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Description:: Air pollution is a pervasive environmental issue that has significant impacts on human health. Urban areas are particularly susceptible to high levels of air pollution due to concentrated emissions and populations. Urban air pollution has been linked to a range of adverse health effects, including respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases,...
Keyword:: Pollution, Modelling, Chemical Transport Model, Air Quality, Public Health, and Urban
Subject:: Environmental science, Atmospheric chemistry, and Geography
Creator:: Montgomery, Anastasia
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16727 and etdadmin_upload_1012586

Description:: In Chapter 1, I investigate whether physical capital anchors the spatial distribution of economic activity and how capital destruction affects local economic activity in the short and the long term. I investigate these questions by examining the 1975 frost that damaged coffee trees in the Brazilian state of Paraná. I...
Keyword:: Persistence, Agglomeration economies, Economic geography, Economic development, and Brazil
Subject:: Geography and Economics
Creator:: Barsanetti, Bruno
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15052 and etdadmin_upload_734725

Description:: The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the adoption of active mobility through the lens of three fundamental concepts: scale, segment, and neighborhood. Scale refers to both the aggregation of geospatial data and the measurement of latent constructs through behavioral survey instruments. Segment refers to the various clustering approaches...
Keyword:: active transportation, market segmentation, community, well-being, and travel behavior change
Subject:: Geography, Social psychology, and Transportation
Creator:: Biehl, Alec Michel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_685030 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14802

Description:: The spatial autoregressive model has been widely applied in science, in areas such as economics, public finance, political science, agricultural economics, environmental studies and transportation analyses. The classical spatial autoregressive model is a linear model for describing spatial correlation. In this work, we expand the classical model to include time...
Keyword:: Neural network, Maximum likelihood method, Spatial analysis, and Noise injection
Subject:: Mathematics, Geography, and Statistics
Creator:: Wang, Wenqian
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_663006 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14671

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