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Optimizing spatial and temporal aspects of nature reserve design under economic and ecological objectives

Creator:: Nalle, Darek J.
Abstract:: Alteration of natural areas in attempts to support increasing human populations has been a crucial yet less publicized contributor to the fall of many of the world's greatest civilizations, since healthy ecosystems can help maintain stable societies and economies. Given this unhappy fact and the ancient relationship between people and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Claire A r~mery "'-~"' Alteration of natural areas in attempts to support increasing human

Learning to address complexity in natural resource management

Creator:: Kakoyannis, Christina
Abstract:: Conventional natural resource management has struggled with effectively addressing dynamically complex natural resource issues. Many organizations structured in the rational-analytical paradigm of resource management are becoming increasingly aware that new management approaches are needed. Particularly in a rapidly changing environment, organizational learning is important for promoting an organization's ability to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Trends in wilderness use and their social and ecological implications

Creator:: Hall, Troy E.
Abstract:: Three studies were performed in Oregon wildernesses. The first used wilderness permit and trailhead registration data to evaluate trends in use of Three Sisters, Mt. Jefferson, and Eagle Cap Wildernesses from 1976 to 1994. Recreational visitor days were found to have declined, but the number of visits increased dramatically, because...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The impacts of social change in natural resource management : a central Oregon regional study

Creator:: Sharp, Shayla B.
Abstract:: The sentiments expressed by Wells capture the fundamental nature of natural resource and land management in Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook County, Oregon. Driven by the attraction and abundance of natural and scenic amenities in central Oregon, increases in recreation, tourism, population, development and conflict, have contributed to the complexities of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Who's in place, who's out of place : examining the politics of natural resource collaboration

Creator:: Cheng, Antony S.
Abstract:: A qualitative research approach composed of three strategies was employed to systematically examine the politics of natural resource collaboration. First, using the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds as a case study, the behavioral assumptions of natural resource policy instruments enabling collaboration were uncovered and analyzed. Three key assumptions emerge:...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: to systematically examine the politics of natural resource collaboration. First, using the Oregon

Playing with pedagogy : a case study of contextual teaching and learning for the natural resources classroom

Creator:: Greene, Kim (Kimberly Kate)
Abstract:: This thesis investigates Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) as a method of instruction for natural resources education. The research follows the adoption of CTL in the K-12 classrooms of six teachers focusing on natural resources education at two rural schools in Western Oregon. CTL is being investigated because it connects...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: focusing on natural resources education at two rural schools in Western Oregon. CTL is being investigated

Public knowledge, preferences and involvement in adaptive ecosystem management

Creator:: Williams, Robert Lawrence
Abstract:: Few studies analyze the relationship between ecological knowledge and public preferences for natural resource management options. The Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area (CCAMA) and McKenzie watershed of western Oregon provides an opportunity to examine the relationship. This research project employs a mixed model approach to explore public knowledge of forest...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: analyze the relationship between ecological knowledge and public preferences for natural resource

Down by the creek : understanding landowner perspectives on streamside health and management

Creator:: Wiskind, Adam
Abstract:: Both policy makers and private landowners have come to recognize the importance of streamside areas in the maintenance of water quality and fish habitat. Because non-industrial landowners own 42% of the streamside area in the Coast Range, their management is a significant factor in the streamside health of Western Oregon....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Post-fire recreation management in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness

Creator:: Brown, Ryan N. K.
Abstract:: Natural events such as wildfires, floods, and storms can significantly alter the short-term structure and functioning of natural systems. Recreation in wilderness areas is one instance in which individuals are directly exposed to post-disturbance landscapes. Consequently, public land managers may be faced with a different set of challenges stemming from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Wilderness in Oregon. Data on recreational users of a wilderness area were collected by administering an

McDonald Forest : a case study in the use of the recreation opportunity spectrum planning framework in an near-urban forest

Creator:: Finley, Marlene T.
Abstract:: Managing near-urban forests is a challenge because people living nearby care about these places and often express their concerns. The near-urban forest situation alerts us that there is a need for an approach to land use planning and management which deals with the multiplicity of values expressed by the urban...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Optimizing spatial and temporal aspects of nature reserve design under economic and ecological objectives

Learning to address complexity in natural resource management

Trends in wilderness use and their social and ecological implications

The impacts of social change in natural resource management : a central Oregon regional study

Who's in place, who's out of place : examining the politics of natural resource collaboration

Playing with pedagogy : a case study of contextual teaching and learning for the natural resources classroom

Public knowledge, preferences and involvement in adaptive ecosystem management

Down by the creek : understanding landowner perspectives on streamside health and management

Post-fire recreation management in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness

McDonald Forest : a case study in the use of the recreation opportunity spectrum planning framework in an near-urban forest

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