Browsing UW-Madison Department of Geography Master's Theses by Title
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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 ... -
The Spatial Variation of Geographic Polarization in the United States
(2022)Introduction: In 1977, sociologists Knoke and Henry predicted that "future trends suggest a diminishing political difference between rural and urban populations" (51). Given recent events, their prognostication could not ... -
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Mixed-Use Planning & Patterns in Milwaukee, St. Louis & Tampa
(2022)Land use integration has emerged as an important sustainability principle in the last three decades, with many American cities recently reforming their land use policies to promote mixed-use developments. This study examines ... -
Storytelling in Online Atlases
(2022)From the Introduction: 1.1 Background: An atlas is a geographic communication device comprising a selection of maps related by theme, or region, and organized into a coherent volume (Buckley 2003). While print atlases ... -
Streamflow response to changes in land cover and climate in Lower Michigan
(2009)Studies of the influence of basin land use on the hydrologic response of streams to climate change are limited, and have generally focused on individual land use types in isolation. Prediction of future hydrologic change ... -
Submerged Empire: Racial Grammars of Environmental Governance in Houston, 1900-1939
(2023)How do histories of colonial and racial dispossession shape contemporary urban environmental injustices? Building on scholarship that examines the legacies and afterlives of empire; I theorize grammars of governance as an ... -
Symbol Considerations for Bivariate Thematic Mapping
(2012)Bivariate thematic maps are powerful tools for understanding geographic phenomena, making visible spatial associations between them. But bivariate thematic maps are more visually complex than a univariate map, a source ... -
Temperature Controls on No-Analog Community Establishment in the Great Lakes Region
(2018)Temperature reconstructions in eastern North America from pollen are rife in the literature, but these reconstructions cannot be used to study the sensitivity and response time of vegetation to temperature changes. Branched ... -
Tensions in the Installation of a Smart Electric Grid: Parasitic Mediations and Short Circuiting Environmental Justice
(2014)Many geographic questions can be asked of smart grids and the sociotechnical networks in which they are embedded. This thesis primarily asks two sets of questions: the first examines the limits and contingencies of automation, ... -
Towards A Code OF Ethics For Journalistic Cartography: Graphics Professionals’ Perspectives On Visual Storytelling
(2023)In this research, I document an interview study with 17 news cartographers to explore how journalistic ethics are applied to cartographic visual storytelling. News organizations have produced some of the most widely seen ... -
Towards a Queer Understanding of Environmental Racism: An Exploration of LGBTQ+ BIPOC Experiences of Environmental (In)Justice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(2023)This thesis centers on how--and to what extent--LGBTQ+ people of color (henceforth QTPOC: queer and trans people of color) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin experience and resist environmental injustices, and how environmental ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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’ ... -
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, ... -
When Kami Met Kuma: Feminist Popular Geopolitical Perspectives on Japanese Nationhood and Settler Colonization of the Ainu in Persona 4 Golden
(2024)Reach Out To The Truth… When the player-protagonist 1 ambushes an enemy and enters a battle with an advantage, that is moving first, in the Japanese Role Playing Video Game (JRPG), Persona 4 Golden (P4G), an upbeat tune ...