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Environmental Virtue Ethics in Buddhism

Creator:: Peng, Chih-Wei
Abstract:: In this thesis, in order to understand why Buddhists in Southeast Asia protect rainforests and to establish a solid foundation for Buddhist environmental ethic, my first two tasks are to draw a clear picture regarding two major environmental concepts--nature and anthropocentrism--in Buddhism and to defend the claims that the Buddhist...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: environmental protection. However, Gabriela Carone points out that the sensible world has never lost its

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

Creator:: Leaver, Jennifer Jensen
Abstract:: In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past

The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

Creator:: West, Rex Alan, 1967-
Abstract:: A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric view of nature is inadequate, that we need a "new morality" with regard to the environment. In this essay, I argue that an alternative to anthropocentricism is available to us now-and has been since at least 1836. I look...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: least 1836. I look at three "checkpoints" in the evolution of environmental theory as proof of this: 1

Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

Creator:: Crateau, Carole Ann
Abstract:: The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to guide middle school and high school students into critical thinking about environmental issues. Through keen observation of their bioregion and through an integration of interdisciplinary literature which focuses on Oregon writers, students will be challenged to think, write, and discuss current issues...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Time to learn : an annotated bibliography of environmental

Environmental Regulations Reconsidered : Identifying Incentives and Barriers to Environmental Performance

Creator:: Craig, Kathleen D.
Abstract:: Attention has been drawn to the observation that environmental benefits under the current regulatory approaches are diminishing with respect to increased pollution control costs. Regulators have begun to appreciate that while environmental gains can still be achieved under the current command and control system, the most significant environmental gains have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Environmental regulations reconsidered : identifying

Report on internship conducted with Yap State Environmental Protection Agency (Federated States of Micronesia)

Creator:: Harrison, Thomas D.
Abstract:: This internship was supported and funded by the Yap State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Territorial and International Affairs, and the University of Oregon Micronesia and South Pacific Technical Assistance Program. What follows in this report is a description of the internship...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Date Created:
Full Text:: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Territorial and

An evaluation of citizen volunteer monitoring initiatives in the national estuary program (NEP)

Creator:: Rebele, Leo M.
Abstract:: pages II, VI missing
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Coastal protected areas in Mexico : a management assessment

Creator:: Chavarria, Elena
Abstract:: The primary objective of this study is to assess the Mexican experience in managing coastal natural areas. The assessment is based on the categories, uses, objectives, and political elements of Mexican protected coastal areas and governmental efforts to develop and manage these areas. Specific problems within each protected coastal area...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Zones 17 Environmental Problems and Issues 18 Endangered Species Protection 18 Pollution

Tree protection on construction and development sites : a best management practices guidebook for the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Ries, Paul D., Godwin, Derek, Foster, Sarah, McNaughton, Micki, Cahill, Maria, Fitzgerald, Toni, Freed, James, Johns, Scott, Mead, Linden, Oregon State University. Extension Service, Oregon. Department of Forestry, Urban and Community Forestry Program (U.S.), Washington (State). Department of Natural Resources, and Washington State University. Extension
Abstract:: This publication is a guide for protecting, conserving, selecting, maintaining, removing, and replacing trees on development sites in the Pacific Northwest. The guidebook is designed to assist people who work with trees during the development and construction phases of both new and existing projects to keep healthy trees a part...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: protection on construction and development sites Tree Protection on Construction and Development Sites

Trophic cascades and large mammals in the Yellowstone ecosystem

Creator:: Painter, Luke E.
Abstract:: Reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park (YNP) in 1995-96 provided a rare opportunity to observe the response of an ecosystem to the return of a top predator, including possible reversal of decades of decline of aspen, cottonwood, and tall willows suppressed by intensive herbivory on elk winter ranges. To...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Environmental Virtue Ethics in Buddhism

Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

Time to listen : an annotated bibliography of environmental readings, featuring Oregon writers, for middle school and high school students

Environmental Regulations Reconsidered : Identifying Incentives and Barriers to Environmental Performance

Report on internship conducted with Yap State Environmental Protection Agency (Federated States of Micronesia)

An evaluation of citizen volunteer monitoring initiatives in the national estuary program (NEP)

Coastal protected areas in Mexico : a management assessment

Tree protection on construction and development sites : a best management practices guidebook for the Pacific Northwest

Trophic cascades and large mammals in the Yellowstone ecosystem

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