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

    Creator:
    Schermer, Maren
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    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...
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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
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    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...
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  • 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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    correlations held some level of significance (p<.05). The rural-urban continuum produced the largest

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

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    Wigtil, Gabriel A.
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    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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    Dr. Brent S. Steel, representing Political Science Dr. Jeffrey D. Kline, representing USDA

  • The Influence of Tax Composition on Tax Evasion

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    Ivlieva, Anastasiia
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    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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    ., labor laws, quality standards, etc.) (p. 3). Boadway and Richter (2005) note that the size of the

  • The Missing Link: Use of Renewable Energy Codification in U.S. Cities

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    Mathur, Shivani
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    Cities of the world today house more than half the world’s population, contribute to 80 percent of the global GDP, consume approximately 70 percent of the global energy and produce 70 percent of the greenhouse gases produced worldwide (Floater et al., 2014; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2014). City governments...
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    . Elizabeth Doris, Jeffrey, J. Cook, Alexandra Aznar, Alexander Dane, and Megan Day, my colleagues at the

  • Evaluating the EWEB Model: Institutional Structure as a Determinant in the Success of a Voluntary Landowner Incentive Program

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    Fishler, Hillary
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    Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB) located in Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, is developing a voluntary landowner incentive program that will provide monetary incentives to non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners in the McKenzie River Watershed, EWEB’s drinking water source for the metropolitan area of Eugene, to promote good stewardship of...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Jeffrey D. Kline, representing USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station

  • The Politics of Small Farm Policy in Oregon

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    Merritt, Terence
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    During the 2011 Oregon Legislative session, seven bills were debated that addressed policy affecting small farms. This paper seeks to understand the environment surrounding these bills: what is the political structure for determining small farm policy? To answer this question seven policymakers were interviewed and two legislative hearings were observed....
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  • Exploring the Perspectives and Behaviors of Teachers on Invasive Species

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    Root, Skye
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    This study explores the role of classroom use of live organisms as a pathway for the spread of invasive species. The overall guiding research question is “Are behavioral changes necessary to reduce the spread from the classroom pathway?” Using focus groups comprised of key educators, this study seeks to identify...
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    , Jeffrey McDonnell, Todd Jarvis, Mary Santelmann, Marshall English, Greg Perry, Aaron Wolf, Brenda

  • International environmental treaty-making. The future of the UN BBNJ Treaty

    Creator:
    Banshchikova, Inga
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    Because the environmental threats are becoming global in scope, international cooperation and global governance issues are in the spotlight. The most controversial environmental law and policy problems arise in the areas where no individual state has sole responsibility for governing, "global commons." Scholars believe that the best way to deal...
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    politics (Chasek, Downie, and Brown, 2014, p.1). Many by-products of global economic growth (water and