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Barriers to Community Involvement across Rural and Urban Communities

Creator:: Torgerson, Melissa
Abstract:: Many communities emphasize participatory involvement in local development or reinvention efforts. Recognizing barriers among specific groups could help community leaders identify what may be constraining underrepresented groups from joining in. Utilizing data from the Social Capital Benchmark Survey, this research examined identified “barriers” to community involvement among individuals in rural...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: community involvement among individuals in rural and urban areas. Results indicated that while rurality

The resource base of Adair Village, Oregon problems and prospects

Creator:: Jacobson, Gerald Patrick
Abstract:: The utilization of pre-existing military structures and facilities to serve as a resource base for an incorporated city is a unique situation posing several problems for the new city of Adair Village. The resultant land uses from the disposal of Adair AFS provide little economic opportunities so the residents are...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: PROSPECTS by GERALD PATRICK JACOBSON A RESEARCH PAPER submitted to THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY in

We Can Work it Out: Implementation and Collaborative Governance

Creator:: Knobloch, Jenna
Abstract:: Collaborative governance strives to address complex environmental problems by building cooperation and consensus among stakeholders. While there are many successful examples of collaborative governance, all too frequently collaborative groups come to an agreement in the meeting room only to struggle to bring their plans to fruition. What are the factors...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: governance but for implementing policy in general (Wilson 1989). In fact, setting specific goals are so

International Mekong River Basin : Events, Conflicts or Cooperation, and Policy Implications

Creator:: Yorth, Bunny
Abstract:: “International river basin is defined as an area extending over two or more states determined by the watershed limits of the system of waters, including surface and underground waters, flowing into a common terminus” (Shapiro-Libai, 1969, p. 22). There are 276 international river basins providing almost 60% of global freshwater...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: factors found in either conflicts or cooperation of the events, and

The poetics of water governance : differential language use in relation to water in El Salvador

Creator:: Ogden, Stephanie
Abstract:: The language of water policy both suggests and enforces the relationship that the public should have with water. Differences in language use between policy institutions and the public suggest that the understanding of water promoted through policy may be incongruent with the understanding of water held by the public. Semi-structured...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text::  water policy is in development, and the role of policy in rural water governance is  emerging

Transboundary Water Management Among the Riparian States of the Mekong: Using the Water Governance Reform Framework to Prevent Conflict

Creator:: Eilers, Michael
Abstract:: Few river systems in the world are under equal or more stress than Southeast (SE) Asia’s Mekong River. Several factors threaten the Mekong as the riparian states of China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam jockey for position within its geopolitical sphere. Climate change, globalization, industrialization, urbanization, economic growth,...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: region engulfed in war and turmoil, water governance through cooperation developed slowly. Institutions

Transboundary Water Management Among the Riparian States of the Mekong: Using the Water Governance Reform Framework to Prevent Conflict

Creator:: Eilers, Michael
Abstract:: Few river systems in the world are under equal or more stress than Southeast(SE) Asia’s Mekong River. Several factors threaten the Mekong as the riparian states of China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam jockey for position within its geopolitical sphere. Climate change, globalization,industrialization, urbanization, economic growth, and hydro-hegemony...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: in creating the correct mindset for tackling “wicked problems.” To my committee, Professors Steel

Combined Collaborative Governance Approaches: A Case Study of the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area in Western Montana

Creator:: Sigmon, Abigail M.
Abstract:: The Blackfoot Community Conservation Area (BCCA) was created in response to a degrading natural environment coupled with a weakening community. The BCCA is a community owned 5,609-acre forest located in the heart of the Blackfoot watershed in Western Montana. Fearful of development and the creation of subdivisions, landowners banded together,...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: become a recent impetus for establishing collaborative policymaking in rural landscapes (Belsky, 2008

The Fracker’s Figleaf : Booms and Busts of Sustainable Communities and Cohesive Water Governance

Creator:: Groh, Fred
Abstract:: The Marcellus Shale Natural Gas play in Pennsylvania, since its inception, continues to be a source of contention for multiple Pennsylvania stakeholders. The issues that relate to natural gas extraction have seemingly impacted every community within the Marcellus Shale region in some form. As in most common pool resource...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
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Full Text:: poor in these rural areas is high, “as their marginal utility for the 26 signing payments and

Collective Aquifer Governance: It’s the Water, and a “Hole” Lot More

Creator:: Wiley, Jakob Stevan
Abstract:: Aquifers are a whole lot more than groundwater. Aquifers are composed of many kinds of different resources, including storage space, geothermal energy, surface interactions, and various minerals. However, unlike these resources, groundwater is treated as something different. The transition from groundwater management to groundwater governance expanded the role of social...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: governance, showing the limitations for their use in addressing aquifer governance problems. b

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Barriers to Community Involvement across Rural and Urban Communities

The resource base of Adair Village, Oregon problems and prospects

We Can Work it Out: Implementation and Collaborative Governance

International Mekong River Basin : Events, Conflicts or Cooperation, and Policy Implications

The poetics of water governance : differential language use in relation to water in El Salvador

Transboundary Water Management Among the Riparian States of the Mekong: Using the Water Governance Reform Framework to Prevent Conflict

Transboundary Water Management Among the Riparian States of the Mekong: Using the Water Governance Reform Framework to Prevent Conflict

Combined Collaborative Governance Approaches: A Case Study of the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area in Western Montana

The Fracker’s Figleaf : Booms and Busts of Sustainable Communities and Cohesive Water Governance

Collective Aquifer Governance: It’s the Water, and a “Hole” Lot More

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