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Rivers and Roads : Exploring How Environmental Governance Impacts State Management of Forest Roads

Creator:: Detwiler, Stacey M.
Abstract:: This study explores how environmental governance mechanisms affect state management of forest roads to address the chronic delivery of sediment to streams in Oregon, Washington, and California on private and state forestlands. Forest roads can degrade water quality and harm aquatic life when runoff mobilizes fine sediments from the road...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Oregon Forest Practices Act, the primary state law regulating forest management and forest roads, were

Judicial deference and its potential effect on agency science and natural resource management

Creator:: Grisa, Amanda Marie Schenk
Abstract:: The USDA Forest Services' actions have come under greater scrutiny by a public that has become increasingly concerned with the legality of their actions. Often, challenges involve the quality of science used in the decision-making. Congress has mandated that the agency use the "best available science" in its decision making...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: use by the agency of 45 cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, we have

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Creator:: Richards, Linda Marie
Abstract:: The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: influenced by the needs of the United States security state.19 Health and human rights claims of both

Is there still a Southwest effect?

Creator:: bin Salam, Najmus Sakib
Abstract:: The US airline industry is going through a period of consolidation through mergers between leading airlines. A number of recent mergers have been approved by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) based on the presence of Southwest Airlines in merger-affected markets. In doing so, the DOJ makes...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of

Implications of the 2008 Lacey Act amendments : insights from the wood products industry

Creator:: Tibbets, Ashlee
Abstract:: Export-oriented illegal logging has been recognized as a major global problem in environmental, social, and economic terms. It has been argued that export-oriented illegal logging does not benefit the community or government that should be benefited by its own natural resources. The emergence of policy initiatives targeting illegal logging could...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of an underlying law in the country of origin or the US state of origin. Put simply, a violation of

The Necessary Limits of Religious Influence on Public Policy

Creator:: Kaltenberg, Shawn M.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I argue that Christian fundamentalism is a threat to the traditions of religious liberty and the separation of church and state in US liberal democracy. I support this claim by exploring the writings of men who were instrumental in the foundation of the US, concluding that they...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Henry’s bill. Had Henry’s bill been passed into law, it would have provided for state support and

Fashion media's role in the debate on millinery and bird protection in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Creator:: Scarborough, Amy D.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship among fashion media, the social responsibility agenda of the Audubon Society, and the use of birds in millinery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both the content analysis method and the historic method were used to gain...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the United States in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Abstract approved

Political economy and trade effects of invasive species regulation : the case of noxious weeds

Creator:: Min, He
Abstract:: Many non-native weed pests of food, fiber, and nursery crops pose threats to U.S. environment and agriculture. Noxious weed regulations play an important role in preventing the introduction and spread of non-native plants, thereby protecting the local biodiversity, environment and economic activities. However, these regulations could also hamper agricultural trade....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: three essays of this dissertation address the causes and consequences of cross-state differences in

Enhancing cultural resources management and improving tribal involvement inthe NEPA process through the development of atribal environmental policy act

Creator:: Sloan, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: This dissertation presents an analysis of the historic preservation framework on tribal cultural resources management (CRM). It examines some of the challenges this framework poses to tribal governments working on cultural resources protection efforts within a compliance framework. An examination of five major laws that regulate the practice of CRM...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , a well-rounded knowledge of tribal history, federal Indian law and policy, and federal, state, and

Native American Representation in Museums : A Cross Cultural Comparison of the Effects of Cultural Resource Laws

Creator:: Thorsgard, Misty
Abstract:: The image of Native Americans in the United States has changed through the passage of time. Part of this change is directly related to the representation of their cultures in a museum setting and the inception of cultural resource laws that govern them. This research looks at four museums, two...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Rivers and Roads : Exploring How Environmental Governance Impacts State Management of Forest Roads

Judicial deference and its potential effect on agency science and natural resource management

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Is there still a Southwest effect?

Implications of the 2008 Lacey Act amendments : insights from the wood products industry

The Necessary Limits of Religious Influence on Public Policy

Fashion media's role in the debate on millinery and bird protection in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Political economy and trade effects of invasive species regulation : the case of noxious weeds

Enhancing cultural resources management and improving tribal involvement inthe NEPA process through the development of atribal environmental policy act

Native American Representation in Museums : A Cross Cultural Comparison of the Effects of Cultural Resource Laws

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