At the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War some 70,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the conflict entered Jordan. Among them included 4,000 refugee, who, in 1951, would settle in a 0.24 kilometer (0.15 mile) area in Irbid. Irbid, a small town which had mainly consisted of a trade an…
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Cougars ( Puma concolor ) have been recolonizing Midwestern North America over the past 2 decades with > 950 cougar confirmations east of established populations. Management and public interest in habitat suitability and connectivity east of current cougar range have grown as…
Suitability modeling is a useful approach for exploring human interactions with their environments. Within a geographic information system (GIS) environment, locations are weighted relative to each other, resulting in a landscape hierarchy that displays regions from least to mos…
The rapid rise of shared electric scooter (E-Scooter) systems offers many urban areas a new micro-mobility solution. The portable and flexible characteristics have made E-Scooters a competitive mode for short-distance trips. Compared to other modes such as bikes, E-Scooters allo…
Viewsheds are an important asset in military analysis for geographers in the war in Afghanistan due to the significantly diverse and rugged terrain of the battlefield. At the simplest level, viewsheds answer the question: "What areas can be seen from this location?" But the same…
We live in a globalized world of cultural and linguistic diversity, and new communication technologies are expanding at a remarkable pace. In this environment, tourist maps designed to facilitate the movement of persons and improve the safety, security, and comfort of users of t…
Guinea worm (Dracunculiasis) is a two-host, nematode parasite that is currently the focus of an international eradication effort. The remaining few of these parasites live in sub-Saharan and Sahelian Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and South Sudan. By the end of…
The primary goal of this thesis is to study Land Use Land Cover (LULC) Changes in the India and Bangladesh coastal islands from 1989 to 2011 that could be attributed to sea level rise. The study area consists of mainly islands in the coastal areas of India and Bangladesh in the …
Due to the inappropriate planning and explosive population growth in urban areas, especially in developing countries, sustainable and disaster-safe urbanization has become the most important challenge for governments. Urbanization presents benefits in different ways but has led …
This dissertation presents and evaluates the use of geographic techniques for understanding the role of environmental variables as they relate to the odds of settlements being targeted for attack within a civil conflict. Geospatial technologies are demonstrated for their utility…
Soil erosion by water is a serious issue in Afghanistan. Due to the geographic landscape, soil and climatic conditions, and the latest deforestation activities, there has been intensive soil erosion which has resulted in prolonged and great impact on social and economic developm…
The dynamic nature of erosion and associated processes and their dependence on climatic, pedological, land cover, land use, and management factors result in spatial and temporal variability. Computing and mapping this variability will produce information which is essential for d…
Achieving sustainability of the world's natural resources has major global environmental implications. Rising world population and radical technological changes have significantly increased human capacity to destroy natural habitat. In Indonesia, forest cover has been reduced at…
Southern Cianjur experiences numerous landslides. This study determines that stratigraphic and geologic structures control their occurrences. Sequences of rocks that have contrasting physical characteristics—such as the Lower Part of the Bentang Formation (Tmbl), the Upper Part …
A high proportion of the poor reside in mountainous areas in Morocco. Soil erosion caused by unsustainable land use practice has been accelerating the loss of land productivity. Technologies including remote sensing, geographic information systems (GISs), global positioning syst…
All hydrological processes are affected by the spatial variability of the physical parameters of the watershed, and also by human intervention on the landscape. The water outflow from a watershed strictly depends on the spatial and temporal variabilities of the physical paramete…
The main goal of this research was to evaluate the long-term environmental benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). The GIS-integrated hydrologic model, AVSWAT (ArcView-Soil and Water Assessment Tool), was used to evaluate the potential environmental benefits of the C…
This study provides a framework and general guidelines for the development of an Incident Responsive Spatial Decision Support System (IRSDSS) using a geographic information system approval. The system designed is for disaster response operations of the Saudi Red Crescent Society…
This project combines geoarchaeological soil description and GIS analysis of archaeological site distribution to investigate the history of marsh formation in the northern Ghab Basin, located within the Orontes River Valley of western Syria. Tell Qarqur, the archaeological site …