The research study area is the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Jeddah high schools are separated by gender due to cultural background. In 2018, a research was conducted related to public girls’ high schools (Belarem et al., 2018) and the research neglected boys’ public high school…
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The capital city of Bangladesh: Dhaka is regarded as the eighth largest city in the world in total population. Rapid change in land use and land cover (LULC) and unplanned urban expansion receive continuous attention from the local policy makers and international community. This…
The environmental impact of agricultural activities on water quality was studied on two sub-watersheds of the L'Assomption river in Quebec, over a 3 year period. The sub-watersheds studied were the Saint Esprit (26.1 km 2) and Desrochers (17.9 km2). Development of a methodology …
Roads represent the physical manifestation of the Roman transportation network in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Directly connected to this transportation network are its reasons for being: the transportation and supply of the army, the transportation of luxury goods from India (a…
The enamels of one hundred and ninety two teeth were analyzed for their oxygen isotopic composition from five archaeological sites in northern Jordan (Ya'amoun, Pella, Yasieleh, Sa'ad and Waqqas) to reconstruct the climate from the Middle Bronze Age II (1800–1500 BCE) to the Lat…
This thesis develops and applies an integrated method of environmental assessment that couples a geographic Information system (GIS) to Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA), using bioenergy combustion and CHP sites as a case study. A literature review to identify the gaps in knowledge …
This dissertation primarily uses observations made during the 2005 Kashmir earthquake relief effort and available disaster literature to address problems that impede effective and efficient disaster preparedness and response. Three manuscripts form the body of the dissertation. …
The guerilla warfare style tactics of the Afghanistan insurgents is a problem the US-UN troops face in Afghanistan. The insurgents are able to utilize the surrounding environment to gain a tactical advantage. Examples consist of suicide bombers, sniper attacks, Improvised Explos…
Large wetlands are rare in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's few large wetlands are imperative for the sustainability of the local human and wildlife populations, and globally renowned for being indispensable staging and breeding areas for migratory waterfowl, waders and flamingos. A s…
The Medina of Tripoli, Libya, is a very ancient walled city that has a history of change, development, deterioration, conservation, and preservation to its fabric. Influenced by various foreign groups (Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Muslims, Spanish, Ottomans, Karamanlis), its arc…
This thesis focuses on examining efficiency and spatial organization at the Mumma and Poffenberger farms at Antietam National Battlefield Park in Maryland, the Nicholas Gibbs Farmstead in Tennessee, and the Shaffer Farm site in Western Pennsylvania. By using census records from …
In this thesis, I make three major arguments about the interplay between COVID-19, geographic governance, and technological solutionism (technosolutionism). First, even though contact tracing—as a systematic method of disease control—and CTAs are used to mitigate COVID-19, they …
This dissertation examines neighborhood-level factors that influence disparities in neighborhood-level homeownership rates and mortgage denial rates in Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles County. It also examines how present-day Latino neighborhoods have been impacted by histori…