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Citizen-led Urban Agriculture and the Politics of Spatial Reappropriation in Montreal, Quebec
Urban Agriculture (UA) has been practiced in Montreal, Quebec for well over a century. In the last five years or so, a renewed enthusiasm for UA has manifested itself in the form of citizen-led UA projects. The...
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Systems Thinking in the Forest Service: a Framework to Guide Practical Application for Social-Ecological Management in the...
The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Enterprise Program (EP), which provides fee-for-service consulting services to the USFS, is interested in integrating systems thinking into its service offerings. Despite there...
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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. While...
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An Economic Evaluation of a Prospective Horse
The purpose of this economic analysis project is to determine the profitability of a horse breeding business. The project specifically considers breeding the Paint variety of horse. The finest Paint horses are...
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Decision Criteria and Uncertainty Analysis for a Proposed Condominium Development
The construction industry can be, roughly, divided into four construction end-product categories – residential (homes/town-homes), commercial (retail/apartments), industrial (manufacturing/warehouses/storage)...
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Educational Scheduling as a Mixed Integer Programming Model
In this paper, we present an application of using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) to schedule classes for a middle school in Port- land, Oregon. This case study helps demonstrate that mathematical programming...
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Evolution of Technology in the Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis Program
The US Forest Service (USFS), Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program is the nation’s forest census program that has been conducting inventories of private and public forested lands for over 80 years....
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Rapid Urban Growth and Land Use Patterns in Doha, Qatar: Opportunities for Sustainability
Amidst chaotic growth of Asian cities, the expansion of urban infrastructure in the Middle East’s Gulf region is arguably outpacing any other region on the planet. Yet we have a limited understanding of the...
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First-Year Writing Teachers, Perceptions of Students' Information Literacy Competencies, and a Call for a Collaborative...
Despite the shared work of teaching research and writing, research librarians and compositionists (writing teachers) have not engaged regularly in dialogue about how they might collaborate in this endeavor....
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The Road to Damascus
This article explores the dynamics of land use planning, zoning and incorporation in Damascus, Oregon. Residents are divided on whether to remain part of the Metro system of governance, or to unincorporate, but...
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