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Three essays on the effectiveness of Oregon's land-use planning system : economic analysis with quasi-experimental methods

Creator:

Dempsey, Judith

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Oregon's land use planning system is often recognized as having been successful in its goals of limiting urban sprawl and protecting resource lands from development. However, it is difficult to quantify the impact of these regulations, because we cannot observe what would have happened in the absence of land use...

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Dissertation

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. There are currently 31 cities in Oregon that vote for annexations, and each city has held multiple
How Do Population Growth, Land-use Regulations, and Precipitation Patterns Affect Water Use? A Fine-scale Empirical Analysis of Landscape Change

Creator:

Bigelow, Daniel P.

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A growing body of literature exists on how human population growth and changes in climatic factors influence the availability of water (Elliot et al. 2014, Prudhomme et al. 2014). These studies typically conclude that climate change is expected to have negative consequences on water availability, an effect that is magnified...

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Dissertation

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within the vicinity of the city, (2) the rate of population growth occurring within the city, and (3