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  • Ecotourism, poverty, and conservation in Prek Toal, Cambodia

    Creator:
    Conway, Kathryn
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    In Prek Toal, a poor subsistence fishing village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, the conservation organization Osmose is using ecotourism revenues to finance poverty intervention programs and promote conservation in a threatened ecosystem. This thesis examines local perceptions of tourism as a measure of Osmose’s success. Limited awareness of tourism...
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    health of surrounding ecosystems. Ecotourism has been touted as the “magic bullet” of sustainable

  • Characterizing and Assessing the Researcher-Stakeholder Engagement Process for Water Sustainability : The Willamette Water 2100 Project

    Creator:
    Ferguson, Laura B.
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    Natural resource management and policy is ideally informed by the best available science. Natural resource researchers ideally participate in broader impacts activities to extend the reach of their best available research. However, there are many cultural, institutional, and practical barriers to participating in broader impact activities and to incorporating science...
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  • Community-based sea turtle monitoring and management at Helen Reef, Hatohobei State, Republic of Palau

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    Barr, Julie M.
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    Remote areas are frequently homes to regional subpopulations of endangered green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) and their essential habitat. Local communities are often the users and primary stewards of this valuable and charismatic resource. Recognizing this, a Hatohobeian community group in Palau has engaged in longterm monitoring and conservation management...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF  Julie Marie Barr for the degree

  • Institutional Analysis of Small Dam Removals

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    Fostvedt, Matthias P.
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    The majority of dam removals are small structures that are governed primarily by state and local bodies. The objective of this study is to characterize and evaluate the governance that has driven recent decisions to remove small dams. In the governance literature on small dam removals, three aspects remain unclear....
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    alternatives, in order of priority, were stream health, regulations, and maintaining the water diversion

  • A topography of dams in China : impacts to agriculture, labor, and migration

    Creator:
    Foster-Moore, Eric
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    Dams are often promoted as a tool to reduce poverty and spur economic development. Dam construction worldwide, and particularly in China, which has built nearly half the world's large dams since 1949, remains contentious due to the potential for negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Despite numerous case studies, there is...
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    a dam’s biophysical impact on the continuum of aquatic ecosystems that collectively define a river

  • Cosmovisions and Farming : An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers' Environmental Values along the Willamette River

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    French, Melissa M.
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    Understanding which factors motivate farmers to adopt certain practices is an important part of helping to solve many agri-environmental issues. This study uses 19 interviews with farmers along Oregon’s Willamette River, a statewide producer survey, and select interviews with organizations and agencies active in the farming community to examine the...
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    phase largely as a response to the negative environmental and health consequences of many conventional

  • Why they volunteer : a study of participants at nature conservancy work parties

    Creator:
    Hastings, Kevin L.
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    This thesis examines the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers with the Oregon chapter of The Nature Conservancy. This study helps fill in voids left by a lack of research on the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers. Studies that have explored restoration volunteer motivation relied largely on surveys that revealed altruistic...
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    compared to egoistic motives (those related to tangible rewards). In a study of volunteers in health and

  • What are the environmental, economic, and social barriers to achieving agricultural sustainability in the Ten Rivers region of western Oregon?

    Creator:
    Stanton, Michael
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    This ethnographic study examined some of the ways that global markets and the infrastructure of agribusiness affect local smallholder farmers in the Ten Rivers region who are transitioning toward more sustainable and traditional agricultural methods. The purpose of this research was to discover what barriers smallholder farmers face in developing...
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    types of agrochemicals. While the health hazards for consumers and farm workers have increased over

  • Cross-cultural and Sustainability Values in International Freshwater Management Institutions

    Creator:
    Porta, E. Lynn
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    In the process of building international water policies and management institutions, like international treaties and River Basin Organizations, States simultaneously signal the values that they view as most important in these different institutions. Examining expressed and acted-upon values for transboundary freshwater management are currently under-explored areas where overlapping lenses of...
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    ecosystem and cultural health (Srivastava, Rai, and Shukla 2017). In the Western branch of the field

  • Central place foraging and the winter village: a settlement pattern analysis in the lower Salmon River Canyon in Idaho

    Creator:
    Carlisle, Kendra
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    Hunter-gatherers depend on naturally occurring resources and, in order to survive, must overcome resource procurement challenges inherent in their environment. One challenge relates to the temporal and spatial availability of resources, which hunter-gatherers address, in part, through the strategic use of space to position themselves for optimal access to necessary...
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    structure of faunal (non-aquatic) resources in terms of size, distribution, and density reflect adaptation