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An assessment of community-based adaptive watershed management in three Umpqua Basin Watersheds

Creator:: Habron, Geoffrey Bryan
Abstract:: The dissertation introduces community-based adaptive watershed management (CAWM) as a holistic conservation framework. The CAWM framework integrates social and ecological suitability to achieve conservation outcomes. The core theoretical concepts consist of adaptive management, adoption-diffusion, symbolic interactionism, community-based conservation, spatial analysis and watershed management. The CAWM framework is applied to the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: landowner interviews, a mail landowner survey and observations of the Umpqua Basin Watershed Council

Watershed and climate influences on flood frequency distributions in the Willamette River basin

Creator:: Tolle, Timothy Victor
Abstract:: Problem areas identified are: The needs a) to develop curve fitting procedures to estimate flood flow distributions; b) to incorporate precipitation data into frequency analysis procedures; and c) to better define flood potentials for ungauged streams. Closely related to the above, it is noted that variables commonly used to estimate...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 1. Stream Direction (Ds) 71 2. Watershed Orientation (Dw) 71 3. Basin Orientation (Db) 72 EV

Resilience of large river basins : applying social-ecological systems theory, conflict management, and collaboration on the Mekong and Columbia Basins

Creator:: MacQuarrie, Patrick R.
Abstract:: River basins provide essential services for both humans and ecosystems. Understanding the connections between ecosystems and society and their function has been at the heart of resilience studies and has become an increasing important endeavor in research and practice. In this dissertation, I define basin resilience as a river basin...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: assess resilience at sub-basin (provincial), watershed (national), and basin (regional) scales

Managed artificial aquifer recharge and hydrological studies in the Walla Walla Basin to improve river and aquifer conditions

Creator:: Petrides Jiménez, Arístides Crisóstomos
Abstract:: This research project focuses on the Walla Walla River Basin located on the east side of the states of Oregon and Washington, USA. With the support and collaboration of the Walla Walla Basin Watershed Council, this work embraces four research topics. The first topic includes the feasibility study of artificial...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , USA. With the support and collaboration of the Walla Walla Basin Watershed Council, this work

Enhancing social-ecological resilience in the Colorado River Basin

Creator:: Eidem, Nathan T.
Abstract:: This research presents the Colorado River basin as a social-ecological system. Utilizing event data on cooperative and conflictive interactions over fresh water, the system is decomposed to look for evidence of outcomes of resilience enhancement. The Animas-La Plata Project in the upper San Juan basin is presented as a case...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the Upper San Juan Basin .. 92 Table 3.4: Events coded to the Upper San Juan watershed by issue

Effects of potato cropping practices on nitrate leaching in the Columbia basin

Creator:: McMorran, Jeffrey P.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the Columbia basin AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jeffrey P. McMorran for the degree of Doctor of

Water scarcity and reservoir reliability in basins affected by climate and land use change : impacts of hydrogeology, sensitivities, and uncertainties in the Santiam River Basin, Oregon

Creator:: Mateus, M. Cristina
Abstract:: Multipurpose management of hydrosystems face a number of uncertainties related to hydrologic variability and nonstationarity. Anticipated air temperature increases in the Pacific Northwest region are projected to alter the timing and quantity of streamflow associated with precipitation shifting from snow to rain, including shorter winter runoff periods, earlier spring runoff,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Land Use Change: Impacts of Hydrogeology, Sensitivities, and Uncertainties in the Santiam River Basin

Nutritional and managerial considerations for wintering beef cattle in the northern Great Basin

Creator:: Brandyberry, Steven D.
Abstract:: A study was conducted to determine effects of year and season on diet quality of beef cattle grazing northern Great Basin rangelands from 1990 to 1993. Forage quality was high early in the growing season, then declined as seasons progressed (P<.05). Plant chemical composition was higher early in the growing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: cattle in the northern Great Basin AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Steven D. Brandyberry for the degree

Optimizing Reservoir Operations to Adapt to 21st Century Expectations of Climate and Social Change in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon

Creator:: Moore, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: Reservoir systems in the western US are managed to serve two main competing purposes: to reduce flooding during the winter and spring, and to provide water supply for multiple uses during the summer. Because the storage capacity of a reservoir cannot be used for both flood damage reduction and water...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 21 st Century Expectations of Climate and Social Change in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon

Social Learning and Adaptive Capacity in Collaborative Watershed Partnerships

Creator:: Calvert, Daniel T.
Abstract:: This dissertation examines learning driven adaptations in salmon recovery efforts and water resources management in Oregon. The case study utilizes a framework highlighting the connections between human and natural systems. Semi-structured interviews are used to analyze interactions between rural riparian landowners and watershed council staffs living and working in Oregon’s...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: landowners and watershed council staffs living and working in Oregon’s Upper Willamette River basin

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An assessment of community-based adaptive watershed management in three Umpqua Basin Watersheds

Watershed and climate influences on flood frequency distributions in the Willamette River basin

Resilience of large river basins : applying social-ecological systems theory, conflict management, and collaboration on the Mekong and Columbia Basins

Managed artificial aquifer recharge and hydrological studies in the Walla Walla Basin to improve river and aquifer conditions

Enhancing social-ecological resilience in the Colorado River Basin

Effects of potato cropping practices on nitrate leaching in the Columbia basin

Water scarcity and reservoir reliability in basins affected by climate and land use change : impacts of hydrogeology, sensitivities, and uncertainties in the Santiam River Basin, Oregon

Nutritional and managerial considerations for wintering beef cattle in the northern Great Basin

Optimizing Reservoir Operations to Adapt to 21st Century Expectations of Climate and Social Change in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon

Social Learning and Adaptive Capacity in Collaborative Watershed Partnerships

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