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Grassland Restoration and Climate Change: Altar Valley, Arizona Case Study

Creator:

Gondor, Anne

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The Altar Valley is an important working landscape that supports biodiversity and vulnerable species in Pima County, Arizona (Huckelberry 2000). This semi-desert grassland, alluvial valley and 713,807-acre watershed composed of 39 subbasins serves as an aquifer to a portion of southwestern Tucson. This region of Southern Arizona has been identified...

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Capstone Project
The hazards-housing nexus : adaptive capacity wheel analysis of coastal planning institutions

Creator:

Patterson, Trisha

Abstract:

The Oregon coast faces complex environmental and social challenges, such as the threat of a regionally disastrous Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquake and tsunami. Researchers are united in their assertion that the CSZ is new, the region is due for a quake, and to mitigate this hazard society must collaborate...

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Capstone Project

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adaptation (Martin & Sunley 2006; Ostrom 2007; Robertson & Choi 2010). For example, a mitigation strategy