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  • Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

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    Leaver, Jennifer Jensen
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    In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Smith In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural

  • Ecotourism, poverty, and conservation in Prek Toal, Cambodia

    Creator:
    Conway, Kathryn
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    In Prek Toal, a poor subsistence fishing village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, the conservation organization Osmose is using ecotourism revenues to finance poverty intervention programs and promote conservation in a threatened ecosystem. This thesis examines local perceptions of tourism as a measure of Osmose’s success. Limited awareness of tourism...
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    . I was in Cambodia for exactly one month. Upon return to the United States I began organizing and

  • A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

    Creator:
    Montañez, Morgan
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    The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low-income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in the act of being poor in America. Rather than participating solely in government safety nets, these people reject “hand-outs” in favor of exchanging...
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    Masters Thesis
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    United States is organized under the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture). Although the

  • Traditional Agriculture in Transition: Continuity and Change in Southwest China

    Creator:
    Li, Xiaoyue
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    This dissertation seeks to understand Yi farmers’ livelihoods in the midst of an agricultural transition in Yunnan, Southwest China. This dissertation examines a community’s traditional knowledge related to wild edible plants (WEPs), analyzes socio-ecological vulnerability and resilience in the face of agricultural transition from subsistence farming to cash cropping, and...
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    Dissertation
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    Jianhua, who passed away right after I came to the United States to pursue my Ph.D. in 2012. He was