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(2021-06-13)In an urgent call for climate actions and a Green New Deal, policy such as the “Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act of 2020” looks to offshore renewable energy to aid in the goal of a clean electricity system while also ...
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(2021-03-24)Taiwan’s national plan to expand solar energy by 2025, including rooftop photovoltaics and ground-level photovoltaics, triggered numerous public debate and land-use conflicts since Taiwan’s 2016 presidential election. In ...
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(2021-03-24)Landscape architects have the potential to contribute to climate change mitigation through natural climate solutions that sequester carbon in ecosystems. However, landscape architects lack resources on how to design landscapes ...
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(2018-08-25)Memories of displacement, loss, and discrimination are oten present in designed sites. A decline in memory and story sharing has let these memories lingering on sites, open wounds waiting to be unearthed, discussed, and ...
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(2021-06-13)Black, Indigenous, and Latinx folx face many barriers when trying to access public natural areas. Park managers, designers, city staff, and community organizations can build a more equitable future for our public natural ...
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(2021-06-13)The benefit of both urban agriculture and therapeutic gardens are historically acknowledged and legitimized in landscape architecture. In their own ways they seek to address issues of resiliency and quality of life. ...
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(2021-03-24)A review of existing literature finds that minority populations often experience negative health outcomes due to unequal park distribution, quality, and types of available public green spaces. In this study, findings suggest ...
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(2018-08-25)Planning for uncertain, future climates has become a dominant framework in resource management fields, and has recently expanded into cultural resource strategies within the National Park Service (NPS). However, because ...
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(2018-08-25)Physical activity is a main component of preventing and controlling chronic diseases associated with sedentary lifestyles. When built environments are developed to prioritize vehicle transportation, coupled with increased ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016)To robustly implement low impact development stormwater solutions, the University of Oregon would benefi t from using a pattern language approach to plan East Campus. Most stormwater on the UO campus now disappears ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016)Methods of selecting cultural landscapes by current leading organizations are successful, however, this paper argues that an expanded definition of ‘cultural landscape’, a less restrictive landscape age requirement, and ...
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(2019-06-18)In consideration of climate change and the increasing trend of extreme weather events, communities see more urgent needs for preparation, especially for protecting their vulnerable populations. Given the growing climate ...
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(2021-06-13)Portland, Oregon does not have an urban climate change mitigation program to protect ecology, capture carbon, build resilience, and develop social equity in a single strategy. Local programs are siloed into one or two ...
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(2021-03-24)The goal of this research is to assess the potential for fuel breaks, as a fire management tool, to positively influence the resiliency of ecological and social systems within the region of the Pacific Northwest. Landscapes ...
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(2019-06-18)Using a study site in rural coastal Oregon (within the City of Coos Bay) this project generated a transferable process for rural coastal towns in need of efficient and pragmatic flood-mitigation plans. By observing the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016)Brownfields are most often located adjacent to disadvantaged communities. While toxicity is a primary concern surrounding brownfields there has been very little study on the social impact of these parks. This Master’s ...
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(2019-06-18)Portland Oregon’s Forest Park— one of the largest urban forests in the United States—usership is in a state of inequitable distribution, disproportionately allocating “the benefits and burdens of [urban] growth and ...
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Stormwater Education: Evaluating learning when siting stormwater facilities at the landscape scale (2017-07-09)PURPOSE: Evaluating a student’s development is key to understanding whether and how they are learning. This project focuses on landscape architecture and planning education, using a set curriculum, courses, and workshops ...
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(2019-06-18)As American cities transition from decades of automobile dependency to walking, biking, and transit, new and emerging forms of mobility such as ride-sharing, microvehicles, and autonomous vehicles offer a new paradigm of ...
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(2019-06-18)Despite their remote location and green veneer, landfills, like many industrial sites, have become monuments to consumerism. Every day in Lane County, Oregon, the equivalent of six pounds of waste per resident joins the ...
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