Browsing Geography and Geospatial Sciences Faculty Research and Publications by Published Date "2013"

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The Geography of Zane Grey's Western Union

Blake, Kevin S. (2013-05-01)

The geography of Zane Grey's Western Union is one of the more straightforward among his oeuvre, with great faithfulness to place names, distances, directions, and landmarks. That is not to say, however, that this geography ...
Rural regional governance in the United States: the case of the Resource Conservation and Development Program

Lu, Max; Jacobs, John C. (2013-01-23)

Rural governance has drawn considerable attention from both local government officials and scholars in the United States since the early 1990s. It is touted as a way to mitigate the limitations of the traditional government ...
Calibrating vegetation cover and grassland pollen assemblages in the Flint Hills of Kansas, USA

Commerford, Julie L.; McLauchlan, Kendra K.; Sugita, Shinya (2013-07-01)

Grassland cover and composition respond to climate and have undoubtedly changed during the Holocene, but quantitative reconstructions from fossil pollen have been vague about spatial scale and taxon-specific cover. Here, ...
Agro-terrorism? The causes and consequences of the appearance of witch’s broom disease in cocoa plantations of southern Bahia, Brazil

Caldas, Marcellus M.; Perz, Stephen (2013-06-01)

During the last few decades, the media, government leaders, scholars and national security analysts have all called attention to the potential threat presented by terrorism. In general, analyses have focused on the use of ...