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  • Livelihoods and land use change in highland Ethiopia

    Creator:
    Guillozet, Kathleen
    Abstract:
    This dissertation investigates livelihood and land use change dynamics in a community at the farm-forest periphery in highland Ethiopia. I use interviews and livelihood assessment data to compare the strategies used by members of different wealth groups to negotiate and maintain access to forest resources, and integrate socioeconomic, bio-physical and...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Modelling Early-Seral Vegetation Dynamics Using Climate and Soil Moisture

    Creator:
    Guevara, Claudio A.
    Abstract:
    Forest plantations in the Pacific Northwest are highly productive and have been intensively managed to maximize tree growth with practices such as Forest Vegetation Management (FVM). Different FVM regimes have been shown to enhance forest establishment by reducing the competition between the planted seedlings and early-seral vegetation. To better understand...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    would also like to thank my committee members, Drs. Chris Still, John Bailey, and Laurence Schimleck

  • Restructuring of land and community in the remote rural west : the case of Wallowa County, Oregon

    Creator:
    Abrams, Jesse
    Abstract:
    Since at least the 1970s, rural areas in the western United States, as elsewhere across the country and world, have been subject to social, economic, and political forces that have resulted in novel demographic and land tenure trends when compared to previous decades. Collectively, these processes of restructuring have created...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation