Browsing UW-Madison Department of Geography Master's Theses by Issue Date
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Dead Zones, Weed Nests, and Manure Mishaps: How Gardeners Cultivate Collective Place in Eagle Heights Community Gardens
(2011)The garden plots of Eagle Heights Community Gardens stretch for eight acres up a hillside on the west side of the University of Wisconsin at Madison's campus. Individual gardeners shape much of the space in this allotment-style ... -
Decontaminating Memory: Governmentality, Networks and Relational Enactment Through Policy Development at the Badger Army Ammunitions Plant, Wisconsin
(2011)In 1997, the US Army announced that the Badger Army Ammunition Plant (BAAP) in Sauk County, Wisconsin would be decommissioned, marking the end of the site?s complicated history and sparking extensive debate over proposed ... -
Effects of Land Use Change on Streamflow: An Evaluation of the Salt River Basin, Kentucky
(2011)The Salt River Basin has experienced extensive land use change during the second half of the twentieth century as a result of expansion of urbanized areas. Due to expected climate change, the hydrological regime of the ... -
Irrigation and Landscape Change in Colorado's Grand Valley: 1880-1920
(2011)Irrigation shapes people and land in the American West. By people I mean the social relations that develop as a result of competition and cooperation for land and water, and the technical knowledge required to manage these ... -
Application of Objective Visual Complexity Measures to Binary Dasymetric Maps
(2011)Dasymetric maps have been shown to be an improvement over more common mapping techniques in terms of spatial and attribute accuracy. This research is a step towards evaluating dasymetric maps in terms of their effectiveness ... -
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 ... -
A Modern Analog Analysis of the Relationship Between Northern and Southern East Asian Summer Monsoon Regions, with an Application to the Paleoclimate of the Past 1000 Years
(2011-11-27)Recent studies have identified a precipitation dipole (i.e. two regions in which precipitation changes are consistently out of phase with each other) between the Northern and Southern East Asian Summer Monsoon regions ... -
How Japanese American Gardeners Shaped an Internment Camp Landscape: a Soil Chemistry and Archival Analysis
(2012)This thesis explores the soil of a Japanese American internment camp, how internees changed it, and why. In acknowledging soil as a force in shaping events in camp and as artifact changed by them, I add new elements to ... -
Jachymov: Heaven or Hell?: Contrasting Historical Narratives about Jachymov, Czech Republic and its Radioactive Elements
(2012)The small town of Jachymov, Czech Republic is nestled in the Krusne Hory, which is literally translated from Czech to English as the "Cruel Mountains", but known in English as the Ore Mountains. The town is located in the ... -
The Implications of Interactions Among Environmental Rehabilitation, Social Safety Net and Microfinance Programs to Resource Access and Vulnerability in Tigray, Ethiopia
(2012)The current study will examine implementation of the Food Security Program in Ethiopia as an integrated approach to poverty alleviation which includes development trends to understand how they interact in practice for a ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Color Perception and Preference Among Older Map Readers
(2012)Research outside of cartography suggests that color perception changes as one ages. The goal of this study is both to explore and to acquire a better understanding of how individuals of advanced ages understand and perceive ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"Money Trees” in Southern Thailand: Beyond the Rubber Market
(2013)Over the past two years, Thai- and English-language newspapers have reported on the difficulties facing Thailand’s rubber farmers. Newspaper articles focus in particular on the dissatisfactions over low rubber prices ... -
Data-Mining Social Media for Spatiotemporal Patterns of Negative Opinion
(2013)Given that political and natural events cause unrest in social media, the research of this thesis serves to address the following question: Using census demographics and the geographic signature of social media content, ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ...