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  • Analysis of the effectiveness, efficiency and co-benefits of REDD+ projects in the Peruvian Amazon in the period 2017-2022: a systematic review and the case of the Tambopata - Bahuaja Sonene REDD+ project

    Creator:
    Sanchez, Yamile C.
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    REDD+ is a heavily promoted mechanism to mitigate climate change through the carbon market worldwide, however, initial projects presented challenges related to effectiveness, efficiency, and equity (3E criteria) during implementation. In Peru, it has been promoted since 2008 due to high deforestation rates in the tropical forest, with 30 ongoing...
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    forest deforestation (Castro & Osorio 2022) REDD+ aims to be an efficient mechanism to effectively

  • Is wave energy comparatively sustainable in Oregon?

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    Yin, Yao
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    This essay provides a snapshot of sustainability and acceptability of wave energy and eight other electricity-generating energy sources in Oregon. Since “sustainability” is an important point of view in decision-making, the paper is centered around the concept. Although there is no consensus on the definition of sustainability in the academic...
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    -generations (Osorio, Lobato et al. 2005). Sustainable development, by the definition given by the Commission

  • Religion and Climate Change Views in the Pacific Northwest

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    James, Alexis R.
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    Anthropogenic climate change is an escalating environmental and humanitarian emergency, but American public opinion varies on the issue, particularly in terms of whether climate change is natural or human caused. Belief that climate change is human caused has been shown to be critical in terms of support for policy action....
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  • The Impact of Rural Electrification on Deforestation and Soil Fertility

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    Tanner, Andrew M.
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    Deforestation and loss of soil fertility are two forms of environmental degradation with global importance. Theories of environmental degradation commonly cited in public and academic discourse have historically emphasized the role of human populations and national economic development as being the primary drivers of environmental damage. This thesis utilizes quantitative...
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    ____________________________________________ Dr. Brent S. Steel, representing political science

  • International environmental treaty-making. The future of the UN BBNJ Treaty

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    Banshchikova, Inga
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    Because the environmental threats are becoming global in scope, international cooperation and global governance issues are in the spotlight. The most controversial environmental law and policy problems arise in the areas where no individual state has sole responsibility for governing, "global commons." Scholars believe that the best way to deal...
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    , such as F. T. Christy's research on fisheries suggesting more restrictive rules (Christy, 1982); Y. S

  • An Object-Oriented Compiler Construction Toolkit

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    Justice, Timothy P.
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    Although standard tools have been used for lexical and syntactic analysis since the late 1970's, no standard tools exist for the remaining parts of a compiler. Part of the reason for this de ciency is due to the di culty of producing elegant tools capable of handling the large amount...
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    analysis since the late 1970's, no standard tools exist for the remaining parts of a compiler. Part of the

  • Inequality reasoning

    Creator:
    Leixuan, Yang
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    One of the tasks of inequality reasoning is to determine the re­lationship between two quantities for any given set of qualitative con­straints. For implementation of this kind of reasoning, Simmons [1] has provided a technique called the "graph search" (GS). This paper briefly reviews GS technique, then presents an implementation...
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    Compatible Relationship Set: A set of relationships, S, is a compatible relationship set of relationship RO

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

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    Chen, Zhe
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    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...
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  • Practical Reinforcement Learning for Bipedal Locomotion

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    Dao, Jeremy
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    Reinforcement learning has emerged as a popular tool for solving control tasks, with multiple works focusing on the complex and dynamic task of locomotion. However, the naive application of reinforcement learning to this problem often produces maladaptive policies that exploit the model or reward function. This results in behavior that...
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    by the tuple (S,A, P,R, γ) where S is the set of possible states, A is the set of possible actions

  • Use Your Heart: Understanding Street-Level Discretion in the Emergency Food Network

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    Precious, Cheryl L. M.
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    Hunger is among the greatest contemporary social problems in the United States. An incredible 48 million people, or 14% of households, experienced food insecurity during 2014. At the same time, public responses to food insecurity, such as the Emergency Food Assistance Program, have increasingly relied on the “emergency food network,”...
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    work. Indeed, Houser et al.’s (2014) findings revealed that the greatest variance in policy