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- Title
- Remote sensing systems for monitoring and quantifying tropical deforestation in the Huallaga River Valley of Peru.
- Creator
- Echavarria, Fernando R., Florida Atlantic University, Craig, Alan K., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Geosciences
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis examines the quantification of tropical deforestation, the use of remote sensing techniques for its scientific measurement, and the many controversies surrounding the problem. Aerial photographs and Landsat-based planimetric maps were used to determine the conversion of montane rain forest in a 1,000 km$\sp2$ sector of Peru's Huallaga River Valley. Between 1963 and 1976, 244 km$\sp2$ of forest (approximately a quarter of the study area) were converted to agricultural and other...
Show moreThis thesis examines the quantification of tropical deforestation, the use of remote sensing techniques for its scientific measurement, and the many controversies surrounding the problem. Aerial photographs and Landsat-based planimetric maps were used to determine the conversion of montane rain forest in a 1,000 km$\sp2$ sector of Peru's Huallaga River Valley. Between 1963 and 1976, 244 km$\sp2$ of forest (approximately a quarter of the study area) were converted to agricultural and other land uses, an apparent deforestation rate of 19 km$\sp2$/yr or approximately 1,872 ha/yr. The method entailed the cutting and weighing of strips of Mylar overlays. Despite the photogrammetric limitations, the results demonstrate an economical and practical technique that is readily applicable to developing countries. The potential of other remote sensing systems and the application of change detection techniques such as digital image subtraction to monitor deforestation is detailed.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1989
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14538
- Subject Headings
- Geography, Physical Geography, Environmental Sciences, Remote Sensing
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Neolocalism and Activating the Urban Landscape: Economics, Social Networks and Creation of Place.
- Creator
- Watson, April A., Fadiman, Maria, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Geosciences
- Abstract/Description
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This work examined the role of the craft brewers of Florida in creating alternative economies. This work argues that craft brewers function in ways that they can create a space in which other, smaller entities might then take advantage. Craft breweries' expansion, and continued success rests on the ability of the brewer to harness the power of transformation, the prism effect, or the refaceting of a space with different meanings. Craft breweries meet many of Jacobs' (1961), as stated in her...
Show moreThis work examined the role of the craft brewers of Florida in creating alternative economies. This work argues that craft brewers function in ways that they can create a space in which other, smaller entities might then take advantage. Craft breweries' expansion, and continued success rests on the ability of the brewer to harness the power of transformation, the prism effect, or the refaceting of a space with different meanings. Craft breweries meet many of Jacobs' (1961), as stated in her seminal work, conditions for diversity in the city, especially in the role of self-government. Craft brewers function as informal forms of government for communities, by making smaller entities more visible, by serving as a warrior and weaver for political action in the city, and offering subversive defiance, by which they subtly challenge the dominant disconnected economic structure. Craft breweries serve as a way to create an embedded economy, or as a way of grounding local businesses, social issues, and individual actors together. In this way, the research addressed deeper ethical issues that transcend the idea of craft brewing in general, that the success of craft brewers reflects a form of activism, and a visible way for individuals to circumvent the global processes which left them disengaged in their community.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004667, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004667
- Subject Headings
- Bars (Drinking establishments) -- United States, Beer -- Economic aspects, Beer -- Social aspects, Beer industry -- Florida, Breweries -- Florida, Drinking customs -- United States, Economic geography, Physical geography, Political culture
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- In Lower Florida Wilds: A Naturalist's Observations on the Life, Physical Geography, and Geology of the More Tropical Part of the State.
- Creator
- Simpson, Charles Torrey
- Date Issued
- 1920
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/FA00000023.pdf
- Subject Headings
- Natural history, Physical geography, Description and travel, Description and travel, Earth sciences, History
- Format
- E-book