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  • Utilizing relational and social network analysis to inform community-based climate change adaptation : a central Oregon case study

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    Jacobs, Derric B.
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    Central Oregon's landscape is rich in dry forests prone to frequent wildfires. Climate change studies and improved modeling indicate this region could experience conditions that result in an increase in number and severity of wildfires. With the potential for increased environmental hazards, the nearby communities face potential risks and vulnerabilities...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Derric B. Jacobs for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Public perceptions of sagebrush ecosystem management : a longitudinal panel study of residents in the Great Basin, 2006-2010

    Creator:
    Gordon, Ryan Patrick
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    Intact sagebrush communities in the Great Basin are rapidly disappearing due to invasion of non-native plants, large wildfires, and encroachment of pinyon pine and juniper woodlands. Land management options include the use of prescribed fire, grazing, herbicides and mechanical treatments to reduce the potential for wildfire and restore plant communities....
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    well, to the members of my committee—Ed Jensen, Paul Doescher, Brent Steel, and Arne Skaugset—who

  • Co-producing Software for Environmental and Ecological Visualization

    Creator:
    Zanocco, Chad
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    Environmental scientists, land managers, and policy actors are increasingly presented with high-stakes high-uncertainty problems stemming from human-ecosystem interactions. To help address these problems, scientists frequently use models that produce enormous geospatial and temporal datasets that are constantly modified and often seek input from communities outside their discipline. To assist scientists—as...
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    interview protocol…………………………………171 8.2 Appendix B: Post-development interview protocol……………………………...…173

  • Institutionalizing sustainability in community colleges : the role of the college president

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    Williams, Peter G.
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    The purpose of this research study was to describe and improve understanding of the meaning of institutionalized sustainability and the role that a college president plays in institutionalizing sustainability on a community college campus. The following questions guided the research: (a) What does it mean to have sustainability “institutionalized” at...
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    sustainability “institutionalized” at community colleges that are judged to be exemplary in this regard? (b

  • Merging missions : a historical analysis of the University of Alaska Anchorage, 1984–2009

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    Strom, Stephen L.
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    Literature on the evolution of the American higher education system includes a historical and consistent debate over the definition of the higher education mission in the country. Recent debate focuses on mission differentiation between the university and the community college. Acknowledging systemic changes in higher education historically occurred within regions...
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    major areas: (a) the 1970s higher education background in Alaska, (b) the University of Alaska

  • Macro Stories: Policy Process Dynamics of Presidential Environmental Ideas

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    Peterson, Holly L.
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    Public policy narratives and stories are often referenced by the media, politicians, advocacy groups, and across many disciplines in academia. Studies of social and political narratives support the notion narrative matters, but often lack systematic design capable of producing generalizable findings. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has responded to this...
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  • Community Resilience to Climate Change in Rural Java, Indonesia

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    Utami, Arini Wahyu
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    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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    for Climate Change, edited by Z. Zommers and A. Singh). Springer. Below, Till B., Khamaldin D

  • An Exploration of Used Fuel Sharing in Multi-Reactor Power Plants

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    Lilley, Benjamin C.
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    Nuclear fuel management is an optimization problem on many levels. Finding “viable” solutions for the core reload design problem is difficult without expert knowledge and software automation. Small modular reactors with a shared used fuel pool demonstrate a novel opportunity for fuel cycle optimization. A Python package was developed and...
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    combinations? (b) What optimization algorithms and meta-parameters can achieve viable designs most efficiently

  • Resilience of large river basins : applying social-ecological systems theory, conflict management, and collaboration on the Mekong and Columbia Basins

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    MacQuarrie, Patrick R.
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    River basins provide essential services for both humans and ecosystems. Understanding the connections between ecosystems and society and their function has been at the heart of resilience studies and has become an increasing important endeavor in research and practice. In this dissertation, I define basin resilience as a river basin...
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    the Mekong! I wish also to thanks Paul Violette at Eco-Asia (USAID) who supported and funded the

  • Visualization in environmental science

    Creator:
    Winters, Kirsten M.
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    The VISualization of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems (VISTAS) software development project began with the proposition that visualization would increase the ability of scientists to explore and communicate their data, especially complex datasets that span multiple spatial and temporal scales. A case study of VISTAS articulates how and why scientists intend...
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    .........................................................................................................163 B Examples of visualization of interest (VOI) tagged with its original number from the journal