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Creator:: Wyse, Barbara J.
Abstract:: Agricultural water supplies are becoming increasingly uncertain in the western United States due to rising demand from competing water users, environmental restrictions on surface water withdrawals due to water quality and endangered species concerns, and, potentially, climate-induced hydrological changes. Since many rural areas in the West depend economically upon irrigated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . One simulation of farming in the Columbia Basin found that economic returns to land, management, and

Creator:: Guillozet, Kathleen
Abstract:: This dissertation investigates livelihood and land use change dynamics in a community at the farm-forest periphery in highland Ethiopia. I use interviews and livelihood assessment data to compare the strategies used by members of different wealth groups to negotiate and maintain access to forest resources, and integrate socioeconomic, bio-physical and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: describe political, historic, biophysical and economic factors that shape vulnerability. Chapter three

Creator:: Kalinin, Alexey V.
Abstract:: Signs of climate change across the Pacific Northwest indicate changing patterns of timing and availability of stream flow. Declining summer low flows, decreasing snow pack, higher temperatures and an increasing fraction of mountain precipitation falling as rain, raise concerns about future reliability of stream flows. These changes will likely affect...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: farmers’ livelihoods and the basin’s economy. This study focuses on two economic questions about water

Creator:: Boehlert, Brent B.
Abstract:: In 2001, an extreme drought tightened water supply in the Upper Klamath Basin (basin) while earlier increases in Endangered Species Act (ESA) water requirements for basin fish species that same year elevated demands. The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), which manages irrigation water in parts of the basin located near the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , economic, and agronomic constraints. The results suggest that greater development of basin groundwater

Creator:: Stanton, Michael
Abstract:: This ethnographic study examined some of the ways that global markets and the infrastructure of agribusiness affect local smallholder farmers in the Ten Rivers region who are transitioning toward more sustainable and traditional agricultural methods. The purpose of this research was to discover what barriers smallholder farmers face in developing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: are the Environmental, Economic, and Social Barriers To Achieving Agricultural Sustainability in The

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