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Technology and meaning in natural resource management : the story-making role of GIS in the CLAMS project

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Duncan, Sally

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The working hypothesis for this study is that the introduction of GIS technology into the ancient procedures of map-making has changed the map-making context sufficiently to require a revision of the way we think about, learn from, and use maps, specifically in the public involvement process in natural resource management....

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: Technology and Meaning in Natural Resource Management: The Story- Making Role of GIS in the CLAMS Project
Evaluation of an early stage of the interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project : leadership, organization, and communication/interpersonal relations

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Page, Edward B.

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Leadership, organizational structure, and communication/interpersonal relations are key functions studied. Evaluation of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (Project) considers how well those factors were managed by Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in a bioregional assessment during a period from November, 1994 to November, 1995. Exploration of...

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used in the Project. It was important to see if these forms were practical for the agencies and, ifnot
Analysis of Oregon's Domestic Well Testing Act data for use in a sentinel surveillance system for private well contaminants

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Hoppe, Brenda O.

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The Safe Drinking Water Act ensures that public systems provide water that meets health standards. However, no such protection exists for millions of Americans who obtain water from private wells. Concern for safety is warranted as most wells draw from underground aquifers, and studies demonstrate that groundwater is affected by...

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manure inputs, many relying on the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for processing and
Is dam development a mechanism for human security? Scale and perception of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia and the Xayaburi Dam on the Mekong River in Laos

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Veilleux, Jennifer Corinne

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Human security is a framework related to the stability and sustainability of political, environmental, economical, and socio-cultural areas of concern. Water resources around the world are under increased pressure from increased development, growing populations, pollution, and global climate change. Large-scale dam development while still popular for political and economic development...

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Corinne Veilleux for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Geography presented on April 25, 2014
Co-producing Software for Environmental and Ecological Visualization

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Zanocco, Chad

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Environmental scientists, land managers, and policy actors are increasingly presented with high-stakes high-uncertainty problems stemming from human-ecosystem interactions. To help address these problems, scientists frequently use models that produce enormous geospatial and temporal datasets that are constantly modified and often seek input from communities outside their discipline. To assist scientists—as...

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faculty, researchers, and collaborators involved with the VISTAS project for their invaluable
Water Efficiency for Urban Landscapes in Semi-Arid Environments

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Martinson, Richard W.

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Urban landscape water use is increasingly a focus of water conservation efforts. This is especially true in the arid and semi-arid regions of the western United States where increased demand, environmental concerns, and extended periods of drought have created chronic water shortages. However, until recently, little attention has been paid...

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Richard Martinson for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
Private forests, public policy : oak conservation on family forests in Oregon’s Willamette Valley

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Fischer, Alexandra Paige

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In the United States, many of the thorniest natural resource conflicts occur on private lands. This is especially true in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon where the hallmark habitat type, Oregon white oak woodland and savanna, is imperiled. Almost exclusively found on private land, Oregon white oak is threatened...

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resource professionals— frame the problem of oak’s decline and opportunities and constraints for its
Reallocating resources, rebuilding community : the Klamath Basin agreements and the emergence of adaptive governance

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Chaffin, Brian C.

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The concept of "adaptive governance" represents a spectrum of hybrid approaches to environmental governance employed to guide management of complex social-ecological systems under conditions of high uncertainty. While the concept of adaptive governance has benefited from over a decade of theoretical development, empirical examples of transitions towards adaptive governance are...

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project lands for the remainder of the growing season. The decision lay on the back of a recent U.S
Restructuring of land and community in the remote rural west : the case of Wallowa County, Oregon

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Abrams, Jesse

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Since at least the 1970s, rural areas in the western United States, as elsewhere across the country and world, have been subject to social, economic, and political forces that have resulted in novel demographic and land tenure trends when compared to previous decades. Collectively, these processes of restructuring have created...

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Jesse B. Abrams for the degree of Doctor of
Resilience of large river basins : applying social-ecological systems theory, conflict management, and collaboration on the Mekong and Columbia Basins

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MacQuarrie, Patrick R.

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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...

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Patrick R. MacQuarrie for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Geography presented on July 11, 2012

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