Browsing UW-Madison Department of Geography Master's Theses by Title
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Pandemic-Era Agroecology in Guatemala: Economic Solidarity and Smallholder Resilience to Economic Shock
(2021)The Covid-19 pandemic’s unprecedented market and mobility restrictions (2020-2021) created a distinct economic shock for Guatemalan smallholders, which arrived on the trails of other economic and environmental shocks. At ... -
Pastures & Pluralism: Forum Shopping & Community-based Dispute Resolution on Afghanistan's Rangelands
(2014)For over a decade, news stories have despairingly cataloged the American-led foreign forces’ failure to stabilize Afghanistan. From afar, the impoverished country may seem awash with eternal struggles between unreasonable ... -
Physics-Informed Weakly Supervised Learning for Near Real-Time Flood Mapping
(2022)Advances in deep learning and computer vision are making significant contributions to disaster management when used in combination with remotely sensed data. Although existing supervised methods proved to be effective, ... -
Point Object Extraction From Scanned Topographic Maps
(2015)The fundamental research problem this thesis addresses is how to extract point objects automatically from scanned topographic maps. Map objects include natural objects such as rivers and lakes as well as artificial objects ... -
Post-Industrial Imaginaries: Nature, Representation, and Ruin in Detroit, Michigan
(2010)I examine representations made of Detroit, with a focus on images made over the past two years. I do this in order to assess how these images work as material objects that circulate inside and outside of the city, as well ... -
Processes controlling soil hydrology and pedogenic carbonate formation in loess tablelands, Nebraska, USA
(2020)As part of a larger project, the objective is to understand how microtopography and the presence of buried soils potentially influence the stability of the landscape in semiarid southwestern Nebraska. It ... -
Quantifying Carbon Emissions From Cropland Expansion in the United States
(2018)After decades of decline, croplands are once again expanding across the United States. A recent spatially explicit analysis, for example, mapped nearly three million hectares of US cropland expansion between 2008-2012. ... -
Reconfiguring Nation and Diaspora: Self-Identifying Estonians in Estonia as a Diaspora
(2010)I will present the main reasons why this research is important. First, it helps to contest the marriage between nation and state; second, it offers new ways for understanding borderland and diaspora space; third, it offers ... -
Reconstruction of Late Glacial Discharges in the Upper Mississippi Valley
(1995)This project investigates the link between late glacial hydrologic events in a reach of the upper Mississippi River valley and Glacial Lake Agassiz. The project is divided into three parts: a chronology of the upper ... -
Red, Blue, or Purple Produce?: Exploring Liberalism, Conservatism and the Politics of Midwest Farmers' Market Participants
(2011)"Really? Conservatives like farmers' markets?" This was one of the most common responses I heard when telling friends, colleagues, or strangers about my research on what motivates people from different political positions ... -
Redefining Historical Significance: Toward New Possibilities for Preservation at Madison’s Sugar Castle
(2014)In this thesis, I claim that the National Register of Historic Place’s current criteria for historical significance, which are models for most state- and city-level landmark designation criteria, can limit understanding ... -
Reimagining a Violent Landscape: Disaster, Development and Cartographic Imagination in the Brahmaputra River Valley
(2019)The physical geography of India's Brahmaputra River, one of the world's largest braided rivers, is characterized by constant shift. Communities along the river experience frequent and intense flooding, and displacement due ... -
The Relation of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to Winter Tornado Environments
(2011)Previous analyses of the relationship between tornadoes and El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) have been complicated by biases in tornado counts. Here I analyze winter tornado activity across the eastern United States ... -
The Relationship Between Voting and Crime: a Neighborhood-Level Analysis
(2017-05)Why do people vote? Casting a ballot on election day is not just a way to show support for a particular candidate, it also embeds an individual into collective society. Knack argues that voting is a social norm, or a ... -
The Role of Cartographic Interface Complexity on Spatial Decision Making: a Case Study in the North American Hazardous Waste Trade
(2017)Digital interactive maps are part of our everyday lives: we use them for navigation on our smartphones, they enhance stories for online news sources, and they populate our social media timelines. The public has a favorable ... -
Role of Urban Plan Quality and Land Surface Characteristics in Urban Heat Island Outcomes
(2022)As climate change continues to intensify temperature extremes across the world, understanding the impacts of extreme heat events and planning strategies for heat adaptation and mitigation are critical to human wellbeing. ... -
Russia's Past and Present in Animated Cartoons: a Sway Space Geography of Affect in Film-watching
(2011-03)Over the last decade, the urgency Russians have felt to distance themselves from their Soviet past has diminished, and cultural materials referencing that period have become popular. Film and animated film in Russia has ... -
The Social Dimensions of Livestock Mobility: Climate Risk, Information Networks, and Resource Governance in Central Senegal
(2013)This case study of institutions for information transfer among agropastoralists in Senegal builds on current literature on the human dimensions of climate change, environmental governance, and pastoral mobility. Focusing ... -
Soil Microbial Respiration and Carbon Turnover under Perennial and Annual Biofuel Crops in two Agricultural Soils
(2015-05-08)Bioenergy crops have the potential to provide a low carbon-intensive alternative to fossil fuels. More than a century of agricultural research has shown that conventional cropping systems can reduce soil organic matter ... -
Spatial Text Mining: an Enhanced Text Mining Framework for Extracting Disaster Relevant Social Media Data
(2017)In the past decade, the rise in social media has led to the development of a vast number of social media services and applications. Disaster management represents one of such applications leveraging massive data generated ...