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The accuracy, applicability and transferability of contingent valuation measures for nonmarket goods

Creator:: Berrens, Robert Patrick, 1962-
Abstract:: Despite several decades of research developments, the survey-based contingent valuation (CV) method remains one of the most controversial topics in environmental economics. As the procedure matures and more applied studies are completed, there is increasing pressure to make the results policy relevant. This research is composed of three distinct yet...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -specific application(s) of the CV method. The motivating question for this research endeavor can be stated

Farm level response to agricultural effluent control strategies : the case of the Willamette Valley

Creator:: Taylor, Michael L. (Michael Lester), 1960-
Abstract:: Changes in the structure of the U.S. agricultural industry since World War II have transformed it into a highly productive component of the domestic economy. But these changes have not occurred without indirect costs. For example, the reliance on agricultural chemicals has produced environmental effects causing growing concern. In addition,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , the U.S.E.P.A.'s most recent National Water Quality * Pollutant types: Oxygen demanding wastes (BOD

An economic analysis of household recycling of solid wastes : the case of Portland, Oregon

Creator:: Hong, Seonghoon
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: relationship between total solid wastes generated and a market good is written as where S is the amount of

An economic analysis of alternative water allocations and habitat investments for anadromous fish production, John Day Basin, Oregon

Creator:: Cerda, Arcadio Alberto
Abstract:: This thesis focuses on the economic efficiency of alternative habitat, streamfiow, and land use allocations within a major drainage of the Pacific Northwest. Specifically, productivity of present habitat and streamfiow conditions is evaluated with respect to anadromous fish species (chinook salmon and steelhead trout) in the John Day River Basin,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: energy facilities in the 1960's and 1970's. Impacts on the basin's fish populations were profound. Power

Taxonomy and evolution of the Orthotyline genus Lopidea (Heteroptera: miridae)

Creator:: Asquith, Adam
Abstract:: The genus Lopidea Uhler is revised for America north of Mexico. The relationship of Lopidea to other orthotyline genera is discussed and it is proposed that the genus Ilnacora Reuter is the sister group of Lopidea. Forty-eight species of Lopidea are recognized in North America, one of which is described...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (Heteroptera: miridae) AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Adam Asquith for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

Strength, power, flexibility, and bone density in adult men

Creator:: Adams, Kent
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Relative effectiveness of three instructional strategies on the learning of an overarm throw for force

Creator:: Adams, Deborah Lee
Abstract:: This study investigated the relative effectiveness of three instructional strategies on the learning of an overarm throw among preadolescent females. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of the following instructional strategies: a correct model supplemented with verbal cues, a learning model supplemented with verbal cues, and verbal cues only. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: acquisition has prompted considerable interest among psychologists since the 1960's (i.e., Bandura 1965

The relationship between social contact and comfort with social interaction among student ethnic groups at Oregon State University

Creator:: Adams, Susan Elizabeth, 1952-
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of social interaction and social distance or comfort among five undergraduate ethnic groups (African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Caucasian Americans, and Hispanic Americans) at Oregon State University. Another purpose was to explore the correlation between the level of social...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of which have extensive research devoted to them. As early as 1922, Emory S. Bogardus' interest in

Strategies for the development of sustainable agriculture in Bangladesh

Creator:: Islam, Md. Shahidul
Abstract:: The adoption of modem agricultural technologies in Bangladesh increases overall agricultural productivity and income primarily through the increase in cereal crop production. It, however, impedes the productivity of several other minor crops and fishes, widens the distribution of income between the rich and the poor, exploits resources and obstructs the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: members, Richard M. Adams, Frank S. Conklin, Stanley F. Miller and Floyd W. Bodyfelt for their valuable

Chloroplast DNA variability and phylogeny in the California closed cone pines

Creator:: Hong, Yong-pyo, 1958-
Abstract:: Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) variability and phylogeny were studied via analysis of restriction site mutations and DNA sequencing in a complex of three closely related species of pines: Pinus radiata D. Don, P. attenuata Lemm., and muricata D. Don. Genomic DNA from 384 trees representing 20 populations in the complex were...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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The accuracy, applicability and transferability of contingent valuation measures for nonmarket goods

Farm level response to agricultural effluent control strategies : the case of the Willamette Valley

An economic analysis of household recycling of solid wastes : the case of Portland, Oregon

An economic analysis of alternative water allocations and habitat investments for anadromous fish production, John Day Basin, Oregon

Taxonomy and evolution of the Orthotyline genus Lopidea (Heteroptera: miridae)

Strength, power, flexibility, and bone density in adult men

Relative effectiveness of three instructional strategies on the learning of an overarm throw for force

The relationship between social contact and comfort with social interaction among student ethnic groups at Oregon State University

Strategies for the development of sustainable agriculture in Bangladesh

Chloroplast DNA variability and phylogeny in the California closed cone pines

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