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Title
Managing land, water, and vulnerability on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina
Description
The manner in which land and water are used and managed is a major influencing factor of global environmental change. Globally, modifications to the landscape have drastically transformed social and ecological communities. Land and water management practices also influences people's vulnerability to hazards. Other interrelated factors are compounding problems of environmental change as a result of land and water use changes. Such factors include climate change, sea level rise, the frequency and severity of hurricanes, and increased populations in coastal regions. The implication of global climate change for small islands and small island communities is especially troublesome. Socially, small islands have a limited resource base, deal with varying degrees of insularity, generally have little political power, and have limited economic opportunities. The physical attributes of small islands also increase their vulnerability to global climate change, including limited land area, limited fresh water supplies, and greater distances to resources. The focus of this research project is to document place-specific - and in this case island-specific - human-environmental interactions from a political ecology perspective as a means to address local concerns and possible consequences of global environmental change. The place in which these interactions are examined is the barrier island and village of Ocracoke, North Carolina. I focus on the specific historical-geography of land and water management on Ocracoke as a means to examine relationships between local human-environmental interactions and environmental change.
Date Created
2014
Contributors
- Pompeii, Brian J (Author)
- Bolin, Bob (Thesis advisor)
- Boone, Christopher (Committee member)
- Lukinbeal, Christopher (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
10, 248 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.)
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.27397
Statement of Responsibility
by Brian J. Pompeii
Description Source
Retrieved on Feb. 13, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2014
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-241)
Field of study: Geography
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