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(2010)Endowment, in the vernacular, can refer to any asset of substance that allows a person, organization or country to excel in their pursuits of business or leisure. For example, economists specializing in international trade ...
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(Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, 2005)PPGIS is often presented and promoted as a more people-centered GIS compared to a more traditional technocratic,expert-driven tool or methodology. Yet, the umbrella of PPGIS is quite broad. Within such a broad context, it ...
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(2003-07)PPGIS is often presented as a people-centered alternative to the use of GIS compared to a more technocratic,expert-driven methodology. Yet, the umbrella of PPGIS is quite broad. Within such a broad context, it may be ...
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(Community Planning Workshop: A Program of the Community Service Center,csc.uoregon.edu/cpw, 2015-06)Floods and wildfires are two natural hazards that impact Deschutes County. The Deschutes County Development Code has several provisions that specifically aim to mitigate the effects of these hazards; reduce risk to property, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2002-07-15)Cooperative, community-level approaches to environmental management are emerging in a variety of contexts, in Oregon and elsewhere. The rise of these approaches has led to a new appreciation of the possibility of watershed ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)This paper is an assessment of a three year demonstration project to test the possibilities of community forestry for community development. The demonstration actively promotes community forestry in four rural Oregon ...
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(University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 2004-04)Tourism has grown to become the dominant service industry in the world in the 21st Century and a common prescription for funding sustainable community development throughout the East Asia-Pacific region. Certainly, there ...
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(Environmental Studies Association of Canada, 2002)Only a few years after the murder of eight foreign tourists in 1999, kidnaped while on an Abercrombie & Kent tour of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwest Uganda, the country is finally, albeit slowly and rather ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)The Ecosystem Workforce Program (EWP) at the University of Oregon is conducting a three year demonstration project to test the possibilities of collaborative stewardship for community development. Key to this is a monitoring ...
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(Public Integrity, 2018)Many a policy scholar has viewed election results with bewilderment: How can so many people persistently vote against their self-interest? In an attempt to at least partially address this conundrum, this article introduces ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2002)This report examines some of the issues involved in setting up a system for monitoring the socio-economic effects of Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (O-WEB) grants on an on-going basis. We conducted telephone interviews ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-12-03)Dockless electric scooters challenge cities seeking to regulate them amidst broader goals such as universal access. Cities are particularly concerned with improper scooter parking, which can impede access by other ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses & Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, 2004-10)This report briefly outlines the concerns and recommendations of a rapid assessment project undertaken in April 2004, with the support of the Montenegro Business Alliance and the U.S. Consulate in Podgorica. While admittedly ...
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(2004-06)Nonprofit organizations thrive on the altruism of citizens, and actively court donors for major gifts. Yet individual gifts to government agencies are often unexpected, sporadic, and initiated by the donor. This article ...
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(2019-02)If recent years are any indication, the presence and risks of wildfire smoke will become more common in Lane County in future years, not less. The effects of climate change will continue to exacerbate the risk of these ...
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(University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2004-11-01)Much of the sharp rise in the share of nonmarital births in the United States has been attributed to changes in the fertility choices of unmarried and married women - in response, it is often argued, to various public ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)Reports the findings of a joint study by the Organization for Economic Initiatives, Inc. (OEI) and the Ecosystem Workforce Program (EWP) at the University of Oregon (UO). OEI is an Oregon 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation ...
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(1998-06)Perhaps more than any other region of the world, Africa’s dependence on natural resources makes it especially vulnerable to environmental change. To confront the growing social and natural problems, many sub-Saharan ...
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(University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2004-06-11)We develop a model of fertility and marriage that implies a magnified effect of marriage rates on the share of births to unmarried women. For U.S. data, plots and regression estimates support the prediction that the share ...
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(University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2006-06)Barro’s (1990) model of endogenous growth implies that economic growth will initially rise with an increase in taxes directed toward “productive” expenditures (e.g., education, highways, and streets), but will subsequently ...
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