Blankenship, Jesslyn Cameron(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
Urban sprawl has led to poorly planned cities that spread out over large distances of land, creating unequal distribution of resources and blocking access to opportunities for low-income residents who remain in the central ...
Jones, Carly(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
Across the Southeastern United States (SEUS) growing populations are increasing demand on water resources and infrastructure. Understanding the long-term natural flow regime of rivers is critical to developing accurate ...
Cass, Evan Yancey(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
The New Orleans region of Louisiana has been at the front of coastal hazard and climate change research in recent years because of its high social vulnerability, influenced by its location on the Gulf of Mexico, socioeconomic ...
Phillips, David(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
Global climate change has put an increased focus on enhancing adaptation potential of forest ecosystems. It is hypothesized that structurally complex stands exhibit greater resistance and resilience to stresses. An ...
Nanayakkara Munasinghe, Dinuke Sashi(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
River deltas, home to almost half a billion people around the world, are important coastal depositional systems. Valuable natural resources, fertile grounds, and convenient locations for trade have proven deltaic land to ...
Raney, Arthur Austin(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
Estimates of riverine channel geometry play a vital role in the physical representation of stream networks in models used to predict flood and drought conditions, manage water resources, and increase our knowledge of fluvial ...
Pawloski, Lisa R.; Moore, Jean B.; Treffinger, Patricia; Baghi, Heibatollah; Gaffney, Kathleen; Jaimovich, Sonia; Campos, Cecilia; Curtin, Kevin M.(2021)
The purposes of this study were to evaluate the psychometric properties of English and Spanish instruments that measure the nutrition behavior and practices of children and their parents. Orem’s self-care deficit nursing ...
LaFevor, Matthew C.; Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Larson, Rebecca; Mungai, Leah M.(2021)
Agricultural support programs distribute payments to farms based on a diverse set of policy objectives. Adequate targeting of this support to priority areas is key to efficient and effective policy. We evaluated the targeting ...
Good, J. Davis; Kleinman, Jonathan S.; Hart, Justin L.(2021)
Increased interest in ecosystem recovery and resilience has been driven by concerns over global change-induced shifts in forest disturbance regimes. In frequent-fire forests, catastrophic wind disturbances modify ...
In 1936, the completion of Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in Nevada and Arizona created Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States. When the lake reached capacity in 1941 several canyons and valleys were ...
Bhuiya, Md Musfiqur Rahman(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
This study aims to evaluate the accessibility during earthquake evacuation for movement challenged persons (MCPs), a disable group highly vulnerable to earthquake, and explores their risk perception in the context of ...
Schnarre, Emily L.(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
As the University of Alabama and the City of Tuscaloosa continue to undergo unprecedented growth, more students than ever need to commute to campus. While most students choose to drive to campus, this places stress on the ...
Kleinman, Jonathan Samuel(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
Strategies to enhance ecosystem resilience are increasingly needed in forest management plans. Natural and managed disturbances that alter ecosystem resilience to other perturbations are called compound disturbances. This ...
Henry, Katherine Rae(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
This study determined the change of land use/land cover over time within the watershed boundary of Keenjhar Lake through the usage of remote sensing thematic classification methods, and, assessed if the changes occurring ...
Chan, Amber Michelle(University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)
Despite the growing use of electronic products, waste recycling efforts are not expanding at a proportional pace, and places in the Global South like Ghana are left with toxic waste sites like the one at Agbogbloshie that ...
Varner, J. Morgan; Arthur, Mary A.; Clark, Stacy L.; Dey, Daniel C.; Hart, Justin L.; Schweitzer, Callie J.(2016)
This special issue of Fire Ecology is focused on the fire ecology of eastern USA oak (Quercus L.) forests, woodlands, and savannas. The papers were presented as part of the Fifth Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference in ...
Understanding hydrologic connectivity is essential for managing ephemeral headwater streams where upstream land use influences downstream aquatic habitats. This study relies on a field-based approach to evaluate how ...
Bersaglio, Brock; Margulies, Jared D.(Routledge, 2021-01-22)
This article advances a more-than-human perspective on geographies of death and dying, engaging with extinctionscapes as spaces where the memorialization of nonhuman life generates affective and commodifiable experiences ...
Illegal trade in wild plants receives less scientific and policy attention than illegal trade
in wild animals and animal-derived products. One exception to this generalizable trend
is the recent emergence of an illegal ...
Jack, Katie(University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)
Environmental justice (EJ) – the belief that everyone, regardless of race, income, or national origin, deserves to live and work in a healthy environment and to be included in decision making processes regarding their ...