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  • Community Mobilization in Support and Opposition of Wind Energy Development: Evidence from Wasco and Sherman Counties, Oregon

    Creator:
    Karmazina, Anna
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    Despite widespread public support for renewable energy development, the siting of wind energy facilities can prove problematic due to opposition from surrounding communities. I propose a unifying framework to explain community response to wind energy development – showing how concepts from environmental sociology related to local biophysical and socioeconomic conditions...
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     ........................................................................................................  18   Wasco  County  wind  development

  • Federal Timber Payments and County Government Expenditures in Oregon

    Creator:
    Adams, Vince
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    The federal government owns 60 percent of Oregon’s forests and, since 1908, has shared proceeds from federal forest timber harvests with counties. These revenues have provided a relatively stable source of funds for the provision of services by county governments in Oregon. Shared revenues from US Forest Service (USFS) lands...
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    funds for the provision of services by county governments in Oregon. Shared revenues from US Forest

  • Changing federal county payments and rural Oregon counties: analysis of policy impacts and responses from loss of secure rural schools funding in selected Oregon counties

    Creator:
    Gaid, Dawn Marie
    Abstract:
    Changes in federal forest management, enactment of environmental policies, recessions and a shift to a global economy dramatically impacted counties between the 1980s and 1990s. In the 1990s, counties began experiencing a shift away from traditional natural resource extraction activities – amidst changing demographics resulting from rural restructuring taking place...
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    residents to changes in county service levels due the loss of federal forest payments for selected Oregon

  • Predicting county-level food insecurity and hunger in Oregon

    Creator:
    Grussing, Jay D.
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    Oregon’s high hunger and food insecurity rates have been a concern throughout the last decade. These high rates earned Oregon the dubious distinction as the most food insecure with hunger state in the late 1990’s. While Oregon’s ranking has improved in recent years, our understanding of why Oregon ranked so...
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    allows for both Tapogna et al.’s state level variable and this paper’s Oregon county statistics

  • Citizen Perceptions of Public Safety Levies in Josephine County, Oregon: A Test of Group Engagement Theory

    Creator:
    Davis, Nathan
    Abstract:
    Group Engagement Theory describes the relationship between citizen perceptions of policy, individual identity and status judgements, and individual group engagement decisions. Utilizing a least likely crucial case methodology, this paper uses the case of Josephine County, Oregon to determine the validity of the Group Engagement Theory prediction that citizen identity...
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    approval in order to raise taxes on private property (Charter for Josephine County, Oregon, 1996). The

  • Wind Energy Siting in Harney and Crook Counties, Oregon

    Creator:
    Bhattarai, Mukesh
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    Concerns over climate change and energy security have spurred governments worldwide to encourage the development of renewable energy. Although public attitudes and macro-politics, in general, show moderate to strong support for renewables- in particular, wind power- largely because of the economic and environmental benefits associated with it. However, local politics...
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    Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

  • Low-income weatherization: practical and policy limitations to increasing services in rural Oregon

    Creator:
    Hammond, D'Anne
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    This essay examines the low-income weatherization program in rural Oregon, shedding light on difficulties in increasing weatherization services to low-income rural households. This essay also identifies policy limitations. There are strict rules in place for utilizing Department of Energy weatherization funding and some of these rules are likely to make...
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    . Many thanks also to the Oregon Center of Public Policy for allowing me to intern with them during Fall

  • Wind Energy Siting in Kittitas County, Washington

    Creator:
    Naimoli, Stephen
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    Increasing renewable energy development is often seen as an essential tool for combating global climate change, yet despite widespread support in theory, renewable energy often faces problems at the implementation stage. In the state of Washington, where voters have expressed a desire for greater renewable energy by mandating that 15%...
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    .............................................................................................................................. 14 Regulatory context for siting wind in Kittitas County

  • Applied Behavioral Insights for Wildfire Preparedness in the Wildland-Urban Interface of Jackson County, OR

    Creator:
    Horton, Robert B.
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    This study is designed to evaluate to what degree action at the household level in WUI wildfire preparedness is influenced by targeted public information, or behaviorally informed, interventions. The desired outcome of the public information interventions is increasing the number of households taking action to reduce wildfire risk through the...
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    for defensible space in the WUI areas of Oregon. Such legislation will require all households to

  • Imagining the Future : A Qualitative Study of Community Visioning Processes in Rural Oregon Counties

    Creator:
    Warden, McKenzie
    Abstract:
    Community visioning processes offer communities the platform to identify common goals, indicate actions and measures of progress, and envision what they would like their political, economic, and social landscape to look like for years to come. Rural communities often face unique obstacles in terms of isolation, lack of resources and...
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    county land owned by the State of Oregon, including the Tillamook State Forest, new harvest regulations