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The Spatial distribution of parks and crime in Seattle, Washington

Creator:: Weems, Candice Michelle
Abstract:: Parks help to build social cohesion within a community. Urban open spaces offer a sense of place, act as the focal points for public gatherings, and provide an opportunity for social networking (Francis, 2003; Hayward, 1989). While offering so much they are also known to be places of disgust and...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: relationship between crime and park type to identify if certain types of parks are generators of crime

Evaluation of Deforestation in the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras

Creator:: Wade, Michael C.
Abstract:: Satellite imagery has been a useful tool in monitoring land cover changes, including changes within protected areas. In the 1980’s and 1990’s Honduras created over 100 protected areas, yet few resources have been dedicated to their management. This study used Landsat satellite imagery to evaluate deforestation in the Río Plátano...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
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Rangeland privatization and the Maasai experience : implications for livestock herding, open space, and wildlife conservation in southern Kenya

Creator:: Sundstrom, Shiloh
Abstract:: For centuries in what is now southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, nomadic, Maasai livestock herders have coexisted with vast populations of wildlife. Today, both wildlife and the Maasai herding lifestyle, a vital component of Maasai culture, are threatened by changes to the landscape and losses in mobility, including the policy...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: outside of parks and reserves (Western, Russell, & Mutu, 2006) and the survival of wildlife depends on

Determining relative benefits to communities from urban and agricultural land use change in Napa County, California

Creator:: Bernard, Mark A.
Abstract:: Urban sprawl and the establishment of greenbelts to separate growing cities and towns has become a popular topic of conversation among land use professionals. Economists focus on urban growth in terms of land rents and have sought market solutions such as transfers and purchases of development rights to slow this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Restructuring of land and community in the remote rural west : the case of Wallowa County, Oregon

Creator:: Abrams, Jesse
Abstract:: Since at least the 1970s, rural areas in the western United States, as elsewhere across the country and world, have been subject to social, economic, and political forces that have resulted in novel demographic and land tenure trends when compared to previous decades. Collectively, these processes of restructuring have created...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the largest diversities of exotic invasive species in Oregon (Parks et al. 2005). These are more

Land trusts in the New West : conserving and responding to local geographies?

Creator:: Loynes, Kathryn
Abstract:: This research focuses on the relationship between the emerging role of land trusts and rapid growth and change in the West. Teton County, Idaho, Teton County, Wyoming, and Sublette County, Wyoming, and each of their associated land trusts, are used as case studies. Each county has experienced varying levels of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: amenities, including national parks and monuments, national forests and wilderness areas, mountains

A multi-scale comparative study of shape and sprawl in metropolitan regions of the United States

Creator:: Kugler, Tracy A.
Abstract:: This dissertation constitutes a multi-scale quantitative and qualitative investigation of patterns of urban development in metropolitan regions of the United States. This work has generated a comprehensive data set on spatial patterns of metropolitan development in the U.S. and an approach to the study of such patterns that can be...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , surrounded successively by public buildings, a large public park, a glass arcade housing shops and winter

Assessing the Current State of Transboundary Cooperation in the International Columbia River Basin

Creator:: Timboe, Ingrid A.
Abstract:: The Columbia River Treaty (CRT) is often used as an example of how treaties can work to normalize, regulate, and improve the cooperative management of shared water resources between basin countries. Few would argue that, in its limited mandate to regulate hydropower generation and flood risk management for downstream communities,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Forest industry restructuring and emerging forest tenures in Deschutes and Klamath Counties, Oregon

Creator:: Kelly, Erin Clover
Abstract:: Since the 1980s, industrial forest restructuring has resulted in the divestment of industrial timberlands across the U.S. Emerging tenures have benefited from the divestment, including conservation-based tenures that manage for multiple objectives such as restoration, recreation access, and forest and habitat contiguity. Deschutes and Klamath Counties, Oregon, have three proposed...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Naturalistic Inquiry. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications. Strauss, A.L. 1987. Qualitative Analysis for

The Effect of Canopy Cover and Wildfire Smoke on Near-Surface Temperatures

Creator:: Brackett, Amanda
Abstract:: Recent shifts from clearcutting to partial retention harvesting on many ownerships and the importance of microclimate dynamics on biotic responses to regional climate highlight the need to understand how microclimate conditions in forest understories differ across gradients of partial overstories. This study compares below-canopy near-surface temperatures at 2cm above ground...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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The Spatial distribution of parks and crime in Seattle, Washington

Evaluation of Deforestation in the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras

Rangeland privatization and the Maasai experience : implications for livestock herding, open space, and wildlife conservation in southern Kenya

Determining relative benefits to communities from urban and agricultural land use change in Napa County, California

Restructuring of land and community in the remote rural west : the case of Wallowa County, Oregon

Land trusts in the New West : conserving and responding to local geographies?

A multi-scale comparative study of shape and sprawl in metropolitan regions of the United States

Assessing the Current State of Transboundary Cooperation in the International Columbia River Basin

Forest industry restructuring and emerging forest tenures in Deschutes and Klamath Counties, Oregon

The Effect of Canopy Cover and Wildfire Smoke on Near-Surface Temperatures

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