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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: 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Lowering the Lakes: the Environmental, Economic and Recreational Impacts of Returning Lake Mendota to Historical Levels
(2018-12-17)After extensive flooding in the Madison, Wisconsin area in August 2018, there have been calls by the public to permanently lower the largest body of water in the region, Lake Mendota, which has been artificially raised ... -
Madison Metro Rapid Transit Park & Ride Study: Exercising the potential of GIS to explore potential solutions to a temporal socio-environmental issue
(2011-05-04)Identify and map suitable locations for Park & Ride lots along the periphery of the city of Madison to serve as starting points for optimal express bus routes to-and-from event locations in downtown district. The conclusions ... -
Madison State of Mind: Demographics and Urban Form on State Street
(2013-12)The 500 block of State Street, in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, is currently undergoing a radical landscape change through the construction of a new high rise apartment complex called ?The Hub?. This study seeks to discover ... -
Madison's Fast Track? The Impacts of a Light Rail Transit System on Property Value in the Madison Area
(2009-12)Because there does appear to be a link between property value and proximity to the rail, we will study the different variables that influence change. It is important to understand this change because property value is ... -
Madison's Urban Fire Regime
(2013-12)This research looks at documented major fire incidents from 1855 to the present day, Madison, Wisconsin. It draws mostly upon primary sources including fire marshall reports, newspaper articles, and interviews from first ... -
Madison, Wisconsin: the Danger of Liberal Havens an Analysis of Neighborhood Formation
(2017-05)To better explore the question of Madison as a liberal haven, I have chosen to study the low-income, minority neighborhood of South Madison. Due to Madison’s large white population, there is little inter-racial mixing in ... -
Manufactured Commons: Collective Ownership and Differential Commoning
(2014)This thesis grapples with the emergence and details of collective ownership in the midst of ‘actually existing neoliberalism’. While the two chapters are each designed to stand alone – with the intention of eventually ... -
Mapmaking for Change: Online Participatory Mapping Tools for Revealing Landscape Values in the Bad River Watershed
(2013-05)The research reported here contributes to an emerging understanding of crowdsourced information and collaboration in the Geoweb. Its focus is Online Participatory Mapping (OPM), or the public, collaborative synthesis and ... -
Mapping Technology in Wilderness Search and Rescue
(2015)Wilderness or wildland search and rescue (WiSAR) managers and planners create and use maps to plan searches, collaborate on strategy, decide where to distribute resources, and communicate tasks to searchers in the field. ...