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  • 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 OF Xiaoyue Li for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Anthropology presented on

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Kathryn Conway for the degree of Masters of Arts in Applied

  • A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

    Creator:
    Bullock, Claude George, III
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    This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
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    the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics presented on December 10,2015. Title: A Practical

  • Crop choice and conservation : implications of increased biofuel demand

    Creator:
    Sechrist, B.
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    Regression analysis was used to examine the effect of a change in agricultural prices on land use and conservation. The planted acreage for each of three crops – corn, soybeans, and spring wheat – was regressed on the expected prices of the three crops, the input prices, and past land...
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    applied in the Corn Belt. A $1 increase in the price of corn was found to increase the amount of

  • Essays on productivity, economic geography and trade : the case of Chile

    Creator:
    Echeverria, Rodrigo A.
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    This dissertation investigates the relative importance of firm-specific and geographic characteristics for export behavior in the Chilean primary and processed food industries. The first essay develops a new method for measuring geographic characteristics to account for economic activity in adjacent, but separate spatial units. In the application to the Chilean...
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    Dissertation
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    and applied to the case of Chile. The second essay titled, Productivity, Geography, and the Export

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

    Creator:
    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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    degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on March 9. 2001. Title: Where Old West Meets

  • Environmental justice and energy production : coal-fired power plants in Illinois

    Creator:
    Clark, Catherine
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    The environmental justice framework has been applied to many environmentally negative issues in the past such as toxic storage and disposal facilities, toxic release inventory sites, air quality, transportation, and global climate change. It has not yet been applied to energy production in a quantitative study. This study investigates the...
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    Capstone Project
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    been applied to the issue of energy production in the academic literature, although there are local

  • Gender and Race Stereotypes in Advertisements in Science, 2004-2006

    Creator:
    Atwood-Wheeler, Kathryn
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    This study documents the occurrence of stereotypical representations of gender, race, and other characteristics in individuals that appear in advertisements in the prestigious academic journal Science. It repeats and expands upon a study conducted by Mary Barbercheck (2001) that analyzed advertisements in Science between 1995 and 1997. In this study,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of Science’s (AAAS) weekly academic journal Science presents both important scientific information

  • Opportunities and challenges in engaging stakeholders in marine reserves planning in Oregon

    Creator:
    Bird, Arwen
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    This paper explores the contributions of social capital, social connections, and stakeholder engagement to the goals of ecosystem-based management in a local scale marine planning process. The body of work presented here, through a journal article and report, uses the lens of social capital to evaluate stakeholder engagement in making...
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    Capstone Project
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    work presented here, through a journal article and report, uses the lens of social capital to

  • Low Power Radio : An Antidote for Coastal Visitors Looking but not Seeing!

    Creator:
    Williams, Erin M.
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    State parks in Oregon provide important sites for visitor recreation and natural resource education. With the increasing number of visitors to Oregon coastal parks, tide pools and beach areas, there is growing need for site-specific marine education to enhance stewardship, interpretation and safety knowledge. The Oregon Sea Grant Program and...
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    Capstone Project
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    national forest. Journal of Interpretation Research, vol. 2, Winter 1997. Reed, A. Scott and Michael C