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Identifying Opportunities for Collaboration in Resilience-Based Management: Coordinating Rancher and Land Manager Incentives

Creator:: Maher, Anna T.
Abstract:: Resilience-based management in rangelands implies maintaining desirable ecological states and avoiding thresholds to less desirable ones; however, the efficacy of resilience-based management depends upon several driving forces. These forces include management by those who depend upon rangelands for their livelihoods, the current state of ecological health of rangelands, and changing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ). Many ecologists, ecosystem managers, and policy makers have thought of resilience- based management as

Contemporary forest road management with economic and environmental objectives

Creator:: Thompson, Matthew P.
Abstract:: One of the basic questions facing transportation planners and road managers is how to provide and maintain a road system that provides efficient access to the forest while limiting adverse effects roads can have on water and soil resources. The purpose of this study is to develop decision support models...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: lead to improved economic and environmental efficiency in the management of forest road networks. In

Essays on environmental productivity

Creator:: Bellenger, Moriah J., 1980-
Abstract:: The following three essays explore the use of the directional output distance function (Chambers et al., 1996), an economic model originally developed to measure efficiency and productivity for multi-input and multi-output production processes, to assess performance for multi-attributed environmental processes. The first essay illustrates the use of the directional output...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: approach to valuing SO2 allowances. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 30, 58-72. Diewert

Essays on the economics of wildlife management

Creator:: Rashford, Benjamin S.
Abstract:: Wildlife managers are on the front lines of the effort to conserve wildlife and are required to do so cost-effectively. This dissertation consists of three manuscripts that integrate economics and ecology to inform cost-effective wildlife management. The first and second manuscripts focus on identifying cost-effective wildlife management plans. The third...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: submitted to the Journal of Wildlife Management 7 ABSTRACT Faced with limited budgets and

Economic analysis of restoration practices to improve water quality and fish habitat of a large river floodplain : a case study of the Willamette River, Oregon

Creator:: Seedang, Saichon
Abstract:: In- stream water temperature is one of the most important environmental factors associated with the decline in salmonid populations and their habitats in the Pacific Northwest. Most ecological restoration practices that attempt to reduce instream temperatures center on replanting or reestablishing riparian vegetation and increasing flows. However, in a large...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Sciences presented on April 27, 2004. Title: Economic

Land management with ecological and economic objectives : developing a production possibility set of wildlife species persistence and timber harvest value using simulated annealing

Creator:: Calkin, David E.
Abstract:: An integrated model combining a wildlife population simulation model, and timber harvest and growth models was developed to explore the tradeoffs between the likelihood of persistence of a wildlife species and timber harvest values on a landscape in the Central Oregon Cascades. Simulated annealing, a heuristic optimization technique, was used...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , who instigated the project Land Management with Ecological and Economic Objectives of which this

Spatial heterogeneity, meta-analysis and spatial dependence : three essays on environmental valuation and spatial land management decisions

Creator:: Bu, Meidan
Abstract:: This dissertation consists of three essays that collectively address the importance of accounting for spatial heterogeneity and spatial dependence of environmental assets and natural resources in policy making. The first essay examines the value of different wetland ecosystem services using an expanded meta-dataset of valuation studies in North America. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: characteristics of environmental assets and the economic market. However, spatial patterns and the spatial

The economics of carbon sequestration in western Oregon forests

Creator:: Im, Eun Ho
Abstract:: This study considered regional forest policies for sequestering carbon in existing forests in western Oregon. A model of log markets in western Oregon was employed to examine the impacts of forest policy changes on future carbon stock, harvests, and management activities. A carbon tax program, as a mitigation option for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: economic impacts of the environmental policy for stand-level forest management but can not estimate the

The effects of environmental contaminants on the value of outdoor recreation : mercury and pheasant hunting in Oregon

Creator:: Shulstad, Robert N.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : . . „. . ^ Herbert H. Stoevener An evaluation of the benefits and costs of environmental con- tamination must

Wave Energy Converter Array Optimization : Algorithm Development and Investigation of Layout Design Influences

Creator:: Sharp, Christopher J.
Abstract:: Realizing the vast amount of energy available in ocean waves, an industry has emerged that is progressing towards the deployment of grid–connected wave energy converters. Likely to be deployed in arrays, a challenge to the wave energy industry is maximizing the energy production of such arrays. We have been developing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ]. As a part of our previous work, we investigated existing models of WEC array economics and found at

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Identifying Opportunities for Collaboration in Resilience-Based Management: Coordinating Rancher and Land Manager Incentives

Contemporary forest road management with economic and environmental objectives

Essays on environmental productivity

Essays on the economics of wildlife management

Economic analysis of restoration practices to improve water quality and fish habitat of a large river floodplain : a case study of the Willamette River, Oregon

Land management with ecological and economic objectives : developing a production possibility set of wildlife species persistence and timber harvest value using simulated annealing

Spatial heterogeneity, meta-analysis and spatial dependence : three essays on environmental valuation and spatial land management decisions

The economics of carbon sequestration in western Oregon forests

The effects of environmental contaminants on the value of outdoor recreation : mercury and pheasant hunting in Oregon

Wave Energy Converter Array Optimization : Algorithm Development and Investigation of Layout Design Influences

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