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Wilkinson, Renee
(University of Oregon, 2012)
This study examines the potential contribution market research could make to planning urban farm locations. Substantial research identifies access to healthy foods as a significant barrier for under-served communities. ...
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Ren, Lanbin
(University of Oregon, 2012-12)
Parking and parks are both crucial to downtown economic development. Many
studies have shown that downtown parks significantly contribute to increasing
surrounding property values and attract residents, businesses and ...
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Enright, Christianne
(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)
Over the past decade, ecosystem services has become a familiar term. Definitions vary but the central idea is that society depends on and is enhanced by earth's resources. Concerns about natural resource depletion and ...
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Ren, Lanbin
(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)
Parking and parks are both crucial to downtown economic development. Many studies have shown that downtown parks significantly contribute to increasing surrounding property values and attract residents, businesses and ...
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Penteado, Homero
(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)
Urbanization is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity. To address this problem, landscape planners have increasingly adopted landscape ecology as a theoretical basis for planning. They use spatial concepts that express ...
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Wu, Hong
(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)
The ability to anticipate and evaluate the combined impacts of urbanization and climate change on streamflow regimes is critical to developing proactive strategies that protect aquatic ecosystems. I developed an ...
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Rising, Hope
(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
A more water-coherent approach is postulated as a primary pathway through which biophilic urbanism contributes to livability and climate change adaptation. Previous studies have shown that upstream water retention is more ...
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Hanson, Wade
(2017-07-09)
Literature suggests that many of the current approaches to developing new public open space
focus on individual parcels of land and the ease of their acquisition rather than their location and
value within a larger system. ...
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Telomen, Christopher
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
Landscape architects and researchers often try to understand power by relying on allegory or symbology to interpret expressions of authority and ideology in space. This research proposes an interdisciplinary perspective ...
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Mhuireach, Gwynne A.
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
Variation in exposure to environmental microbial communities has been implicated in the etiology of allergies, asthma and other chronic and immune disorders. In particular, preliminary research suggests that exposure to a ...
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DeHeer, Adam
(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
Rapid urbanization is occurring inequitably, resulting in the proliferation of informal settlements. Lack of access to adequate sanitation, clean water, and other elements of a healthy human habitat, such as green space, ...
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Stapleton, Elizabeth
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
With the anticipated escalation in extreme weather events due to climate change, urban areas are increasingly managing stormwater through the use of green infrastructure, designed facilities which share an emphasis on the ...
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Kurtz, Lindsey
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
Ecological classification systems are used to understand and restore complex heterogeneous landscapes. We explored an ecological classification methodology to determine fine-grained land units by combining field and remote ...
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Horton, Eyrie
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
Restoring native grasslands by counteracting the forest succession which followed the loss of historical fire regimes is a vital component of landscape management in the Mediterranean moist climate of the western Pacific ...
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Kerr, Noah
(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
Cultural landscape professionals commonly use an established, framework-based approach to assess distinctive site features. This framework serves to organize and inform the study, reconnaissance, and documentation of ...
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Memiaghe, Herve Roland
(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
Forest elephant destruction of villagers' crops in and around Gabon's national parks has persisted despite intensive efforts to control the problem by blocking elephant access to crops. I developed an alternative approach ...
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Elderbrock, Evan
(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)
Cities are complex socio-ecological systems where social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental factors influence health outcomes. With the global population growing increasingly urbanized, understanding how ...
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