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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)The purpose of this paper is to examine the business assistance and economic development activities that community-based organizations (CBOs) undertake in rural public lands contexts in the U.S. West. We conducted three ...
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Economic development and sustainable forest stewardship in the Dry Forest Zone : a mid-term report (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)The Dry Forest Zone (DFZ) project is a fiveyear collaborative effort to foster an integrated approach to forest stewardship and economic development in eastern Oregon and northern California. The DFZ project invests ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)The Dry Forest Investment Zone (DFIZ) is an area of fifteen counties that share common economic development and forest management challenges. The ability of communities and service providers to capture, leverage, and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)Over the last fifteen years, rural communities in the Pacific Northwest have been trying to redevelop their economies to meet new federal land management priorities. Numerous state and federal agencies and nonprofit ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)This briefing paper contains a series of infographics that examine the effects that the Cold Springs Fire (2008) had on the employment and wages in nearby Klickitat County, WA, and where the $14 million spent to suppress ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)Large wildfires disrupt the lives of families, workers, and employers. However, fire suppression and recovery efforts may provide economic opportunities. Understanding the impacts of large fires can help fire managers, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)Large wildfires disrupt the lives of families, workers, and employers. However, fire suppression and recovery efforts may provide economic opportunities. Unlike with other natural hazards, there has been little research ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2009)Investments in ecological restoration play a large role in public and private natural resource management with projects ranging from stream habitat enhancements and fish passage to irrigation canal improvements, riparian ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-09)Continued federal and state policies aimed at reducing the livelihood of undocumented workers may force these populations to move to other locations. With the loss of undocumented workers and their families, Oregon can ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)Restoration projects on national forests can have significant economic impacts in addition to the ecological benefits they provide. To better understand the economic impact of increased restoration in Blue Mountains national ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)In September of 2013, the US Forest Service awarded a 10-year stewardship contract intended to promote ecological restoration, wildfire risk reduction, and economic vitality in Grant and Harney counties. This contract has ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-10)This report is based on analysis and information presented by the scientists, resource specialists, and economists that participated at the May 3, 2005, workshop as well as research from the peer-reviewed literature. It ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2007-05)This report offers a preliminary assessment of the economic effects of global climate change on Oregon’s forest resources during the first half of the twenty-first century.
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)Forest and watershed restoration work is closely tied to the history and identity of Oregon’s South Coast, which has long relied on its woods and waters for forestry, fishing, agriculture, and sustenance. Declines in ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)Oregon’s South Coast communities have long relied on their forests and watersheds for forestry, fishing, agriculture, and sustenance. Over the past 20 years, logging and fishing activity has declined. The Northwest Forest ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)The USDA Forest Service (Forest Service) has implemented several initiatives to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration on national forests east of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington. Collectively, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This dissertation addresses the economic behavior and political influence activities by lobbyists today by examining the existence, mechanisms, and welfare implications of commercial lobbying activities and their optimal ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)This dissertation is comprised of three papers that investigate the effects of recycling policy, pollution, and public health policy. The first paper examines the impact of China's waste import ban on U.S. polltion emissions ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)My dissertation explains how Hindu right-wing political factions have drawn upon a mythologically mediated superhero iconography to conjure images — and promise the return — of a Hindu golden past. Examining the comic book ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-10-11)The undersigned economists write to express a collective professional judgment that global warming poses significant risks to Oregon’s economy and welfare. We believe that prompt action to reduce these risks would be a ...
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