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  • Wind Energy Siting in Harney and Crook Counties, Oregon

    Creator:
    Bhattarai, Mukesh
    Abstract:
    Concerns over climate change and energy security have spurred governments worldwide to encourage the development of renewable energy. Although public attitudes and macro-politics, in general, show moderate to strong support for renewables- in particular, wind power- largely because of the economic and environmental benefits associated with it. However, local politics...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    (Altman and Low, 1992). Devine-Wright (2009) has argued that the positive emotional link between

  • Community Driven Development (CDD) in Action: Three Case Studies of International Nongovernmental Development Organizations’ (INGOs’) CDD Practices

    Creator:
    Rhynard-Geil, Meghann
    Abstract:
    Since the 1980s, NGOs have created a necessary niche for themselves within developing nations addressing poverty “traps” such as: lack of infrastructure, corruption, environmental degradation, conflict, disease, educational paucity, and gender inequality. Due to increasing issues of dependency and failed development projects resulting from a top-down, organizational structure, international nongovernmental...
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    Capstone Project
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      community  is,  if  not  a  necessity,  a  boon  to  the  survival  and  success

  • Falling Inward: Ecstatic Dance & Recording the Ephemeral

    Creator:
    Sarreal, Jennifer T.
    Abstract:
    Little scholarship exists on the contemporary trance dance movement known as Ecstatic Dance. This thesis investigates the myriad of pathways dancers in the Ecstatic Dance communities of Western Oregon experience movement-induced altered states of consciousness. A secondary aim was to provide a more visually and ethnographically accessible dance annotation system...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Frank and Friendly Pressure : U.S. Liberal Interventionism in the Early Cold War

    Creator:
    Fuller, Kevin J.
    Abstract:
    U.S. foreign policy during the period between World War II and the Vietnam War has been described as part of a “nation-­‐building” or “liberal” grand strategy. This thesis contends that understanding U.S. efforts to influence the internal affairs of sovereign states through the spread of liberal values and institutions during...
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    Masters Thesis
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     Culture,”  in  Legal  and  Moral  Constraints   on  Low-­‐Intensity  Conflict,  ed