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Identifying Opportunities for Collaboration in Resilience-Based Management: Coordinating Rancher and Land Manager Incentives

Creator:: Maher, Anna T.
Abstract:: Resilience-based management in rangelands implies maintaining desirable ecological states and avoiding thresholds to less desirable ones; however, the efficacy of resilience-based management depends upon several driving forces. These forces include management by those who depend upon rangelands for their livelihoods, the current state of ecological health of rangelands, and changing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Sciences presented on May 30, 2019. Title

Environmental Remote Sensing with Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Creator:: Burnett, Jonathan D.
Abstract:: Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUASs) equipped with optical sensors are capableof remotely sensing landscapes and wildlife at spatial and temporal resolutions that werepreviously inaccessible due to technical and budgetary limitations. Conventional remotesensing and photogrammetric workflows can be applied to the resulting high resolution imageryto facilitate new types of scientific inquiry....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sustainable Forest Management presented on September 7, 2017

Beyond Cooperation : Environmental Justice in Transboundary Water Management

Creator:: Watson, Julie Elkins
Abstract:: Since the Wolf, Yoffe, and Giordano 2003 Basins at Risk study, examining human interactions with transboundary water resources through a lens of conflict and cooperation has been a dominant paradigm. The Basins at Risk (BAR) method involves categorizing events on a scale from most conflictive (e.g. war or extensive casualties)...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Chapter 1: Environmental Justice in Transboundary Water Management

Addressing the future of water in Oregon : a look at the human and institutional factors shaping Oregon water management

Creator:: Wolters, Erika Allen
Abstract:: Oregon is a state with great social and ecological diversity. Unfortunately however, Oregon's water-rich reputation is more rumor than reality. As with many Western states, Oregon struggles with water scarcity, especially during dry summer months. Recent efforts by the state to develop an integrated water resource strategy (IWRS) to manage...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Environmental Science presented on April 26, 2012. Title: Addressing the Future of Water in Oregon: A Look at

Contemporary forest road management with economic and environmental objectives

Creator:: Thompson, Matthew P.
Abstract:: One of the basic questions facing transportation planners and road managers is how to provide and maintain a road system that provides efficient access to the forest while limiting adverse effects roads can have on water and soil resources. The purpose of this study is to develop decision support models...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: environmental efficiency in the management of forest road networks. In particular, I focus on developing

Visualization in environmental science

Creator:: Winters, Kirsten M.
Abstract:: The VISualization of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems (VISTAS) software development project began with the proposition that visualization would increase the ability of scientists to explore and communicate their data, especially complex datasets that span multiple spatial and temporal scales. A case study of VISTAS articulates how and why scientists intend...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Visualization in Environmental Science AN ABSTRACT OF

Essays on environmental productivity

Creator:: Bellenger, Moriah J., 1980-
Abstract:: The following three essays explore the use of the directional output distance function (Chambers et al., 1996), an economic model originally developed to measure efficiency and productivity for multi-input and multi-output production processes, to assess performance for multi-attributed environmental processes. The first essay illustrates the use of the directional output...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: approach to valuing SO2 allowances. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 30, 58-72. Diewert

Enhancing cultural resources management and improving tribal involvement inthe NEPA process through the development of atribal environmental policy act

Creator:: Sloan, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: This dissertation presents an analysis of the historic preservation framework on tribal cultural resources management (CRM). It examines some of the challenges this framework poses to tribal governments working on cultural resources protection efforts within a compliance framework. An examination of five major laws that regulate the practice of CRM...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: environmental resources management. An examination of environmental law, specifically the National

Growth and photosynthesis of plants in response to environmental stress

Creator:: Greitner, Carol S.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: environmental stress AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Carol S. Greitner for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

Creator:: Canavan, Barbara C.
Abstract:: By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: influenza history and science can serve as a resource for historians of medicine, environmental historians

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Identifying Opportunities for Collaboration in Resilience-Based Management: Coordinating Rancher and Land Manager Incentives

Environmental Remote Sensing with Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Beyond Cooperation : Environmental Justice in Transboundary Water Management

Addressing the future of water in Oregon : a look at the human and institutional factors shaping Oregon water management

Contemporary forest road management with economic and environmental objectives

Visualization in environmental science

Essays on environmental productivity

Enhancing cultural resources management and improving tribal involvement inthe NEPA process through the development of atribal environmental policy act

Growth and photosynthesis of plants in response to environmental stress

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

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