of the perpetrator of the massacre, and the first four chapters therefore are incidental though necessary. The history of this man continues long after 1868, the date of the massacre and a small section has been added to cover the period 1868 to 1893, the year of his death on the plea that though irrelevant to the subject of the thesis it gives a rounded effect that might otherwise be lacking--Introduction.