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The Politics of Correctional Privatization in the United States

Creator:: Burkhardt, Brett C.
Abstract:: Research Summary: Private correctional firms are political actors. They work to create favorable conditions to market their services. At the same time, they are constrained by external political forces, including political parties, social movements, and public opinion. This article reviews what we know about the reciprocal relationship between the private...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: a set of services that is so central to governance. In an era of mass imprisonment (and mass

Groundwater Governance in the Rio Grande: Co-evolution of Local and Intergovernmental Management

Creator:: De Stefano, Lucia, Welch, Christina, Urquijo, Julia, and Garrick, Dustin
Abstract:: The physical interconnection of ground and surface waters is rarely acknowledged in inter-state and international agreements over surface water. This is especially true in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo basin, where groundwater pumping is at the heart of several disputes and legal cases related to compliance with intergovernmental water agreements. This...
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Full Text:: governance in the Rio Grande Page | 838 For example, wildlife refuges in the SLV and endangered freshwater

Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil

Creator:: Hajjar, R., Newton, P., Adshead, D., Bogaerts, M., Maguire-Rajpaul, V. A., Pinto, L. F. G., McDermott, C. L., Milder, J. C., Wollenberg, E., and Agrawal, A.
Abstract:: A number of governance mechanisms address socio-environmental challenges associated with commodity agriculture in tropical forested countries. Governance mechanisms that prove effective in one agricultural sector are often applied to other sectors as well. For example, voluntary certification programs have been adopted by producers of commodities as diverse as beef, coffee,...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: in different sectors. This paper analyzes how the potential for scaling up a particular governance

River Restoration to Achieve a Stage 0 Condition: Summary of a Workshop Held November 5-6, 2020

Creator:: Behan, Jeff, Fetcho, K., Davis, R., and Gaines, L.
Abstract:: Restoration to achieve Stage 0 is a valley-scale, process-based (hydrologic, geologic and biological) approach that aims to reestablish stream depositional environments to maximize longitudinal, lateral, and vertical connectivity at base flows and facilitate development of dynamic, self-formed and self-sustaining wetland-stream complexes. The term Stage 0 originally described complex multi-channel conditions...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: , implementation and monitoring approaches, and appropriate sites and scale for these projects. In this science

Successful Models for Interdisciplinary Graduate Education in the U.S. : Report of the Taskforce on Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Programs

Creator:: Tyler, Brett M.
Abstract:: The Taskforce on Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Programs was given the mission to examine interdisciplinary graduate education programs at a range of institutions around the US, and to identify successful models that could inform the revitalization of interdisciplinary graduate education at Oregon State University. The taskforce examined programs at 29 universities...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: (Oregon State University) SUCCESSFUL MODELS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE

An Evaluation of Collaborative Salmon Fishery Management in Prince William Sound, Alaska

Creator:: Sheridan, Thomas M.
Abstract:: Collaborative decision-making is often promoted as a means to achieve socially acceptable and enduring solutions to natural resource management issues, and one that holds promise for resolving “wicked” problems. However, success rates for implementation of collaborative recommendations are unknown. This paper explores challenges to collaborative salmon fishery management in Prince...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Professor for my Graduate Minor in Rural Studies. Additional members of the graduate committee who gave

Revenue-sharing clubs provide economic insurance and incentives for sustainability in common-pool resource systems

Creator:: Tilman, Andrew R., Levin, Simon, and Watson, James R.
Abstract:: Harvesting behaviors of natural resource users, such as farmers, fishermen and aquaculturists, are shaped by season-to-season and day-to-day variability, or in other words risk. Here, we explore how risk mitigation strategies can lead to sustainable use and improved management of common-pool natural resources. Over-exploitation of unmanaged natural resources, which lowers...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: insurance and incentives for sustainability in common-pool resource systems Journal of Theoretical Biology

Wicked Water Problems for South-Central Texas

Creator:: Doty, Brent R.
Abstract:: Like many areas around the globe experiencing ever-growing demand for diminishing natural resources, the south-central region of Texas is facing a wicked problem in water resource planning and sustainability. This Region includes San Antonio, the seventh largest city in the U.S. With a projected population increase over one million residents...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: mitigation of wicked problems. 3.1 New Models for Water Governance in South-Central Texas One solution

A Case Study in the Role of Values in Discourse and Consensus in Pacific Northwest Forest Collaboratives

Creator:: Karnstein, Mackenzie R.
Abstract:: Collaborative governance plays a significant role in forest management on public land in the Pacific Northwest. The method of governance offers the unique ability to engage a diverse range of stakeholders to reach consensus regarding forest management action. Evaluating the dynamics of the collaborative and its members is essential to...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Science in Forest

Empowered or exploited? Analyzing the attitudes of unpaid community health workers in Amhara, Ethiopia

Creator:: Baranski, Emily A.
Abstract:: The Women’s Development Army (WDA), an all-female workforce of unpaid Community Health Workers (CHW), is Ethiopia’s answer to improving rural health. Through the WDA, Ethiopia’s government says it is empowering women to spark change in their community by disseminating healthy behaviors and by advocating on their own behalf to health...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: incentives for those who do (Adem 2012). Examples of such governance presented in this section affect the

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The Politics of Correctional Privatization in the United States

Groundwater Governance in the Rio Grande: Co-evolution of Local and Intergovernmental Management

Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil

River Restoration to Achieve a Stage 0 Condition: Summary of a Workshop Held November 5-6, 2020

Successful Models for Interdisciplinary Graduate Education in the U.S. : Report of the Taskforce on Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Programs

An Evaluation of Collaborative Salmon Fishery Management in Prince William Sound, Alaska

Revenue-sharing clubs provide economic insurance and incentives for sustainability in common-pool resource systems

Wicked Water Problems for South-Central Texas

A Case Study in the Role of Values in Discourse and Consensus in Pacific Northwest Forest Collaboratives

Empowered or exploited? Analyzing the attitudes of unpaid community health workers in Amhara, Ethiopia

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