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  • Wild Waters : Perspectives on Oregon’s Marine Reserves as Marine Wilderness Areas

    Creator:
    Johnston, Jennifer R.
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    Designation of areas as marine wilderness has been proposed as a strategy for managing the increasing threats facing the world’s oceans. Although social factors influence marine protected area success, the human dimensions of marine wilderness remain minimally explored. This thesis examines views of marine wilderness expressed by a representative sample...
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    more than a decade of public debate (Learn, 2012; Oregon Senate Bill 1510, 2012; The Oregonian

  • The Experiences of Male Students in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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    Viveros Cespedes, Marcos Andres
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    Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) is an interdisciplinary academic field that addresses gender, sexuality, and social justice issues. The research objective of this project was to examine the attitudes of self-identified male students in introductory Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for winter term 2016 at Oregon State University. This...
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    term 2016 at Oregon State University. This project used the research method from a similar study done

  • Public Proof : Science Communication, Weak Theory, and the Nonrational

    Creator:
    Snyder, Wesley M.
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    A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over environmental and biomedical issues (Funk and Rainie). Similarly, a number of recent popular books have described a growing public mistrust in scientific expertise (Mooney; Storr; Specter). Why is it, then, that so much of the...
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    A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over

  • Mitigating Microplastics : Development and Evaluation of a Middle School Curriculum

    Creator:
    Kowalski, Marie
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    Microplastics, plastic marine debris less than 5 mm in size, is a threat to the health of our oceans. One important way to reduce microplastics in our oceans is to educate people about the issue, particularly future decision-makers. In this study, a middle school curriculum was developed using current scientific...
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    District, a rural, coastal school district in Oregon. The surveys assessed the extent to which attitudes

  • Groundwater Flooding and Guerrilla Trenches : a Participatory Approach for Flood Control

    Creator:
    Kemper, Joseph B.
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    Residents in South Falls City, a small town in the foothills of Oregon's Coast Range, battle intense flooding during the rainy season. Disagreements about surface water management pit neighbor against neighbor, but preliminary evidence suggests that groundwater flooding is an underlying cause. OSU researchers pair the emerging literature on groundwater...
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    . Steve Taylor from Western Oregon is used to evaluate potential mitigation strategies including ditch

  • Community Perceptions of Recreation Management and Experiences in the Oregon State University Research Forests

    Creator:
    Gustavson, Elspeth
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    Strategic planning for forests subjected to multiple uses is important for management that sustains and balances these many uses. In the wildland urban interface where forests are in the backyards of members of the public who avidly recreate in them, it is also important to include the community in the...
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    : Community Perceptions of Recreation Management and Experiences in the Oregon State University Research

  • Evaluating Community Engagement in Wave Energy Siting off the Oregon Coast

    Creator:
    Goodwin, Briana
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    The ocean off Oregon's coast is a busy place with many activities occurring that can sometimes be in competition or cooperation. Deciding how new uses fit with existing ocean uses is complex, but there are some tools available to help decision-makers. Generating energy from waves is an emerging ocean use...
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     to  be  involved  in  all  phases  of  public  planning  (Oregon  Department

  • Forestry & Communication : A Coos Bay Case Study

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    Livingstone, Tasha
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    This thesis combines elements of forestry, interpersonal communication, and rhetoric to describe where residents of Coos Bay and North Bend Oregon obtain information about forests and forest uses, and how they view the credibility of that information. As a qualitative exploratory study, grounded theory methodology was used to develop theme...
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    tribal lands, and another 1% belong to additional public ownerships (Oregon Department of Forestry

  • Managing our urban forest : what do officials and managers think and need? A case study from the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area

    Creator:
    Driscoll, Abbey N.
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    Urban forests are fundamental to the health and sustainability of urban communities. In 2012, the U.S. Forest Service launched the Vibrant Cities, Urban Forests: A National Call to Action initiative which posed a variety of recommendations to advance urban forest management and programs throughout the country. In response to that...
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    public support, but respondents indicated that increased community education and the creation or

  • Conflict and the challenges of community-based collaboration : a case study of Oregon's Illinois Valley

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    Watson, Brett E.
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    In the field of natural resource policy and management, community-based collaboration is a strategy that has been growing in scope and usage over the past three decades, and often offers hope in complex, difficult conflict situations. In Oregon's Illinois Valley, where conflicts over natural resource management have been ongoing for...
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    by Brett E. Watson A THESIS Submitted to Oregon State University in partial