Browsing Scholarly Works, Geography by Issue Date
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Spatial Trends in the Texture, Moisture Content, and pH of a Virginia Coastal Plain Soil
(American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 1997)Soil texture, moisture content, and pH data from an agricultural field area of 48 _ 32 m in a Suffolk sandy loam soil in the Virginia Coastal Plain was examined for spatial trends. Trend surface analysis of sand, silt, and ... -
Pollen Evidence of the Prehistoric Presence of Cattail (Typha: Typhaceae) in Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica
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Epistemological Pluralism: Reorganizing Interdisciplinary Research
(The Resilience Alliance, 2008)Despite progress in interdisciplinary research, difficulties remain. In this paper, we argue that scholars, educators, and practitioners need to critically rethink the ways in which interdisciplinary research and training ... -
Introduction to SANREM Cross Cutting Research Activities
(Office of International Research, Education and Development, Virginia Tech, 2009) -
The role of age, ethnicity and environmental factors in modulating malaria risk in Rajasthali, Bangladesh
(2011-12-15)Background Malaria is endemic in the Rajasthali region of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh and the Rajasthali region is the most endemic area of Bangladesh. Quantifying the role of environmental and socio-economic ... -
War and Agriculture: Three Decades of Agricultural Land Use and Land Cover Change in Iraq Dataset
(2012-05-09)War and geopolitical forces are important drivers of land use and land cover change, and agricultural regions are the most susceptible to those types of changes. Iraq has suffered more than three decades of near-continuous ... -
Does availability of physical activity and food outlets differ by race and income? Findings from an enumeration study in a health disparate region
(2012-09-06)Background Low-income, ethnic/racial minorities and rural populations are at increased risk for obesity and related chronic health conditions when compared to white, urban and higher-socio-economic status (SES) peers. ... -
Landscape Dynamics on the Island of La Gonave, Haiti, 1990-2010
(MDPI, 2013-09-16)The island of La Gonave lies northwest of Port-au-Prince and is representative of the subsistence Haitian lifestyle. Little is known about the land cover changes and conversion rates on La Gonave. Using Landsat images from ... -
Comparing Urban Impervious Surface Identification Using Landsat and High Resolution Aerial Photography
(MDPI, 2013-10-10)This paper evaluates accuracies of selected image classification strategies, as applied to Landsat imagery to assess urban impervious surfaces by comparing them to reference data manually delineated from high-resolution ... -
Conservation and Unscripted Development: Proximity to park associated with development and financial diversity
(The Resilience Alliance, 2014)Decades of research on the social dynamics of biodiversity conservation has shown that parks and protected areas have added hardship to rural communities throughout much of the developing world. Nonetheless, some recent ... -
Institutions for managing common-pool resources: The case of community-based shrimp aquaculture in northwestern Sri Lanka
(2014)Large-scale shrimp aquaculture can have major social and environmental impacts. Can community-based approaches be used instead? We examined three coastal community-based shrimp aquaculture operations in northwestern Sri ... -
Developing a Topographic Model to Predict the Northern Hardwood Forest Type within Carolina Northern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus) Recovery Areas of the Southern Appalachians
(Hindawi, 2014-08-28)The northern hardwood forest type is an important habitat component for the endangered Carolina northern flying squirrel (CNFS; Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus) for den sites and corridor habitats between boreo-montane conifer ... -
Trust ecology and the resilience of natural resource management institutions
(The Resilience Alliance, 2015)The resilience of natural resource management (NRM) institutions are largely contingent on the capacities of the people and organizations within those institutions to learn, innovate, and adapt, both individually and ... -
Compassionately Hidden: The Church Telling Local Homeless to “Come to Our House"
(Gamma Theta Upsilon, 2015)In early 2011, the To Our House (TOH) thermal shelter program opened its doors to homeless men in the New River Valley Area (NRV) of Virginia. The program was a grass roots response to the death of a well-known local ... -
Drama of the commons in small-scale shrimp aquaculture in northwestern Sri Lanka
(Uopen Journals, 2015-01-01)Aquaculture, and shrimp aquaculture in particular, can have major social and environmental impacts. However, aquaculture remains an understudied area in commons research. Can aspects of commons theory be applied to solve ... -
Introduction to the Special Issue “The Intersection of Society and Watershed Science”
(MDPI, 2015-08-07)Despite significant advances in watershed science and technology, water availability, water quality, and water related health problems remain a significant worldwide concern [1]. While the concept of watershed-scale ... -
Women, Gender Norms, and Natural Disasters: Examples from South Asia
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2015-10-15)Women and men are impacted differently by disasters, leading to claims that there exists a "gendered terrain of disasters." South Asia is a region where this confluence of gender and disaster is particularly relevant. Thus, ... -
Assessing Urban Landscape Variables’ Contributions to Microclimates
(Hindawi, 2015-12-24)The well-known urban heat island (UHI) effect recognizes prevailing patterns of warmer urban temperatures relative to surrounding rural landscapes. Although UHIs are often visualized as single features, internal variations ... -
Remote Sensing of Tillage Status
(2016)Remote Sensing of Tillage Status is Chapter 8 in the book Land Resources Monitoring, Modeling, and Mapping With Remote Sensing. -
Data Management Bootcamp 2016: Peter Sforza
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2016-01-15)