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Effects of land use policy on urban growth rates in the Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Davis, Ellen and Davis, Ellen H.
Abstract:: This study seeks to determine the correlation between changes in statewide land use planning policies and the resulting periods of high or low urban growth in the Willamette Valley, Oregon using automated classification methods and freely available satellite imagery. To protect its farms, forests and open spaces, Oregon became the...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: June, 2013 Directed by Dr. Laurence Becker Table of Contents

Suburbanization of industry in the Portland Metropolitan Area

Creator:: Lesch, Jack D.
Abstract:: Until recently, manufacturing in the Portland Metropolitan Area was highly concentrated in the central city, with little industrial activity in the periphery of the urban area except for primary processing of timber and agricultural resources. However, in recent years, especially within the last decade, industrial activity has spilled well beyond...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

It Depends: Defining Cooperation and Evaluating Effectiveness in Transboundary Waters

Creator:: McCracken, Melissa J.
Abstract:: With the increasing international focus on transboundary cooperation as a part of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Framework, there is global recognition of transboundary water cooperation as a tool for improved governance and management of transboundary surface and groundwaters. Yet, there is not an agreed upon definition of transboundary water...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An Analysis of Visitor Awareness of Avalanche Danger at Three Areas - Mt. Hood, Oregon

Creator:: Couche, Stephen W.
Abstract:: Use of backcountry areas in winter by crosscountry skiers, snowshoers, climbers, snowmobilers and others has increased rapidly in the Mt. Hood area of Oregon in recent years. With this increase in use a larger segment of the user population is being exposed to potential a.,pl.H11 Winger. purpose of this study...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Off-shore oil exploration in the Arctic Ocean a comparative analysis of newspaper information and public attitude

Creator:: Tombropoulos, Charles B.
Abstract:: This research questions the effectiveness of newspapers as a vehicle of environmental information by determining whether the public attitude in Alaska towards off-shore oil exploration was consistent with that expressed in the local newspapers. All newspaper articles about off-shore oil exploration published in Alaska between 1980 and May 1987 were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Folcroft Press, 1970. Bishop, George F., Robert W. Oldendick, Alfred J. Tuchfarber, and Stephen E. Bennett

Spatial expressions of farm size changes in the Polk and Linn counties of Oregon

Creator:: Van Otten, George A.
Abstract:: The spatial organization of farm units in Polk and Linn counties in the mid-Willamette Valley has undergone significant change over the past 30 years. Whereas most study areas operations in the 1930's and 1940's consisted of small family owned farms with contiguous land bases, present mid-Willamette Valley units vary considerably...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Scharf, Alfred Wheeler, Irwin Kampfer, Arthur Oh ling, Elton Fishback, and Paul Griffin for allow- ing

Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

Creator:: Poet, Rebecca McClelland
Abstract:: In 1986, researchers from Oregon State University, led by Dr. David Brauner, came to the small Catholic community of St. Paul, Oregon as part of ongoing research on the French-Canadian inhabitants of the Willamette Valley between 1829 and the mid-1860s. They were searching for the remains of the first Catholic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A conceptual paradigm for the evaluation of recreation resources

Creator:: Stankey, George H.
Abstract:: One of the most serious problems confronting modern America is the efficient and rational utilization of the recreation resource base, not only in terms of present demands and needs, but future as well. The resource manager, in the past, has had few guidelines from which to determine the type and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

Creator:: Burk, Rene F.
Abstract:: Cultivated plants are often living artifacts that can aid in evaluation of historic or cultural landscapes. However, a working definition for “culturally significant plant” is currently lacking in the guidance literature for the cultural resource management practitioners. Based on a review of the literature on cultivated plants as indicators of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The role and policy implications of selected external factors as applied to the developmental patterns of five Wyoming fuels

Creator:: Vuk, Melvin M.
Abstract:: The developmental patterns of five fuel resources located within the state of Wyoming are examined through time and in relation to several factors external to the location of the fuels. An historic description and inventory of the five fuels: petroleum; natural gas; oil shale; coal; uranium are presented. External factors...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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Effects of land use policy on urban growth rates in the Willamette Valley, Oregon

Suburbanization of industry in the Portland Metropolitan Area

It Depends: Defining Cooperation and Evaluating Effectiveness in Transboundary Waters

An Analysis of Visitor Awareness of Avalanche Danger at Three Areas - Mt. Hood, Oregon

Off-shore oil exploration in the Arctic Ocean a comparative analysis of newspaper information and public attitude

Spatial expressions of farm size changes in the Polk and Linn counties of Oregon

Women of valor : the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, St. Paul, Oregon, 1844-1852

A conceptual paradigm for the evaluation of recreation resources

An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

The role and policy implications of selected external factors as applied to the developmental patterns of five Wyoming fuels

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