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  • Geoarchaeology at Tseriadun (35CU7), Curry County, Oregon

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    Anderson, Frederick C.
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    The continuation of geoarchaeological investigations at Tseriadun (35CU7) contributes to the understanding of the site's depositional history and the associated environments, thereby identifying the long term geomorphic change in the area and providing the environmental context for local human activity as it is reflected in the archaeological record. Meeting this...
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    have affected human activity at the site. The location of a paleochannel in the eastern site area led

  • A Public Elementary School as a Cultural Context : Japanese Children Learning to Perceive their Environment

    Creator:
    Sugai, Taichi
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    This thesis examines the cultural context in which Japanese children are constructing their own perspective of the environment because in the development of environmental education in Japan, the perspectives of children and teachers have not been taken into consideration. Although educators have made efforts to give direction to environmental education,...
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    characteristics. To be an elementary school teacher, I majored in child education at the university in Japan

  • The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

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    Gann, Tamara S.
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    This thesis is an IRB-exempt oral history focused on the non-profit Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) in Corvallis, Oregon. The CMLC, formerly on 9th Street, was known to many community members as the Yellow House. The Yellow House was a dedicated community-based space where people of all cultures could come...
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    Presidential Commission on the Status of Women and the School of Language, Culture, and Society at Oregon

  • The Bachman Cave (10-OE0565) point typology, Owyhee County, southwestern Idaho

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    Chavarria, Juan C.
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    In the past, archaeological investigations have recovered material culture that have often been stored as museum property without a focused analysis or written report of the results. This study focuses on one such assemblage ofchipped stone projectile points from the Bachman Cave locality of southwestern Idaho that has been stored...
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    about a site and that is the focus of this study. A collection was identified at the Southwest Idaho

  • Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

    Creator:
    Schultz, Aaron A.
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    This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
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    Ecocriticism’s ecological approach—I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have shaped who I am and

  • Evaluation of the 2001 pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

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    Saylor, Kirsten N.
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    The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), piloted in Oregon in 2001, provided $100 worth of vouchers (aka coupons) to low-income seniors to buy fresh local produce from farmers at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Presented in a political ecology framework, this research integrated the perspectives of beneficiaries and their...
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    provided vouchers to WIC clients to use at farmers' markets since 1988. Unlike its older sibling, the

  • Injera in the Kapitalocene: Understanding Women’s Perceptions of Change in Mekelle, Ethiopia

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    Arefaine, Micknai
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    Women’s lives in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Mekele, Ethiopia are very organized, systematic, and sophisticated. The women in this study model, express, and reflect the values of community, trust, care, stability, and futurity through their perceptions and sentiments regarding social and political change. I document how these values...
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    democracy; the health extension program; and other government policies and practices related to women’s

  • Local perceptions of climate change, coping and adaptation strategies among smallholder farmers in the Lake Basin Region of Kenya

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    Asinjo, Robert
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    Smallholder farmers in Africa, who have long relied on rain-fed agriculture, are currently experiencing adverse impacts of climate change which is posing serious challenges to their ability to sustain their livelihoods (Morton 2007). This is the case for many other areas around the world, especially among indigenousor ruralcommunities who rely...
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    well as communal action aimed at enhancing their resilience to climate change. The approach is

  • Improving community profiles for Oregon fisheries and coastal communities through collaboration

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    Package, Christina
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    In an effort to supplement the recently completed NOAA fishing community profiles, three coastal Oregon communities were chosen as sites for a collaborative project designed to produce long-form profiles. In order to provide a representation of the coast Newport, Port Orford, and Garibali, Oregon were included based on community size,...
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    Library at Hatfield for providing me with a place to conduct my interviews; the Anthropology

  • Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

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    Leaver, Jennifer Jensen
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    In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...
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    requires the assessment of potential social and environmental impacts. Figure 1.1 Location of Boulder