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Adaptive Self-governance of Small-scale Commercial Fishers in Northeast Puerto Rico: Characterizing Formal and Informal Cooperation during Times of Crises

Creator:: Gómez-Andújar, Nicolás X.
Abstract:: Small-scale fisheries often suffer from weak, formal governance, and in response they organize in various ways. These self-organizational arrangements rely on the capacity of informal institutions, such as norms and communication, in generating social cohesion among actors in the supply chain and therefore improve the likelihood of generating commonly devised...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: possible without the detailed guidance, feedback, and engagement from Drew Gerkey. There are friends

Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan

Creator:: Ioannides, Michael J.
Abstract:: Although dam construction has been an integral tool in development initiatives for nearly a century, dams can have significant negative impacts on local residents, particularly those who are permanently displaced from their homes and must be resettled elsewhere. Dams have unique impacts on indigenous peoples. As a result, many dam...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: incisive feedback for drafts of this thesis: Drew Gerkey, Brent Steel, and Laurence Becker. I am also

A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

Creator:: Montañez, Morgan
Abstract:: The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low-income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in the act of being poor in America. Rather than participating solely in government safety nets, these people reject “hand-outs” in favor of exchanging...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and for editing large portions of chapters. Thank you also to Drew Gerkey for all of the help with

Fishing Guides in the Anthropocene

Creator:: Wind, Thad A.
Abstract:: How do fishing guides of the Cascade and Coast Range rivers negotiate the conflicting tensions between their client’s desire to experience the wild and the extractive nature based tourism of their role as fishing guides? How do they position their services relative to the environment and an imagined landscape that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

Creator:: D'Alessandro, Erica
Abstract:: Limited research has analyzed how the values espoused by Western alternative food systems, such as taste and territoriality, are adopted and refashioned in post-socialist societies. Muscovites now echo the global quality turn that reconnects consumers to their food sources. This research qualitatively explores the perspectives of the cosmopolitan consumers of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Drew Gerkey, whose insight on all-things-Russia garnered many informative suggestions, affording me

An Exploration of Climate Change, Conservation, and Cooperation, in Three Essays

Creator:: Johnson, Steven Mana'oakamai
Abstract:: The defining feature of our planet are the oceans, which make up 70% of the Earth’s surface. The importance of the ocean cannot be understated: 50% of oxygen originates from phytoplankton; heat is absorbed and redistributed by ocean currents; and hundreds of millions of people rely on the ocean for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: you. Next, my committee – Dr. Drew Gerkey, Dr. Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Dr. Ana Spalding, and Dr

Incidental Sensor Networks for Human Mobility Detection

Creator:: Hoover, Sylvan
Abstract:: Transportation systems need to get better by moving ever more people while consuming ever fewer resources. To build better transportation systems, planners need an accurate understanding of how people exercise mobility and tools to apply that understanding to the transportation system. Such an understanding can come through the development of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Bechir Hamdaoui, Dr. Hector Vergara, Dr. Drew Gerkey, and Dr. Wade Marcum, and many more faculty and

A New Tool and a New Look at Human Relationships with Nature: from Biophilia to Behavior Change

Creator:: Leite de Araújo, Luciana
Abstract:: Despite some successful conservation stories, biodiversity continues to be lost around the world. Climate change accentuates the ecological crisis and demands not only coordinated action by individuals and collectives, but also a re-examination (and re-imagination) of our relationship with nature. As part of the basis for such a re-examination, further...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: throughout. Gratitude to all my committee members: Dr. Bryan Tilt, Dr. Drew Gerkey, Dr. Reem Hajjar and

Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions : Responses to the Threat of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes and Tsunamis.

Creator:: Buylova, Alexandra
Abstract:: This research examined public perceptions of risk, behavioral intentions in the event of the M9 Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquake and tsunami on the Oregon Coast, and factors that may influence both attitudes and intentions. A household survey was conducted to understand public opinion in Seaside, Oregon, which is located...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Dr. Brent Steel, Dr. Drew Gerkey, Dr. Denise Lach, and my Graduate Representative Dr. Marie Harvey

Longitudinal Analysis of Collaboration in Forked Open Source Software Development Projects

Creator:: Azarbakht, Amirhosein "Emerson"
Abstract:: Social interactions are a ubiquitous part of our lives, and the creation of online social communities has been a natural extension of this phenomena. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development efforts are prime examples of how communities can be leveraged in software development, where groups are formed around communities...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Adaptive Self-governance of Small-scale Commercial Fishers in Northeast Puerto Rico: Characterizing Formal and Informal Cooperation during Times of Crises

Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan

A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

Fishing Guides in the Anthropocene

Cultivating taste and place in Russia : perspectives from Moscow's alternative food network

An Exploration of Climate Change, Conservation, and Cooperation, in Three Essays

Incidental Sensor Networks for Human Mobility Detection

A New Tool and a New Look at Human Relationships with Nature: from Biophilia to Behavior Change

Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions : Responses to the Threat of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes and Tsunamis.

Longitudinal Analysis of Collaboration in Forked Open Source Software Development Projects

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