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Creator:: Wyse, Barbara J.
Abstract:: Agricultural water supplies are becoming increasingly uncertain in the western United States due to rising demand from competing water users, environmental restrictions on surface water withdrawals due to water quality and endangered species concerns, and, potentially, climate-induced hydrological changes. Since many rural areas in the West depend economically upon irrigated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Community-Level Impacts of Irrigation Water Supply Reductions: A Case Study of Malheur County, Oregon

Creator:: Weber, Bruce A., Youmans, Russell C., and Harrington, Rick
Abstract:: Starting in the 1960's, the demand for recreational properties nationwide experienced a great surge. [Reilly, 1973; David, 1969; Hoover, n.d.; ASPO, 1976] A number of studies have been done of the impact of recreational subdivisions on local taxes. [Tillson, et. al. 1972; Thompson and Myrick, 1975; LeJeune, 1972; Moss and...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Recreational and Rural Residential Subdivisions in Klamath County Oregon Special Report 503 February 1978

Creator:: Sherburne, Holly R.
Abstract:: In 1993 and 1994 total, there were 247 people reported to have been bitten by animals in Benton County, Oregon. Of the 243 biting animals, 70 percent were dogs, 25 percent cats, and 5 percent other animals such as ferrets, mice, rats, bats, and skunks. Fifty-four percent of all bites...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: animal bites in Benton County, Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Holly R. Sherburne for the degree

Creator:: Fleck, William K.
Abstract:: Given the broad scientific consensus that global climate is changing, it is no longer a question if sea level will rise, but rather by how much will it rise. The regional estimates for the Eastern Pacific suggest that the Northwest coastlines will experience a greater eustatic sea level rise than...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Economic Costs of Long-Term Sea Level Rise on the Oregon Coast: A

Creator:: Stanton, Michael
Abstract:: This ethnographic study examined some of the ways that global markets and the infrastructure of agribusiness affect local smallholder farmers in the Ten Rivers region who are transitioning toward more sustainable and traditional agricultural methods. The purpose of this research was to discover what barriers smallholder farmers face in developing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: are the Environmental, Economic, and Social Barriers To Achieving Agricultural Sustainability in The

Creator:: West, Tyler T.
Abstract:: A supply and demand model for the sweet cherry industry in Wasco County, Oregon and two investment valuation models are used to value and assess the risk of investments in high-density sweet cherry orchard establishment and production from the producer perspective. The supply and demand estimation finds the cherry price...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Wasco County, Oregon, from the producer’s perspective. The process estimates a supply and demand

Creator:: Bates, Christopher Allen
Abstract:: New technology may have negative, as well as positive, effects on a sociocultural system. Biodiesel is growing in popularity as a fuel alternative that addresses global warming and reduces dependency on petroleum. The biodiesel innovation fits well into the existing behavioral infrastructure of Linn and Benton Counties, Oregon. The introduction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: because it did not make economic sense for them to do so. Research by a graduate student from Oregon

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