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Un fiume per Roma Capitale: the socio-political landscape of the Tiber embankment, 1870-1910
(2003)In conclusion, I hope to have convincingly placed Rome's embankment of the Tiber at the end of the nineteenth century as the discursive embodiment of two prominent ideals of the Risorgimento: 'modernity' and national ... -
(Un) Fixing Biodiversity: Nature, State, and the Techno-politics of Offsetting in the United Kingdom
(2015-05-10)In this thesis I examine the United Kingdom's biodiversity offsetting program. Offsetting is a new form of "market-based" conservation and an attempt by environmentalists and bureaucrats to "sell nature to save it". Critics ... -
Uncovering the Effects of Conservation Efforts along the Lower Wisconsin Riverway
(2009-05)In this paper we hope to uncover the changes that have occurred in the area due to the passing of the legislation that created the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway. More specifically we will look at how land use regulations ... -
Understanding Chin Political Participation in Myanmar
(2013)In scholarship on political participation, a tension exists between paying attention to individual agency, complexity, and contingency on the one hand and generalizing to a level that allows the application of findings to ... -
A University of Wisconsin Arboretum Narrative: Changing Landscapes and Changing Meaning
(2010-12)As societies change, so too does their relationship with the land. These changing relationships are reflected in and imprinted upon the land on which they live. In order to demonstrate how the landscape of the UW Arboretum ... -
Urban Development, Housing and Student Enclaves in University Towns: Luxury Living in Madison, WI
(2016-12-17)Our research is concerned with recent additions of high-end, high-rise apartment buildings to the State Street area in Madison, WI, taking the Hub at Madison and its follow-up project the James as particular cases. We ... -
User Experience Optimization in Geo-portals for Data Discovery
(2018-04)This research focuses on user experience of Geo-portals for citizens to discover geospatial data online. The misguided design ideas in the last decades encourage engineers to focus on their own behaviors rather than citizens’ ... -
UW Madison Student's Knowledge and Perceptions of Global Conflicts
(2014-12)The purpose of this study was to determine whether students' demographic and personal characteristics affect their knowledge, opinions, and perceptions of global violent conflicts. A total of 144 students participated in ... -
The Variability of Urbanization in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
(2012)Most research studies examining Polish urban patterns at the national scale consider only one approach to quantify changes in the urbanization levels: measurement based on demographic data or measurement based on land-cover. ... -
Variation in Soil Properties and Topographic Roughness of Stabilized Sand Dunes in the Central Great Plains, USA: Implications for Susceptibility to Reactivation
(2018-12)With a warming global climate, regional climates will undergo changes to their temperature, precipitation, and wind regimes. Consequently, the potential exists for these shifting climatological conditions to affect dunefields ... -
Vegetation and climate changes at Spicer Lake, Indiana, during the Holocene
(2013)Many paleoclimate studies have shown that the midcontinent of North America experienced a warmer and drier-than-present climate during the early and middle Holocene and relatively humid climate during the late Holocene, ... -
Viability of Offshore Wind Energy Across Wisconsin's Great Lakes
(2016)This research project was designed to determine suitable sites for an offshore wind farm within Wisconsin’s jurisdiction of Lake Michigan and Superior. In the research process, we used GIS data to create a map of ideal ... -
Visualizing Ice Quality on Lake Mendota
(2019)We examined the quality of ice health on Lake Mendota because of the lack of an easy-to-understand resource visualizing how climate change will impact the local culture and lake ecology in Madison. We assessed ice duration ... -
Walkability, Amenities, and Housing Choice in Downtown Madison
(2018-08-10)High-Rise apartments are a quintessential living option for residents in major cities and downtown areas. Two important aspects of high-rise apartments are the amenities that are offered and how walkable the area surrounding ... -
Wellhead Protection and the Future Water Demands from Publc Wells in the City of Madison
(2018-05-06)Ultimately, chemicals and other contaminants wasted on the ground will make their way to reach the groundwater or aquifer and that way these pollutants will make the ground water unsafe for drinking. Where does uncertainty ... -
„Wer darf Deutsch sein?”: the Racialization and Integration of Refugees in Germany
(2018-05)This thesis addresses problems with the integration of refugees in Germany, specifically focusing on refugees as the constitutive other to a popularly perceived white German identity. The purpose of this thesis is to ... -
Where Do We Go From Here?: Understanding Mobile Map Design
(2019)As global smartphone ownership rises, so does the global usage of mobile maps on smartphones. As mobile map usage increases, it is essential to understand what separates mobile maps as a unique from of cartographic expression. ... -
Wild to Tame: The Presentation and Experience of Nature at Four Madison Landmarks
(2016-06-16)Our research deals with the recursive relationship between the presentation and experience of nature at four sites in Madison, Wisconsin. We attempt to understand how common conceptions of nature influence the unfolding ... -
Winners and Losers: Gerrymandering and the Wisconsin Supreme Court Case
(2017-12-17)The objective of this research is to examine the validity of the gerrymandering claims being levied against the current Wisconsin State Assembly map in the Gill v Whitford Supreme Court case. To test these claims we examined ... -
Wisconsin Barns: Stewards of Our Values and Dynamic Cultural Landscapes
(2010-12)Wisconsin is rooted in the agrarian rural landscape. We can make this identification while driving anywhere in the state and seeing the numerous farms adjacent to the highway or on license plates of passing cars. Barns are ...