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  • Conservation programs from the farmer's perspective : where is the greener grass?

    Creator:
    Gibson, Jennifer S.
    Abstract:
    On the national level, landowners demand for conservation programs like EQIP and WRP has far outstripped federal funding in 2001. Yet within Oregon's Willamette Valley, both EQIP and CREP have had a rough time gaining momentum. Much of the past research on rural landowners' conservation participation has relied on surveys...
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    Masters Thesis
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    3 6 6 Pre 1930's: Perceived natural resource abundance pre 1930's 7 1930-60: Conservation policy

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

    Creator:
    Conway, Kathryn
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    Anthropology presented on September 17, 2008 Title: Ecotourism, Poverty, and Conservation in Prek Toal

  • Opposing worldviews : Cuicatec values of cultural and natural resources in a western paradigm

    Creator:
    Hearn, Kyle P.
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    Both conflicts and new identities result when indigenous' traditional values of landscape and resource management are superimposed with federal governments' management of archaeological and forest resources in federally designated protected areas. This thesis examines the relationship and discourse between two Cuicatec towns in Oaxaca, Mexico and three Mexican government agencies...
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    when indigenous’ traditional values of landscape and resource management are superimposed with