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The Socio-Cultural Drivers of Residential Land-Use and Decision-Making Practices for Native Pollinator Habitat and Conservation
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The Socio-Cultural Drivers of Residential Land-Use and Decision-Making Practices for Native Pollinator Habitat and Conservation
Yazar:
Burr, Andrea Kay, author.
ISBN:
9780438128255
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1 electronic resource (145 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Damon M. Hall; Jason Knouft Committee members: Gretchen Arnold; Gerardo Camilo; Katherine MacKinnon; John Woolschlager.
Özet:
This interdisciplinary dissertation investigates the anthropogenic drivers potentially impacting urban pollinator health at the neighborhood and residential parcel scale. It explores socio-cultural influences as drivers contributing to the vegetation distinctiveness of two study sites and the species within them. The objectives of this dissertation are to: 1) assess quantitatively the fine-scale vegetation patterns in residential front yards of two study sites to develop an understanding of land use, decision-making, and management practices to inform research interventions for urban pollinator health and conservation; 2) using naturalistic inquiry, investigate the social and cultural dimensions that influence the residential land use and decision-making practices of the study sites; and 3) assess qualitatively and quantitatively the relationships between front yard vegetation design and management and the socio-cultural dimensions in residential areas to improve urban pollinator habitat and conservation. It examines previously studied topics in new ways. It compares qualitatively and quantitatively the relationships between residential land-use practices and the socio-cultural characteristics of two study sites. The intellectual merit of this dissertation is to integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches and methods from the natural and social sciences to improve urban pollinator habitat and conservation. It also addresses literature gaps by providing socio-cultural, contextualized research data and insights that informs future academic research, interventions, and directions for improving urban pollinator habitat and conservation to natural resource managers, urban planning practitioners, and citizen stakeholders. Additionally, it establishes the validity of fine-scale virtual inventory approaches for streetscape ecological and environmental characteristics in support of conservation initiatives and interventions. The broader impact of this dissertation is to provide an applied interdisciplinary research case study example to Sustainability Science, as the field is relatively young and the approach has yet to be widely adopted.
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School code: 0193
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