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  • Strengthening Oregon's communities : Latino community leadership training

    Creator:
    Curiel, Sara
    Abstract:
    Latinos are less likely to be civically involved in their community than any other minority group, despite the fact that they are the biggest minority in the United States. A great concern exists over ways to effectively promote and improve this group’s participation in their community’s decision-making process [or civic...
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    Sara Curiel AN ABSTRACT OF AN

  • Assessing the feasibility of policy prescriptions in the Salmon 2100 Project

    Creator:
    Whitehead, Katharine S.
    Abstract:
    Wild salmon populations are in decline in the Pacific Northwest. In the region populations and runs of Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytsha), Chum (Oncorhynchus keta), Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch), Sockey (Oncorhynchus nerka), and Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) have been listed as threatened and/or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the U.S. and/or...
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    Act (SARA) in Canada in the years 1991-2007. Considerable time, money and brainpower has been put

  • Evaluation of the intergovernmental relationships between national and state wetland regulatory agencies within wetland regulatory units

    Creator:
    Taylor, Ryan W
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    Since the 1890s, American federalism has been perceived as being unique in the world by having two different levels of government operating within the same jurisdiction without influencing one another. Modern scholars call into question the validity of this basic assumption, but few have published quantitative evidence to reject its...
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    Dissertation
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    Appendix B: Socioeconomic Variables ...................................................... 277 Appendix C

  • Predicting the Relationships between High School Characteristics and High School Community College Enrollment Rate Using the Oregon Promise.

    Creator:
    Murray-Jensen, Julie
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    Background: Legislators, policy-makers, and leaders in higher education and within communities, are increasingly turning to place-based scholarships, or “promise programs”, to encourage college enrollment and address growing public concerns regarding college affordability. One such program, the Oregon Promise, was implemented across the state of Oregon in the fall of 2016....
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    application rate, (b) high school socio-economic status, (c) high school racial demographics, (d) high

  • 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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    and tobacco price." (An elder, Village C, 2015) CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL HAZARDS Climate

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

    Creator:
    Banshchikova, Inga
    Abstract:
    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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    Capstone Project

  • Analyzing and Understanding the Latvian Environmental Movement

    Creator:
    Berzins, Mikelis I.
    Abstract:
    Several distinctive environmental movements of the past century have had major influence on public policies in the United States. More generally, social movements that push environmental issues into the limelight have the potential for significantly altering public perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs, thus driving big policy changes. This thesis examines the...
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    infeasibility, and a lack of resources were prevalent (Acemoglu and Robinson, 2012; Gulag, 2014). The

  • Higher Education Diversity Work and its Discontents: Theorizing Student Social Media Activism as Counter-hegemonic Network of Practice

    Creator:
    Robertson, Rebecca
    Abstract:
    Diversity and inclusion represent central challenges and opportunities in the transnational field of higher education, as the number of students enrolled in higher education has expanded exponentially over the past century and universal access to tertiary education has emerged as a development imperative. Within this context, diversity has emerged as...
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    Dissertation
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    …………………………….146 B. #DiversityisNotInclusion Network Density Table…………………...147 C. Research Agenda

  • Carnism ideology in food waste management: A qualitative comparison among stakeholders in the US state of Oregon, and the Italian Region of Emilia Romagna

    Creator:
    Rhodes, Amanda
    Abstract:
    People in the US and Europe eat the most meat worldwide, lose or waste about 20% of this product overall, and they waste the most food per capita. Food waste is currently addressed as an issue of volume, so programs and policies target foods that are wasted more by weight...
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    Capstone Project
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    ........................................................................................................................................................ 99 Appendix C. Meat Eating Justifications Codes

  • Essays on Public-Private Contracting

    Creator:
    Gultom, Yohanna M. L.
    Abstract:
    In this work, I address foundational concerns at the interface of institutions, governance structure, transaction costs, and efficiency in public-private contracting. Following transaction cost economic perspective, I build and justify the theoretical models explaining that institutions may affect the economic performance of public-private contracting through the effect of transaction costs....
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    ; Moe, 1984, 1994, 1997; Acemoglu & Robinson, 2012; Winters & Page, 2009). The foundational

  • We Can Work it Out: Implementation and Collaborative Governance

    Creator:
    Knobloch, Jenna
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    Collaborative governance strives to address complex environmental problems by building cooperation and consensus among stakeholders. While there are many successful examples of collaborative governance, all too frequently collaborative groups come to an agreement in the meeting room only to struggle to bring their plans to fruition. What are the factors...
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    stakeholders (Robinson et al. 2011). However, long time frames can undermine the level of inclusivity

  • Keeping state policy public : meeting accountability in commission governance

    Creator:
    Stauffer, Scott
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    Despite their widespread use and presence at all levels of government, public commissions and boards are rarely given much attention, by the general public, academia, or surprisingly by public policy and agency experts. As a state infrastructure governing entity transportation commissions often deal with controversy, but do we really understand...
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    Capstone Project

  • 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...
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    Capstone Project
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    data entered in time to meet deadline after deadline. Thanks much to Tyler Robinson and Trevor

  • Barriers to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: A Case Study

    Creator:
    Allen, Solomon
    Abstract:
    The use of FDA-approved medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) is a critical tool in reducing the impacts of the opioid crisis. Despite the known benefits of these medications, access to these treatments is lacking more than two decades into the opioid crisis. While most policy changes...
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    medications are secondary to another form of treatment (NASEM, 2019; Robinson & Adinoff, 2018). To explicate

  • Laws, Regulations and Action Plans for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances found in Michigan drinking water supplies

    Creator:
    Whitley, Jamie M.
    Abstract:
    Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have emerged in the last half century as concerning global contaminants. PFASs have been found in drinking water systems causing negative health impacts for those who rely on this as their primary source of drinking water. PFASs are man-made industrial chemicals composed of carbon chains...
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    Capstone Project
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    Consent…………………………………. 74 Appendix C: Sample PFASs Water Test Results………………………………. 75

  • Visualization in environmental science

    Creator:
    Winters, Kirsten M.
    Abstract:
    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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    survey..................................................................164 C NVivo Software Output

  • Effect of Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations on Healthcare Utilization and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes Among Low-income Women with Chronic Mental-Physical Comorbidities

    Creator:
    Masoumirad, Mandana
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    Background: The number of people diagnosed with chronic physical conditions is increasing in the United States. Chronic mental illnesses are also common in the country. Low-income women and those on Medicaid bear a disproportionate burden of chronic conditions and these conditions significantly contribute to obstetric morbidity. Prioritizing preventive measures and...
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    ............................................................................................................... 114 Appendix C

  • Social Learning and Adaptive Capacity in Collaborative Watershed Partnerships

    Creator:
    Calvert, Daniel T.
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    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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    landowners can be associated with learning in COP (Raymond & Robinson, 2013). These sources point towards

  • Transboundary groundwater : geopolitical consequences, commons sense, and the law of the hidden sea

    Creator:
    Jarvis, William Todd
    Abstract:
    With 97% of the world’s freshwater resources stored underground, the connection between groundwater resources to the metrics of space, scale and time common to the geographic study of natural resources has not been extensively investigated by geographers. While nearly 240 transboundary aquifers are mapped across the world, a potential “tragedy”...
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    …………………………………………………… 143 Appendix C: Listing of Groundwater Resources Domains in International Agreements

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

    Creator:
    Gordon, Ryan Patrick
    Abstract:
    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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    ................................................................................ 81   APPENDIX C: Survey Overview & Quantitative Data Summary .................... 85   APPENDIX