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Reclaiming space for small scale agriculture in Lincoln County, Oregon

Creator:: Gossen, Kimberly A.
Abstract:: As recent interest has grown in the connections between how food is produced, distributed and consumed, and the overall health of food systems for people and the environment, a movement toward localizing food systems has emerged. In Lincoln County, Oregon, citizens, restaurateurs and university extension faculty, among others, have started...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: …………………………………….….…….47 Ninety Years of Agriculture on the Western Edge (Circa 1910 - 2002

"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

Creator:: Little, Peter C.
Abstract:: This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Appendix C………………………………………………………………….330 Appendix D………………………………………………………………….339 Appendix E

Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

Creator:: Burke, Erik P.
Abstract:: Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: SYSTEMS, 1845 TO 1940 36 SETTLEMENT PERIOD: 1845-1884 37 Livestock 39 Crops 40 DIVERSIFIED PERIOD: 1884

From teacups to lumber : archaeological site content and integrity of the Copeland Site (35BE90), Corvallis, Oregon

Creator:: Kanaby, Kara M.
Abstract:: This thesis describes the archaeological site content and integrity of the Copeland site (35BE90) in Corvallis, Oregon. The Copeland site is owned by the Benton County Historical Society and is the future home of the Benton County Historical Museum. In 2001, an Oregon State University archaeological field school was conducted...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: .............................................................................................................. 214 A.39: Summary typology personal items for test unit 10 by level .............................214

Nature and culture in two Pacific Northwest timber-dependent communities

Creator:: Six, Amanda
Abstract:: Timber-dependent, rural communities in the Pacific Northwest face dramatic economic, political, and cultural change. New philosophies of forest management, primarily formulated in urban communities, require new approaches to the use and extraction of resources. What are the roles of rural communities that wish to adapt and sustain themselves? Two rural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ..................... 34 1:c State of Washington ...................................... 38 1:d Community of Selkirk

The influence on Manchu women of changes in social institutions and the sinification of Manchu Society

Creator:: Fang, Jin-cai
Abstract:: Gender relations as well as the social situation of Manchu women have long been ignored in studies of the cultural evolution of the Manchu. By setting the discussion of Manchu women in the context of cultural adaptation, this study reintroduces gender and women's problems into the research on the Manchu...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ...................................................................... I 1 6 10 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 33 39 42 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Advocacy travel, creating social and ideological change : a comparison of travelers to Cuba and Chiapas

Creator:: Donckers, Jana L.
Abstract:: As a result of academic research into the effects of mass travel, an industry of alternative tourism has emerged. Application of this research has resulted in myriad forms of tourism, two of these being ecotourism and educational travel. Ecotourism represents a response to what is the destructive nature of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Appendix C: Chixpas Subject Questionnaire 157 Appendix D: Statistical Summary of Survey Response By

Using stable-isotope analysis to obtain dietary profiles from old hair

Creator:: Roy, Diana Milantia
Abstract:: Stable isotope analysis of human tissue can provide information about diet independent of artifactual remains. Food is broken down and used in the synthesis of body tissue, so the isotopic composition of hair keratin reflects the isotopic composition of foods consumed. Therefore, the analysis of hair can provide a window...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for statistics tutorials, insight into the Boas data collection, and all-around advice; and to Alan

The Bachman Cave (10-OE0565) point typology, Owyhee County, southwestern Idaho

Creator:: Chavarria, Juan C.
Abstract:: In the past, archaeological investigations have recovered material culture that have often been stored as museum property without a focused analysis or written report of the results. This study focuses on one such assemblage ofchipped stone projectile points from the Bachman Cave locality of southwestern Idaho that has been stored...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ...................................................... 230 APPENDIX D Bachman Cave Projectile Point Unshouldered Category

Ecological baselines for Oregon's coast: a report for agencies that manage Oregon's coastal habitats for ecological and economic sustainability, and for all who are interested in the welfare of wildlife that inhabit our coast and its estuaries

Creator:: Hall, Roberta L., Ebert, Thomas A., Gilden, Jennifer S., Hatch, David R., Mrakovcich, Karina Lorenz, and Smith, Courtland L.
Abstract:: Against the backdrop of growing concern about dead zones, rare and endangered sea mammals, depletion of Oregon’s once‐abundant fish stocks, acidification threatening coastal molluscs, and proposals for marine reserves along Oregon’s coastline, a multidisciplinary group of scientists was called together in 2008 to discuss what is known about Oregon’s coastal...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Reclaiming space for small scale agriculture in Lincoln County, Oregon

"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

From teacups to lumber : archaeological site content and integrity of the Copeland Site (35BE90), Corvallis, Oregon

Nature and culture in two Pacific Northwest timber-dependent communities

The influence on Manchu women of changes in social institutions and the sinification of Manchu Society

Advocacy travel, creating social and ideological change : a comparison of travelers to Cuba and Chiapas

Using stable-isotope analysis to obtain dietary profiles from old hair

The Bachman Cave (10-OE0565) point typology, Owyhee County, southwestern Idaho

Ecological baselines for Oregon's coast: a report for agencies that manage Oregon's coastal habitats for ecological and economic sustainability, and for all who are interested in the welfare of wildlife that inhabit our coast and its estuaries

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