Facing the World

Facing the World

Author: Christopher P. Foss

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780870719905

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Introduction -- Part I: Globalizing the Pacific Northwest through national defense -- Washington: the national security state within a state -- The evolving politics of defense and national security in Oregon -- Mark Hatfield and the new national security -- Part II: Globalizing the Pacific Northwest through trade -- The opportunities and perils of postwar international trade -- Nintendo power: the growth of foreign direct investment and international trade in the Pacific Northwest since -- "We were way out in front": Vic Atiyeh and the growth of international trade in Oregon.


Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples

Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples

Author: Dale D. Goble

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 569

ISBN-13: 0295801379

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It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environment—in a place. This collection of essays explores the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest of North America, addressing questions of how humans have adapted to the northwestern landscape and modified it over time, and how the changing landscape in turn affected human society, economy, laws, and values. Northwest Lands and Peoples includes essays by historians, anthropologists, ecologists, a botanist, geographers, biologists, law professors, and a journalist. It addresses a wide variety of topics indicative of current scholarship in the rapidly growing field of environmental history.


Economic Research Supporting Water Resource Stewardship in the Pacific Northwest

Economic Research Supporting Water Resource Stewardship in the Pacific Northwest

Author: Laurie L. Houston

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1437933335

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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Knowledge about the value of water to different users and methods with which to evaluate biophysical, economic, ecological, and social tradeoffs associated with allocating limited water resources among competing uses is vital to devising appropriate and effective water resource policies. Intended primarily for non-economists, this report reviews existing water resource economics literature (as of 2002) concerning the economic value of water in different uses in the Pacific Northwest, the evaluation of tradeoffs among uses, and the use of economic incentives for water conservation and protection or enhancement of water quality. Includes an annotated bibliography of water resource economics research.


Sustainability Issues for Resource Managers

Sustainability Issues for Resource Managers

Author: Daniel L. Bottom

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1997-08

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 0788146998

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This series of essays examines the underlying historical, cultural, and philosophical issues that undermine the sustainability of natural resources and proposes alternative approaches to conservation. These approaches emphasize the relations among populations rather than among individuals; the integrity of the whole ecosystems across longer time frames; the importance of qualitative as well as quantitative indicators of human welfare and sustainability; and the unpredictable and interdependent interaction among "natural," scientific, and regulatory processes. Charts and tables.


People, Forests, and Change

People, Forests, and Change

Author: Deanna H. Olson

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2017-04-20

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1610917677

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Forests throughout the world are undergoing rapid, far-reaching change as a result of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. The challenge is to manage these forests in ways that avoid formulaic approaches to complex issues. This book takes on the challenge of balancing local economies, wood products, and biodiversity by proposing diverse new approaches to forest management using new research from the moist coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. --


Past and Future Water Use in Pacific Coast States

Past and Future Water Use in Pacific Coast States

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Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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We examine socioeconomic factors affecting water demand and expected trends in these factors. Based on these trends, we identify past, current, and projected withdrawal of surface water for various uses in Pacific Coast States (California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington), including public, domestic, commercial, industrial, thermoelectric, livestock, and irrigation. Additionally, we identify projected demands for nonconsumptive instream recreational uses of water, such as boating, swimming, and fishing, which can compete with consumptive uses. Allocating limited water resources across multiple users will present water resource managers and policymakers with distinct challenges as water demands increase. To illustrate these challenges, we present a case study of issues in the Klamath Basin of northern California and southern Oregon. The case study provides an example of the issues involved in allocating scarce water among diverse users and uses, and the difficulties policymakers face when attempting to design water allocation policies that require tradeoffs among economic, ecological, and societal values.