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  • A Look Beneath the Surface : Developing a Transboundary Groundwater Governance Framework and Agreement for the Memphis Sand Aquifer

    Creator:
    Mondo, Holly A.
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    Groundwater is often misunderstood because of its subsurface nature. Consequently, policies intended to govern the resource are fragmented as is evident in the Supreme Court case between Mississippi and Tennessee. Here, disagreements over ownership and the scientific-hydrogeological scope of groundwater in the Memphis Sand Aquifer have led to an 11-year...
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    Masters Thesis
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    governance framework that will allow for the development of agreement(s) over the groundwater in

  • Water Governance in Afghanistan

    Creator:
    Rasooly, Nawid
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    Ensuring long term water security is the essential pathway towards development, prosperity, and stability in Afghanistan. However, the country is faced with water challenges that can be ascribed to governance failure at multiple levels of governance rather than to the resource base itself. Hence, studying the water governance system in...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Science (IHE-Delft) and Master of Arts (University for Peace) in Water Cooperation and Diplomacy

  • An analysis of water resource conflict and cooperation in Oregon between 1990 and 2004

    Creator:
    Fesler, Kristel J.
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    This research provides details of water resource conflict and cooperation in Oregon between 1990 and 2004 by using an event database methodology. Events were concentrated in four of 18 basins. No basin accounted for more that 25% of the total water rights events, the most evenly distributed issue type. Overall...
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    Masters Thesis
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    OF Kristel J Fesler for the degree of Master of Science in Geography presented on March 9

  • Transboundary Wetlands: Exploring Formal Mechanisms for Cooperation

    Creator:
    Rosenblum, Zoe H.
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    Despite increased understanding of the benefits of wetlands, global wetland area continues to decrease. Wetlands are being lost at an alarming rate, and with them, biodiversity, floodwater storage, water purification, and countless other functions. There is little information available about mechanisms to manage transboundary wetlands. While the Ramsar Convention is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ). These examples of conflict highlight the need for improvement in wetland management and governance

  • Adaptive Self-governance of Small-scale Commercial Fishers in Northeast Puerto Rico: Characterizing Formal and Informal Cooperation during Times of Crises

    Creator:
    Gómez-Andújar, Nicolás X.
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    Small-scale fisheries often suffer from weak, formal governance, and in response they organize in various ways. These self-organizational arrangements rely on the capacity of informal institutions, such as norms and communication, in generating social cohesion among actors in the supply chain and therefore improve the likelihood of generating commonly devised...
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    dependence of rural coastal communities on local seafood in comparison to more urban communities (Griffith

  • Overcoming the Hypolimnion: Stakeholder Influence in Transboundary Water Quality Governance

    Creator:
    Offutt, Alyssa J.
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    Global surface water quality has been degrading with predictions of negative trends in meeting the Sustainable Development Goal ambient water quality targets (Mead, 2019; WWAP & UN Water, 2019). These water quality impacts can cross borders and impact populations in world’s 204 transboundary lake and reservoir basins (ILEC & UNEP,...
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    ) and Master of Arts (University for Peace) In Water Cooperation and Diplomacy

  • Everyday Movement Against Capitalism : Prospects for a Prefigurative Strategy toward Open Utopia

    Creator:
    Riccio, Alexander
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    Across the U.S. social activism is on the upsurge, offering possibilities for a revolution against capitalism. However, these possibilities are potentially undermined by entrenched factionalism amongst the left. At root, such in-fighting is fostered by the creation of false dualistic frameworks on the transition out of capitalism and into the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Philosophy presented on May 26, 2017. Title: Everyday Movement Against Capitalism: Prospects for a

  • PTSD Symptoms among Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Post-9/11 Veterans: A Rural/Urban Comparison

    Creator:
    Kurth, Maria L.
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    The veteran population, about 18.5 million Americans in 2016 (US Census Bureau, 2018), is particularly at risk for mental health problems. As an example, the suicide rate of veterans is about one and a half times higher than the general population (US Department of Veteran Affairs [DVA], 2018b). Another group...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Page 4.1 Rural/Urban Differences in PTSD Symptom Severity for the Entire Sample, Raw and Adjusted

  • Role of the “Blue Paradiplomacy” in Cooperation over Transboundary Water Management

    Creator:
    Dzhakshylykova, Mira
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    In this research, the paradiplomacy concept is analyzed in terms of transboundary water cooperation and called "Blue Paradiplomacy", where two case studies: 1) the Great Lakes region and 2) the Central Asian region, are presented and compared. The concept of paradiplomacy is applied within the context of multi-level governance, and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ' role in transboundary water cooperation, for both case studies. 2.2 Multi-level Governance In

  • Barriers to Community Involvement across Rural and Urban Communities

    Creator:
    Torgerson, Melissa
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    Many communities emphasize participatory involvement in local development or reinvention efforts. Recognizing barriers among specific groups could help community leaders identify what may be constraining underrepresented groups from joining in. Utilizing data from the Social Capital Benchmark Survey, this research examined identified “barriers” to community involvement among individuals in rural...
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    Capstone Project
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    community involvement among individuals in rural and urban areas. Results indicated that while rurality