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  • Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan

    Creator:
    Ioannides, Michael J.
    Abstract:
    Although dam construction has been an integral tool in development initiatives for nearly a century, dams can have significant negative impacts on local residents, particularly those who are permanently displaced from their homes and must be resettled elsewhere. Dams have unique impacts on indigenous peoples. As a result, many dam...
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    Masters Thesis
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    incisive feedback for drafts of this thesis: Drew Gerkey, Brent Steel, and Laurence Becker. I am also

  • Local perceptions of climate change, coping and adaptation strategies among smallholder farmers in the Lake Basin Region of Kenya

    Creator:
    Asinjo, Robert
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    Smallholder farmers in Africa, who have long relied on rain-fed agriculture, are currently experiencing adverse impacts of climate change which is posing serious challenges to their ability to sustain their livelihoods (Morton 2007). This is the case for many other areas around the world, especially among indigenousor ruralcommunities who rely...
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    Masters Thesis
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    sincere gratitude to Professor Lisa Price and Professor Laurence Becker. Professor Price's guidance

  • Using an internet map server and coastal remote sensing for education

    Creator:
    Bower, Peter A.
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    An Internet Map Server (IMS) web site was constructed with the goal of helping middle- through high-school students learn about ocean processes. This IMS was developed in conjunction with the activities of the Science & Math Investigative Learning Experience (SMILE) program, and for eventual use with the Oregon Coastal Atlas,...
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    Capstone Project
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    in Charge: Dawn Wright, Major Professor (Geosciences) Laurence Becker, Minor Professor (Geosciences

  • Opposing worldviews : Cuicatec values of cultural and natural resources in a western paradigm

    Creator:
    Hearn, Kyle P.
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    Both conflicts and new identities result when indigenous' traditional values of landscape and resource management are superimposed with federal governments' management of archaeological and forest resources in federally designated protected areas. This thesis examines the relationship and discourse between two Cuicatec towns in Oaxaca, Mexico and three Mexican government agencies...
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    Becker, and Melissa Cheney for their advice and wisdom while I traveled down this road. Finally, I

  • Using an internet map server and coastal remote sensing for education

    Creator:
    Bower, Peter A.
    Abstract:
    An Internet Map Server (IMS) web site was constructed with the goal of helping middle- through high-school students learn about ocean processes. This IMS was developed in conjunction with the activities of the Science & Math Investigative Learning Experience (SMILE) program, and for eventual use with the Oregon Coastal Atlas,...
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    Capstone Project
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    in Charge: Dawn Wright, Major Professor (Geosciences) Laurence Becker, Minor Professor (Geosciences

  • Banks, Gardens and Bees: Enhancing Community Resilience in West Africa

    Creator:
    Polasky, Sophia
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    International development programs are often implemented with the goal of building community resilience, but without a clear articulation of how this goal will be met, or any consideration of if or why the effort was successful after it has concluded. This thesis considers three different activities implemented by the U....
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    Masters Thesis
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    by the U. S. Agency for International Development STEWARD program as part of their effort to build

  • Food deserts in the Willamette : a study of food access in Lane County, Oregon

    Creator:
    Smith, Dianna Marie
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    According to USDA research, Oregon in 2002 had the highest rate of hunger and one of the highest rates of food insecurity in the United States. Although the margin of error involved with these statistics indicates that the state may not actually be at the top of the list, a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    advisor. Laurence Becker, Garry Stephenson, and Larry Lev have all contributed wonderful comments and

  • Children of Mexican migrant farmworkers in Oregon : experiences and challenges with belonging

    Creator:
    Crawford, Ashley
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    This thesis explores the experiences and negotiations of belonging for children of Mexican migrant farmworkers in Oregon. Ethnographic data was collected over the course of several months with Mexican migrant farmworkers and their children in agricultural fields in Oregon and at Oregon State University. The children in this project have...
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    Masters Thesis
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    anthropology as an ‘other’ to research in the 1920’s starting with the famous Margaret Mead and children in

  • Examining the Effects of Artisanal, Small-scale Gold Mining on Livelihood Assets in Kedougou, Senegal

    Creator:
    Zoch, Grant L.
    Abstract:
    The frontlines of climate change adaptation will occur in rural, impoverished regions of the world where households engage in climatically dependent livelihoods, such as peasant agriculture or pastoralism. As changing climate and changing markets affect the suite of household livelihood assets (environmental, social, and economic) which enable a household to...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Livelihoods and land use change in highland Ethiopia

    Creator:
    Guillozet, Kathleen
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    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...
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    Dissertation
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    and for his generous assistance with household surveys and statistics. I thank Larry Becker for his