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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

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

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

Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

Creator:: Crateau, Carole Ann
Abstract:: The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to guide middle school and high school students into critical thinking about environmental issues. Through keen observation of their bioregion and through an integration of interdisciplinary literature which focuses on Oregon writers, students will be challenged to think, write, and discuss current issues...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Oregon has four distinct natural systems or bioregions: one, the Pacific Border Province which extends

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:: an exploratory case study at two rural Oregon ‘natural resource’ schools to investigate teachers

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:: operations research techniques could be used to better manage the natural resource base. By providing a

Integrated research in natural resources : an exploratory analysis of five case studies

Creator:: O'Toole, Elaine Susan
Abstract:: Integrated research that attempts to bring together social, biological, and physical variables is a recent phenomenon in natural resources. Scientists, land managers, politicians, and society as a whole have recognized that in order to produce optimal decisions for both humans and the environment, research on the interactions between the two...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

TEK and tribal-federal collaboration : three case studies in the western United States

Creator:: Thompson, Sara Anne
Abstract:: The goal of this research is to understand factors influencing the use of TEK in natural resource management collaborations between tribes and federal agencies. This includes what evidence exists that TEK is being used, what tribal factors influence the use of TEK, what agency factors influence the use of TEK,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Economic impacts of federal and state river protection in the rural riverside housing market : the Upper Deschutes River, Oregon

Creator:: Grasty, Brent L.
Abstract:: Hedonic Pricing is an effective and versatile method of estimating the relationships between market prices and environmental quality in a world of changing natural resource decisions. One natural resource policy not yet studied using Hedonic Pricing is the protection of free-flowing rivers. As the pressures of development and outdoor recreation...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

Public knowledge, preferences and involvement in adaptive ecosystem management

Learning to address complexity in natural resource management

Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

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

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

Integrated research in natural resources : an exploratory analysis of five case studies

TEK and tribal-federal collaboration : three case studies in the western United States

Economic impacts of federal and state river protection in the rural riverside housing market : the Upper Deschutes River, Oregon

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