PAPERS OF THE APPLIED GEOGRAPHY CONFERENCES, VOLUME 34, 2011

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Stakeholder Adaptation to Climate Change in Kansas: What Have We Learned ?

1

 

John Harrington, Jr., Lisa K. Tabor, and Iris E. Wilson

 

Origins, Destinations, and Settlement Patterns of Mexican In-Migration in New York's Finger Lakes Region

9

 

Adam J. Mathews

 

Perceptions of Sustainable Development in Red Lodge, Montana

18

 

Ryan D. Bergstrom and Lisa M. B. Harrington

 

Distance and Coverage: An Assessment of Location-Allocation Models for Fire Stations in Kuwait City, Kuwait

28

 

Saad Algharib and Jay Lee

 

Job Distributions and Spatial Mismatch Between African Americans and Jobs in Jefferson County, Kentucky

38

 

Wei Song and Charles C. crankshaw

 

Rejolladas (Dry Sinkholes) As Mircroclimatological Niches in Yucatán, Mexico

48

 

Mandy J. Munro-Stasiuk, Scott Sheridan, and T. Kam Manahan

 

Climatic Controls upon Dust Storm Occurrence in Iraq

58

 

Richard W. Dixon

 

Spatial Decision Support and Geodesign Case Study Findings 

63

 

Jordan Henk, Naicong Li, Phlip Murphy, Nathan Strout, Serene Ong, and Anne Desmarais

 

A Geospatial Approach to the Analysis of Racial Residential Segregation in Louisville, Kentucky

72

 

Tyler Belcher and Haifeng Zhang

 

Conceptualizing and Measuring Accessibility to National Parks 

81

 

Job Weber

 

Modeling Passenger Airline Fares in the U.S.: A Multivariate Regression and Trend Surface Analysis

91

 

Hilton A. Cordoba and Russell L. Ivy

 

Sustainable Development in the Galápagos:  The Role of Coffee Production on San Cristóbal Island

100

 

Maria Fadiman

 

Teaching Military Geography through GIS: Re-evaluating the Defense Revolutionary War Era West Point

110

 

Thomas M. Hanlon, William C. Wright, Joseph P. Henderson, and Michael D. Hendricks

 

Managing Response and Recovery to Mississippi River Flooding: Applying Saptial Analysis in Memphis/Shelby Country, Tennessee

117

 

Brian Waldron, Arleen Hill, and Bob Nations, Jr.

 

Greyfield Retail: The Coming of the Next Wave ?

126

 

Tony Hernandez

 

A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Retail Contagion

135

 

Lawrence Joseph and Jay Lee

 

Comparative Analysis of Rapid Urban Growth: A Case of Medina and Brunswick, Ohio

144

 

Hyun Joong Kim

 

New Business Opened During the Great Recession: An Albuquerque Case Study

155

 

Bradley T. Cullen

 

Identifying Health Care Shortage Areas in Alberta Based on Spatial Accessibility and Health Needs

        163

 

Olesya Elikan

 

Assessing Vulnerability to Hurricanes in Harris Country, Texas

173

 

Chunling Liu and Gang Gong

 

Integrating a Geographical Information System with Multiple Data Sources to Analyze the Feeder Market of Second-Home Based Tourism in a Coastal Destination

182

 

Kang Shou Lu

 

The Relationship Between Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Urban Housing Density Chang in Greensboro, North Carolina

192

 

Eric K. Aikins

 

Spatial and Non-spatial Analyses of Serious Gang and Non-Gang Violent Offending: Specifying Street Gang Activities in Albuquerque, New Mexico

202

 

Mattew R. Laurin, Timothy S. Hare, and Paul D. Steele

 

Limitations of Assessing Synthetic Predictive Boundaries with Computer-Assisted Classifications

212

 

Anna Klimaszweski-Patterson

 

Conjunctive Ranch Management: An Option for Preserving Open Space along the Urban Fringe

222

 

Richard A. Earl, Joel P. Bach, and Allison M. Owen

 

The Influence of Social Perception on Making Sustainability an Everyday Reality in the United States: How Education Can Help

232

 

Lisa K. Tabor

 

Applying the Deconstruction of Genocide maps to India

241

 

Kanika Verma

 

Statistical Correlation between Economic Activity and DMSP-OLS Night Images in Florida

251

 

Dolores J. Forbes

 

Integrating Virulo Model and Virus Parameters in Mapping Ground water Contamination Rish to Pathogens

267

 

Chris King and Barnali Dixon

 

Beyond the Dead Ends: Implementing a Critical-Place Oriented Framework for School Leadership

276

 

Christa Boske, Jennifer Speights-Binet, and Lillian McEnery

 

Landslide Susceptibility in the Republic of Moldova: A Landscape and Mutivariate Approach for Regional Assessment

285

 

Richard R. Sharker, Ghennadie Sirodoev, and Igor Sirodoev

 

GIS Analysis of Surveyed Perceptions of Safety and Campus Crime

295

 

James S. Waynick and Christopher A. Badurek