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Drone Strikes : The Moral, Political, and Legal Implications of the Changing Character of War

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Khalife, Ryan A.

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Drone strikes have become a defining strategy in the US War on Terror. Since the first combat drone strike in 2001, the executive branch has intentionally increased the deployment of drones for counterterrorism operations throughout the Middle East and North Africa. This thesis explores the moral and legal justifications for...

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Honors College Thesis
A decade of tidal wetland development at the Ni-les’tun restoration project on the southern Oregon coast

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Janousek, Christopher, van de Wetering, Stan, Brophy, Laura, Cornu, Craig, and Tice-Lewis, Maxwell

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The Ni-les’tun tidal wetland restoration project in the Coquille River Estuary in southern Oregon is one of the largest and most well-studied tidal restoration projects on the Pacific Northwest coast. However, ecological data on restoration effectiveness and ecosystem change following restoration are relatively rare for projects more than a few...

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Technical Report

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, formerly at OSU; Cheryl Brown at EPA; Kevin Buffington at USGS). We also thank Karen Thorne and Chase
Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

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Bruno, Mark P.

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This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....

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Masters Thesis

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conditions for the modern ecovillage movement were ripe enough for former astrophysicist Robert Gilman’s