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  • Diagnosing barriers to climate change adaptation Oregon state agencies

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    Dello, Kathie D.
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    Despite a history of leadership and creative approaches to environmental issues, Oregon has struggled to adequately prepare for the current and future impacts of climate change. Oregon faces barriers and limits to understanding, planning, and implementing climate adaptation that can be examined and quantified. Climate change makes for an additional...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Denise H. Lach Despite a history of leadership and creative approaches to environmental

  • Social Learning and Adaptive Capacity in Collaborative Watershed Partnerships

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    Calvert, Daniel T.
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    This dissertation examines learning driven adaptations in salmon recovery efforts and water resources management in Oregon. The case study utilizes a framework highlighting the connections between human and natural systems. Semi-structured interviews are used to analyze interactions between rural riparian landowners and watershed council staffs living and working in Oregon’s...
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    approved:____________________________________________________ Denise H. Lach Abstract This

  • Co-producing Software for Environmental and Ecological Visualization

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    Zanocco, Chad
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    Environmental scientists, land managers, and policy actors are increasingly presented with high-stakes high-uncertainty problems stemming from human-ecosystem interactions. To help address these problems, scientists frequently use models that produce enormous geospatial and temporal datasets that are constantly modified and often seek input from communities outside their discipline. To assist scientists—as...
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    : _____________________________________________________ Denise H. Lach Environmental scientists, land managers, and policy actors are increasingly

  • Visualization in environmental science

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    Winters, Kirsten M.
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    The VISualization of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems (VISTAS) software development project began with the proposition that visualization would increase the ability of scientists to explore and communicate their data, especially complex datasets that span multiple spatial and temporal scales. A case study of VISTAS articulates how and why scientists intend...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Denise H. Lach The VISualization of

  • Complicating the Rural in Oregon's Water Policymaking

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    Freeman, Misty
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    The state of Oregon is divided in important ways along rural and urban lines, including the way people make a living, individual and group relationships with the natural world, political ideologies, and personal values. This rural-urban divide has assisted policymakers in making decisions that balance the needs of Oregonians on...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Denise H. Lach, Major Professor The state of Oregon is divided in important ways along

  • Technology and meaning in natural resource management : the story-making role of GIS in the CLAMS project

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    Duncan, Sally
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    The working hypothesis for this study is that the introduction of GIS technology into the ancient procedures of map-making has changed the map-making context sufficiently to require a revision of the way we think about, learn from, and use maps, specifically in the public involvement process in natural resource management....
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    Abstract approved: / Denise H. Lach The working hypothesis for this study is that the introduction of GIS

  • Patterns of carbon storage within a mature northern highbush blueberry production system

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    Nemeth, Denise Alexandra
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    The objectives of this study were to: 1) determine how organic matter (incorporated vs. surface mulch) and nitrogen fertilization rate impact northern highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L.) plant biomass, carbon accumulation, plant losses and allocation, and mycorrhizal infection in mature plants, and 2) determine the magnitude of carbon fluxes (carbon...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Denise

  • Robustness in a distributed storage server for engineering design data with versions

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    Ecklund, Denise J.
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    Traditional database management systems have been deemed unsuitable for use in the Computer Aided Engineering environment Object-oriented data models with project management features have been proposed as an alternative. The Distributed Hypothetical Storage System is intended to serve as the underlying storage mechanism for an object-oriented data model. The storage...
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    design data with versions AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Denise J. Eck lund for the degree of Doctor of

  • Collaboration Challenges: Stakeholder Perceptions of Managing a National Forestry Program. A Case Study of the Multi Stakeholder Forestry Program in Nepal

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    Maskey, Stuty
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    Increasing calls from stakeholders for a greater role in public decision making has led to the rapid world-wide adoption of multi stakeholder collaboration for policymaking. In line with this emerging trend the Government of Nepal with support from its long-time development partners and bi-lateral donors initiated a policy level experiment...
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    : _____________________________________________ Denise H. Lach Increasing calls from stakeholders for a greater role in public

  • Decision support systems for forest biodiversity management : a review of tools and an analytical-deliberative framework for understanding their successful application

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    Gordon, Sean N.
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    The complexity of forest management has increased with the scope of resources of concern and the level of scrutiny from stakeholders. The design and use of specialized computer software, often referred to as “decision support systems” (DSS), is one method for helping managers deal with this complexity. DSS have proven...
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    . Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________________________ K. Norman