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Determinants of federal land grazing permit values and dependent livestock ranch values in eastern Oregon and Nevada

Creator:

Iqbal, Muzaffar

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The source and nature of permit value and the federal grazing fee debate motivated this dissertation research. There is little doubt that federal grazing permits have value throughout the western United States, but the source of permit value is unclear. A traditional explanation focuses on the capitalized differential between the...

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a lease basis. The leases generally are called "grazing permits". The permits were granted to
Reallocating resources, rebuilding community : the Klamath Basin agreements and the emergence of adaptive governance

Creator:

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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collapse (the release or omega phase) and periods of re- organization and renewal (the alpha phase). The
Restructuring of land and community in the remote rural west : the case of Wallowa County, Oregon

Creator:

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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