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  • Wind Energy in Klickitat County, Washington

    Creator:
    Grandolfo, Joseph D.
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    Wind energy has widespread public support; nevertheless, the emergence of local support or opposition in response to siting proposals is often unpredictable. Uncertainty surrounding a community’s response is problematic for both the company planning the project and for states pursuing policies for expanded development and use of renewable energy. Given...
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    Energy in Klickitat County, Washington. By Joseph D. Grandolfo MPP Essay

  • 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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    Wind Energy Siting in Kittitas County, Washington

  • Resilience Planning for Elderly Residents in Oregon Coastal Communities

    Creator:
    Whelan, Patrick
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    When a catastrophic event happens, senior residents who are physically or mentally disabled, are placed at a much greater risk of injury or death. Researchers in the aftermath of hurricanes’ Katrina, Sandy, and Harvey, consistently record elderly residents presenting the most difficult challenges for emergency personnel during evacuation and post...
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    Running head: RESILIENCE PLANNING FOR ELDERLY

  • Wind Energy Siting in Harney and Crook Counties, Oregon

    Creator:
    Bhattarai, Mukesh
    Abstract:
    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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    planning to leave the county (Golden, 2008; Interview 4). Unemployment was at a record high. In Crook

  • 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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    : Federal Timber Payments and County Government Expenditures in Oregon. Abstract approved: Bruce Weber

  • The hazards-housing nexus : adaptive capacity wheel analysis of coastal planning institutions

    Creator:
    Patterson, Trisha
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    The Oregon coast faces complex environmental and social challenges, such as the threat of a regionally disastrous Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquake and tsunami. Researchers are united in their assertion that the CSZ is new, the region is due for a quake, and to mitigate this hazard society must collaborate...
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    nor are designed to supplant long range comprehensive planning. There are dilemmas inherent in how

  • Family Planning Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Failure of Policy Transfer

    Creator:
    Daniel Andrianaivosoa, Landy Miary
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    After Colonization and since the beginning of the globalization era, governments in developing countries have been restricted in implementing certain policies and reforms, often being forced to accept or borrow policies from former colonizers or other developed countries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Previous studies found that borrowing policy often leads...
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    International Conference on Population and development4, in Cairo Egypt in 1994, family planning also became

  • 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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    prevention and county planning, and forest-related education. RAC-funded projects were found to have

  • Lake County Renewable Energy Transition: An Assessment from the Energy Justice Framework

    Creator:
    Ojeda León, Natalia
    Abstract:
    The energy transition in Oregon poses challenges and offers opportunities to rural areas that tend to be targeted for large-scale renewable energy development. The present case study analyzes how the energy transition has taken place in rural Lake County, to answer the question: to what degree has the energy transition...
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    local government representatives (County Commissioner and County Planning Director), community vision

  • 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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    Microsoft Word - Grussing_Predicting County Hunger2.doc