Browsing UW Geography Senior Honors Theses by Issue Date
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River Response to Deforestation, 1832-1971, Platte River, Grant County Wisconsin
(1972-06)Man's impact on his environment is currently a popular subject of discourse; it is a topic of genuine importance in a world of increasing population and increasing utilization of natural resources. This thesis is concerned ... -
Response of Turtle Creek to Settlement 1836-1973
(1973-05)Man's impact on the environment has been observed and analyzed to a great extent in recent years. The response of a landscape, vegetal community, or stream to inputs of settlement, cultivation, urbanization, or ... -
The Relative Site Moisture Index: an Expansion of the Topographic Relative Moisture Index
(1996)Soil moisture is an important factor influencing vegetation establishment and productivity. Several attempts have been made to develop an accurate means of characterizing soil moisture in the field without extensive ... -
Gender, Environment, and Development Concerns in Irrigated Rice Schemes in West Africa
(1996-08-08)In this study, I examine the links between gender, environment, and development (GED), first analyzing various approaches to studying the topic, and then outlining the social repercussions of two development projects in ... -
The Fairness of Forests: A Case Study of the Rio Bravo Carbon Sequestration Pilot Project Belize, Central America
(1999-09)Carbon Sequestration forestry projects generate heated debate among negotiators of global climate change policy. Advocates of carbon sequestration see these projects as a remedy to the problems of global climate change, ... -
Mbojo: Lion Attacks on People West of Tarangire N.P., Tanzania
(2001)Between the days of November 11th and November 26th, 2000 I conducted a study of problems villagers were experiencing with lions in northern Tanzania. The study took place in the villages of Sangaiwe, Sarame, Chern Chemu, ... -
The Impact of Logging on White-Tailed Deer During the 1800s: Northwoods Wisconsin Case Study
(2001-05)The current persistence of white-tailed deer population fluctuations cannot be understood without fully analyzing and appreciating northern Wisconsin's environmental history, particularly logging-induced population ... -
Maximizing Speculative Urban Development: An Empirical Analysis of Local Governance in Milwaukee
(2002)After being awarded major league baseball's all-star game, the city of Milwaukee felt that the time was right to build a new stadium to take full advantage of this prestigious opportunity to showcase both their team and ... -
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 ... -
Ancient Mounds, Modern Meanings
(2003-04-28)Students at the University of Wisconsin and other residents of Madison encounter effigy mounds on an almost daily basis as they move throughout campus and the city. Mounds can be found on Observatory Hill (see Figure 1), ... -
The Contribution of Global Transport on North American Carbon Monoxide Concentrations
(2007-05-18)Carbon monoxide, CO, is produced by natural and anthropogenic processes including biomass burning and fossil fuel usage and affects atmospheric chemistry through its roles as a sink for the hydroxyl radical (OH) and as ... -
Influence of Land Use Change on Grant River Hydrology, Grant County, Wisconsin
(2008-07-21)Over the past two centuries, widespread agriculture has been significantly altering the landscape. It is known that agriculture can significantly alter hydrologic processes and increase soil erosion. While corn is the ... -
The Media, Groundwater, and Development: Scientific Input in the Arizona Daily Star, 2006
(2008-07-21)In 2006, the Arizona Daily Star, a newspaper based in Tucson, Arizona, paid significant attention to groundwater issues. Authors at the Star discussed groundwater and its connections to commercial, residential, and industrial ... -
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 ... -
Cricket in the West Indies: A Postcolonial Assessment of Structure, Identity, and the Oriental
(2010-04-12)Contemporary West Indian society exists as a hybridized collection of identities that has been forged by centuries of ethnic and ideological exchanges, a process that continues to this day. In those Caribbean Islands ... -
The Role of Government in the Olympic Games: A Comparative Study of the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the Vancouver 2010 Olympics
(2011-01-06)The Olympic games have always been the major sports events that draw the attention from the audience, the media and the academics. Every four years, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chooses a city among four to ... -
Recreating the Social Environment of Salmon Beach: An Analysis of the Salmon Beach Community and Applications Within the Field of Urban Design
(2011-05-01)Salmon Beach is a community in Tacoma, Washington that remains relatively hidden and unheard of, even to the local population. To get to this community, one must first find the unmarked entrance, which looks more like an ... -
Developing Community in the Garden: the Spatial Relationships of Socialization in the Sheboygan Community Garden
(2012)This study seeks to understand how the spatial dimensions of the garden relate to the social interactions in the Sheboygan Community Garden (SCG). Social interactions are the building blocks for community development in ... -
Assessment of Habitat and Wildlife Density in Community Wildlife Sanctuaries Amboseli Ecosystem, Kenya
(2013)Community wildlife sanctuaries within the Amboseli ecosystem serve as a wildlife corridor for migratory species from Amboseli National Park. The sanctuaries are community-based conservation areas that provide wildlife with ... -
The Effect of Consumers' Lifestyle on Trade Area Size -- A Study of TESCO in Ireland and the Czech Republic
(2014-05-05)Trade area size is a fundamental element in retail location analysis. Current theories about trade size calculate the size mostly from total population, store size and industry competition. However consumer lifestyle may ...