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“Avoidable Suffering” : Analyzing Healthcare Providers’ Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts

Creator:: Goodman, Rebecca M.
Abstract:: Recent scientific studies show that framing climate change as a health issue rather than an environmental issue were more persuasive with American audience members (Maibach et. al., 2010; Maibach et. al. 2014). Also in 2014, a survey on respiratory healthcare providers and found that a large percentage believed that climate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Communication, and Forest Ecosystems and Society presented on June 24, 2016. Title: “Avoidable Suffering

“Gold Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care for Soil in Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Christophel Michaels, Rosa J.
Abstract:: This thesis investigates how beginning, women farmers, within in a women farmers’ network in the Willamette Valley, Oregon are accessing land and farming information. Using ethnographic, community-based research methods, I ask how land access mediates their ability to care for their land and soil. Are these farmers interested in fostering...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: involved in…ecosystems rather than only from their possible benefits to humans…” This is inherently at

“Jellyfish : Dispatches from a Gelatinous Ocean”: A non‐fiction book proposal

Creator:: Register, Rhett
Abstract:: Jellyfish benefit from many of the changes mankind is making to the ocean. Climate change, overfishing, nutrient runoff, the introduction of invasive species, and coastal development all promote these ancient, gelatinous creatures. Because of their familiarity to readers and affinity for degraded places in the ocean, jellyfish are used to...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: biodiversity within ocean ecosystems has plummeted (Worm et al., 2006), the

“Narco-Deforestation” in Central American Protected Areas: Developing A Spatiotemporal Proxy Database for Drug-Trafficking Activities from Media Reporting

Creator:: Cameron, Olivia Z.
Abstract:: On a global scale, illicit economies have dramatic impacts on the physical environment. Cocaine trafficking has been recognized as a major driver of deforestation inside Central American protected areas. A key problem in studying and managing the environmental impacts of illicit economic activity is the difficulty in obtaining reliable data....
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: bleaching (Tulloch et al. 2016). These impacts to coastal areas and offshore ecosystems present major

"The Island" Research Natural Area : a vegetation study with time and location comparisons

Creator:: Fox, M. Anne, 1939-
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to document vegetation on "The Island", a Research Natural Area at the confluence of the Crooked River and the Deschutes River in central Oregon's Juniperus occidentalis Zone and to compare the results with an earlier study reported in 1964 from 1960-'61 data. Present-day comparisons...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and Location Comparisons INTRODUCTION In order for ecosystem dynamics and succession to be

"Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

Creator:: Brinker, Rachel K.
Abstract:: Research shows that women's lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. While the topic of women is largely absent from climate discourse overall, the representations of women that occur reveal underlying structures of power rooted in imperialism and colonial dominance. This thesis presents an analysis of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"Waving Wand" Broadcast Hand Application of Herbicides: Technical Basis and Usage

Creator:: Newton, Michael, Cole, Elizabeth C., and Barry, Jack W.
Abstract:: The waving-wand system of broadcast chemical application implemented in swath widths to 40 ft (>12 m) is capable of simulating broadcast deposition patterns for herbicides similar to those delivered by helicopter. Drop sizes vary from center to edge of swaths, which can range from >1,000 to 5,000 microns (μ). Any...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: operated by a trained operator. Effective 3-yr vegetation control was achieved on two forest ecosystem

“We All Live Downriver”: Environmental Justice and Community Resistance to the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove Export Terminal in Southern Oregon

Creator:: Halleran, Patricia C.
Abstract:: Native America tribes and community members throughout Oregon have asserted a strong opposition to the fossil fuel industry’s attempt to expand railways, build pipelines, and construct refineries, holding facilities, and export terminals. Despite the limited presence of fossil fuel infrastructure in the state, however, the industry is actively pursuing permits...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: fracking on ecosystems and agricultural lands are now known to have serious and often detrimental effects

“We’re not masters of anything” : personal values and masculinities in agricultural decision making

Creator:: Cameron, Olivia Z.
Abstract:: The agricultural sector is one of the largest contributors to global climate change but is also one of the most vulnerable to its impacts. Farmers are at increasing risk of livelihood loss, which produces risks for their physical and emotional wellbeing on a global scale. Swift and effective adaptation is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: biodiversity and ecosystem health (Coleman, 2012). Organic farms are an important step towards producing

“Winter Cutworm” Hits Willamette Valley

Creator:: Green, J., Mc Donald, B., Peachey, Ed, and Dreves, Amy
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding
Full Text:: are ingested. Concerns of herbivory in native ecosystems also increases during this type of outbreak

ScholarsArchive@OSU

“Avoidable Suffering” : Analyzing Healthcare Providers’ Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts

“Gold Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care for Soil in Willamette Valley, Oregon

“Jellyfish : Dispatches from a Gelatinous Ocean”: A non‐fiction book proposal

“Narco-Deforestation” in Central American Protected Areas: Developing A Spatiotemporal Proxy Database for Drug-Trafficking Activities from Media Reporting

"The Island" Research Natural Area : a vegetation study with time and location comparisons

"Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

"Waving Wand" Broadcast Hand Application of Herbicides: Technical Basis and Usage

“We All Live Downriver”: Environmental Justice and Community Resistance to the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove Export Terminal in Southern Oregon

“We’re not masters of anything” : personal values and masculinities in agricultural decision making

“Winter Cutworm” Hits Willamette Valley

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