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  • Predicting county-level food insecurity and hunger in Oregon

    Creator:
    Grussing, Jay D.
    Abstract:
    Oregon’s high hunger and food insecurity rates have been a concern throughout the last decade. These high rates earned Oregon the dubious distinction as the most food insecure with hunger state in the late 1990’s. While Oregon’s ranking has improved in recent years, our understanding of why Oregon ranked so...
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    an extrapolation based on poverty or other county level statistics. To overcome these limitations

  • Developing a Climate Resilience Scorecard for Marin County, California

    Creator:
    Orr, Ariel N. V.
    Abstract:
    Marin County, located in the northern San Francisco Bay Area in California, faces significant threats due to climate change, including more frequent wildfires, flooding, and increased temperatures. Adaptation and mitigation efforts are necessary in order to promote resilience amidst these changing conditions. Scorecards and similar evaluation tools have previously been...
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    customized scorecard or similar evaluation tool may prove useful to policymakers within Marin County

  • A Culture of Resilience: Social Capital and Climate Adaptation in Post-Flood Boulder County

    Creator:
    Shepard, Stephanie
    Abstract:
    Scientists say that climate change is very likely to cause more frequent and more severe weather events. In order to understand how communities respond to changing weather patterns, an exploration of the connection between extreme weather events and climate change awareness, collective action, and policy is warranted. This case study...
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    flooding events led to four fatalities in Boulder County as a result of rushing floodwaters or mudslides

  • Community Visioning in Chaotic Times: Lessons Learned from the 2020 Tillamook County Community Visioning Project

    Creator:
    Gentilcore Ryan, Ava
    Abstract:
    In recent decades, local governments have desired to increase community engagement in collaborative governance processes, such as community visioning and strategic planning, in an effort to develop policies that are inclusive and supportive of those who live in the community. A key component of the community visioning process is the...
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    Tillamook County used as farmland, public or private forest or natural lands held by a conservation agency

  • Networks and Relationships: Differences in State-Level Child Abuse and Neglect Policy Implementation in Multnomah and Klamath Counties, Oregon

    Creator:
    Wornell, Emily
    Abstract:
    Using Richard Matland’s ambiguity/conflict model of policy implementation, this research examines the connections that agencies and organizations in one rural county, Klamath, and one urban county, Multnomah, in Oregon utilize to implement a particular state policy. The policy being examined is ORS 418.746-800, which mandates the use of Multidisciplinary Teams...
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     of  the  county  that  may  benefit  or  create  barriers  to   implementation

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

    Creator:
    Montañez, Morgan
    Abstract:
    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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    : ______________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low

  • Meander scars : reflections on healing a river

    Creator:
    Metzger, Abby P.
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    As Europeans settled the Willamette Valley in the 1800s, they began to simplify Oregon's largest river contained wholly within state boarders—the Willamette. The river lost miles of channels from dikes, dams, and development. Some channels vanished under concrete. Others became meander scars, or shallow, dry depression in the land where...
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    Kalapuya: A native people of Western Oregon. Philomath, OR: Benton County Historical Society and Museum

  • Beliefs and attitudes influence willingness to pay recreation fees at an urban forest : incorporating attitudes in contingent valuation methods

    Creator:
    Moehrke, Caitlin
    Abstract:
    The current thesis presents contingent valuation research incorporating social psychological measures that investigates recreationists' willingness to pay recreation access fees at McDonald-Dunn Forest, Oregon. Context is provided through an extensive literature review of recreation fee management, issues and concerns related to recreation fees, recreationists' attitudes toward fees, relevant social psychological...
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    to pay fees, and unsupportive attitudes were associated with decreased willingness or unwillingness

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

    Creator:
    Clark, Catherine
    Abstract:
    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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    high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on

  • Factors Influencing Residential Risk Perception in Fire-Prone Landscapes

    Creator:
    Vandeventer, Alexia
    Abstract:
    Since the 1990s the U.S. and especially the Western U.S. have experienced more intense and costly fires. To help address this problem government agencies are increasingly looking at homeowners in fire-prone landscapes to mitigate fire risk. Part of this effort involves communicating risk and understanding how residents perceive risk. This...
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