Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2005.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Georgia, 2003.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1984.

Forestry Commission Scotland serves as the forestry department of the Scottish Executive, advising on and implementing forestry policy and managing the national forest estate. Their website provides detailed information on the organisation and its work and has sections on grants and licences, education, environment and heritage, Scotland's forests and the ...

This is a PowerPoint presentation by Ian R. Cook of the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester. It examines the changing nature of urban policing and its relationship to urban regeneration in England and Wales with a case study of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). The first half of ...

This four-page fact sheet provides a brief summary of the analysis of land use in urban environments. Topics include the rapid growth in urban populations, some of the methods used to analyze land use change (mapping, databases, time series documents), and some of the concerns and possible consequences created by ...

The transport and transformation of substances in the environment are known collectively as biogeochemical cycles. These global cycles involve the circulation of elements and nutrients that sustain both the biological and physical aspects of the environment. As an example, this discussion centers around the carbon cycle and how carbon is ...

This agency portal provides background information on habitats from streams and rivers, lakes, wetlands and estuaries to rocky coasts, sandy beaches, coral reefs and ocean environments, their importance, monitoring and assessment programs, regulations and protection. Also features databases and mapping links, publications, kids activities and teacher resources on water and ...

This lesson will help students develop an understanding of natural selection, specifically, how it unfolds from generation to generation. The Motivation section introduces a species of bird that became (over millions of years) numerous species, through adaptation. The Development section is a hands-on activity that demonstrates how populations change little ...

This tutorial explains the wetland ecosystem of the Everglades. Students will discover how living and nonliving parts of the ecosystem interact and the importance of habitats such as the saltwater environment of the Florida Bay, the coastal prairie, freshwater sloughs, pinelands, and mangrove forests. There is an interactive glossary within ...

This activity has students explore the role that forests play in their own lives by listing everyday products made from trees. They use the Internet to find as many uses for trees as possible in order to develop a class list that should include foods from trees, products derived from ...

This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about the biosphere. These questions encourage students to examine adaptations life forms undertake to survive in deep sea vents, Antarctic dry valleys, caves, hypersaline environments, thermal hot springs, and deep Earth habitats. Potential questions also examine nutrient cycling in ...

Cycles in Urban Environments is a website based on a masters project by Fabian Neuhaus. It is an exploration of repetitive actions that take place in the city, giving urban life rhythm and identity. These cycles are divided into three kinds: natural cycles; activity cycles and material cycles. The ideas ...

PURPOSE: Two studies sought to answer the following questions. Are people with learning disabilities capable of using a virtual environment? Are they motivated to learn using this training method? Do they show any benefit from using a virtual environment? Does any benefit transfer to improved real world performance? Method: In ...

In June 2000 the role of the clinical education facilitator across the pan-Avon region (south west) emerged in response to the predicted increase in numbers of preregistration nursing students. The role focused on maximising the capacity of placements for students, and developing quality learning environments using innovative and creative methods. ...

PURPOSE: The current paper provides quantitative and qualitative data concerning the application of two virtual environments to the assessment and training of inexperienced powered wheelchair users, both in terms of the ability to control the chair accurately without hitting objects in the environment (manoeuvrability) and in terms of being able ...

PURPOSE: To describe strategies used by tutors teaching adults with learning disabilities to use desktop virtual environments and to investigate their effectiveness by examining changes over time in tutor and learner behaviour. METHOD: Twenty adults with learning disabilities spent 12 sessions with one of four non-disabled tutors learning to use ...

The physiological effects of weightlessness are discussed, as they were measured and reported by the Russian cosmonauts. The possibilities of adaptation to space environment by training and the mechanisms of compensation and vicarization (adaptive substitution) of the analyzers and processes of the biological entity are considered. The authors present recommendations ...