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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
781

Understanding and Mapping Land-Use and Land-Cover Change along Bolivia's Corredor Bioceancio

Redo, Daniel J. 2010 May 1900 (has links)
The Corredor Bioceanico is a major transportation project connecting the agricultural heartlands of South America to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The final link is in southeastern Bolivia - an underdeveloped area that is home to two indigenous groups and globally-significant woodlands and wetlands. Infrastructure developments - comprising a major highway upgrade, revitalized railway services and increased flows along gas pipelines to Brazil - pose major threats to livelihoods and the region's ecological integrity. There are two broad objectives: (i) to map and quantify the spatial patterns of land change using a time-series of coarse and medium resolution satellite imagery; and (ii) to understand the socio-economic and political drivers of change by linking household surveys and interviews with farmers; environmental, climatic, and political data; and classified satellite imagery. Overall, large-scale deforestation has occurred along the Corredor Bioceanico for mechanized commercial production of oil-seed crops such as soybeans and sunflower. The significance of these findings is that agriculture-driven deforestation is pushing into sensitive areas threatening world-renowned ecosystems such as the Chaco, Chiquitano and Pantanal as well as noteworthy national parks. Though quantity remains relatively small compared to other parts of South America, rates of forest loss match or exceed those of more publicized regions such as Rondonia or Mato Grosso, Brazil. Moreover, rates of forest loss are accelerating linearly with time due to policies implemented by incumbent president Evo Morales. Results also show that in the first years of cultivation, pasture is the dominant land-use, but it quickly gives way to intensively cropped farmland. The main findings in terms of percentage area cleared according to forest type is that farmers appear to be favoring transitional forest types on deep and poorly drained soils of alluvial plains. Semi-structured interviews with farmers and representatives of key institutions illustrate that price determined by the global market is not proportionally the most dominant motive driving LULCC in the lowlands of Santa Cruz, Bolivia - an area seen as a quintessential neoliberal frontier.
782

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Liu, Te-Kang 11 July 2003 (has links)
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783

A Study on the Land-Use Problem in China¡¦s Rural Areas

Chen, Yen-chih 15 July 2009 (has links)
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784

Identifying mistakes to discipline a New State the rectification campaigns in China's land reform, 1946-1952 /

He, Jiangsui. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 11, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-257).
785

Adversaries and science: environmental planning and the social construction of science and spatial information in British Columbia's Central Coast /

Mortenson, Cecelia. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.) - Simon Fraser University, 2005. / Theses (Dept. of Geography) / Simon Fraser University. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.
786

From box suppers and card games to vineyards and viewscapes community discourse in the exurban American west /

Hutton, Craig M., Larsen, Soren C. January 2009 (has links)
The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on December 28, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Soren C. Larsen. Includes bibliographical references.
787

Conserving threatened habitat types in rural landscapes through land use planning : a case study in Wasco County, Oregon /

Hurley, Patrick T., January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Oregon, 2001. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-177). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to UO users.
788

Management of mountain forest and pasture resources in Albania : local control and tenure security in a post reform economy /

Welsh, Margaret O. January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-218). Also available on the Internet.
789

Reclaiming rural character conservation, conflict, and the nostalgic landscapes of Orcas Island, Washington /

Baskind-Wing, Sharon L., January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Anthropology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-284).
790

Rural subdivision planning in Missoula County, Montana a planner's perspective /

Newman, John Michael. January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (MS)--University of Montana, 2009. / Contents viewed on February 11, 2010. Title from author supplied metadata. Includes bibliographical references.

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