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  • The economics of carbon sequestration in western Oregon forests

    Creator:
    Im, Eun Ho
    Abstract:
    This study considered regional forest policies for sequestering carbon in existing forests in western Oregon. A model of log markets in western Oregon was employed to examine the impacts of forest policy changes on future carbon stock, harvests, and management activities. A carbon tax program, as a mitigation option for...
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    Dissertation
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    agricultural and forest products prices as land bases and product outputs change or landowners’ behavioral

  • Radiative forcing and forest climate policy

    Creator:
    Thompson, Matthew P.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is comprised of two manuscripts that relate to forest-based management strategies in the context of market-based climate change mitigation policies. The work questions the appropriateness of a singular focus on carbon sequestration given the albedo effect and its possible countervailing climatic impacts. Through a review of salient literature...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Matthew P. Thompson for the degree of Master of Science in Forest Resources presented on December 5

  • Livelihoods and land use change in highland Ethiopia

    Creator:
    Guillozet, Kathleen
    Abstract:
    This dissertation investigates livelihood and land use change dynamics in a community at the farm-forest periphery in highland Ethiopia. I use interviews and livelihood assessment data to compare the strategies used by members of different wealth groups to negotiate and maintain access to forest resources, and integrate socioeconomic, bio-physical and...
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    Dissertation
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    the productive capacity of the forest on economic, cultural, ecological, spiritual and political

  • Sustainable biomass supply from fuel reduction treatments : a biomass assessment of federally owned land in eastern Oregon

    Creator:
    Vogler, Kevin C.
    Abstract:
    Wildfire exclusion over the past century or more has resulted in extensive fuel accumulations throughout much of the West that combined with recent climatic patterns have increased the frequency of relatively uncommon, large, high-severity wildfires. Forest restoration treatments intended to alter landscape-level fire disturbance patterns can be difficult to implement...
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    Masters Thesis
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    THESIS OF Kevin C. Vogler for the degree of Master of Science in Forest Resources presented on