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  • Innovation in China's furniture industry

    Creator:
    Cao, Xiaozhi
    Abstract:
    Innovation is considered the ultimate drive for business success. Fast growing furniture imports from China have become a controversial topic within U.S. wood and furniture industries. Low-cost production, which is stereotypically considered as the major competitive advantage of the Chinese-made products, has received considerable attention by a large body of...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Western U.S. Water Utilities and Adaptive Capacity: A Case Study

    Creator:
    Schermer, Maren
    Abstract:
    Water in the U.S. West faces considerable challenges and uncertainties. Climate change has intensified weather extremes, threatening the water sources that support the region’s many stakeholders. Urban water providers are among the stakeholders contending with the challenge of providing reliable water supplies to their growing populations. Recognizing the critical role...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    on relatively less water while economies continued to grow (Donnelly and Cooley, 2015). In fact

  • Federal Timber Payments and County Government Expenditures in Oregon

    Creator:
    Adams, Vince
    Abstract:
    The federal government owns 60 percent of Oregon’s forests and, since 1908, has shared proceeds from federal forest timber harvests with counties. These revenues have provided a relatively stable source of funds for the provision of services by county governments in Oregon. Shared revenues from US Forest Service (USFS) lands...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • The Influence of Measure 37 claims on the shift in vote between Measure 37 and Measure 49

    Creator:
    Chrostek, Garrett
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    The passage of Measure 37 in 2004 was met with a great deal of controversy as a number of voters claimed the implications of the Measure did not represent their intentions for supporting the legislation. Namely, significant opposition was aimed towards the Measure 37 claim which offered landowners financial compensation...
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    Capstone Project
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    correlations held some level of significance (p<.05). The rural-urban continuum produced the largest

  • Social Learning and Adaptive Capacity in Collaborative Watershed Partnerships

    Creator:
    Calvert, Daniel T.
    Abstract:
    This dissertation examines learning driven adaptations in salmon recovery efforts and water resources management in Oregon. The case study utilizes a framework highlighting the connections between human and natural systems. Semi-structured interviews are used to analyze interactions between rural riparian landowners and watershed council staffs living and working in Oregon’s...
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    Dissertation
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    participating in workshops or formal meetings (Muro & Jeffrey, 2008; Reed et al., 2009). Accounting for and

  • Assessing water governance capacity in MENA : applying an institutional document analysis to Jordan

    Creator:
    Brown, Bridget N.
    Abstract:
    Water governance has been identified as a crucial component to improving conditions and balancing supply and demand of water resources in the water-scarce Middle East North Africa (MENA) region. Finding a method for, and commencing the process of, evaluating water governance is thus imperative. This study analyzes the potential to...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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  • Macro Stories: Policy Process Dynamics of Presidential Environmental Ideas

    Creator:
    Peterson, Holly L.
    Abstract:
    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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    Dissertation
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    governments become better at addressing policy problems over time (Jones & Baumgartner, 2005, p. 15) and

  • Where wildfire risk and social vulnerability coincide: mapping place vulnerability to wildfire over the coterminous US

    Creator:
    Wigtil, Gabriel A.
    Abstract:
    The hazards-of-place model of vulnerability to environmental hazards posits that vulnerability has biophysical and social components. While biophysical characteristics are important in predicting locations of elevated wildfire risk, the social characteristics of human communities may help us predict locations of elevated wildfire impacts. We examine the relationship between biophysical and...
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    Capstone Project
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    Dr. Brent S. Steel, representing Political Science Dr. Jeffrey D. Kline, representing USDA

  • The Influence of Tax Composition on Tax Evasion

    Creator:
    Ivlieva, Anastasiia
    Abstract:
    Tax evasion is one of many problematic issues associated with tax systems that negatively affect state’s ability to provide public goods and services. This study seeks to examine the impact of tax composition on tax evasion using information about 150 countries from 1999 to 2007. The paper adopts neoclassical theoretical...
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    Capstone Project
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    ., labor laws, quality standards, etc.) (p. 3). Boadway and Richter (2005) note that the size of the

  • Assessing sustainable governance in Kuwait after the First Gulf War

    Creator:
    Husain, Abdullah M.
    Abstract:
    The First Gulf War that took place in Kuwait in 1991 resulted in one of the worst environmental disasters in the history of mankind. Extreme pollution affected the soil, waters, and the air in Kuwait. In this research I try to look into how the Kuwaiti government reacted to those...
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    Masters Thesis
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    economists such as Jeffrey Sachs believe that sustainable development is essential to environmental