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4. [Article] Values Mapping with Latino Forest Users: Contributing to the Dialogue on Multiple Land Use Conflict Management
Values mapping that represents how humans associate with natural environments is useful for several purposes, including recognizing and addressing different perceptions of natural resource ownership and ...Citation -
Interview of Dr. Robert Costanza by Noah Sharpsteen at Portland State University on February 22nd, 2011. The interview index is available for download.
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6. [Article] Valuing New Jersey's Natural Capital: An Assessment of the Economic Value of the State's Natural Resources
This report is divided into three main parts. Part I presents essential background information, summarizes the detailed findings of Parts II and III and their limitations, and explores in a preliminary ...Citation -
7. [Article] Mapping Meaningful Places on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula: Toward a Deeper Understanding of Landscape Values
Landscape values mapping has been widely employed as a form of public participation GIS (PPGIS) in natural resource planning and decision-making to capture the complex array of values, uses, and interactions ...Citation -
Pine Creek Conservation Area (PCCA), just northeast of the John Day River in Wheeler County, Oregon, was acquired in 1999-2001 by the Confederate Tribes of Warm Springs with support from the Bonneville ...
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9. [Article] Oregon Natural Areas Plan
The rich diversity of ecosystems and native plants and animals is one of Oregon's most distinctive and valued qualities. Our state contains rain forests, dry forests, oak woodlands, alpine meadows, prairies, ...Citation -
10. [Article] Mapping Conservation Opportunity Areas for the Intertwine's Regional Conservation Strategy
As part of efforts to develop the Regional Conservation Strategy (RCS) for the greater Portland-Vancouver region, Oregon State University’s Institute for Natural Resources (INR) was asked to use spatial ...Citation -
This presentation focuses on the Columbia Basin Project
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Interview of Steve Cohen by Chris Stephens at Ecotrust Building, Portland, Oregon on July 28th, 2009. The interview index is available for download.
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14. [Article] Interview with Jim Labbe, Portland Audubon Society, 2011
Interview of Jim Labbe by Tony Smith on March 11th, 2011. The interview index is available for download.Citation -
Prior to November 2010, when The Intertwine Alliance launched the Regional Conservation Strategy (RCS) and Biodiversity Guide (RBG) efforts for the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region, conservation ...
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Interview of Michael Burri by Jeff Pullen-Sayles at Sandy, Oregon on May 9th, 2010. The interview index is available for download.
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17. [Article] Interview with Peter Hayes, Hyla Woods, 2006 (audio)
Interview of Peter Hayes by Glen Esler on July 28th, 2006. The interview index is available for download.Citation -
Today, falling trends of species and ecosystem in the world due to overconsumption and destruction of natural resources are at critical levels. It is vital for humanity to operate with sustainable and ...
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19. [Article] Viable coalitions in open access
This article gives insights on the complex balance between coalitions structure, resource state or dynamics and agents’ heterogeneity to avoid bio-economic collapses. A model bringing together coalition ...Citation -
20. [Article] The Role of Habitat Restoration and Conservation in the Changing Socio-economic Conditions of Grant County, Oregon
Habitat restoration has socio-economic as well as biophysical impacts. In Grant County, Oregon a recent influx of funding and technical resources for habitat restoration has led to focused monitoring efforts ...Citation -
We used a predictive model to map canopy cover of vegetation over seven feet in height ("tall woody vegetation") at 30-meter resolution over nearly 29 million acres within and adjacent to the range of ...
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22. [Article] Bridges and Barriers to Developing and Conducting Interdisciplinary Graduate-Student Team Research
Understanding complex socio-environmental problems requires specialists from multiple disciplines to integrate research efforts. Programs such as the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate ...Citation -
23. [Article] Wet Meadow Plant Associations, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon
In July 2012, we sampled 131 plots in wet meadow habitat at the southern end of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Analysis of the data identified eleven different plant associations: Alopecurus pratensis, ...Citation -
24. [Article] Wet Meadow Plant Associations, Double O Unit, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon
This report summarizes vegetation data collected in July 2015 in wet meadow and marshy habitats on the Double O Unit of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR). Because vegetation sampled at the Double ...Citation -
25. [Article] Does Collective Action Sequester Carbon? Evidence from the Nepal Community Forestry Program
Highlights • Presumed open access forests have as little as 34% of those under collective action. • No evidence that Community Forestry Programme forests store more carbon .• Carbon from collective action ...Citation -
26. [Article] Urban Forest Justice and the Rights to Wild Foods, Medicines, and Materials in the City
Urban forests are multifunctional socio-ecological landscapes, yet some of their social benefits remain poorly understood. This paper draws on ethnographic evidence from Seattle, Washington to demonstrate ...Citation -
Governments in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) face decisions that involve trade-offs between, for example, the economic benefits from hydropower generation and potentially irreversible negative impacts on ...
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28. [Article] System Dynamics Implementation of a Model of Population and Resource Dynamics with Adaptation
We build and analyze a dynamic ecological economic model that incorporates endogenous innovation on input substitutability. The use of the system dynamics method allows us to depart from conventional equilibrium ...Citation -
29. [Article] The triple bottom line: Meeting ecological, economic and social goals with Individual Transferable Quotas
This paper deals with the sustainable management of a renewable resource based on individual and transferable quotas (ITQs) when agents differ in terms of harvesting costs or catchability. In a dynamic ...Citation -
30. [Article] Woody Biomass Use Trends, Barriers, and Strategies: Perspectives of US Forest Service Managers
The use of woody biomass is being promoted across the United States as a means of increasing energy independence, mitigating climate change, and reducing the cost of hazardous fuels reduction treatments ...Citation -
31. [Article] Toward a new sustainable economy
The current financial meltdown is the result of under-regulated markets built on an ideology of free market capitalism and unlimited economic growth. The fundamental problem is that the underlying assumptions ...Citation -
Norway is probably among the most obvious beneficiaries of globalisation, mainly because of the rich natural resources, skilled labour, advanced technology products and strong institutions. The fishing ...
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Dry forests account for nearly half of the world’s tropical and subtropical forests and provide a multitude of ecological services. They contribute to hydrological cycles and livestock and wildlife provisioning; ...
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Ecological science has contributed greatly to our understanding of the natural world and the impact of humans on that world. Now, we need to refocus the discipline towards research that ensures a future ...
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35. [Article] Institutions for Managing Ecosystem Services
Two decades of research into the management of what economists call common-pool resources suggests that, under the right conditions, local communities can manage shared resources sustainably and successfully. ...Citation -
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37. [Article] Job Growth and Loss Across Sectors and Time in the Western US: The Impact of Large Wildfires
The link between economic growth and natural hazards has long been studied to better understand the effects of natural hazards on local, regional, and country level growth patterns. However, relatively ...Citation -
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39. [Article] Making Sense of Human Ecology Mapping: An Overview of Approaches to Integrating Socio-Spatial Data into Environmental Planning
Ecosystem-based planning and management have stimulated the need to gather sociocultural values and human uses of land in formats accessible to diverse planners and researchers. Human Ecology Mapping (HEM) ...Citation -
In order to inform natural resource policy and land management decisions, landscape values mapping (LVM) is increasingly used to collect data about the meanings that people attach to places and the activities ...
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This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by Elsevier and can be found at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/urban-forestry-a...
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42. [Article] Changes in Riparian Vegetation Buffers in Response to Development in Three Oregon Cities
Riparian vegetation buffer loss was investigated for three cities with contrasting local regulatory controls in urbanizing northwest Oregon. The cities examined were Hillsboro, Oregon City and Portland, ...Citation -
43. [Article] Redeveloping Regional Economies for Present and Future Generations: Prosperity for People Within Ecological Limits
Many scientists and scholars believe the world is headed toward multiple ecological and social crises during the lifetime of much of the world's population. If they are correct, a shift in how economies ...Citation -
Habitat destruction has driven much of the current biodiversity extinction crisis, and it compromises the essential benefits, or ecosystem services, that humans derive from functioning ecosystems. Securing ...
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45. [Article] Values Mapping and Counter-Mapping in Contested Landscapes: an Olympic Peninsula (USA) Case Study
Indigenous peoples, local communities, and other groups can use counter-mapping to make land claims, identify areas of desired access, or convey cultural values that diverge from the dominant paradigm. ...Citation -
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This report represents a thematic summary of findings from the Alagnak Wild River Resident Users Study, the final project in a larger series of studies conducted for the National Park Service (NPS) as ...
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49. [Article] A Systems Approach to Ecological Economic Models Developed Progressively in Three Interwoven Articles
My dissertation develops and analyzes ecological economic models to study the complex dynamics of an ecological economic system (EES) and investigate various conditions and measures which can sustain a ...Citation -
50. [Article] Avoiding One Fishermen - A Case of Namibia
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Ecological economics is a transdisciplinary effort to link the natural and social sciences broadly, and especially ecology and economics. The goal is to develop a deeper understanding of the complex linkages ...
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52. [Article] Sustainability of a forest preservation project in India : the case of the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve
Numerous development projects are implemented in developing countries to attain economic and ecological development. However, in most cases, the encouraging results observed during the implementation phase ...Citation -
53. [Article] Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): Approach, Challenges, and Strategies
Understanding the complexity of human–nature interactions is central to the quest for both human well-being and global sustainability. To build an understanding of these interactions, scientists, planners, ...Citation -
The Integrated History and future of People of Earth (IHOPE) initiative is a global network of researchers and research projects with its International Program Office (IPO) now based at the Stockholm Resilience ...
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While there have been substantial benefits to fish trade and the fishing industry from the opening up of markets, deregulation and greater flexibility in how and where companies can operate, this may have ...
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Fishing for the life reef fish has been an important source of economy both at macro level and micro level. At Macro level, life reef fish for food (LRFF) plays a greater role in increasing export revenue ...
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57. [Article] Assessing Possible Cruise Ship Impacts on Huna Tlingit Ethnographic Resources in Glacier Bay
This report provides a thematic summary of an ethnographic study addressing the effects of cruise ships within Glacier Bay proper on the people known as the Huna Tlingit. Occupying the heart of Glacier ...Citation -
58. [Article] Incorporation of polymorphic spacers to inhibit sintering of SrO/SrCO3 for thermochemical energy storage
Global energy needs are continuously increasing while fossil fuels remain an uncertain resource. With a growing population and demand for energy, alternative energy sources are being pursued to power the ...Citation -
59. [Article] Financial mechanisms for energy design in EcoDistricts
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60. [Article] Climate Change and Freshwater Resources in Oregon
Climate change will affect various sectors of water resources in Oregon in the 21st century. The observed trends in streamflow show significant declines in September flow and, although not significant, ...Citation -
Anthropogenic pressures on the Earth System have reached a scale where abrupt global environmental change can no longer be excluded. We propose a new approach to global sustainability in which we define ...
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62. [Article] DR7a: Changes in ecosystem services and migration in low-lying coastal areas over the next 50 years
This paper examines the history and current status of ecosystem services in low-lying coastal areas (LLCAs), their potential changes because of wider environmental and social shifts, and the potential ...Citation -
Purpose – The recent economic crisis has significantly slowed Slovenia’s recent social and economic progress and exposed some important long-term problems such as a reliance on low value added Practical ...
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