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A framework for integrating systems thinking into sustainable manufacturing

Creator:: Zhang, Hao
Abstract:: Improving the understanding the relations of sustainability behaviors in manufacturing systems and actively engaging with manufacturers (especially SMEs) in sustainability efforts is key to the long-term success of U.S. industry and the natural environment. This study addresses this urgent need by establishing a systemic approach for the design of costing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: is key to the long-term success of U.S. industry and the natural environment. This study addresses

Essays on location decisions and carbon sequestration strategies of U.S. firms

Creator:: Wu, Caiwen
Abstract:: Location is a critical component of business decisions. A firm's location decision may be influenced not only by market forces, such as the location of input suppliers, output processors and competitors, but also by government policies if such policies impact their expected profits and are applied non-uniformly across space. Likewise,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: effect of environmental regulations and agglomeration economies across regions in the United States

Corporate social responsibility in the forest products industry : an issues management approach

Creator:: Panwar, Rajat
Abstract:: Business is a social institution and society has always designated a role for business which has been undergoing changes with changing societal values and paradigms. Thus while business has always had some responsibilities, the modern connotation of the words corporate social responsibility commonly refers to business assuming responsibilities in economic,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: industry in fulfilling its economic, social and environmental responsibilities. These students were drawn

How environmental regulations affect productivity of U.S. and Mexican primary iron & steel and aluminum industries

Creator:: Hackenbruck, Satenik
Abstract:: Many economists believe that the slowdown of the productivity growth rates in the U.S. economy in early 1970's was a consequence of the increased level of environmental regulations. The main reason presented in support of this argument is that increased environmental regulations impose an additional burden to the firms, thus...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Master of Sciec in Economics presented on September 23, 2005. Title: How Environmental

Fashion media's role in the debate on millinery and bird protection in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Creator:: Scarborough, Amy D.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship among fashion media, the social responsibility agenda of the Audubon Society, and the use of birds in millinery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both the content analysis method and the historic method were used to gain...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: industry in the United States from 1932 to 1941. Researchers in historic studies and textiles and apparel

Issues in social impact analysis : proceedings from an interagency symposium

Creator:: Wenner, Lambert N.
Abstract:: Gerald W. Williams Collection
Resource Type:: Book
Full Text:: electoral process. What I want to capture in this aspect of environmental analysis is the broad sense by

Carbon flux patterns on U.S. public timberlands under alternative timber harvest policies

Creator:: Shanks, Alyssa V.
Abstract:: This study considers trade-offs between timber harvest and carbon sequestration on National Forest and other public lands by contemporaneously linking a model of public harvest and inventory to a carbon accounting system. The public harvest model treats three harvest scenarios. The first minimizes the cost of meeting harvest requests that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Alyssa V. Shanks A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

How We’ve Rebuilt : Collaboration, Community, Institutions, and Adaptation Following Catastrophic Wildland Fire in the United States

Creator:: Fishler, Hillary K.
Abstract:: In the study of rebuilding and recovery after natural disasters in the United States, little attention is paid to understanding how and why people rebuild following recurring, small-scale events, like wildfire. Hazard and risk literature, instead, is focused on understanding how larger communities with greater resources, economics, and social capital,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Sciences presented on March 17, 2017

RINs and biofuel mandates : comparing ethanol and biodiesel markets

Creator:: Ainsworth, Joel H.
Abstract:: The United States Congress set out to increase the blending of biofuels by updating and implementing the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) in 2007. The new mandate required that a combination of 36 billion gallons of ethanol, biodiesel, and cellulosic biofuel be blended annually, by 2022. To offset the cost of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Penelope L. Diebel The United States Congress set out to increase the blending of

Riparian area management : grazing management for riparian-wetland areas

Creator:: Leonard, Steve (Stephen G.), Kinch, Gene, Elsbernd, Van, Borman, Michael M., and Swanson, Sherman
Abstract:: This document presents information from various land managers and researchers to guide livestock management in riparian areas using their unique responsiveness to accomplish management objectives. Riparian areas, as interfaces between the aquatic and upland components of the ecosystem comprise mosaics of landforms, communities, and environments within the larger landscape. The...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

ScholarsArchive@OSU

A framework for integrating systems thinking into sustainable manufacturing

Essays on location decisions and carbon sequestration strategies of U.S. firms

Corporate social responsibility in the forest products industry : an issues management approach

How environmental regulations affect productivity of U.S. and Mexican primary iron & steel and aluminum industries

Fashion media's role in the debate on millinery and bird protection in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Issues in social impact analysis : proceedings from an interagency symposium

Carbon flux patterns on U.S. public timberlands under alternative timber harvest policies

How We’ve Rebuilt : Collaboration, Community, Institutions, and Adaptation Following Catastrophic Wildland Fire in the United States

RINs and biofuel mandates : comparing ethanol and biodiesel markets

Riparian area management : grazing management for riparian-wetland areas

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