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The Role of the Urban Matters Community of Practice within the National Park Service

Creator:: O’Casey, Elizabeth
Abstract:: There is a growing movement in the U.S., and throughout the world, involving top down government bureaucracies or government agencies within the natural resources field, to develop new and innovative processes and structures for integrating societal viewpoints into agency decision-making. This study examines Urban Matters, a community of practice within...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Edward Weber There is a growing movement in the U.S., and throughout the

We Can Work it Out: Implementation and Collaborative Governance

Creator:: Knobloch, Jenna
Abstract:: Collaborative governance strives to address complex environmental problems by building cooperation and consensus among stakeholders. While there are many successful examples of collaborative governance, all too frequently collaborative groups come to an agreement in the meeting room only to struggle to bring their plans to fruition. What are the factors...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: presented June 2016 __________________________________________________ Edward Weber, Chair

Assessing the Adaptive Governance Capacity of Western Water Communities

Creator:: Pakenham Stevenson, Anna
Abstract:: One of the greatest challenges in the West is the sustainable management of limited water resources. In recognition of localized responses to natural resource challenges, there has been considerable work in the area of adaptive capacity and collaborative governance to help understand a community’s capacity to manage change. This study...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Edward P. Weber One of the greatest challenges in the West is the sustainable management of limited

Changing federal county payments and rural Oregon counties: analysis of policy impacts and responses from loss of secure rural schools funding in selected Oregon counties

Creator:: Gaid, Dawn Marie
Abstract:: Changes in federal forest management, enactment of environmental policies, recessions and a shift to a global economy dramatically impacted counties between the 1980s and 1990s. In the 1990s, counties began experiencing a shift away from traditional natural resource extraction activities – amidst changing demographics resulting from rural restructuring taking place...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Resilience in Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration: The Lakeview Stewardship Group’s Response to the Barry Point Fire

Creator:: Spaeth, Andrew D.
Abstract:: Congress created the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) in 2009 with the passage of the Forest Landscape Restoration Act (Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 Title IV). The purpose of the CFLRP legislation is to implement forest restoration work on national forest lands through a competitive grant program....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Edward P. Weber Congress created the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program

The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

Creator:: Boulware, Brooke L.
Abstract:: A cultural landscape analysis of two historic cemeteries in St. Paul, Oregon demonstrates that the residents of this early community were unknowingly using grave markers to express their worldview and the identities that they felt were most important. Because of the historical and cultural development of this community as the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Figure 42 – Unusually tall children’s markers, St. Paul’s Cemetery. Children of F.H. & M. Ernst

A collaborative potential assessment of project atmospheric brown clouds

Creator:: McNally, Amy
Abstract:: Collaboration between scientists and decision makers is a critical element in mobilizing science into action. Likewise, the United Nations defines collaboration between scientists and policymakers as a requisite component in the process of sustainable development. Despite the UN sustainability movement beginning in 1983, scientists may still be frustrated by their...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: that I collected3 (Weber 1990:10). I analyzed a range of documents from 2001 to present, including

Oregon's integrated water resource planning : public knowledge, risk perception, and civil society

Creator:: Hubbard, Monica L.
Abstract:: The overall purpose of this research is to assess the Oregon public's capacity to address water resources disturbances through civil society. According to scientists and resource managers, Oregon's water resources are over taxed and at risk, with future projections placing additional stress from climate change and population growth. Oregon's 2009...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: interdependence and the evolution of a state. In M. Hibbard, E. Seltzer, B. Weber & B. Emshoff (Eds.), Toward One

Scientists' perspectives on the importance of scientific communication in natural resource decision-making

Creator:: Shaw, Christine Michelle
Abstract:: Natural resource decisions require consideration at many levels, ranging from how one invertebrate will be affected by a nearby road, to how an entire watershed will be transformed by a massive clearcut. Considerations reach farther than just the local ecological community-human communities, economies, and future impacts on the communities and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: scientific problems, this approach is increasingly being questioned (Weber and Word 2001). Communication in

Utilizing emergent web-based software tools as an effective method for increasing collaboration and knowledge sharing in collocated student design teams

Creator:: Koch, Michael D.
Abstract:: Over the last few decades, the methods and tools through which humans collaborate, share knowledge and generally communicate have been advancing at a rapid pace. Thanks mostly to advances in broadband internet, cheap data storage and fast microprocessors, humans now have the ability to work together in ways that even...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The Role of the Urban Matters Community of Practice within the National Park Service

We Can Work it Out: Implementation and Collaborative Governance

Assessing the Adaptive Governance Capacity of Western Water Communities

Changing federal county payments and rural Oregon counties: analysis of policy impacts and responses from loss of secure rural schools funding in selected Oregon counties

Resilience in Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration: The Lakeview Stewardship Group’s Response to the Barry Point Fire

The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

A collaborative potential assessment of project atmospheric brown clouds

Oregon's integrated water resource planning : public knowledge, risk perception, and civil society

Scientists' perspectives on the importance of scientific communication in natural resource decision-making

Utilizing emergent web-based software tools as an effective method for increasing collaboration and knowledge sharing in collocated student design teams

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