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  • Wind Energy in Klickitat County, Washington

    Creator:
    Grandolfo, Joseph D.
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    Wind energy has widespread public support; nevertheless, the emergence of local support or opposition in response to siting proposals is often unpredictable. Uncertainty surrounding a community’s response is problematic for both the company planning the project and for states pursuing policies for expanded development and use of renewable energy. Given...
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    County (see figure 1). Although “overlay zones” had been a planning tool used to direct various types

  • 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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    : Federal Timber Payments and County Government Expenditures in Oregon. Abstract approved: Bruce Weber

  • 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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    Page 1. Sustainability components…………………………………………………16 2. Campus planning model

  • 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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    range management issues. Emerging urban values and expectations for the landscape often conflict with

  • 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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    the Benton, Jackson, and Lane County planning and elections departments who standout from other

  • An investigation and analysis of the incentives and disincentives for conflict prevention and mitigation in the Bureau of Reclamation's water management

    Creator:
    Ogren, Kimberly
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    This study addresses the question: "What are the incentives and disincentives for conflict prevention and mitigation in the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), and how do they factor into Reclamation's management of water in the western United States?" Incentives and disincentives for conflict prevention (i.e., actions taken to avoid conflict) and...
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    include a lack of forward planning, the existence of an acceptable bandwidth or level of conflict, a

  • 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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    also helps people draw conclusions. Ultimately, scientists are planning to design and create their

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

    Creator:
    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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    vulnerability alone. These results can help inform wildfire prevention, mitigation, and recovery planning

  • Understanding Institutional Barriers and Opportunities to Food-Water-Energy Nexus policy implementation in Oregon

    Creator:
    Lavado Alvarado, Angela Patricia
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    The interdependences among water, energy and food, are diverse and multidimensional and are referred to as the food-water-energy (FWE) nexus. This nexus approach seeks to understand the complex interactions among these sectors, in order to identify synergies and trade-offs that could serve as the basis for developing effective planning and...
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    for developing effective planning and sustainability strategies. Agriculture, water and energy play

  • Complicating the Rural in Oregon's Water Policymaking

    Creator:
    Freeman, Misty
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    The state of Oregon is divided in important ways along rural and urban lines, including the way people make a living, individual and group relationships with the natural world, political ideologies, and personal values. This rural-urban divide has assisted policymakers in making decisions that balance the needs of Oregonians on...
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    . Clackamas Counties) Mid-Coast Basin (Lincoln County) Subregion 1712 of the Malheur Basin (Harney