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  • Diagnosing barriers to climate change adaptation Oregon state agencies

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    Dello, Kathie D.
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    Despite a history of leadership and creative approaches to environmental issues, Oregon has struggled to adequately prepare for the current and future impacts of climate change. Oregon faces barriers and limits to understanding, planning, and implementing climate adaptation that can be examined and quantified. Climate change makes for an additional...
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    7 counterpart in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) (Oregon SOS

  • The Challenges and Opportunities of a Proactive Endangered Species Act : A Case Study of the Greater Sage Grouse

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    Taylor, Casey Lynn
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    The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is considered by many to be among the most powerful and most contentious environmental laws in the United States. Persistent challenges to the Act’s implementation make reaching conservation goals problematic. Most notably, the very nature of the law—providing protections for species already at...
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    among the most powerful and most contentious environmental laws in the United States. Persistent

  • Beyond Cooperation : Environmental Justice in Transboundary Water Management

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    Watson, Julie Elkins
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    Since the Wolf, Yoffe, and Giordano 2003 Basins at Risk study, examining human interactions with transboundary water resources through a lens of conflict and cooperation has been a dominant paradigm. The Basins at Risk (BAR) method involves categorizing events on a scale from most conflictive (e.g. war or extensive casualties)...
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    . Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) definition of environmental justice in terms of fair treatment and

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

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    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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     ............................................................................................... 267  Modeling changes to water quality

  • Visualization in environmental science

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    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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    Visualization in Environmental Science AN ABSTRACT OF

  • Groundwater arsenic concentrations and cancer incidence rates : a regional comparison in Oregon

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    Fleming, Harmony S.
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    Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a global issue with national and local implications. Chronic exposure to arsenic in drinking water has been linked to both carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health outcomes. The primary exposure route of inorganic arsenic is ingestion from drinking water due to natural contamination in groundwater from dissolution...
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    and Prevention EPA: United States Environmental Protection Agency GIS: Geographic Information

  • Understanding environmentalism in six Asian countries : an analysis of the world values survey

    Creator:
    Choi, Eugene
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    This dissertation focuses on a central question for six countries in Asia: what factors affect environmentalism? Numerous studies have proposed mixed theoretical explanations for the relationship between diverse values and beliefs regarding environmentalism. Although these diverse studies propose theories for the fast-growing and multifaceted environmentalism in Asia, here it is...
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    ........................................................... 67   Table 4-8. Environmental membership and confidence in environmental protection movement

  • 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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    concurrent with the growth in the environmental movement in the United States. Although it would be unfair

  • Conservation volunteer tourism at a reserve in Ecuador : effects of perceptions, discourse, and motivations on human-environment relations

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    Grimm, Kerry E.
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    The number of people traveling to other countries to volunteer for conservation or humanitarian projects has increased dramatically in the past three decades. Despite substantial interest in volunteer tourism, few researchers have examined: (a) the role of promotional material (e.g., brochures, internet websites) in motivating volunteers; (b) factors that attract...
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    OF THE DISSERTATION OF Kerry E. Grimm for the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in Environmental

  • Communities, Collaboration, and Climate Change Adaptation : Case Studies from Coastal Maine and Oregon

    Creator:
    Kelly, Miriah Russo
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    Twenty five years' worth of science indicates that the world can expect a number of climate change impacts. Increasingly, local municipalities, businesses and communities of people are becoming more concerned about what to do, yet they are looking for ways to best work together under these conditions. Communities must adapt...
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    communities of people (Environmental Protection Agency, n.d.; Melillo et.al., 2014). Coastal communities