Recent efforts by Sahelian states to define and recognize "traditional" ownership rights and encourage local participation in resource management are often deluded, because these policies tend to be based on an inadequate understanding of local institutions in the 1990s. Governm…
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Coastal fishery resources in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, are important because they not only provide food and income for coastal communities, but also generate revenue at the local, regional, and national levels. Attempts by the national government to impose centralized fishery r…
This dissertation presents a theory of resumption based on semantic composition. The theory achieves a unified explanation of resumptive pronouns and copy raising. The basis is two key claims: (1) the pronouns in resumption are ordinary pronouns, (2) natural language is resource…
New distributed applications such as distant-learning, digital libraries, and home entertainment require the delivery of continuous media (CM) objects to geographically disbursed clients. It is therefore appropriate to devise and evaluate the utility of a distributed CM server (…
Resource and environmental degradation are typified by change, complexity, conflict and uncertainty. Environmental change, for instance, can contribute to conflict among resource users, which in turn increases uncertainty. At the community level, collaborative resource managemen…
This dissertation investigates the tradeoffs between floodplain agriculture and fisheries production in the Brahmaputra river basin of Bangladesh, where both sectors are simultaneously affected by floodplain development policies. Our goal is to study the impact of development po…
Computer systems now run drastically different workloads than they did two decades ago. The enormous advances in hardware power, such as processor speed, memory and storage capacity, and network bandwidth, enable them to run new kinds as well as a large number of applications si…
Currently, 3G and beyond cellular wireless networks supporting heterogeneous traffic with variable quality of service (QoS) requirements is already a reality. Efficient bandwidth utilization is the most important requirement for a radio resource management (RRM) technique along …
When Eritrean refugees began to return to their country from Sudan at independence in the early 1990s, they came to inhabit places that had been imagined from afar for as many as 30 years--for the younger generation, their entire lives. However, returnees shared a history of col…
Reservoir sedimentation is a serious threat to the long-term economic development of countries around the world. Often, upstream soil erosion due to agricultural activity contributes significantly to the problem. Appropriately designed soil conservation practices and reservoir s…
Resource management is at the heart of many diverse science and engineering research areas. Although the general notion of what constitutes a resource entity seems similar in different research areas, their types, characteristics, and constraints governing their behavior are vas…
In the face of threats caused by both anthropogenic and natural reasons, the question of the sustainability of medicinal plants has emerged very strongly in recent times. These plant resources, therefore, have become important domains of intervention and are increasingly attract…
The need to estimate unknown functions or surfaces arises in many disciplines in science and there are many statistical methods available to do this. Our interest lies in using Bayesian nonparametric approaches to estimate unknown functions. One such approach to nonparametric es…
How to manage effectively natural resources on earth has been a major concern of social scientists and policy makers. A dominant approach towards the management of natural resources takes for granted that a common property regime will eventually lead to resource degradation or e…
This dissertation addresses the interplay of power, communication and ecology in resource management, and how to cross the boundaries created therefrom. Political ecology is the overarching perspective, informing geography as the study of human-nature power relations. My central…
Today's growing concern about global environmental consequences of cumulative land-cover change, particularly agricultural intensification and land degradation, challenges geographers to address the complexities of local scale land-use systems. This dissertation examines how gen…