Browsing UW Geography Senior Honors Theses by Title
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Aging in Place: An Analysis of Land Use Accessibility in Madison, WI
(2021)Introduction: Americans are living longer than they ever have before. By 2060, there are expected to be 98 million Americans aged 65 and over, twice as many as there were in 2015. Additionally, the 85+ population, which ... -
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), ... -
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 ... -
Changes in Nitrogen Cycling During Tropical Forest Secondary Succession on Abandoned Pastures
(2018-05-03)Nitrogen (N) plays two important roles in Earth's climate. As a plant nutrient, the availability of N affects plant growth and the uptake of carbon (C) from the atmosphere into plant biomass. The accumulation of C in ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Do Seed Traits Mediate Plant Community Changes in Wisconsin's Unburned Prairies?
(2016-05)Historically, both natural and human-induced fires have played a key role in North American prairies, providing a disturbance regime that grassland systems are adapted to. With human activity fragmenting these prairies at ... -
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 ... -
Evaluating Repatriation as a Durable Solution to Burundi’s Protracted Refugee Situation
(2018)Repatriation, or the return of refugees to their countries of origin, has taken precedence as a durable solution to protracted refugee situations (PRS). Repatriation is the most common solution to refugee cases, but modern, ... -
Exploring the Political Ecology of a Proposed CAFO within the Driftless area of Southwest Wisconsin
(2022)Plans for what could become the largest hog confinement facility in Wisconsin have created divides over the future of a rural community within the Driftless region of Crawford County. This concentrated animal feeding ... -
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, ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Interaction of Human Settlement, Vegetation Patterns and Soils in the Northern Minnesota Prairie-Forest Region from the Euro-American Settlement Era to Present
(2017)From studying pollen and charcoal in lake sediments, scientists have reconstructed the past climate, fire frequency, and intensity as well as the vegetation patterns in the state of Minnesota. They concluded that the climate ... -
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 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 ... -
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’ ...