http://hdl.handle.net/1957/11 http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/retrieve/19 http://hdl.handle.net/1957/11 Search the Channel search http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/1957/1686 Title: Applying systematic evidence reviews in Oregon forest policy: opportunities and challenges <br/> <br/>Abstract: Section I contains an introduction to the subject of Scientific Evidence Review. Section II reviews Oregon state mandates to use “best available science” in policymaking and summarizes ODF efforts to address these mandates. Section III provides an overview of Systematic Evidence Reviews and how they are conducted in the fields of clinical medicine and public health. Section IV summarizes some relevant critiques of SER methods and cautions concerning their use. Section V addresses differences and commonalities between clinical medicine and ecosystem science, and the potential for applying SERs to conservation and natural resource policy questions. Section VI offers some principles and guidelines about how ODF could apply components of SERs to their science assessments. Section VII reflects on where efforts to conduct and utilize SERs are likely to go in the future. Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:26:34 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1957/555 Title: 2004-2005 Annual Report <br/> <br/>Abstract: 2004-2005 INR Annual Report Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:38:50 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1957/534 Title: Oregon coastal community water supply assessment <br/> <br/>Abstract: On the Oregon coast, however, the issue of water supply has become paramount, especially given the need to restore instream flows in order to restore coastal salmon runs and meet water quality standards. With the ebb and flow of population and the economic growth of Oregon coastal communities, three hypotheses have been generated about the ability of these communities to meet future water supply needs. The purpose of this project was to better understand the challenges and opportunities facing coastal community water suppliers as a whole and to ultimately improve the prospects for meeting future water needs. Findings show that contrary to the first hypothesis, most of those interviewed do not think that economic development is constrained by waters supply. However, it does appear that it would be difficult for state economic development officials to match businesses and industries interested in relocating to the Oregon coast with community water supply availability and reliability. Findings also show that the major problem facing community water suppliers in preparing water management and conservation plans cited by interviewees is financial. Though Oregon’s coastal communities face several planning, management, physical, economic, and regulatory challenges in preparing for future water supply needs, numerous partnership, conservation, and research and training opportunities exist. What is needed is an opportunity for a facilitated process of restructuring water supply systems. Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:39:06 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1957/509 Title: Place matters: geospatial tools for marine science <br/> <br/>Abstract: Although the ocean provides living space for about 97 percent of life on Earth, less than 5 percent of the ocean below the surface has actually been seen, let alone explored. Now, using the geographic information system (GIS), marine scientists are gaining new insights into a once-mysterious world. A technologically sophisticated database, information-management, and display system, GIS holds tremendous potential for mapping, interpreting, and managing ocean environments-from the seafloor to the shoreline. Place Matters explores how marine GIS is contributing to the understanding, management, and conservation of the shores and ocean of the Pacific Northwest, which is becoming a hotbed of marine GIS development and applications as scientists expand the use of this cutting-edge technology to a variety of ocean science, policy, and management issues. Using these geospatial databases and tools, scientists, resource managers, and conservationists — often in collaboration — are making advances in the way that data are collected, documented, used, shared, and saved. The contributors to Place Matters show how together they are using GIS to handle and exploit present and future data streams from observatories, experiments, numerical models, simulations, and other sources, yielding fresh insights into oceanographic, ecological, and socioeconomic conditions of the marine environment. <br/> <br/>Description: The book begins with a conceptual framework, laying out selected methods and models for conservation-based marine GIS. Chapters in the second section describe working examples of marine GIS tools and large-scale implementations. The final section focuses on the use of GIS by environmental advocacy and local citizens’ organizations. A companion Web site includes GIS maps and databases, as well as extensive Web-based resources. With its unique focus on the use of GIS to solve marine conservation problems, Place Matters offers an important new resource for all who study and work to protect the world’s oceans. Foreword by Sylvia Earle. 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