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  • Using GIS Technology to Identify and Analyze ‘Food Deserts’ on the Southern Oregon Coast

    Creator:
    Opfer, Pamela R.
    Abstract:
    This study analyzes food access patterns on the Southern Oregon Coast using GIS technology. The utility and capacity issues of GIS technology are explored as well as the ability for community-based organizations to apply GIS analysis at a local level. A comprehensive literature review is presented which addresses the definition...
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    and Blanchard (2007) found that Coos County was classified as having low access to supermarkets. Yet

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

    Creator:
    Little, Peter C.
    Abstract:
    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
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    analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York

  • Socio-ecological vulnerability in a Tibetan village on the Lancang River, China

    Creator:
    Galipeau, Brendan A.
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    This ethnographic research examines socioeconomic vulnerabilities to resettlement from a large hydropower dam and agricultural commodification in a Tibetan village in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. After providing an initial background on the dynamics of the research region and hydrodevelopment on its rivers, the research framework of examining vulnerability through a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    western news coverage of Tibetan areas in China. One county south of Deqin is Zhongdian, or Gyalthang

  • Impact of Federal Policies on the Health of the Coquille Indians

    Creator:
    McCanna, Michael
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    This paper examines the effects of federal policies on the health and health care system of the Coquille Indian Tribe. A historical framework is provided within which the nature and magnitude of these effects can be assessed. This paper provides a discussion of the effects of federal termination policy on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    for the Coos County Council on Alcoholism during the late 1970s as administrator of Indian oriented

  • Adolescent substance abuse treatment incorporating "Rites of Passage"

    Creator:
    Mason, Michael J.
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    This investigation assessed the effectiveness of an adolescent substance abuse treatment program that incorporated "Rites of Passage." Named Gender Based Treatment (GBT), the treatment program sought to address the adolescents' developmental needs through the use of rituals, myth and story telling, and rites of initiation. Employing quantitative and qualitative analysis,...
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    Dissertation
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    new GBT, positively influenced subjects' abstinence and relapse rate, illegal behavior, self-esteem

  • To restore what once was : a mixed methods approach to understanding the shoe repair transaction

    Creator:
    Giulietti, Michael P.
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    The shoe repair transaction, as it occurs in the 5000 or so remaining shoe repair shops in the United States, is currently unexamined in academic literature for the significance it holds for either shoe repairers or their customers. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, this...
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    Masters Thesis
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    "global south" due to repairing shoes rather than buying new ones (Comaroff & Comaroff 2011). The

  • Farmers' markets and food access : Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) use at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon farmers' markets

    Creator:
    Finneran, Kathleen B.
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    This thesis explores the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon Farmers' Markets and its role in food access for SNAP participants. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach combining a farmers' market survey and household interviews, the study investigated who uses SNAP at the farmers'...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ’ markets in SNAP (USDA FNS 2013b) and $100 million in the next five years for the new Food Insecurity

  • Community Resilience to Climate Change in Rural Java, Indonesia

    Creator:
    Utami, Arini Wahyu
    Abstract:
    Climate change increases weather unpredictability, threatens communities whose livelihoods depend on natural resources, such as rural communities. Utilizing a Community Capital Framework (Flora and Flora, 2013) and Governance of Complex Adaptive Systems (Duit and Galaz, 2008), this study concentrated on the role of cultural and political capital in supporting rural...
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    Dissertation
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    prayer and encouragement, as well as inspiration to always ‘learn something new every day

  • Competing Food Sovereignties: Food Democracy and GMO-free Activism in Southern Oregon

    Creator:
    Daye, Rebecka Rising
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    Food sovereignty is increasingly being conceptualized as a human rights issue. This is evidenced in the growth of local actors, communities, and nation-states that are working towards a food sovereignty agenda. Indicators of food sovereignty center on people having the right and ability to define their food polices. One of...
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    Dissertation
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    on the GMO-free Jackson County campaign and Oregon legislation relating to the use of GMOs in

  • Banks, Gardens and Bees: Enhancing Community Resilience in West Africa

    Creator:
    Polasky, Sophia
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    International development programs are often implemented with the goal of building community resilience, but without a clear articulation of how this goal will be met, or any consideration of if or why the effort was successful after it has concluded. This thesis considers three different activities implemented by the U....
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    Masters Thesis
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    develop new skills associated with the activity, but also facilitates problem solving; connecting local