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Acceptability of market-based approaches to water management : an analysis of the Deschutes Groundwater Mitigation Program

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Lieberherr, Eva K.

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Growing urbanization, shifting water uses, and a focus on ecosystem health in the Deschutes River Basin in Central Oregon led to experimentation with new voluntary market-based approaches to water management in the last decade. To meet groundwater demands while maintaining instream flows and upholding prior water allocations, the Oregon Water...

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Masters Thesis

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traditional government-based mechanisms with a more recent market-based approach (Merrett 1997; Lee 1999
An environmental history of Euphoria Ridge, Oregon : a case study for ethnobotany in traditional resource management

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Fluharty, Suzanne M.

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This dissertation looks at one landscape component of the Coquille Indian Tribe's ancestral lands in order to understand the place meaning created and assigned to Euphoria Ridge, Oregon. I focus on three cultural overlays across time that together with the unique biophysical components, generate an importance for the locale to...

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Dissertation
"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

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Little, Peter C.

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This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...

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Dissertation