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  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    , and the material struggle for subsistence” (2004:28-9). By examining human adjustments to natural

  • Defining agricultural sustainability in the Marys River region of Oregon

    Creator:
    Stanton, Michael
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    This ethnographic study explores the social aspects of agricultural land-use in the Marys River region. The study seeks to understand how farmers define sustainability and how their views on agricultural issues help to define a sense of place and identity in the Marys River region, within the context of the...
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    Dissertation
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    ................................................................ 106 Table 6: Change in Farms Numbers in Benton County Oregon................................ 117

  • Development and decommissioning of small dams : analysis of impact and context

    Creator:
    Kibler, Kelly Maren
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    Management of small dams may have profound implications for the health and integrity of small rivers and freshwater diversity. Global indicators suggest future growth in the small hydropower sector, particularly in developing countries. As a renewable energy source, it is often presumed that small hydropower entails fewer and less severe...
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     River, Oregon, aquatic habitats directly below  the dam became  more heterogeneous over  the short

  • Understanding the impact of climate change on snowpack extent and measurement in the Columbia River Basin and nested sub basins

    Creator:
    Brown, Aimee Lyn
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    Shifting climate patterns in the Columbia River basin are affecting snow pack, and, as a result, stream flow throughout the region. In the Oregon Cascades, ever growing populations, and their associated activities, place increasing stress on an already over allocated hydrologic system. Political pressures, including the possibility of renegotiation or...
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  • The Accessible Foodscape: Vulnerable Populations, Policy, and Navigating Complex Strategies

    Creator:
    Caplan, Shannon
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    The act of accessing food is embedded within various systems of power. This dissertation problematizes our understanding of food access for vulnerable populations by making explicit ways that social constructions, including power, affect food access for vulnerable populations. This is accomplished across three manuscripts. The first manuscript presents textual analysis...
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    Dissertation
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    .................................................................................................51 3.3 Sample Census Tract Values: Benton County, Oregon .....................................53

  • Responsible Generation: How Care Ethics Can Activate a Just Energy Transition

    Creator:
    Grubby, Emily C.
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    At the urging of international scientists, large industrialized nations like the United States must transition away from fossil fuel energy and toward renewable energy by 2030 in order to stay the tide of climate change. To complete this energy transition citizens must take up responsibilities to change the known paradigms...
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    Masters Thesis
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    customers. For Pacific Power customers in Oregon, this means roughly 75% coal and natural gas.9 While this

  • Risky business : evaluating the vulnerability and impacts from simulated oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico

    Creator:
    Nelson, Jake R.
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    Exploration and production of oil in the Gulf of Mexico has seen an astonishing increase since the first well was drilled in 1936. Much of the current exploration is occurring in waters greater than 5000 feet. The largest and most unprecedented oil spill in the United States occurred on April...
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    within a specific county was assigned the economic attributes of that county using their spatial