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  • The changing roles of environmental interest groups in national policy-making : a marine conservation case study

    Creator:
    Simler, Brooke S.
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    Interest groups have participated in the American political system since the signing of the U.S. Constitution. Environmental interest groups, a subsection of the American interest group society, have been especially active in national policies since the proliferation of environmental laws and environmental advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s. When environmental...
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    Roles of Environmental Interest Groups in National Policy-Making: A Marine Conservation Case Study

  • Ocean electric energy extraction opportunities

    Creator:
    Zhang, Heng
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    The world's oceans contain tremendous renewable energy potentials. It is estimated that if 0.2% of the ocean's untapped energy could be harnessed, it could provide power sufficient for the entire world [1]. This thesis provides a comprehensive description of the state-of-the-art of ocean energy extraction technologies and lessons learned from...
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    and the data available from the National Data Buoy Center website. When running the program, the

  • Marine policy : A Capitol Hill perspective

    Creator:
    Hochberg, Ann P.
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    As a part of my graduate program in Marine Resource Management (MRM) at Oregon State University, I was fortunate to be able to pursue my interest in marine and coastal policy. I spent fifteen months as a Sea Grant intern in the United States Congress, challenged in ways I could...
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    individualistic to accomplish the CZMA national goals. 1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON 1. Articulate national policy and

  • Assessing water governance capacity in MENA : applying an institutional document analysis to Jordan

    Creator:
    Brown, Bridget N.
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    Water governance has been identified as a crucial component to improving conditions and balancing supply and demand of water resources in the water-scarce Middle East North Africa (MENA) region. Finding a method for, and commencing the process of, evaluating water governance is thus imperative. This study analyzes the potential to...
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      for  water  governance   through  analysis  of  national  legal  and  policy

  • Radiative forcing and forest climate policy

    Creator:
    Thompson, Matthew P.
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    This thesis is comprised of two manuscripts that relate to forest-based management strategies in the context of market-based climate change mitigation policies. The work questions the appropriateness of a singular focus on carbon sequestration given the albedo effect and its possible countervailing climatic impacts. Through a review of salient literature...
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    broad consensus and appear to be an eventuality at the regional and possibly national level. Under a

  • A survey of state regulations relating to certification of teachers in nursery schools and day care centers

    Creator:
    Bliss, Leora Bentley
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    young children, what is the role of the day care center, nurser;r school, or pla;r group? If places

  • Application of multiattribute utility analysis in determining coho salmon policy

    Creator:
    Walker, Kevin D.
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    Policy decisions in fishery management are becoming increasingly complex and difficult. This is especially true for the salmon fisheries where policy outcomes affect the productivity of the salmon resource and the subsequent well-being of commercial fishermen, charter boat operators, Indian fishermen, and sport anglers. The objective of this study was...
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    Title: Application of Multiattribute Utility Analysis in Deter- mining Coho Salmon Policy Abstract

  • Impacts of Policy and Environmental Change: Understanding Factors of Vulnerability and Resilience in the Face of Change in Oregon Fishing Communities

    Creator:
    Strawn, Astrea
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    Commercial fisheries are coupled human-natural systems that cross state borders and integrate private, public, academic sectors and interests. These systems integrate complicated relationships between coastal socioeconomics, resource management and environmental realms. Previous findings from West Coast-based studies have identified aging trends in commercial fisheries participation, commonly referred to as the...
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    obtained through Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA

  • Estuary Development - The Regulatory Process

    Creator:
    McKay, Janet G.
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    The purpose of this report is to briefly examine some of the laws and regulatory programs which affect development in Oregon's estuaries and their adjacent wetlands. Development, in this sense, includes dredging, filling, bank stabilization, structures or other physical alterations to an estuary.
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    and Use Rights in Estuaries Introduction - Federal Laws 1 3 9 National Environmental Policy

  • The spatial linkages of retirement centers in Oregon

    Creator:
    Heintzelman, Conrad Lee
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    The retirement center is the new pattern of settlement in Oregon. A few years ago there were no modern living accommodations in the state especially designed for people in the retired category. As to July 1966 development organizations have thirteen centers in operation and over 4,000 people are in residence....
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    Privacy Abstract approved ajor professor) j The retirement center is the new pattern of settlement in