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  • Co-producing Software for Environmental and Ecological Visualization

    Creator:
    Zanocco, Chad
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    Environmental scientists, land managers, and policy actors are increasingly presented with high-stakes high-uncertainty problems stemming from human-ecosystem interactions. To help address these problems, scientists frequently use models that produce enormous geospatial and temporal datasets that are constantly modified and often seek input from communities outside their discipline. To assist scientists—as...
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    Dissertation
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    -producing Software for Environmental and Ecological Visualization Abstract approved

  • Local Perceptions of Social-Ecological Change on the McKenzie: Implications for Resilience

    Creator:
    Inman, Tim
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    Local Perceptions of Social-Ecological Change on the McKenzie: Implications for Resilience This study sought to catalog local knowledge of long-term residents of the McKenzie River Valley as it pertains to landscape and community change and provide a general assessment of factors affecting the local social-ecological system’s resilience. Residents interviewed indicated...
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    emphasized the connection ecological settings had with both social and economic settings. This larger

  • Social Learning and Adaptive Capacity in Collaborative Watershed Partnerships

    Creator:
    Calvert, Daniel T.
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    This dissertation examines learning driven adaptations in salmon recovery efforts and water resources management in Oregon. The case study utilizes a framework highlighting the connections between human and natural systems. Semi-structured interviews are used to analyze interactions between rural riparian landowners and watershed council staffs living and working in Oregon’s...
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    Dissertation
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    decline of salmon and their ecological systems, including the disruption of social and economic systems

  • An analysis of the prerequisites for landowner participation in conservation oriented programs in the Wood River Valley, Oregon

    Creator:
    Thomas, Kelley A.
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    Before 2002, almost all of the approximately 40,000 acres of land in the Wood River Valley, Oregon were used for intensive, flood-irrigated summer cattle grazing, as it had been for over 100 years. Conservation activity in the valley was limited to a couple of wealthy landowners. But a year after...
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    Masters Thesis
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    reveals landowners’ socio-economic status, values and attitudes, landownership characteristics, and

  • Acceptability of market-based approaches to water management : an analysis of the Deschutes Groundwater Mitigation Program

    Creator:
    Lieberherr, Eva K.
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    Growing urbanization, shifting water uses, and a focus on ecosystem health in the Deschutes River Basin in Central Oregon led to experimentation with new voluntary market-based approaches to water management in the last decade. To meet groundwater demands while maintaining instream flows and upholding prior water allocations, the Oregon Water...
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    Masters Thesis
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    program to its participants: 1) economic efficiency, 2) equity, 3) accountability, 4) adaptability, 5

  • Social challenges in managing natural resources in coastal fishing communities

    Creator:
    Sharp, Shayla B.
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    Two topics concerning fisheries management are considered in this thesis. The first concerns the social values that commercial fishing communities associate with commercial fishing. A survey of residents from eleven Oregon Coastal fishing communities was conducted to examine the social values associated with the commercial fishing occupation and fishing heritage....
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    respondents, developing solutions that integrate social, ecological, cultural and 17 economic aspects will

  • Technology and meaning in natural resource management : the story-making role of GIS in the CLAMS project

    Creator:
    Duncan, Sally
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    The working hypothesis for this study is that the introduction of GIS technology into the ancient procedures of map-making has changed the map-making context sufficiently to require a revision of the way we think about, learn from, and use maps, specifically in the public involvement process in natural resource management....
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    that draws heavily on GIS technology to illustrate ecological and socioeconomic dynamics and

  • Exploring the Perspectives and Behaviors of Teachers on Invasive Species

    Creator:
    Root, Skye
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    This study explores the role of classroom use of live organisms as a pathway for the spread of invasive species. The overall guiding research question is “Are behavioral changes necessary to reduce the spread from the classroom pathway?” Using focus groups comprised of key educators, this study seeks to identify...
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    Capstone Project
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    for needed information. Logistical concerns, euthanization practices, ecological damages, and

  • A Comparison of the Preferred Role of Science and Scientists in the Marine and Terrestrial Policy Process

    Creator:
    Kloepfer, Daniel H.
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    The role of science in marine policy, and environmental policy in general, is a debated topic. Currently, there is an increasing desire for transparent and participatory democracy that involves more input from local residents and other non-experts. These demands often conflict with the increasing complexity of problems and the real...
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    Capstone Project
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    comparing attitudes of ecological scientists, natural resource managers, representatives of public

  • Technocracy, Democracy and the Role of Scientists in Natural Resource Policy

    Creator:
    Clark, Will
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    The complexity of modern environmental problems has increased appeals for including scientific research and findings in natural resource policy decision making. Though scientists, resource managers, interest groups, and the general public support more science-based environmental policy, these preferences have been accompanied by growing calls for decentralization and democratization of policy...
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    Capstone Project
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    , interest groups and the public in terms of their understanding of ecological science; however, they value