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  • Starting Out Equal? The Impacts of Child Care Access on Kindergarten Readiness in Oregon

    Creator:
    Hansen, Jeanette
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    Children enter kindergarten on unequal footing. Early childhood experiences shape initial disparities and predict academic achievement and life trajectories. One influence, child care, is not available to all children in Oregon as most counties qualify as child care deserts. This paper analyzes if child care access has an effect on...
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    Capstone Project
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    : ______________________________________________________ Paul N. Thompson Children enter kindergarten on unequal footing. Early childhood experiences

  • Starting Out Equal? The Impacts of Child Care Access on Kindergarten Readiness in Oregon

    Creator:
    Hansen, Jeanette
    Abstract:
    Children enter kindergarten on unequal footing. Early childhood experiences shape initial disparities and predict academic achievement and life trajectories. One influence, child care, is not available to all children in Oregon as most counties qualify as child care deserts. This paper analyzes if child care access has an effect on...
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    Capstone Project
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Paul N. Thompson Children enter

  • The relationship between vehicle miles traveled and economic activity

    Creator:
    Eckstein, Nathan
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    Vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the U.S. have exhibited an upward trend over time similar to that observed for GDP and personal income. While conventional wisdom suggests that economic growth leads to more driving and thus higher VMT, it is theoretically possible that the causation could also be the other...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ___________________________________________________________ B. Starr McMullen ABSTRACT: Vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the U.S. have exhibited an upward

  • Making Electric Vehicles Accessible: A Program Evaluation of California's Clean Vehicle Assistance Program

    Creator:
    Diaz, Alexa R.
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    Transportation contributes approximately 41 percent of California’s greenhouse gas emissions and 27 percent of national greenhouse gas emissions (CARB, 2019, EPA, 2017). In response to climate change concerns, stakeholders have encouraged the use of electric and hybrid vehicles through tax credits, rebates, and education campaigns. Environmental and transportation justice groups...
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    Capstone Project
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    ______________________________________________________________________________ Paul Thompson Committee Member

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

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Derric B. Jacobs for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Farm to All Tables: Understanding how Advocacy Coalitions Influence SNP-related Policies for Farmers' Markets

    Creator:
    Consedine, Meagan
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    This MPP essay examines how states expand access to nutritious food for low-income families, focusing specifically on policies related to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and farmers’ markets. Coalitions made up of nonprofits focused on hunger, farmers, and health collaborate to impact relevant policies in their respective states. The...
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    Capstone Project
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    Sally K. Gallagher Committee Member, Professor, Sociology Program, School of Public Policy, Oregon

  • 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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    Dissertation
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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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    Dissertation
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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

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    sustainability “institutionalized” at community colleges that are judged to be exemplary in this regard? (b

  • An Analysis of Community Attributes Likely to Result in School Districts Repealing Native American Mascots

    Creator:
    Miller, Alethia T.
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    Michigan’s State Department of Education issued a resolution in 2003 calling for all public K-12 schools to repeal their American Indian mascots and in 2013 the Michigan Department of Civil Rights filed a complaint with the United States Department of Education in response to school districts failing to do so....
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    Capstone Project
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    Michigan’s State Department of Education issued a resolution in 2003 calling for all public K-12 schools to