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(Center for Watershed and Community Health, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, 2001-11-01)The State of Washington faced a record drought situation for the 2001 water year. The opportunity to lease water from current water right holders for the purpose of enhancing instream flows to improve conditions for fish ...
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(Center for Watershed and Community Health, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2002-08)This paper is intended to outline a framework and provide policy recommendations for expanding the tools and approaches available to transfer water between out-of-stream and instream uses and also among out-of-stream uses. ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2008-06)
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2006-10)
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(Program for Watershed and Community Health, University of Oregon, 2003-09)This paper provides a framework for understanding the role community capacity plays in meeting fire protection goals and reducing fire risk within a community, neighborhood, or at an individual level. We examine the different ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2006-04)This report provides an overview of the purpose, findings, and recommendations from interviews conducted with residents affected by the 2005 Deer Creek Fire.
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2008-08)The purpose of this guide is to assist communities in monitoring and evaluating their Community Wildfire Protection Plans to strengthen future implementation. The steps in this guide outline an effective process ...
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(Center for Watershed and Community Health, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, 1999)The Watershed Good-Neighbor program is a unique voluntary, community-based approach to educating and training local businesses and landowners on how they can improve their business productivity and profitability and, in ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2008-02)The structural vulnerability study was the first collaborative effort of the newly formed Curry Wildfire Preparation Team (CWPT). The CWPT formed out of a recognition that wildfire is an integral and inevitable component ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2008-02)The full Curry County CWPP is a comprehensive document that details information on a wide range of issues from county demographics and vulnerable populations, to structural vulnerability and wildfire risk. The CWPT felt ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-09)This paper examines the impacts natural disasters have on poor communities all over the world, and the ways in which poverty and social vulnerability exacerbate disaster risk. We cannot reduce the risks poor communities ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2008)Recent catastrophic wildfires in the United States provided images of the destruction of multimillion-dollar homes, dense urban neighborhoods, and vast estates that overlook beautiful forests or the southern California ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2006-09-28)Low-income citizens face greater obstacles in attaining and paying for public services, including energy, telephone, and water. The lack of resources to pay for services may also make it difficult for low-income residents ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2008-03-01)The purpose of this guide is to assist communities in monitoring and evaluating their CWPPs to strengthen future implementation. The steps in this guide outline an effective process for evaluating how well communities ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2006-06)Many commercial and public buildings have large expanses of roof area that are ideally suited for generating electricity with solar photovoltaics (PV). They are often free of obstructions from the sun, like large trees ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2000-09)According to biologists, increasing streamflows in the Pacific Northwest is essential to restore and maintain the populations of salmon and other native fishes. Since agriculture is the principal source of surface water ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-09)This report aims to help communities and JCIFP partners by cataloguing and describing local efforts, presenting case studies of activities underway in other parts of Oregon and around the country, and providing recommendations ...
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(Josephine County (Or.), 2004-11-08)Goals [for this Plan are]: protect against potential losses to life, property and natural resources from wildfire; build and maintain active participation from each Fire Protection District; set realistic expectations for ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-06)Josephine County officials initiated development of the Josephine County Integrated Fire Plan (JCIFP) in July 2003, along with several federal, state, and local partners. The Plan mission is to protect against potential ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-07)This paper evaluates the JCIFP risk assessment process using information gathered from interviews conducted in February and March 2005 with members of the Risk Assessment Committee. This report is intended to assist other ...
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