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Land Use Land Cover in the Western Ghats, India: Effects of Human Modification and Use on Protected Areas

Elizabeth, Norment; Gerlach, Paul; Hubbard, Malissa (2013-04-26)

In India’s Western Ghats mountain range, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Conservation International biodiversity hotspot, human-caused habitat loss threatens many native species. A number of protected areas have been ...
Land Use Land Cover in the Western Ghats, India: Effects of Human Modification and Use on Protected Areas

Hubbard, Malissa; Norment, Elizabeth; Gerlach, Paul (2013-04-26)

In India’s Western Ghats mountain range, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Conservation International biodiversity hotspot, human-caused habitat loss threatens many native species. A number of protected areas have been ...
Domestic Content Requirements and India’s Solar Mission

Fickling, Meera (2013-04-26)

Domestic content requirements are widely-used policies that require a specified proportion of a good to be produced within a certain jurisdiction. Applied to solar cells and modules procured through India's national solar ...
Conservation or Culture? An Analysis of Shark Finning in the United States

Latchford, Lauren (2013-04-26)

Each year, more than 73 million sharks are killed for their fins. In response to declining populations, the United States, has passed federal regulations to ban the finning of sharks within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. ...
Pollution Removal Efficiency in a Restored Anabranching Wetland

Shashy, Peter Scott Jr. (2013-04-26)

Improving water quality is a serious concern of many state and local governments across the U.S. Nutrients, including nitrogen and phosphorus, can significantly impair water quality when found in high concentrations. ...
Evaluative Methods for Community Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: A Case Study of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Jasper, Daniel (2013-04-26)

Truth and reconciliation commissions (TRC’s) are increasingly being used as a form of restorative justice at the national level. Arising out of post-conflict societies, TRCs saw a particularly significant increase from ...
What the Shale? Environmental Risk Perceptions of Hydraulic Fracturing

Chavis, Anna; Thomas, Harrison; Robinson, Fred (2013-04-26)

The boom in U.S. natural gas production has sparked a national debate about the known and unknown environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing. This paper analyzes real and perceived risks as a means to illustrate and explain ...
A Rapid Assessment Protocol for the Identification of Invasive Species in the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary

Diaz, Martha (2013-04-26)

The Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System (APES) is the second largest estuary in the continental U.S. comprising 3,000 square miles of open water and a wide variety of physical and chemical characteristics. These characteristics ...
The Effect of Ambient Air and Water Temperature on Power Plant Efficiency

Colman, Jesse (2013-04-26)

The performance of thermoelectric generators depends on a variety of factors, many of which are meticulously controlled through generator design or operational management. However, there are environmental factors that ...
Priority Assessment and Ranking of Conservation-Eligible Lands (PARCEL): A Flexible GIS Tool for Watershed-Scale Land Trusts

Yacobson, Eugene (2013-04-26)

The use of geospatial information systems (GIS) by land trusts to locate and prioritize lands critical for conservation has become a crucial step in making the process of land acquisition more strategic, proactive, and ...
What the Shale? Environmental Risk Perceptions of Hydraulic Fracturing

Thomas, Harrison; Chavis, Anna; Robinson, Fred (2013-04-26)

The boom in U.S. natural gas production has sparked a national debate about the known and unknown environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing. This paper analyzes real and perceived risks as a means to illustrate and ...
Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative: Energy Efficiency Carbon Offsets A Project Evaluation

Lu, Aaron (Yichen) (2013-04-26)

Duke University aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2024 by a combination of efforts to reduce on campus energy consumption and off campus carbon offset generation. One of the offset options that DCOI is evaluating is ...
Land Trust Carbon Credit Market Participation Plan

Liu, Ziwei; Cesafsky, Kimberly (2013-04-26)

As a Southeastern highlands land trust, Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy (SAHC) is interested in participating in an emerging forest carbon market as an examination of new conservation strategies. They are eager ...
Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative: Energy Efficiency Carbon Offsets

Chen, Yunzhong; Chauhan, Sugandha; Lu, Aaron (2013-04-26)

Duke University aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2024 by a combination of efforts to reduce on campus energy consumption and off campus carbon offset generation. One of the offset options that DCOI is evaluating is ...
Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative: Energy Efficiency Carbon Offsets A Project Evaluation

Lu, Yichen (Aaron); Chauhan, Sugandha; Chen, Yunzhong (2013-04-26)

Duke University aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2024 by a combination of efforts to reduce on campus energy consumption and off campus carbon offset generation. One of the offset options that DCOI is evaluating is ...
Regulatory Analysis and Environmental Impact of Carbon Capture and Sequestration Using the NET Power Technology

Maravich, John (2013-04-26)

Regulatory developments in the United States, coupled with low natural gas prices, have altered the economics of electricity generation. Through both court orders and its own regulatory review, the Environmental Protection ...
Examining the Feasibility of using Coal Mine Drainage as a Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid

Kondash, Andrew (2013-04-26)

Much of the current concern about hydraulic fracturing revolves around the treatment and disposal of wastewaters that come up out of the well after fracturing has occurred. These “produced waters” and “flowback waters” ...
Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative: Energy Efficiency Carbon Offsets

Chauhan, Sugandha; Lu, Aaron; Chen, Yunzhong (2013-04-26)

Duke University aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2024 by a combination of efforts to reduce on campus energy consumption and off campus carbon offset generation. One of the offset options that DCOI is evaluating is ...
(De)Localizing Social Neuroscience: Reconstituting the Social Brain within a Social World

Havele, Sonia (2013-04-26)

Cognitive neuroscience has become one of the most cutting-edge fields in technoscience across the globe. Now entering an exciting era is a sub-discipline known as social cognitive neuroscience (SCN), or the biologically ...
Opening Duke University’s Energy Data

Ordal, Peter (2013-04-26)

Duke University stores and maintains a variety of data regarding energy and water consumption on its campuses. These data have traditionally been known to and accessible only by Duke's Facilities Management Department ...