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Creator:: Burright, Harmony S. J.
Abstract:: Irrigated agriculture accounts for 90 percent of consumptive use of freshwater in the western US and is considered the largest contributor to nonpoint source water pollution. The diffuse nature of most water quality and quantity challenges necessitates institutions that can more effectively engage agricultural producers in strategic, integrated, watershed-scale approaches...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in 1992 (Mitchell, 2005) and was popularized by the Global Water Partnership in 2000 following

Creator:: Pike-Urlacher, Zach R.
Abstract:: Reconciling working landscapes with Endangered Species Act (ESA) requirements is a vexing challenge playing out in watersheds across the western United States. Beaver-related watershed restoration (BRR) methodologies have the potential to reconcile competing demands for resource extraction and recovery of ESA-listed species by restoring ecosystem functionality more effectively and at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: funders across institutions and jurisdictions. The restoration project was designed to enhance Coho

Creator:: Duffy, Laura
Abstract:: The conservation community has long recognized the critical role that agricultural landowners play in efforts to improve fish and wildlife habitat in order to recover threatened and endangered species. In many rural areas dominated by agricultural working landscapes, government agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) struggle to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: assistance provided by the Program and that the Program’s bureaucracy was not too burdensome (Vaske et. al

Creator:: Dennis, Jami R.
Abstract:: The Upper Klamath Basin is an ecologically significant watershed that supports millions of migratory waterbirds along the Pacific Flyway in addition to an agricultural economy and a tribal fishery. This literature review and annotated bibliography is the basis for a capstone project to address the history, evolution, impacts, and responses...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: , 2002). Following that, in 1905, the Klamath Project was authorized with funding provided through the

Creator:: Chaffin, Brian C.
Abstract:: The concept of "adaptive governance" represents a spectrum of hybrid approaches to environmental governance employed to guide management of complex social-ecological systems under conditions of high uncertainty. While the concept of adaptive governance has benefited from over a decade of theoretical development, empirical examples of transitions towards adaptive governance are...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: decisions • Funding and capacity for fisheries habitat restoration programs across the basin • Non

Creator:: Paulekas, Robyn N.
Abstract:: Social-ecological resilience theory is part of a new paradigm for understanding and managing complex coupled human-ecological systems. The theory aims to inform explorations of a system’s ability to withstand disturbance while maintaining its critical functions. Adaptive co-management has been proposed as a governance mechanism that can enhance resiliency by combining...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Riparian Service Team for funding the program evaluation. They provided valuable background and insight

Creator:: Duncan, James A.
Abstract:: This research sought to explore the implications of different tenure regimes for both landscape-level ecological processes and the overall resilience of a social-ecological system in Central Oregon. The purchase by an investor of former industrial timberlands known as the Bull Springs tract raised the specter of dispersed residential development on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: this project without the data and frequent advice provided by Dr. Theresa Burcsu at the U.S. Forest

Creator:: Cogan, Leah R.
Abstract:: In the western United States, climate change is likely to bring greater uncertainty and extreme events outside the range for which water infrastructure, governance, and allocation mechanisms have been designed. In addition, many water systems already struggle with issues of institutional fragmentation, ineffective governance, and unsustainable management practices. Adaptive capacity,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Richard Marston, and Todd Jarvis for their generosity in funding the Muckleston Award which enabled me

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