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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...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . Wallowa County has engaged in various visioning and planning efforts throughout the last couple of

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...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: ................................................................................................... 56 3. Wallowa County

Predicting county-level food insecurity and hunger in Oregon

Creator:: Grussing, Jay D.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Microsoft Word - Grussing_Predicting County Hunger2.doc

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

A Health Impact Assessment of Accessory Dwelling Unit Policies in Rural Benton County, Oregon

Creator:: Fellows, Holly
Abstract:: This study uses the Health Impact Assessment approach to determine the health impacts of allowing accessory dwelling units in Benton County, Oregon. A literature review presents the health benefits of accessory dwelling units in urban areas and identifies the potential negative health effects in rural areas. Five accessory dwelling units...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text::  reconstructed view led the political actors, or the County Development Department  staff and County Planning

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...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: local government representatives (County Commissioner and County Planning Director), community vision

A Culture of Resilience: Social Capital and Climate Adaptation in Post-Flood Boulder County

Creator:: Shepard, Stephanie
Abstract:: Scientists say that climate change is very likely to cause more frequent and more severe weather events. In order to understand how communities respond to changing weather patterns, an exploration of the connection between extreme weather events and climate change awareness, collective action, and policy is warranted. This case study...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Post-Flood Boulder County, Colorado Abstract approved

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

Creator:: Karmazina, Anna
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 Sherman County wind development

A statistical analysis of Oregon's land-use ballot initiative

Creator:: Fuller, Justin
Abstract:: This paper explores predictors of support for land-use ballot initiatives in Oregon. Possible predictors include a variety of socioeconomic, spatial, and political variables. Multiple least squares regressions find that aggregate levels of education within a county and the proportion of a county's workforce engaged in farming or forestry occupations appear...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: comprehensive land-use planning and attempts to repeal said planning both will result in less county-level

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:: situated within multiple contiguous boundaries of federal and state agencies, county and municipal

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

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

Predicting county-level food insecurity and hunger in Oregon

Federal Timber Payments and County Government Expenditures in Oregon

A Health Impact Assessment of Accessory Dwelling Unit Policies in Rural Benton County, Oregon

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

A Culture of Resilience: Social Capital and Climate Adaptation in Post-Flood Boulder County

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

A statistical analysis of Oregon's land-use ballot initiative

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

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