PAPERS OF THE APPLIED GEOGRAPHY CONFERENCES, VOLUME 28, 2005

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Separating Women's Empowerment from Dairy Development in Madhya Pradesh, India

1

 

Pratyusha Basu

 

The Proposed Cape Winds Offshore Wind Power Project: A Geography of Public Comment

11

 

Lawrence A. Mcglinn

 

Analyzing Water Quality and Land Use Relationships Using Contingency Analysis

20

 

David J. Wachal and Kenneth E. Banks

 

Designing an Evaporation Pond for a Fleet Carwash 

28

 

Richard A. Earl, Jeffrey S. Mitchell and Lance R. English

 

A Watershed Restoration Action Strategy (WRAS) for Open Space and Wetlands in the Maumee Remedial Action Plan (RAP), Ohio

36

 

Patrick Lawrence

 

When Winning is Losing: Arkansas River interstate Water Management Issues

46

 

Lisa M. Butler Harrington and John Harrington, Jr

 

Site Suitability Analysis of Southwest Topeka, Kansas

52

 

Youfeng Wang

 

Dispersal Control of Invading Organisms

60

 

Mark A. Blumler

 

The Environment Viability of Harvesting Native Prairie Community Seed from three Donor Sites

70

 

Dawna L. Cerney

 

Vulnerability and Forest Resource Dependency in India's Western Ghats

80

 

Firooza Pavri

 

A Comparison of Survey Methods for Small, Road-Killed Animals in Madison County, Illinois

89

 

Michael J. Starr and Andrea L. Knobloch

 

The Influence of Roads on the Movement Patterns of the Florida Panther

95

 

Autumn Schwas and Paul Zandbergen

 

Geospatial Analysis of NDVI Distribution in the Mount St. Helens Eruption Zone:20 Years Later

105

 

Zoltan Szantoi and Luke J. Marzen

 

Assessing the Predictive Value of Severe Weather Indices in the Southeastern United States

114

 

Thimothy P.Melancon and Robert V. Rohil

 

Singularities: A Regional Investigation of the January Thaw

122

 

Kevin L. Baumann, Hannah J. Kerns and Gergory D. Bierly

 

Digital Ecosystem Analysis

132

 

Peter P. Siska and Vaughn M. Bryant Jr

 

Wildland-Urban Interface Delineation Using Spectral Linear Unmixing

140

 

James K. Lein and Nicole L. Stump

 

Scientific Outreach and Applications Using Remote Sensing (SOARS): An Ohioview Approach to community, Education, and Government Collaborations

150

 

Mandy J. Munro-Stasiuk

 

Utilizing a Landscape Scale Model of Forest Disturbance and Succession for Forest Decision-Making in the Southern Appalachians

160

 

John D. Waldron, Robert N. Coulson, Maria D. Tchakerian, Charles W. Lafon, David M. Cairns and Kier D. Klepzig

 

Applying Support Vector Machines and GIS to Urban Pattern Recognition

170

 

Bradley A. Shellito and Alina Lazar

 

Emergency Warning Sirens in Mcdonough County, Illinois: A Normative Assessment

181

 

Raymond Greene and Chad Sperry

 

Remote Sensing of the Sediment Plume Created by Hurricane Bonnie and Tropical Storm Earl: Brunswick County, North Carolina

190

 

Jason Marshall, Chris Evans and Roy Stine

 

Developing a County-Level Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan with GIS: Practices, Problems, Challenges

199

 

Yu Zhou

 

Socio-Economic Patterns of Vulnerability: Senior Living Development s and Hurricane Charley 

216

 

Burrell E. Montz and Graham A. Tobin

 

Nursing Home Evacuation Plans the Greater Cleveland Area Four Years After 9/11,2000

226

 

Emmanuel K. Mbobi and Ute J. Dymon

 

The Role of Tourism in Post-Disaster Recovery: A Case Study of Patong Beach, Phuket

235

 

Jacqueline Salmond

 

The Location Decisions of Albuquerque's Queer Business Community

245

 

Bradley T. Cullen

 

The Relationship of Income, Density, and Commuting Times on overweight/obesity Rates in North Carolina

254

 

Selima Sultana, Joel Hare and Joe Weber

 

The Relationship between Pedestrian Death and Metropolitan Areas with Hght Density Vehicle Use

264

 

Matthew R. Talbott and Selima Sutana

 

Spatial and Demographic Differences between " Physically Active" and " Inactive" Cities: Considerations for Urban Planning

273

 

Michael P. Hettenhausen and R. Denise Blanchard

 

Towards an Operational Model for Home-Work Journey Estimation as Induced by Urban Sprawl

283

 

Timothy Dolney

 

Business Geography: Development of a Curriculum Model

292

 

Kawrebce E, Estaville, Brock J. Brown, Lisa Keys-Mathews and William R. Strong

 

Green (House) Gerographies: Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Differences in the Ohio Greenhouse Industry

301

 

Eric W. Lafary, Jay D. Gatrell and Shirley Griffey

 

Using Cluster-based Economic Development to Enhance the Economic Competitiveness of Northwest Ohio's Greenhouse Nursery Industry

309

 

Neil Reid and Michael Carroll

 

Is Retail Banking Service Converging Toward the Market in Illinois? A General Methodology

320

 

Bin Zhou and Wendy Shaw

 

Exploring Development and Decline in Small Towns

330

 

Timothy J. Bailey and Catherine A. Hooey

 

Optimal Location of a Regional Marketing Center in West Louisville, KY

340

 

Sara Thurman and Wei Song

 

Residential Segregation and Socioeconomic Inequality for the Latino Community in Reading. PA

349

 

Mark E. Reisinger

 

Analyzing the Spatial Distribution of Industrial Pollution from Meatpacking Operations in the U.S. Midwest

359

 

Mary Pat Everist and Jayajit Chakraborty

 

Educational Performance and Income Inequality in Ohio, 1989-2002

370

 

Shawn Banasick

 

The Tools and Processes Used for Congressional and Legislative Redistricting  in Missouri

377

 

Patricia L. Drews

 

The Effect of Appalachia and State Borders on Patterns of Mortality in the Five Central Appalachian States

387

 

Timothy S. Hare

 

Working as a Research Consultant for a Community Non-Profit Agency: Lessons Learned 

397

 

Karen D. Johnson-Webb

 

Spatial Characteristics of Poison Prevention Practices in Genesee Count, MI

405

 

Martin M. Kaufman and Susan Smolinske

 

Calculation of Evapotranspiration and Hydrologic Budget from Landsat TM Derived Landuse Maps for Two Drainage Basins

413

 

Julie Earls and Barnali Dixon