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Filtering by: Subject Water-supply -- Oregon Remove constraint Subject: Water-supply -- Oregon Academic Affiliation Agriculture and Resource Economics Remove constraint Academic Affiliation: Agriculture and Resource Economics Degree Level Doctoral Remove constraint Degree Level: Doctoral

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  • Economics of drought preparedness and response in irrigated agriculture

    Creator:
    Peck, Dannele E.
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    The impact of recent severe droughts throughout the United States, the potential for climate change to intensify the frequency and severity of drought, and discussion about the future of government assistance in agriculture highlight the need for a transition from drought as ‘disaster’ to drought as ‘managed risk’. However, guidance...
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    Dissertation

  • Essays on land use regulation

    Creator:
    Hascic, Ivan
    Abstract:
    This dissertation consists of three papers on land use economics and regulation. The first paper focuses on the environmental impacts of land use and their implications for the design on water quality trading policies. The second and third papers address local land use regulations and their impact on land values...
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    Dissertation
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    paper focuses on the environmental impacts of land use and their implications for the design on water

  • Market water transfers as a water quality policy : a case study of the Malheur River Basin, Oregon

    Creator:
    Connor, Jeffery D.
    Abstract:
    Agronomic research documents a strong correlation between the level of irrigation water applied and the level of farm chemicals leached into water bodies. Consequently, policies that cause farmers to alter irrigation water management practices are likely to influence water quality. Water markets are a potentially attractive method of addressing agriculturally...
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    Dissertation
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    study area most likely to supply water to markets are areas used for extensive cultivation of hay

  • A cost effectiveness analysis of actions to reduce stream temperature : a case study of the Mohawk watershed

    Creator:
    Mooney, Sian, 1965-
    Abstract:
    The concept of ecosystem management requires that management prescriptions account for economic and environmental goals that are measured in non-commensurate units. This study examines the economic and environmental trade-offs associated with planting a riparian buffer in trees to reduce stream temperatures in the Mohawk watershed, Oregon. The detrimental effects of...
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    Dissertation
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    purposes (Moore and Miner 1997). The Oregon legislature has recognized this by allowing sales of water for