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Understanding Wildfire Mitigation Behavior of Central Oregon Homeowners

Creator:: Roper, Dan
Abstract:: A history of fire suppression, growth in the wildland-urban interface, and changing climate conditions, have created a fire regime in central Oregon that is growing in severity and intensity, putting more people and structures at risk and requiring a greater percentage of state and federal agency budgets to manage fires....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: 2013 (GAO 2015). The spread of invasive species like Cheatgrass and the expanded range of native

No One Cares What Color The Fire Truck Is: A Case Study of Interagency Cooperation In Fire Management in Central Oregon

Creator:: Gregory, Sarah
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to identify the aspects of successful collaboration within an inter-organizational context. This essay is a case study of a tightly niched network of fire chiefs in central Oregon situated within multiple contiguous boundaries of federal and state agencies, county and municipal governments, industrial forests,...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: through 2000 to $2.9 billion in 2001 through 2007 (GAO, 2009). The high costs of response and recovery

Institutional Path Dependence in NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program: A Case Study of Technological Evolution and Persistence

Creator:: Waddell, Trevor W.
Abstract:: Despite extensive research on the historical and technical aspects of national space policy, little has attempted to understand the links between technological evolution in NASA’s spaceflight program in relation to its administrative, political and economic context. This essay explores these connections in the development and evolution of core systems in...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: of resources (GAO, 2009). Further difficulties with the program manifested in 2009 when a GAO

"We're not doing it anymore": Analyzing teachers' perceptions of power on their stated decisions to strike

Creator:: Sibley, Cody S.
Abstract:: The overall reduced funding from public education in the United States has sparked a backlash across the country. Citing inadequate resources, low pay, and an inability to control the direction of their classroom, teachers in seven states (West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina, and Washington) halted instruction time...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: (Skaalvik & Skaalvik, 2011; McInerney, Korpershoek, Wang, & Morin, 2018; Xia, Izumi, & Gao, 2015). A

K-12 school finance reform : an Idaho case study

Creator:: Pratt, Leah
Abstract:: There have been years of stalled K-12 school finance reform efforts in Idaho, yet it was unclear what key Idaho education interest groups currently thought about how Idaho funds its public schools. Therefore, this project explored the institutional perspectives and beliefs of K-12 Idaho education stakeholders regarding the Idaho K-12...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: districts are less reliant on local dollars (U.S. GAO, 1998, p. 20). Otherwise, lower wealth districts

Federal Timber Payments and County Government Expenditures in Oregon

Creator:: Adams, Vince
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

A Comparative Case Study of Human Trafficking Task Forces in Washington and Oregon and Preferences in Victim Assistance

Creator:: Timmons, Mika Yasuo
Abstract:: The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Human Trafficking Task Forces bring together federal, state, and municipal governmental agencies and law enforcement agencies (“agencies”), and non-profit organizations and other service providers (“organizations”), for one main purpose: to reduce the trafficking of humans in...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . Government Accountability Office [GAO], 2006). This study focuses on two specific misconceptions about

Assessing the Green Securities Policy in China: An Examination of Environmental Disclosure by Chinese Listed Companies in Highly Polluting Industries

Creator:: Wang, Hua
Abstract:: In 2008, China released a new green initiative, the Green Securities Policy, to increase the sustainability of Chinese capital markets. One of the integral components of the policy is the new environmental disclosure regulation which prescribes Chinese listed companies in the 14 highly polluting industries to report required environmental information....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: development of environmental policies (R. Ye, 2008; Zhou & Ji, 2009, pp

Understanding policy change in hydropower development by using MSA: A case study of the Nu River Project, China

Creator:: Zhong, Huaxia
Abstract:: In 2003, due to the dramatic growth of economy, China’s National Development and Reform Commission proposed to build 13 dams on the Nu River to fulfill the nation’s rapidly growing demand for hydropower. The 13 dams that comprise the Nu River Project (NRP) are considered among the biggest hydropower development...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

The Melamine Milk Scandal and Its Implication for Food Safety Policy in China

Creator:: Chen, Zhe
Abstract:: China suffered its biggest food-safety crisis in 2008 when it was discovered that melamine had been illegally added to the milk formula. More than 290,000 children were poisoned and at least six infants were dead. Chinese citizens and the governments around the world gave the Chinese government a lot of...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Understanding Wildfire Mitigation Behavior of Central Oregon Homeowners

No One Cares What Color The Fire Truck Is: A Case Study of Interagency Cooperation In Fire Management in Central Oregon

Institutional Path Dependence in NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program: A Case Study of Technological Evolution and Persistence

"We're not doing it anymore": Analyzing teachers' perceptions of power on their stated decisions to strike

K-12 school finance reform : an Idaho case study

Federal Timber Payments and County Government Expenditures in Oregon

A Comparative Case Study of Human Trafficking Task Forces in Washington and Oregon and Preferences in Victim Assistance

Assessing the Green Securities Policy in China: An Examination of Environmental Disclosure by Chinese Listed Companies in Highly Polluting Industries

Understanding policy change in hydropower development by using MSA: A case study of the Nu River Project, China

The Melamine Milk Scandal and Its Implication for Food Safety Policy in China

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