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A Bottom-up Approach to Setting a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Target for Charlotte, North Carolina
(2011-04-28)In 2007, Charlotte’s City Council passed a resolution directing City staff to: (1) Inventory City Operations Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions; (2) Establish aggressive and realistic GHG emission reduction targets; (3) Create ... -
A bottom-up electricity demand model for the residential sector in Querétaro, Mexico
(2016-12-12)There is a growing interest in reducing energy consumption and its associated greenhouse gas emissions from every sector of the economy. The residential sector is a substantial consumer of energy in every country ... -
A Bottom-Up Model of Residential Electricity Demand in North and South Carolina
(2017-04-28)Residential electricity is a significant component of total electricity use in the United States, and the residential market is also a key demographic for energy efficiency (EE) and distributed generation growth. Uncertainty ... -
A Brief Review and Analysis of Spectrum Auctions in Canada
(2017-05-08)We begin by explaining the importance of efficient spectrum allocation and reviewing Canada’s recent spectrum allocation history. We then use a dataset covering more than 1,200 licenses auctioned from 2001 to 2015 that ... -
A Business Plan for Blue Carbon Offsets at Duke University
(2012-04-26)Marine ecosystems such as salt marshes, sea grasses and mangroves absorb from the atmosphere and store large amounts of carbon, both in their vegetation and in the soil beneath them. In light of rapid climate change and ... -
A Business Plan for Blue Carbon Offsets at Duke University
(2012-04-26)Marine ecosystems such as salt marshes, sea grasses and mangroves absorb from the atmosphere and store large amounts of carbon, both in their vegetation and in the soil beneath them. In light of rapid climate change and ... -
A Caribbean Coupling Beyond Black and White: The Interracial Marriage of Catherine and Edward Marcus Despard and its Implications for British Views on Race, Class, and Gender during the Age of Reform
(2014)*Designated as an Exemplary Master's Project for 2014-15 British Army colonel, Edward Marcus Despard, and Catherine Despard, a woman from the Caribbean and most likely of African descent, were married some time during the ... -
A case study analysis of a participatory process in fisheries management
(2008-12-05)The purpose of this study was to evaluate the experiences of participants in a participatory process in environmental management and to examine relative contributions of process features and the achievement of social goals ... -
A CASE STUDY OF GRASSROOTS ADVOCACY AND THE SOCIOPOLITICAL PROCESS: AUTHORIZATION OF PROCESSOR QUOTA SHARES IN THE MAGNUSON-STEVENS FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT
(2003)Special interest groups are trying to change language in the Magnuson-Steven Fisheries Conservation and Management Act (MSFCMA) to allow fishery management councils to create and allocate processor quota (PQ). This limited ... -
A Case Study of GreenToGo in Durham, North Carolina
(2019-04-26)The goal of the GreenToGo program in Durham, North Carolina is to provide the shared customers of GreenToGo and local Durham restaurants with an environmentally-conscious option for carryout food containers. This report ... -
A Case Study of the Direction of a Federal Action Affecting the NEPA Assessment
(2015-04-01)Major Federal actions require National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) assessments of the environmental impacts as documented in an environmental impact statement (EIS). New electrical generation units typically need one ... -
A Case Study of the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES): Will Municipalities Embrace SITES to Guide Future Development?
(2013-04-26)The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) is attempting to become the benchmark certification for sustainable landscape development in the United States. Currently in pilot, the SITES 2009 Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks ... -
A Case Study of Transit Demand Modeling and Transportation Planning at North Carolina State University
(2012-04-20)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Policy Questions: How should a large urban university make short-term trade-offs in its provision of transit service to a new, multi-use library that is expected to shift demand towards new transit ... -
A Cell Decomposition Approach to Robotic Trajectory Planning via Disjunctive Programming
(2012)This thesis develops a novel solution method for the problem of collision-free, optimal control of a robotic vehicle in an obstacle populated environment. The technique presented combines the well established approximate ... -
A CG-FFT Based Fast Full Wave Imaging Method and its Potential Industrial Applications
(2015)This dissertation focuses on a FFT based forward EM solver and its application in inverse problems. The main contributions of this work are two folded. On the one hand, it presents the first scaled lab experiment system ... -
A Characterization of the Shark Fisheries in Campeche, Mexico
(2013-04-09)Since the early 1990s, shark landings in the Mexican state of Campeche have declined drastically, mirroring an overall decrease in shark populations across the Gulf of Mexico. Historically, most research on the Campeche ... -
A Citizen Science Program for the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies
(2008-08-26)The purpose of this Masters Project is to implement an intertidal monitoring program that emphasizes Citizen Science for the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies (CACS). CACS is a small non-profit organization based out of ... -
A Climate and Operational Vulnerability Assessment of the Water Company in Salamanca, Chile
(2017-04-28)The present master’s project is an analysis of the future vulnerability of the water company (Aguas del Valle) in Salamanca, Chile to potential changes in population, per capita water use, leakage, and climate. Scenario ... -
A Climate Change Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for the City of Atlanta, Georgia
(2010-04-28)The Southeastern United States will experience several impacts from climate change over the coming decades, including average temperature increases of several degrees, more frequent droughts, and heavier rain and flood events. ... -
A Clinic Based Survey Investigating Self-Reported Oral Health-Related Quality of Life, Number of Natural Teeth, and Oral Hygiene Habits Among Elderly Singaporeans
(2017)Background: Global aging poses various challenges for both developing and developed countries. The proportion of older adults in developed countries is currently much higher than in developing countries. Health authorities ...
