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(University of Oregon, 2012)The catastrophic eruption of the Indonesian volcano Mt. Tambora in April 1815, which ejected a cloud of sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere, plunged the world into a rapid temporary climate change event. A series of ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2006)The general warming of the Earth that is expected over the next century will have serious economic consequences for humans and natural ecosystems across the world. The Pacific Northwest is already experiencing adverse ...
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(University of Oregon School of Law, 2014-04-17)
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Environmental issues such as climate change and habitat loss pose significant challenges to existing political, legal and financial institutions. As these challenges have become clearer in recent years, interest in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Widespread extinctions of mammalian megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene epoch remain insufficiently explained. In North America, approximately sixty megafaunal species disappeared in a window between 13 and 11 ka that ...
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(2019-06-18)Climate change impacts the world at different rates and scales. This project examines the effects of climate change in the residential landscape in the Midwest, an under-examined— but crucial—topic in climate change ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-06)Over the last two decades, frustration with government inaction on climate change has catalyzed a surge of litigation to prompt policy action. Although climate change litigation is constrained by justiciability doctrines ...
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As events of extreme weather occur at an increasing frequency and severity, they are deconstructed and discussed through media outlets in a complex variety of ways. Climate scientists now have the capacity to say observable ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-06)This paper describes cognitive tendencies when people are confronted with politically polarized issues of high moral salience. It argues that political polarization is a result of a combination of group-preferring biases ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-12)Water supply and demand presents an immense challenge for communities around the world. The future impacts of climate change and population growth are expected to intensify global water stress as freshwaters become more ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-09)Economists typically assume that individuals behave in accordance with rational choice theory. In practice, however, individual behavior can deviate from the predictions of models founded upon basic economic theory. The ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)Whether or not a causal relationship exists between climate and mammal body size is one of the longest-standing and most intractable questions in ecology. The classic model of body size evolution (Bergmann's Rule) holds ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-09)The literature indicates that for indigenous peoples the environmental impacts of climate change and some proposed solutions threaten lifeways, subsistence, economic ventures, future growth, cultural survivability, rights, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)The amplified effects of climate change in the Arctic are well known and, according to many commentators, endanger Inuit cultural integrity. However, the specific connections between climate change and cultural change are ...
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(University of Oregon School of Law, 2018-06-11)This Article accepts the fact of climate change and attempts to set out some practical considerations and tools by which Oregon may respond to climate change.
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06)Anthropogenic climate change is impacting Peruvian potat farming as a result of increased temperatures, erratic weather and unpredictable precipitation. In Peru, potato farming is not only a means of subsistence, but it ...
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(University of Oregon, 2005-05)In winter 2005, Resource Innovations initiated a project designed to identify the most effective means to communicate with local populations about climate change. The project is intended to identify speakers and messages ...
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(University of Oregon. Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2005-05)
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(Community Planning Workshop, Community Service Center, University of Oregon, 2005-05)In winter 2005, Resource Innovations initiated a project designed to identify the most effective means to communicate with local populations about climate change. The project is intended to identify speakers and messages that ...
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