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Jachymov: Heaven or Hell?: Contrasting Historical Narratives about Jachymov, Czech Republic and its Radioactive Elements
(2012)The small town of Jachymov, Czech Republic is nestled in the Krusne Hory, which is literally translated from Czech to English as the "Cruel Mountains", but known in English as the Ore Mountains. The town is located in the ... -
Junior Hockey in Madison, Wisconsin: Predicting the Capitols? Success
(2014-12)The Madison Capitols, located in Madison, Wisconsin, are a first year team in the United States Hockey League, the premier junior hockey league in the United States. In this paper, we analyze the Capitols? potential to be ... -
The Katrina Moment: Rethinking Disaster with Black Geographies
(2021)Prelude: I spent two years working in homeless services in Los Angeles after graduating from college in 2016, matching unhoused individuals to long-term housing opportunities, supporting outreach, ... -
Keeping Seeds: Memory, Materiality and Agrobiodiversity Conservation
(2020)A good amount of commercially produced grocery store tomatoes are grown in the state of Florida, in agricultural landscapes better known for citrus and sugar, but still just a couple hours from my hometown. They are planted, ... -
Ladies of Langdon: the Safety and the Perception of Gendered Spaces
(2013-12-12)A popular downtown residential neighborhood in Madison, WI, Langdon Street is home to many of the University of Wisconsin's fraternity and sorority houses. This article examines how women's experiences on Langdon Street, ... -
Lake Mendota: Access and Recreational Opportunities in a Wisconsin Urban Lake
(2020-12-15)Lake Mendota is a significant natural resource in the Madison area, but access varies relative to location. Viewing lake access as a finite community resource, we attempted to gauge public access and recreation of Lake ... -
Lake Mendota: Tracking Nonpoint Phosphorus and Nitrogen Loading
(2017)The research question focuses on the connection of land use and nonpoint nutrient loading, Phosphorus and Nitrogen, through testing water samples at Lake Mendota’s four river inputs. This project aims to trace the cause ... -
Lake Wingra: Changing Perceptions and Land-Use Decisions of Madison Wetlands
(2011)Madison, Wisconsin is characterized by the presence of the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Capitol. Surrounded by a beautiful chain of fresh water lakes, the scenic nature of Madison's surroundings have ... -
Land Use and Aquatic Invasive Species: Relationships in Southeastern Wisconsin Lakes
(2013)Submerged aquatic vegetation provides many ecological services to waterways, including water quality control, erosion control, and habitat for small fish and invertebrates. When an exotic species is introduced, it can alter ... -
Land Use Strategies and Their Causal Forces in Rondonia, Brazil, With Special Reference to the Rondonia Natural Resources Management Project (PLANAFLORO)
(2002-01-02)This paper explores the factors contributing to the expansion of small-scale farming, ranching, logging, mining, and subsistence extraction as land use choices in Rondonia, Brazil. As a framework, these factors are grouped ... -
A Landscape of Student Experience
(2014-12)Students at the University of Wisconsin create meaningful places through their own experiences across the UW campus and Madison downtown. As students bring meaning to different campus spaces, campus spaces in turn, help ... -
Landscapes of Change: Badger Army Ammunition and Sauk Prairie
(2009-05)A north-facing view from atop the Prairie du Sac dam affords a fleeting glimpse of something wholly different from the picturesque Lower Wisconsin Riverway (LWR) and its pastoral surroundings. For nearly 40 years the Badger ... -
Las Patronas, Clientelism, and Care
(2012)In La Patrona you learn by sound which direction the train is traveling--but not in the obvious way. The trains' oatmealy engine noise gets easily confused with the far-off bounce and clatter of sugarcane trucks wending ... -
A Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Fire Record from Appleman Lake, Indiana: The Use of Charcoal Analysis in Investigating Landscape Change
(2008-07-21)Charcoal analysis was conducted on a sediment core from Appleman Lake, Indiana. Appleman Lake is a kettle lake that was formed as the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated during the last deglaciation. Macroscopic charcoal ... -
Learning Through Map-Making: A Cartographic Exploration of Environmental Education
(2023)1.1. Context: Intersection of Environment Education and map-making Environmental Education (EE) is an established yet evolving discipline, with an increasing importance given the current climate emergency. First officially ... -
The Legacy of Redlining in Madison, Wisconsin
(2019)Redlining can be described as the process of color-coding a map to determine which neighborhoods should receive financial investments - including home loans - and which ones should not. This was encouraged by the U.S. ... -
Linking belowground biotic components and soil organic carbon across tropical forest succession
(2020)Tropical land cover is continuously changing due to the increasing demand for agricultural products, affecting global carbon dynamics. As a consequence, there are more secondary forests than primary forests in tropical ... -
Livelihood Shifts in Hausa Niger: the Gendered Impacts of Climate and Social Change
(2011)The goal of this thesis is two-fold: 1) to clarify the ways in which households of a village in the climate-volatile Sahel deal with both biophysical stresses and with social change which may or may not be related, and ... -
Living with Coyotes; Madison Citizens’ Experiences and Attitudes
(2019)The prevalence of some wildlife species in urban areas draws attention from ecologists and social scholars, alike, especially for controversial species like the coyote (Canis latrans). Geographers investigate urban citizens’ ... -
Long Ride to Fairness: Creating a Web Application to Measure Bike Equity
(2017)This project attempts to design a web interface exploratory tool for users to analyze bike equity in the District of Columbia. Because of the many social perceptions and complexity of the issue we felt that it was necessary ...