To manage common resources such as water bodies, forests and the air is complex since several stakeholders are involved and affected by the use of the resource. One way to manage common resources is through co-management. Co-management is a decentralized method that empowers the local level and enables collaboration between the government and the local community. Co-management within fishing communities can be realized through so called Beach Management Units (BMUs). Around Lake Victoria, there are 1087 BMUs. One of these BMUs is located in Ggaba, Kampala, Uganda and the purpose of this study is to highlight benefits and shortcomings connected to co-management within fisheries. The study aims to explore if and how sustainability aspects are tackled through the co-management of fisheries. The data was collected using qualitative semi-structured interviews where six BMU members contributed with their experiences. In addition, data was collected from a qualitative content analysis on two BMU guideline documents, representing the central level. The results showed that the Ggaba BMU provides a platform for creating control through collaboration. The local levels’ perception on co-management within fisheries seems to correspond with the central level’s aim of the management. Another indication is that the BMU has brought upon positive effects on economic, social and ecological aspects on the society of Ggaba. However, corruption and illegal fishing are two identified barriers which seems to limit the function of the Ggaba BMU and the level of co-management. / Gemsamma resurser så som vattendrag, skogar och atmosfären är komplexa att hantera eftersom flera aktörer är involverade och påverkas av resursanvändningen. Ett sätt att hantera gemensamma resurser är genom samförvaltning. Samförvaltning är en decentraliserad förvaltningsmetod som möjliggör ett samarbete mellan den lokala och statliga nivån vid beslutsfattande. Omkring Victoriasjön realiseras samförvaltning genom så kallade Beach Management Units (BMUs). Dessa utgörs av 1087 stycken varav en BMU är lokaliserad i Ggaba, Kampala, Uganda. Syftet med denna studie är att belysa fördelar och brister kopplade till samförvaltning av fiske. Vidare syftar studien till att undersöka om och hur aspekter inom hållbar utveckling kan tacklas genom det decentraliserade styret av fiske. Data insamlades genom sex stycken kvalitativa, semistrukturerade intervjuer. Dessutom gjordes en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av två BMU-riktlinjedokument, vilka representerar den centrala nivån. Det empiriska materialet visade att Ggaba BMU utgör en plattform för strukturering, kontroll och samarbete. Den lokala nivåns syn på samförvaltning inom fiske verkar överensstämma med den centrala nivåns avsikt av samförvaltning. Resultatet indikerar även att BMUn har påverkat ekonomiska, sociala och ekologiska aspekter i Ggaba på ett positivt sätt. Problem med korruption och olagligt fiske identifierades dock, vilka verkar begränsa BMUns funktion och möjligheterna till samförvaltning.

Title: Influence of movement training on motor performance in children Objectives: The author set out to verify whether beach volleyball influences the basic elements of health-related fitness ("HRF"), develops motor literacy in selected children of upper school age, and if so, how. Methods: The author employed empirical quantitative and qualitative research. The basic motor literacy level was identified using the UNIFITTEST (6-60) testing battery. The quantitative analysis relied on evaluating a video recording. The analyzed sample comprised children aged 13 who regularly play beach volleyball, and children of the same age engaging in no regular motor activity. Results: The author concluded that beach volleyball influenced strength, speed and endurance of the basic elements of HRF in members of the sample. At the same time, beach volleyball contributed to cultivating their motor literacy without negative impact on their school attendance. Keywords: movement, fitness, movement deficit, movement benefits, motor tests, motor literacy, survey, quantitative and qualitative analysis, beach volleyball.

Western Palm Beach County, FL is characterized by thick deposits organic soils at shallow depths. Because of their high void ratio and compressibility, these soils undergo large primary consolidation followed by extended periods of secondary compression causing excessive premature structural distress. Although soil stabilization has been largely used with remarkable results in soft, expansive and non-organic soils, limited research and practice exist in the implementation with highly organic soils. The main motivation of this research was to investigate the effects of cement stabilization on the compressibility behavior of organic rich soils, and develop mix design criteria for optimum cement contents necessary to induce the desired engineering behavior. This optimized mix design may provide guidelines for Deep Mixing Methods in organic soils. / by Juan Ramirez. / Thesis (M.S.C.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Cette thèse présente une étude de la dynamique des plages à l'échelle événementielle (ou "échelle des tempêtes"). Même si cette dynamique est essentielle, elle est restée principalement méconnue jusqu'à ce jour du fait du manque d'outils d'observation adaptés à son étude. Les nouvelles possibilités offertes par l'imagerie vidéo, notamment l'observation à haute fréquence, sont très novatrices. Dans cette thèse, un outil vidéo est présenté qui, à partir de la mesure des caractéristiques hydrodynamiques de surface, permet d'estimer avec précision la topographie littorale sur une large zone (km) et à haute fréquence (jour). Ce travail montre que les différentes structures sableuses littorales interagissent et qu'elles ne peuvent pas être étudiées de manière isolée. La dynamique des structures sableuses peut être fortement non-uniforme dans la direction parallèle à la plage, même en conditions de fortes vagues. De plus, la dynamique est cruciale car elle contribue aux transferts de sédiment entre le large et la plage. Dans un système à deux barres, plus que la hauteur des vagues, c'est le marnage qui influence majoritairement la dynamique de la barre intertidale en conditions de tempête. Nos résultats suggèrent qu'une grande part de la variabilité temporelle de la plage se situe à cette échelle court terme. / This thesis presents a study on short term (day to month) beach dynamic. Until the emergence of video systems, and despite its major role, this dynamic remained mainly unknown due to the lack of a suited observation technology. The new possibilities allowed by video imagery, comprising high-frequency observation, are revolutionary. In this thesis, a tool is introduced that, from the measure of nearshore hydrodynamics, estimates accurately nearshore topography for a large area (km) and at high frequency (day). This thesis shows that nearshore sand features interact and cannot be studied in isolation. We show that sand features dynamic can be dominantly non-uniform in the longshore direction, even for large waves. This dynamic is crucial because it contributes to cross-shore sand exchanges. For a double-barred beach, more than wave height, tidal range variations drive inner bar dynamic during stormy conditions. Our results suggest that a large part of the beach temporal variability is short term.

In the past 25 years, Palm Beach County has acquired more than 31 million acres of public preserves consisting of numerous native habitats that are home to threatened and endangered flora and fauna. Both endemic habitats and plant species benefit from expansion and connectivity through the adoption of native plants in surrounding areas. The next step in conserving these protected, larger areas is to identify ways to connect them in order to reduce their isolation and improve their likelihood of continued ecosystem health. This study aims to perform an analysis using a GIS database of Palm Beach County's Eastern urban areas to determine additional vegetation that currently exists on public lands and private preserves and to analyze and classify the vegetation for its potential conservation role, either as ; preserves, buffers, corridors or clusters connecting and enhancing existing natural areas. / by Corrie Rainyn. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2009. / Advisor: Ned Stuckey-French, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Aug. 18, 2009). Includes bibliographical references. Text also available via Internet in PDF format. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 60 pages.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:29:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruna3.pdf: 1877647 bytes, checksum: 85e5f40d5d0895067deef73c800f00f1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The study of the stereotypes that regional magazine Beach&Co about the caiçara, native people who maintain a related culture to the sea in the coastal cities in Caraguatatuba, São Sebastiao, Ubatuba and Ilhabela, on the North Coast os São Paulo. It was applied an methodology that mixture the Cultural Studies based on the books by Douglas Kellner, Stuart Hall and Raymond Williams with Discourse Analysis in the books by Dominique Maingueneau, Eni Orlandi, Patrick Charaudeau and Audre Alberguine. Studies of the Caiçara Culture made by Carlos Diegues, Gioconda Mussolini and Emilio Willems and others; the redefinition the journalism genre Report and the context of the Regional Journalism Magazine. After, the first decade of the magazine Beach&Co, was analyzed in the total of 120 editions published between January 2002 and June 2012, in which were shown the different approaches that the publication did on the caiçara as well as the evolution of the magazine itself in its editorial aspects, commercial and graphic design. Then, 23 reports in the tourism, gastronomy, sports editorials and other related Caiçara Culture were selected and their semantic and evaluative elements of languages were analyzed. It was in the conclusions that the media coverage of Beach&Co prioritizes the areas of tourism and development of São Paulo North and South Coasts, the magazine went through review and dominant schematic view in journalistic production finding market in the specificities of São Paulo Coast; Beach&Co was consolidated at the regional, professionalized, competent and creative journalistic field away from amateurism, the parochialism and simplistic mimicry, dispite of often using the caiçara as adjective of tourist and gastronomic aspects of the North Coast, the magazine worked broadly the symbolic production of the caiçara and portrayed various aspects of Caiçara Culture reinforcing both the power of this regional magazine as feeding back the accents of São Paulo Coast in the other regions of the country. / Estudo dos estereótipos que a revista regional Beach&Co fez do caiçara - povo nativo que mantém uma cultura relacionada ao mar e a mata nas cidades de Caraguatatuba, São Sebastião, Ubatuba e Ilhabela, no Litoral Norte Paulista. Aplicou-se uma metodologia de caráter híbrido que mesclou os Estudos Culturais com base nas obras de Douglas Kellner, Stuart Hall e Raymond Williams com a Análise de Discurso nas obras de Dominique Maingueneau, Eni Orlandi, Patrick Charaudeau e Audre Alberguine. Também foram resgatados os estudos da Cultura Caiçara feitos por Carlos Diegues, Gioconda Mussolini, Emilio Willems, e por fim redefiniu-se o gênero jornalístico Reportagem e contextualizou-se o Jornalismo Regional de Revista. Posteriormente, analisou-se a primeira década da revista Beach&Co, totalizando 120 edições publicadas de janeiro de 2002 a junho de 2012, no qual foram mostradas as diversas abordagens que a publicação fez do caiçara, bem como a evolução da própria revista nos aspectos editoriais, comercial e de design gráfico. Em seguida, selecionou-se 23 reportagens nas editorias de turismo, gastronomia, esportes e outras relacionadas à Cultura Caiçara, que tiveram seus discursos semânticos e os elementos valorativos de linguagens analisados. Nas conclusões, constatou-se que a cobertura jornalística da Beach&Co privilegia as áreas do turismo e do desenvolvimento do Litoral Norte e Baixada Santista; que a revista passou por readaptações e esquematismos dominantes na produção jornalística e encontrou mercado nas especificidades do Litoral Paulista; a Beach&Co se consolidou como uma revista regional profissional, de qualidade e criativa, distante do amadorismo, do bairrismo e da mimetização simplista; apesar de muitas vezes ter usado o caiçara para adjetivar os aspectos turísticos e gastronômicos do Litoral Norte, a revista trabalhou a produção simbólica do caiçara de forma ampla e retratou vários aspectos da Cultura Caiçara, reforçando o poder desta revista regional, como retroalimentando os sotaques do Litoral Paulista nas demais regiões do país onde a publicação também é lida.

Ce travail de thèse a porté sur l’étude de littoraux sous l’influence de deux grands deltas, l’Amazone et le Mékong, avec un focus sur les plages et cheniers de Guyane intégrant le système de dispersion vaseuse de l’Amazone, et sur les liens entre la déstabilisation du littoral du delta du Mékong et les changements morpho-bathymétriques des chenaux deltaïques sous influence anthropique croissante. L’étude de la plage de Montjoly en Guyane a été conduite en combinant une approche innovante de photogrammétrie aéroportée SfM (Structure from Motion), des mesures hydrodynamiques, bathymétriques, et la modélisation de la propagation des houles à travers cette bathymétrie. Les résultats obtenus montrent le potentiel considérable de la technique de photogrammétrie SfM pour l’étude géomorphologique des plages, et confirment un modèle de rotation de la plage sous l'influence de banc de vase. Le suivi du second site d’étude, un chenier en recul sur un ancien polder rizicole vaseux, au travers d'une analyse multi décennale d’images satellites et des mesures de terrain, a démontré très finement les taux (atteignant 160 m par an) et mécanismes de recul du substrat vaseux en lien avec sa rhéologie.L’analyse de l'évolution de la bathymétrie des chenaux deltaïques du Mékong sur une décennie (1998 et 2008), conduite à travers une méthode sous SIG, a permis de quantifier une perte nette de 200 millions de m3 de sédiments et un approfondissement de chenaux ne relevant pas de processus naturels mais d'extraction de granulats.Ces prélèvements importants de sédiments ont des répercussions importantes sur les apports de sédiments au littoral du delta qui montre des taux d’érosion importants. / This thesis is a geomorphic study of two separate sites associated with two large deltas: the Amazon and the Mekong, with a focus on a beach and chenier in French Guiana integrated into the mud dispersal system of the Amazon, and on the links between destabilization of the Mekong delta shoreline and morpho-bathymetric changes in the deltaic channels under increasing human influence.The study of Montjoly beach in French Guiana was carried out using a combination of an innovative approach in SfM (Structure from Motion) airborne photogrammetry, hydrodynamic and bathymetric measurements, and wave propagation modelling over the nearshore bathymetry. The results show the strong potential of SfM photogrammetry in high-resolution morphometric and sediment budget surveys of sandy beach, and confirm a previously proposed model of beach rotation under mud-bank influence.The second field site in French Guiana, a retreating chenier over a muddy abandoned polder formerly a rice fields, work based on a multi-decadal analysis of satellite images combined with short-term field topographic and hydrodynamic measurements highlighted high rates of chenier migration (up to 160 m a year) and retreat mechanisms over the muddy substrate due to its rheology.A GIS-based analysis of bathymetric changes in the deltaic channels of the Mekong over a 10-year period (1998 to 2008) enabled the quantification of a net loss of 200 million m3 of sediments and an increase in the mean depth of the channels, which appears as unnatural and due to sand mining.These important sediment extractions have serious repercussions on sediment supply to the Mekong delta coast, which shows important rates of erosion.

L’objectif de cette thèse est la détermination des causes du phénomène d'érosion marine, et la production de propositions d'orientation pour la protection de la plage de l’Almanarre. L'étude commence par la collecte et l'analyse de toutes les données disponibles, pour trouver des règles d’évolution du tombolo de Giens. Puis, le logiciel de modélisation MIKE a été appliqué pour confirmer l'hypothèse et à obtenir une meilleure connaissance de la dynamique à l’œuvre au tombolo Ouest. Ensuite, nous avons couplé des facteurs simultanément : les houles, les courants côtiers, et les transports des sédiments pour les différents régimes de houle et de vent dans MIKE 21. Enfin, la possibilité de stabiliser le tombolo Ouest est discutée pour donner des suggestions sur les choix de solutions adaptées. / The objective of this thesis is the determination of the causes of sea erosion phenomenon, and the production of policy proposals for the protection of the beach. The study begins with the collection and analysis of all available data, to find evolution rules of tombolo of Giens. Which aims to explain how the hydrodynamic processes and sediment transport occur. Then MIKE modeling software was applied to confirm the hypothesis and get a better understanding of the dynamics at work in the Western tombolo. Then, we coupled factors simultaneously: waves, coastal currents and sediment transport for different regimes of wave and wind in MIKE 21. Finally, the possibility of stabilizing the Western tombolo is discussed to give suggestions on the choice of solutions.

Lately, we have been noticing an unusual rise in the sea level near many Floridian cities. By 2060, scientists believe that the sea level in the city of Key West will reach between 22.86 to 60.96 centimeters (Strauss et al. 2012). The consequences of sea level rise are unpleasant by gradually tearing away our beaches and natural resources, destroying our homes and businesses, etc. Definitively, a continual increase of the sea level will affect everyone either directly or indirectly. In this study, the sea level measurements of four Floridian coastal cities (including Key West) are collected in order to describe their trend toward sea level rise over the past 100 years. After the comparisons, some models describing the sea level rise in the city of Key West, Florida, are developed. Any inferences for these above cities may well be extended to similar ones.