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Optimizing spatial and temporal aspects of nature reserve design under economic and ecological objectives

Creator:: Nalle, Darek J.
Abstract:: Alteration of natural areas in attempts to support increasing human populations has been a crucial yet less publicized contributor to the fall of many of the world's greatest civilizations, since healthy ecosystems can help maintain stable societies and economies. Given this unhappy fact and the ancient relationship between people and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: operations research techniques could be used to better manage the natural resource base. By providing a

Collective Aquifer Governance: It’s the Water, and a “Hole” Lot More

Creator:: Wiley, Jakob Stevan
Abstract:: Aquifers are a whole lot more than groundwater. Aquifers are composed of many kinds of different resources, including storage space, geothermal energy, surface interactions, and various minerals. However, unlike these resources, groundwater is treated as something different. The transition from groundwater management to groundwater governance expanded the role of social...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: management is the least inclusive for both social (legal, collaborative, and jurisdictional) and resource

Designing and Delivering Effective Two-Way Science Communication Tools: A Case Study of NOAA West Watch Webinars

Creator:: Mazur, Emily N.
Abstract:: Research across natural resource management disciplines has identified an implementation gap between researchers and managers, where institutional norms and practices limit the application and synthesis of novel data and observations in decision-making. With their increasing social media and internet presence, federal agencies have grown their communication portfolios past traditional communication...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Shelby E. Walker Research across natural resource management disciplines has identified an

International wildlife law and the geography of the commons

Creator:: Giordano, Mark
Abstract:: Common resources are those for which rights to use, access and management have not been assigned. Common resources are frequently subject to over-exploitation, a phenomenon frequently referred to as the "tragedy of the commons," and solutions to commons problems are often sought through the establishment of rights regimes. An examination...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Scientists' perspectives on the importance of scientific communication in natural resource decision-making

Creator:: Shaw, Christine Michelle
Abstract:: Natural resource decisions require consideration at many levels, ranging from how one invertebrate will be affected by a nearby road, to how an entire watershed will be transformed by a massive clearcut. Considerations reach farther than just the local ecological community-human communities, economies, and future impacts on the communities and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of the most recent and major scientific and natural resource management decisions that have occurred

Resource use in Thailand

Creator:: Korzan, Gerald E.
Abstract:: Reprinted from Land Economics, November 1957, Vol. 33, No. 4.
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: two hy- potheses: (1) that there is considerable logic in resource utilization in Thailand within the

Between Wild and Cultivated Places: Natural Resource Planning on a Small Farm in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Creator:: Cliff, Eliza H.
Abstract:: To meet the challenges of climate change and make progress on lagging large-scale sustainability and watershed goals requires an integrated social-ecological approach to natural resource planning on the ground-level. This case study of a small equestrian farm in the Chesapeake Bay watershed incorporates theory with practice, by adding interviews focused...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . Natural resource management has traditionally focused solely on the bio-physical environment, with an

Three studies on the role of uncertainty in the valuation and management of renewable natural resources

Creator:: Burnes, Ellen Irene
Abstract:: These three papers address uncertainty in the management and valuation of renewable natural resources. The first paper develops a model to integrate both stock and price uncertainty to obtain optimal resource levels. The model is an extension of Reed (1974) and shows by proof and by example that when prices...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ......................................................................... 1 CHAPTER TWO THE OPTIMAL ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT OF A RENEW ABLE NATURAL RESOURCE UNDER PRICE AND

The impacts of social change in natural resource management : a central Oregon regional study

Creator:: Sharp, Shayla B.
Abstract:: The sentiments expressed by Wells capture the fundamental nature of natural resource and land management in Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook County, Oregon. Driven by the attraction and abundance of natural and scenic amenities in central Oregon, increases in recreation, tourism, population, development and conflict, have contributed to the complexities of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Advances in Modeling Natural Resource Management under Uncertainty : Forest Mortality, Policy Design, and the Value of Information

Creator:: Sloggy, Matthew R.
Abstract:: Advancing the understanding of natural resource management is an important step in mitigating the effects of human activity on the environment, and ensuring efficient outcomes for many sectors of the economy. As humanity’s role in the natural world becomes better understood, the importance of interdisciplinary modeling has grown in leaps...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Applied Economics presented on May 21, 2018. Title: Advances in Modeling Natural Resource Management

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Optimizing spatial and temporal aspects of nature reserve design under economic and ecological objectives

Collective Aquifer Governance: It’s the Water, and a “Hole” Lot More

Designing and Delivering Effective Two-Way Science Communication Tools: A Case Study of NOAA West Watch Webinars

International wildlife law and the geography of the commons

Scientists' perspectives on the importance of scientific communication in natural resource decision-making

Resource use in Thailand

Between Wild and Cultivated Places: Natural Resource Planning on a Small Farm in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Three studies on the role of uncertainty in the valuation and management of renewable natural resources

The impacts of social change in natural resource management : a central Oregon regional study

Advances in Modeling Natural Resource Management under Uncertainty : Forest Mortality, Policy Design, and the Value of Information

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