Numa Sociedade em que as questões de Mobilidade Urbana Sustentável têm um papel importante para a qualidade de vida dos residentes de uma Cidade, este trabalho tem como visão, fomentar o ponto de situação atual sobre este tema e estudar o impacto que a relação entre o Ambiente C…
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This dissertation includes three journal-length articles and an overall introduction and conclusion, totaling five chapters. Two articles were published in academic journals, Sociology Compass (Chapter 2) and Homicide Studies (Chapter 3). The third article will be submitted to a…
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…
Over the past two decades, protracted conflicts have become a prominent feature in many African countries. In Sudan, it is almost nine years since the crisis in Darfur manifested itself to the international community in the form of massive displacement and killings following the…
This dissertation explores the intersection of economic history, development economics, and land use. In the first chapter, I examine whether imperial legacy causally determines contemporaneous savings behaviors, with considerable attention dedicated to identifying the channels …
This dissertation concerns human-environment interactions in southeastern Portugal during the centuries following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire. In contrast to the feudal systems that developed across Western Europe outside Iberia, the Islamic polities that control…
This dissertation is a compilation of three essays on the economics of land and forest use under endogenous tenure insecurity, incentive based strategies (e.g., payment for carbon sequestration and avoided deforestation), and intergenerational land transfer motive. The first ess…
The objective of the thesis is to develop and evaluate useful tools and applications of Earth Observation (EO) satellite data to estimate surface fluxes in semi-arid countries. In a first part (Chapter 4), we assess the performance of a new parameterisation scheme of ground heat…
Indonesia as a nation faces the formidable task of balancing sustainable economic activity, conservation goals, and continuation of traditional indigenous life ways. This research encompasses a broad but integrated system of human-land relationships among the Benuaq Dayak, an in…
The United States routinely uses military power to impose grand plans for peacekeeping and nation-building. From Korea to Iraq, the U.S. military has been a driving force in this era of American Empire. Given this empire's global reach, what are its local impacts? Crime and envi…
The study examines the effect of forest clearance on fire occurrences in major islands of Indonesia, namely: Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Irian Jaya. The working hypothesis of the study is that forest clearing is a necessary predecessor for extensive fires to occur. The study i…
Soil carbon storage in tropical ecosystems is important in the global carbon cycle, yet consensus is lacking on how soil organic carbon stocks are altered under anthropogenic land-use change. This thesis seeks to quantify soil carbon stocks, the associated soil carbon emissions …
A strong relationship exists between the environment and the life history strategies of organisms. Organisms have evolved and adapted to changing demographics and environmental gradients, and this is evident in the diverse sizes of their bodies and the unique distribution patter…
This research investigates motivational and procedural aspects of households' long-term decisions of residential locations. The main goal of the research is to develop microbehavioural models of location processes in order to implement this critical land use component within a m…
This research tested the hypothesis that a latent construct of quality of life (QOL) in Israel is predictable from key socioeconomic and environmental variables associated with land use across 45 cities. Data were acquired from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, the Intern…
This dissertation focuses on the demographic and policy drivers of urbanization patterns in Israel and the ecological implications of these patterns. We combine spatial and demographic analyses with three unique bodies of literature (spatial planning, political geography and con…
Remote sensing and security, terms which are not usually associated, have found a common platform this decade with the conjuring of the GMOSS network (Global Monitoring for Security and Stability ), whose mandate is to discover new applications for satellite-derived imagery to s…
The main purpose of the study is to define contemporary methods of landuse planning in post-disaster regions. This study has narrow scope and has been constructed around the natural disasters especially earthquakes and rebuilding afterwards. Research has been conducted in Kashmi…