Dissertations / Theses: 'Crooked River Project (Or.)'

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Sanghani, Himanshu. "Mithi River Restoration Project." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-111441.

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It took only few years to turn a naturally owing river into a drain. 17.84 k.m stretch of MithiNadi (river), an arterial river, running along north-south axis of Bombay (Mumbai) is facing the grimproblems of backyard atrocities. Finding its way through the odds of household garbage, industrialsewage, other pollutants and encroachments, Mithi river originates from the conuence of two essentialreservoirs; Vihar Lake and Powai Lake and merging with Arabian Sea at Mahim creek. The stategovernment is trying to rescue the river with their elusive plan but is being implemented with lessconcurrency in mind. The responsibility of restoring the river being shared between two authoritiesMumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and BrihanMumbai MunicipalCorporation (BMC) directed by Mithi River Development and Planning Authority (MRDPA), givesa deceptive impression of revival and truth. Currently the authorities are resettling the informals,widening and deepening the river simultaneously building the retaining wall to safeguard the bank.The odds would be if both the authorities shell up a unique comprehensive plan under MRDPA forrestoring the river involving community. The aim of this report is to devise a 'design based' restorationplan to achieve long term riparian ecosystem and sustainability of Mithi river. The restoration strategiesfor urban rivers are understood by analysing the riparian ecosystem techniques through literaturereading on river -engineering, river -morphology and reviewing Los Angeles River, California-USA andCheonggyecheon River in Korea cases. Dealing with odds Mithi Nadi (river) is facing today and basedon socio-economic background and technical design aspects for the river, this master thesis proposes a3-Phase restoration model method to achieve the target. Phase-I would involve community awarenesswith participatory approach while building strong network, it also highlights a plan in segmenting theriver into 10 divisions for Phase-II surveillance and incognisant waste disposal methods. Phase-II of applyingriparian techniques will then be initiated bearing the narrow widths, existing residential sectorsalong the bank and current urbanization. Finally, Phase-III will commence with a community basedmonitoring plan underpinning Phase-I sectoral division plan for the river. The proposal is discussedusing SWOT analysis and whether the implications of the techniques are suitable in retrospective. Butnally it can be said that although there are several ways to restore a river, best strategy can only beachieved through community participation by fractioning their inputs appropriately.

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Skinner, Kevin Shaun. "Geomorphological post-project appraisal of river rehabilitation schemes in England." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324063.

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Welsh, Michael G. "Quantifying the effectiveness of a river restoration project in a small river basin on the rural-urban fringe." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399053.

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This thesis is an investigation of the effects of river restoration on a stream which, in the past, has undergone extensive channelization for the purposes of agricultural drainage and flood protection. Over the last two decades it has been shown that although channelization may have some benefits in terms of drainage and flood mitigation, it has a considerable detrimental effect on the ecology of a stream and its immediate environs. The purpose of the restoration was to install several engineered features along the length of the stream on the campus section and to record if these features had the expected beneficial effect on the ecology. One of the main advantages of siting the study on the Ballysally Blagh is its proximity to the University of Ulster - indeed, the stream flows partly through the campus. A Meteorological Office Meteorological Station on campus has been used to collect weather data for over 25 years. Additionally, the Ballysally Blagh has been instrumented with a hydrograph station and a v-notch weir since 1976 providing a nearly constant hydrograph record which can be used in conjunction with the meteorological data to determine if catchment behaviour is changing over time due to, for instance, continuing urbanization of the catchment, or the potential effects of climate change. This study shows that particular types of engineered feature have been successful in terms of their effect on the stream ecology, and that others have not, and suggests why this may be so. There are also clear indications of a change to the catchment hydrological response over time. Most of these indications are that continuing urbanization is having a limited effect, and that changed weather patterns, perhaps due to long-term changes in climate, may be underpinning this effect.

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Knight, Nancy. "Mega-project planning and economic welfare : a case study of British Columbia's North East Coal Project." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30847.

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This research investigates the characteristics of natural resource mega-project planning processes. The implications of staple theory and selected characteristics of natural resource mega-projects are used to construct eleven characteristics of such planning processes. Staple theory suggests that optimistic expectations will be a fundamental characteristic of resource development planning in Canada, and that the state's role will be to facilitate, rather than evaluate, staple production. The size, complexity, visibility, and meaning of mega-projects may create momentum around them that weakens rational analysis and stampedes the planning process. Overall, the planning process may focus on narrow, technical issues concerned with constraints facing the mega-project. Alternatives may not be considered, overly optimistic expectations may not be checked, and risk and uncertainty may be inadequately addressed. These proposed planning process characteristics are investigated in a case study of British Columbia's North East Coal Project (NECP). The institutional structure of the planning and implementing organizations are investigated, and the major planning issues are identified. The expectations generated within the planning process regarding the mega-project's contribution to regional economic growth and development, and its economic viability are reviewed, and then evaluated by comparing them to information available at the time from sources within the planning process and from sources outside the planning process, and to actual outcomes. The case study findings support many of the eleven proposed characteristics of natural resource mega-project planning processes. The NECP's public planning process focused on identifying and overcoming constraints that would prevent the mega-project proceeding, and on minimizing the costs of the public sector's infrastructure responsibilities in the mega-project. The terms of reference for the various Sub-Committees requested analyses of constraints in most cases. The absence of a Regional Development Sub-Committee in the organization of the planning task force suggests that longer term planning issues were not perceived to be as important as the infrastructure issues. Sixty percent of the official public planning budget was allocated to transportation and townsite studies. The mandate, structure and operations of the government's implementing organization focused on controlling project costs. Finally, the benefit-cost analysis of the mega-project did not consider any alternatives to the NECP. The expectations regarding the NECP's contribution to regional economic growth and development were overly optimistic given the information available at the time, and far exceed the actual outcomes to date. The NECP stabilized the South Peace region during the recession of the early 1980s, and produced some growth in employment, population, and income levels. Also, education levels increased and some entrepreneurial development occurred. However, the mega-project did not alleviate the unemployment situation in the region, did not improve the distribution of income, and it did not diversify the regional economic structure. Despite the early planning emphasis given to the opportunities that the NECP could provide to members of regional target groups such as Natives and women, few individuals from these groups obtained mining employment. In 1986, most of the direct economic benefits associated with the NECP, such as the new employment opportunities, high incomes, and training opportunities, had been captured by in-migrants to the region. The expectations regarding the NECP's economic viability were also overly optimistic given information available at the time. The possibility of capital cost overruns were not considered despite ample indication that they were highly probable. Continuing high prices were assumed despite historical evidence that periods of high prices had been consistently followed by sustained periods of low prices, and expert advice that structural forces would contribute to a continual decline in the Japanese demand for metallurgical coal. The pre-project analysis projected that the NECP's net present value would be $464 million (1980$C), but the ex post analysis suggests that the NECP will generate $955 million (1980$C) in net economic losses for the Canadian economy. The overly optimistic expectations regarding the NECP's economic viability were formed early in the planning process and were based on a period of enormous increases in metallurgical coal prices. As market conditions changed, the group within the planning task force responsible for the NECP's economic evaluation lowered their expectations, but their concerns were apparently insufficient to counter the momentum that had been established around the NECP. This momentum was reinforced by the meaning attached to the NECP, which was portrayed as a fundamental component of BC's economic development strategy. Risk and uncertainty were inadequately addressed within the planning process and within the technical analyses of this mega-project's regional economic impacts and economic viability. No sensitivity analyses were completed in the analysis of the NECP's regional economic impacts. The sensitivity analyses in the pre-project benefit-cost analysis all considered positive adjustments to the base case scenario, save one. Problems of geological uncertainty, and the lack of experience of the project proponents in coal mining were ignored. Mega-project planning processes must be carefully designed to counter the characteristics suggested by this research. At a minimum, a full public review of the mega-project should be conducted before the decision to proceed is taken. Consideration should be given to developing a formal, required mega-project planning process based on the two-tiered structure. The first tier would include a policy assessment addressing broad questions such as alternative regional development strategies. If the outcome of the first tier was a decision to proceed with a mega-project, the second tier would address mega-project planning and regulatory issues such as infrastructure options and impact management strategies.
Applied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
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Fernández, Moctezuma Rafael de Jesús. "Improving maximum daily salinity regressor performance in the Columbia River Estuary project /." Full text open access at:, 2005. http://content.ohsu.edu/u?/etd,50.

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Lowman, Lisa. "A post-hoc assessment of the Assiniboine-La Salle River Diversion project." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62785.pdf.

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Chan, Ho-ying, and 陳可盈. "Assess the environmental and social sustainability of the Three GorgesDam project." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29806264.

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Liberti, Leslie. "Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process for Project Selection in Municipal River Corridor Planning." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296574.

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Delgado, Manuel E. (Manuel Eduardo) 1949. "Spicket River Greenway Project, Lawrence, MA : teaching & learning design with the community." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8689.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2001.
"June 2001."
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-70).
This research deals with three different issues. The first two, a site and a community, with their own possibilities and constrains, are going to be the protagonists of this adventure. The third one, the architect-planner, trying to play the role of a facilitator in the process, will translate their needs, rules and solutions into a comprehensive plan that should be suitable for the other two. Interpreting the rules of design, as a tool, the architect here would like to perform his role as a medieval alchemist, acting and waiting in expectation, trying not to interfere to allow the process to flow, but aware that transformations also involves oneself. The main source for this research is the teaching-learning experience at the Young Architects Program, with whom the author is going to share the discovery of the site and the envisioning of a better future. His personal goal is to explore the intimate relationship between ideal form, originated in the minds and images of each one of us, compared with the possibilities for realization after the filter of social, political and economic forces. This will be a teaching and learning experience to confront utopia and reality, within a given urban design problem. The experience of the first four months has been recorded in seven chapters and six journals, that in the form of a diary, carry the observations and reflections of the first approach to the case studied, as the result of the everyday contact with the space and the people.
by Manuel E. Delgado.
S.M.

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Sideroff, Desireé A. (Desireé Alice) 1977. "Neighborhood revitalization through catalyst projects : capacity building and urban design in the West Philadelphia Landscape Project and the Bronx River Project." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70369.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003.
MIT Institute Archives copy: bound 29 x 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-129).
Achieving meaningful neighborhood revitalization remains a perennial challenge for urban planners, as problems facing inner-city neighborhoods are complex and interconnected. Most recently, both the practice and literature of neighborhood revitalization emphasized a comprehensive approach. Within this context, the concepts of capacity building and catalyst projects are gaining momentum. This thesis explores the emergence of and points of synergy between these concepts through a review of the literature and analysis of two urban design and capacity building projects: the West Philadelphia Landscape Project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Bronx River Project in New York City, New York. Underlying this inquiry is the fundamental question: do catalyst projects represent a departure from the status quo or a strategic repackaging of past practices? The primary questions addressed in this thesis are as follows: ** Is there a typology of catalytic effects within neighborhood revitalization projects? What types of circumstances foster the development of catalysts? ** What role does capacity building play in the development of catalytic effects in urban design projects? ** In what ways can project organizers become more deliberate about fostering catalytic effects? This study revealed three types of catalytic effects within the case studies: projects can act as models, foster spin-off projects, or provide an overarching framework to enable other projects to engage. Capacity building and catalytic effects are indeed interconnected and mutually supportive. There is no precise recipe for creating catalytic effects within projects, as they can be unexpected as well as planned. Furthermore, catalytic effects often depend on mediating circumstances, such as timing and organizational capacity, to foster their development. The act of forming partnerships, in particular, builds constituencies, expands funding opportunities, and allows for the development of spin-off projects. Most importantly, adopting a watershed framework as the lens through which to organize proved most significant as it encourages both institutional and neighborhood-level change. Watersheds transcend political, social, and institutional boundaries, and working in this realm necessitates the development and integration of grassroots and city-level actors. The extent to which catalyst projects lead to systems change remains to be seen, however they do present a powerful model for activating both institutional and neighborhood-level change through a single planning effort.
by Desiree A. Sideroff.
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Goetz, Randy Ray. "A Post-Project Assessment of the Provo River Restoration Project: Channel Design, Reconfiguration, and the Re-Establishment of Critical Physical Processes." DigitalCommons@USU, 2008. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/45.

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A physical assessment of the Provo River Restoration Project was undertaken in order to determine how alterations to the channel were designed, the nature of as-built channel morphology, and the performance of the reconfigured channel in terms of achieving frequent (2-year recurrence) bankfull discharge and increasing transient storage. Measures of channelized and reconfigured channel morphology were obtained using total station survey, digital aerial photography, and pebble counts. Results of geomorphic analysis were compared with similar measurements made by a regional consulting company, and stream channel design data, in order to determine that intended mitigation included reducing channel capacity, increasing sinuosity, decreasing pool spacing, and decreasing the size of bed material. Reconfiguration of the channel resulted in somewhat enlarged cross-sections with reduced mean velocities, increased sinuosity, decreased pool spacing, and decreased bed substrate size. One-dimensional hydraulic modeling suggests that alterations to channel morphology have increased the bankfull channel capacity in most reaches. Modeling results illustrate the fact that the stage of the 2-year recurrence flood is below bankfull at most cross-sections. This result does not follow the intentions of channel design. However, we have observed floodplain inundation in most years since reconfiguration. The occurrence floodplain inundation is being facilitated by overbank flow at a few point locations illustrating the strengths of incorporating variability into design. Known geomorphic controls on transient storage were reconfigured in manner to potentially increase in-channel and hyporheic components of transient storage. Stream tracer tests were utilized in order to determine the degree to which these alterations affected transient storage. Numerical analysis of stream tracer tests suggests that while the relative area of transient storage increased, average residence time of water in storage, and the mass transfer rate of solute between storage and the stream did not change. This suggests that an extensive hyporheic zone may not have been established. Correlations between hydrologic and geomorphic parameters indicate that in-stream storage may have been increased, and quick-exchange hyporheic flowpaths may have been created. (295 pages)

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Gentry, Karen Lee. "The Forgiveness Project." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/81.

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The Forgiveness Project includes a critical introduction that defines the author’s approach to the short-short form as well as an explanation of how historiographical metafiction can work to memorialize. The first section contains primarily short-short stories that address the themes of motherhood, small tyrannies, happy liars, caregiving and the clichés of grief. A collection of linked short stories follows, revolving around elusive forgiveness. On the night of July 17, 1977, Juanita Lee, a bridge tender in South Florida, was abducted by two men and executed in the Everglades to silence her opposition to the demolition of an Intracoastal Waterway bridge. Twenty-two years later her daughter, Jill, now a Washington D.C. lobbyist who views the world through the cynical lens of her life’s work, is confronted with a plea for forgiveness via an organization called “The Forgiveness Project,” representing one of her mother’s killers.

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Pitchford, Jonathan L. "Stream Restoration| Project Evaluation and Site Selection in the Cacapon River Watershed, West Virginia." Thesis, West Virginia University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3538240.

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Stream restoration is being conducted throughout the world at unprecedented rates to address stream channel degradation and water quality concerns. Natural Channel Design (NCD) is a common method used for restoration and has received governmental endorsement; however, the effects of NCD on channel stability and ecosystem functioning are poorly studied. We examined the effects of a reach-scale NCD project on channel stability, riparian vegetation, and water quality along the Cacapon River, West Virginia using a before-after-control-impact design and determined that restoration increased the abundance and diversity of woody vegetation, but had minimal effects on streambank stability and water quality. Increased erosion rates in some portions of the restored reach were attributed to differences in pre-restoration stability, vegetation removal, and soil composition among sub-reaches. No differences in in-stream concentrations of total phosphorus, nitrates, ammonia, or total suspended solids were detected following restoration; however, in-stream turbidity was drastically increased during construction. This study is a clear example of the value of monitoring streambank migration, vegetation communities, and soils to evaluate the effects of stream restoration and to provide insight on potential reasons for treatment failure. Ideally, pre-restoration monitoring should be used to inform project design by determining restoration potential of areas selected for restoration.

As a surrogate for process monitoring, we created a maximum entropy model of streambank erosion potential (SEP) in a Geographic Information System (GIS) framework to prioritize sites for management and to determine which variables in the watershed are associated with excessive rates of streambank erosion. Model development included measuring erosion rates throughout a central Appalachian watershed, application of a quantitative approach to locate target areas for management termed Target Eroding Areas (TEAs), and collection of environmental data throughout the study extent using high resolution, remotely sensed data. A likelihood distribution of TEAs from occurrence records and associated environmental variables over our study extent was constructed using the program Maxent. All model validation procedures indicated that the model was an excellent predictor of TEAs, and that the major environmental variables controlling these processes were streambank slope, soil characteristics, shear stress, underlying geology, and riparian vegetation. A classification scheme with low, moderate, and high levels of erosion potential derived from logistic model output was able to differentiate sites with low erosion potential from sites with moderate and high erosion potential. This type of modeling framework can be used in any watershed to address uncertainty in stream restoration planning and practice.

To address the need for accurate, high resolution estimation of streambank erosion, we also explored the role of laser scanning for estimating streambank migration and volumetric sediment loss. This was accomplished by comparing estimates of streambank migration and volumetric sediment loss derived from repeated erosion pin, streambank profile, and combined airborne and terrestrial light detection and ranging (LiDAR) surveys. Results indicated that LiDAR derived estimates were larger and highly variable compared to estimates derived from erosion pin and streambank profile surveys, which more accurately represented change along the study reach. Inflated LiDAR estimates were most likely the result of combining high resolution terrestrial LiDAR with relatively low resolution airborne LiDAR that could not effectively capture topographic features such as undercut banks. Although cost-prohibitive in some cases, repeated terrestrial LiDAR scans would likely circumvent these issues with higher point densities and better scan angles facilitating more accurate representation of streambank geometry, ultimately providing more accurate estimates of channel change.

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May, Kimberly Jones. "Wordsworth's Evolving Project: Nature, the Satanic School, and (underline) The River Duddon (end underline)." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2166.pdf.

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Ashby, Joy. "An interactive environmental site assessment audit for Wagner Creek river basin clean up project." FIU Digital Commons, 2003. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1322.

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The primary purpose of this thesis was to design and create an Interactive Audit to conduct Environmental Site Assessments according to American Society of Testing Material's (ASTM) Phase I Standards at the Wagner Creek study area. ArcPad and ArcIMS are the major software that were used to create the model and ArcGIS Desktop was used for data analysis and to export shapefile symbology to ArcPad. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is an effective tool to deploy these purposes. This technology was utilized to carry out data collection, data analysis and to display data interactively on the Internet. Electronic forms, customized for mobile devices were used to survey sites. This is an easy and fast way to collect and modify field data. New data such as land use, recognized environmental conditions, and underground storage tanks can be added into existing datasets. An updated map is then generated and uploaded to the Internet using ArcIMS technology. The field investigator has the option to generate and view the Inspection Form at the end of his survey on site, or print a hardcopy at base. The mobile device also automatically generates preliminary editable Executive Reports for any inspected site.

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Baca, Joaquín Javier. "Integrating spatial thinking into the curriculum through geographic information systems and the Santa Ana River watershed." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3203.

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Lesson plans were developed in order to address the inter-disciplinary nature inherent in environmental education by drawing on place-based learning approaches and relating natural and human made aspects of watershed dynamics.

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Woodard, Robert Seth. "The Appalachian Power Company Along the New River: The Defeat of the Blue Ridge Project in Historical Perspective." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33226.

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The Appalachian Power Company is an operating company of the American Electric Power Company, the largest electricity producing private electric system in the United States since 1953. The Appalachian Power Company held almost exclusive development rights along the New River since its 1911 charter. From then until the 1940s, it built a few small dams, a very large hydroelectric dam with the highest generating capacity of its time, and the largest steam plant in Virginia on the New River. Besides a few navigation issues, conflicting developments, and brief clashes with the federal government, seen in Chapter Two of this thesis, the Appalachian Power Companyâ s developments along the New River went largely unchallenged until the late-1960s. The Blue Ridge Project was the utilityâ s next large hydroelectric project on the New River. It was slated to impound the waters of the upper New River in Grayson County, Virginia, with two reservoirs extending into the riverâ s headwaters in the counties of Ashe and Alleghany in northwestern North Carolina. Though the initial project met no serious opposition, environmental lawyers and the State of North Carolina defeated a considerably enlarged version of the proposal after a legal battle lasting over a decade. Why was this double impoundment not successfully constructed? What had changed in the last decades to influence Appalachian Powerâ s previously unchallenged right to generate electricity along the New River? The purpose of this thesis is to answer these questions.
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Hildreth, Jane N. "Investigation of lower Colorado River Valley desert soil mineral and nutrient content in relation to plant proximity and identity." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/518.

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Flack, Rebecca Lynn. "An economic analysis of a large scale ashe juniper clearing project in the Leon River watershed." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1372.

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Kaeding, Kristine M. 1977. "Monument or Folly? Maya Lin's Bird Blind at the Sandy River Delta, Oregon (2006, Confluence Project)." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10824.

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x, 113 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
In 2000, a non-profit organization, the Confluence Project, based in Vancouver, Washington commissioned Maya Lin to design seven site-specific art installations. Lin chose certain points along the Columbia River to commemorate the bicentennial of the Corps of Discovery, the Lewis and Clark Expedition. I will focus on the third completed site, Bird Blind, located at the Sandy River Delta in Troutdale, Oregon. This artwork is a functional piece for viewing the surrounding wildlife in addition to a textually informative work referencing the diaries of Lewis and Clark and includes the current species status report published by the Sierra Club on the animals observed by Lewis and Clark. This thesis examines the accessibility of the artwork to the wide variety of audiences and its success as a point of dialogue for its specific site.
Committee in Charge: Dr. Kate Mondloch; Dr. Leland Roth; Prof. Kenneth Helphand

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Stoffle, Richard W., Maria Nieves Zedeno, Amy Eisenberg, Rebecca Toupal, Alex Carroll, Fabio Pittaluga, John Amato, and Trey Earnest. "Ha`tata (The Backbone of the River): American Indian Ethnographic Studies Regarding the Hoover Dam Bypass Project." University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/270990.

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This is an American Indian ethnographic study for the Hoover Dam Bypass Project. The study sites included three bypass bridge alternatives, each located within one mile from where United States Highway 93 (U.S. 93), at the time of the study, crossed over the top of Hoover Dam at the Arizona-Nevada state line. Due to growth in population and commerce in the Southwest, the roadway at Hoover Dam has experienced a tremendous increase in traffic over the past 30 years, resulting in increased safety hazards to motorists, pedestrians, and the dam itself. Federal, state, and local governments have worked to find a solution to the impacts of increased traffic across Hoover Dam. This project was a continuation of EIS efforts that began in 1989. The goal of this project was to evaluate alternative crossings of the Colorado River near Hoover Dam. The goal of this study was to evaluate the potential impacts to American Indian cultural resources related to the three proposed crossing alternatives. This report is an expanded version of the draft produced in 1998. In 2000, funding became available to carry out further ethnographic research and involve Mohave, Hualapai, and Southern Paiute people.

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Bradshaw, Richard W. "Mineral chemistry of basalts recovered from Hotspot Snake River Scientific Drilling Project, Idaho: Source and crystallization characteristics." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3359.

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Mineral chemistry and petrography of basalts from the Kimama drill core recovered by Hotspot: Snake River Scientific Drilling Project, Idaho establish crystallization conditions of these lavas. Twenty-three basalt samples, from 20 individual lava flows were sampled from the upper 1000 m (of the 1912 m drilled) core drilled on the axis of the Snake River Plain, and represent approximately 3 m.y. of volcanism (rocks at the bottom of the hole are ~6 Ma). Rock from the upper 1000 m are typically fresh, while those lower in the core are more altered and are less likely to preserve fresh phenocrysts to analyze. Intratelluric phenocrysts (pre-eruption) are: olivine, plagioclase and Cr-spinel inclusions in olivine and plagioclase; groundmass phases (post-eruption) are: olivine, plagioclase, clinopyroxene, magnetite and ilmenite. Olivine core compositions range from Fo84-68, plagioclase cores range from An80-62, clinopyroxene ranges in composition from Wo47-34, En47-28, Fs30-15, spinel inclusions are Cr (up to 20 wt % Cr2O3) and Al-rich (up to 35 wt % Al2O3) and evolve to lower concentrations of Cr and Al and higher Fe and Ti, chromian titanomagnetite to magnetite, and ilmenite are groundmass oxide phases. Thermobarometry of Kimama core basalts indicates that the phenocryst phases crystallized at temperatures of 1155 to 1255°C at depths of 7 to 17 km, which is within or near the seismically imaged mid-crustal sill. Plagioclase hygrometry suggests that these lavas are relatively anhydrous with less than 0.4 wt % H2O. Groundmass phases crystallized at lower temperatures (<1140°C) after eruption. Oxygen fugacity inferred from Fe-Ti oxide equilibria is at or just below the QFM buffer. The origin of the basaltic rocks of the Snake River Plain has been attributed to a mantle plume or to other, shallow mantle processes. Mineral and whole rock major and trace element geochemistry of the olivine tholeiites from the Kimama core are used to distinguish between these two sources (deep or shallow mantle). Whole rock compositions were corrected for plagioclase and olivine fractionation to calculate primary liquids to estimate mantle potential temperatures. Olivine phenocrysts have the pyroxenite source characteristics of low Mn and Ca, but a peridotite source characteristic of low Ni. Thus, trace element models were used to test whether there is pyroxenite in the source of the Snake River Plain basalts, as hypothesized for Hawaii and other plume-related hotspots (e.g., Sobolev et al., 2005; Herzberg, 2011). Olivine chemistry and trace element models establish that the basalt source is a spinel peridotite, not a pyroxenite. The average mantle potential temperature obtained for these samples is 1577°C, 177°C hotter than ambient mantle, suggesting that the basaltic liquids were derived from a thermal plume. Silica activity barometry shows that melt segregation occurs between 80 and 110 km depth, which is within or very near the spinel stability field, and suggests that the lithosphere has been eroded by the plume to a maximum depth of 80 km, and recent mantle tomography suggests that it may be even thinner.

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Brown, Crete. ""Unsettling" the Bear River Massacre| A Transformative Learning and Action Project Utilizing Indigenous Worldviews and Ceremonial Elements." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3606920.

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Grounded in the transformative paradigm (p. 35), this study asked, “In what ways might a group of non-Natives be individually and socially transformed by encountering the Bear River Massacre from within Indigenous Worldviews?” The methodology incorporated Indigenous Worldviews and ceremonial processes (Wilson, 2008) into Queensland University’s Indigenous Australian Studies’ model (Mackinlay & Barney, 2010), interweaving transformative learning processes with Indigenous elements such as a traditional Shoshone sweat lodge, visiting a massacre site, and listening to a Shoshone elder. During ceremonially centered mini retreats data was collected via individual journals, group email and process notes, art-based expressions, videotaping, individual and group written evaluations and surveys, and follow up interviews. Findings established “perspective transformation” (King, 2009) in 80% of participants within the dimensions of better understanding the Bear River Massacre, the Shoshone people, the colonization process, and the loss of their own Indigenous roots. Follow-up interviews revealed that 87.5% of respondents believed that the integration of Indigenous elements into the project impacted their learning experience “a great deal.” 87.5% reported sustained behavioral x change in relation to the topic and 71% stated they wanted to get to know Native people and culture better. In addition, 43% stated they were interested in obtaining a public Presidential apology to Native people. Unconscious shadow transference material (Romanyshyn, 2007) emerged and was discussed from a depth psychology perspective. Limitations to this study include sample size and lack of funding. The theoretical development of ceremonial research potentially expands this method into other areas of inquiry.

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Lima, Anamelia Maria Alves. "A Study post ex development project hydroenvironmental - PRODHAM: the case of watershed Cangati river - CanindÃ - CearÃ - Brazil." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2014. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=13933.

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The Northeast Region consists of a semi-arid climate with low incidence rainfall and shallow soils that affect agricultural production, making the life of the frontiersman man. To minimize the suffering and improve the quality of life of the people in the semiarid region, were created various government programs, among them stands out the Hydroenvironmental Development Project - PRODHAM, in order to reorganize the watersheds and work rehabilitation of degraded areas, by man, in CearÃ semiarid region. PRODHAM aimed at establishing coordinated and sustainable actions of recovery and conservation of natural and environmental resources, such as soil, water and vegetation, which involves the areas bordering the rivers, ponds and its sources; involving also socioeconomic aspects of the communities in the watershed,with proposed technologies in hydro-environmental and productive area, to new ways of working in rural areas, as well as the involvement of local communities in the development and application of the correct use practices and soil conservation and water. The implementation program in the watershed since Cangati River, municipality of CanindÃ, in CearÃ, led many impacts on the community, this social, economic and cultural. Thus to assess the importance of this program, we use the survey "in loco", through interviews, to analyze, as viewed from the beneficiary population, what benefits accrued by the program to the daily life of the community.
A RegiÃo Nordeste Ã constituÃda de um clima semiÃrido, com baixa incidÃncia pluviomÃtrica e de solos rasos que prejudicam a produÃÃo agrÃcola, dificultando a vida do homem sertanejo. Para minimizar o sofrido e melhorar a qualidade de vida do povo no semiÃrido, foram criados vÃrios programas governamentais, entre eles destaca-se o Projeto de Desenvolvimento Hidroambiental - PRODHAM, que foi financiado pelo Banco Mundial (Acordo de EmprÃstimo4531 BR/BIRD), no Ãmbito do Programa de Gerenciamento e IntegraÃÃo dos Recursos HÃdricos do CearÃ (PROGERIRH/CE), com a finalidade de reorganizar as microbacias hidrogrÃficas e trabalhar a recuperaÃÃo das Ãreas degradadas pela aÃÃo do homem no semiÃrido cearense. O PRODHAM visava estabelecer aÃÃes articuladas e sustentÃveis de recuperaÃÃo e preservaÃÃo dos recursos naturais e ambientais, como: solo, Ãgua e vegetaÃÃo, envolvendo as Ãreas Ãs margens dos rios, aÃudes e suas nascentes; envolvendo, ainda, aspectos socioeconÃmicos das comunidades das microbacias hidrogrÃficas, com propostas de tecnologias no domÃnio hidroambiental e produtivo, para novas formas de trabalho no meio rural, bem como, a participaÃÃo das populaÃÃes locais no Ãmbito do desenvolvimento e aplicaÃÃo de prÃticas correto uso e preservaÃÃo do solo e das Ãguas. A implantaÃÃo desde programa na Microbacia do Rio Cangati municÃpio de CanindÃ no interior do CearÃ, acarretou muitos impactos na comunidade, desde sociais, econÃmicos e culturais. Destarte, a presente pesquisa teve como Objetivo Geral avaliar a importÃncia do PRODARM na microbacia do Rio Cangati, sob a visÃo de seus moradores. Com os seguintes Objetivos EspecÃficos: Identificar as mudanÃas na qualidade de vida dos beneficiÃrios decorrentes da implantaÃÃo do projeto; Fazer uma anÃlise dos benefÃcios decorrentes da implantaÃÃo do projeto; Fazer anÃlise comparativa entre as aÃÃes implementadas pelo projeto e as atividades atuais desenvolvidas pelos beneficiÃrios; Analisar o envolvimento da comunidade na continuidade das aÃÃes implementadas pelo projeto. Deste modo para avaliar a importÃncia desde programa, usamos a pesquisa âin locoâ, atravÃs de entrevistas para analisar, conforme a visÃo da populaÃÃo beneficiada, quais os benefÃcios acrescidos pelo programa Ã vida cotidiana da comunidade.

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Daouda, Diallo Balkissa. "Social Impact Assessment of Water Management Projects—The Case of the Niger River Basin." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1534247403271493.

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Patrick, L. Dwain. "The presentation of the Fruitbearers project at Burns Evangelical Free Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Bjørgum, Claudia Pastor Almeida Soares. "Droughts, Morality, State Politics and the Brazilian Semiarid Landscape: A Study of the São Francisco River Integration Project." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Geography, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-2271.

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The poorest region of Brazil, the Northeast is prone to devastating multi-annual droughts, an inherent part of its geography. The Brazilian state attributes the poverty of the Northeast to the semiarid landscape and a supposed water deficit. The state defends a water diversion project on the biggest river of the region that is rejected by the local population and civil society organizations, as a definitive solution for the water deficit of a section of the semiarid landscape. Based on a large volume of secondary data, primary data collected through open interviews with key informant and participant observation in sections of the semiarid landscape in the state of Ceará, this thesis argues that the problem of the Northeast is not water deficit. Some of the poorest areas of Brazil, in both Northeast and North regions, are abundant in water resources. Droughts have been used as an excuse to intervene in the landscape while drought oriented policies have for a long time divided and sub-divided the region, contributing to the alienation of other structural problems. Poverty and inequality are the most serious problems of the Northeast, inside and outside the limits of the semiarid landscape, just like in the other four regions of Brazil. The São Francisco river integration project (SFIP) reproduces the drought combat discourse and hide the economical intentions of the project. Surrounded by contradictions and certain disregard for Brazil’s Constitution the governmental project benefits from the alienation of the other regions of the Northeastern reality and of the indifference of the National Congress to the conflict. The SFIP analyzed as an example of the historical relationship of interdependence between the central government and the local elite.

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Skrzypek, Emilia E. "Stories of the invisible mine : ethnographic account of stakeholder relations at the Frieda River Project, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11971.

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Located amid tropical rainforest, in an upper tributary of the Sepik River, the Frieda River area is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. Exploration of Frieda's rich deposits has been ongoing since it began in 1969, bringing together unlikely partners in a process of preparing for a large-scale resource extraction project. This thesis offers an ethnographic account of stakeholder relations as they were unfolding at Frieda over forty years after the first company arrived on the banks of the River. It presents the key stakeholders of the Frieda River Project as outcomes of relations which produced them, emergent from an interplay between prescribed roles and expectations of responsibilities, and on the ground activities of forming and negotiating social relations. Through an ethnographic study of the Payamo it describes a process through which the Frieda River Project's local stakeholders mobilized a range of complex and contested relations to turn Frieda's rich deposits into development, and to make the mine at Frieda happen. This study provides an ethnographic insight into complex and contested processes of planning for a resource extraction project as they were actually taking place. It proposes an analytical framework of looking at a mine as a social relation and argues that although it might not yet have the appearance which would make it visible to the company and the government, from the perspective of its indigenous stakeholders the Frieda River Mine is already happening, but it has not yet revealed itself.

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Jackson, Steven J. "Building the virtual river : numbers, models, and the politics of water in California /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF formate. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3212684.

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MacDonald, Lindiwe. "The process of Mi'kmaq community-based development, a case study of the Bear River Mi'kmaq Npisunewawti'j (Medicine Trail) Project." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0018/MQ57305.pdf.

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Piette, Randal R. "Effects of flow regulation due to hydroelectric project operation on the structure of fish communities in Wisconsin's large river systems /." Link to abstract, 2004. http://epapers.uwsp.edu/abstracts/2004/Piette.pdf.

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Kokic, Jovana. "Constructed Wetlands and Buffer Zones as Measures for Agricultural Phosphorus Leakage on a Sub-catchment Scale : The Söderköping River Project." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema vatten i natur och samhälle, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-60988.

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The Baltic Sea has a major problem with eutrophication where acts have been taken by the EU commission to sign a common action plan, the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP). The overall goal is to reach a good environmental status by the year 2021, where one of the sub-goals is that the Baltic Sea should be unaffected by eutrophication. For Sweden, the goal for phosphorus (P) is to reduce the annual load with 290 tonnes by the year 2021. Since phosphorus is the main limiting nutrient, it is targeted for reduction when it comes to addressing problems with eutrophication. The objective of this thesis is to estimate the effect of constructed wetlands (CW) and buffer zones (BZ), as measures for reducing agricultural phosphorus, in a specific sub-catchment area of the Söderköping river. The waters in this sub-catchment area have the status unsatisfying and poor. If these measures are suitable for this area and where, and if the effect implementation would fulfill a good status for these waters, are questions that this thesis will aim at. An assigned P reduction has been calculated for the sub-catchments where the waters with unsatisfying and poor statuses are present. Areas for CWs have been calculated with the help of the assigned reduction and retentions found in the literature, and location for them has been suggested. With the help of calculated areas for potential BZs for this area, the effect of them have been calculated by retentions found in the literature with 9 and 10 m widths. The results show higher results for assigned P reduction than the actual P load that is present in the sub-catchments. This gives odd results for the effect of the CWs where they show a P reduction of 59-234 %. The method for assigned P reduction is therefore questioned, where the method for the reference value that is used is not without flaws. For BZs, a reduction of 5-14 % is shown, where the reduction is larger with larger areas for potential BZs. Whether the implementation of the measures will fulfill a good status for the waters is difficult to say, due to the inadequate methods and the odd results given in this thesis.

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Spencer, Danielle Jeannette. "Cannibalization Processes in Hotspot Rhyolites as Deduced from the Kimberly Rhyolite, Central Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7726.

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The 7.7 Ma Kimberly Member of the Cassia Formation is part of a succession of A-type rhyolites associated with the Yellowstone hotspot track. It was sampled by the Kimberly core that was drilled on the Snake River Plain as part of Project HOTSPOT (Shervais, et al., 2013). The Kimberly Member is a 170 m thick high-silica rhyolite lava flow containing quartz, plagioclase, anorthoclase, sanidine, augite, pigeonite, magnetite, ilmenite, zircon, and apatite. δ 18O of zircon ranges from 0 to 4.9‰ (Colón et al., 2018), typical low values for the Snake River Plain. Quartz is intensely embayed. Exsolved and resorbed pigeonite cores are mantled by augite. REE-poor apatite cores are resorbed and oscillatory zones truncated by rims with SiO2 as high as 12.8 wt% and LREEtot up to 4.7%. There are three chemically distinct feldspars. Rounded and pitted anorthoclase (Or21 Ab64 An15) mantles plagioclase (An20 to An40) cores. Sanidine (Or47 Ab48 An05) forms thin, subhedral drapes on the outer edges of anorthoclase. Sanidine also fills some of the sieved holes in plagioclase and anorthoclase. There are two chemically distinct glasses, a light glass (~95%) and a dark glass (~5%). Relative to the light glass, the dark is enriched in Al2O3 , CaO, and Na2O and depleted in Fe2O3 and K2O. The dark glass is depleted in Rb and enriched in Sr and Ba, but they have similar concentrations of the high field strength elements (Y, Zr, Nb, Hf, and Ta). LREE are slightly more enriched in the dark glass than in the light glass. Temperatures of 926°C (magnetite-ilmenite thermometry with QUILF), 894°C (pigeonite-augite pairs with QUILF), and 889°C (zircon-saturation) are calculated for the magma. Although Fe-Ti oxides appear to have equilibrated with melt before eruption, most of the other phases preserve strong evidence of disequilibrium. These complex mineral textures also indicate assimilation and mixing processes. We propose a pigeonite-bearing, dry, metasomatized, A-type granite was fragmented and assimilated by the Kimberly member, mantling exsolved pigeonite with augite. Also incorporated into the Kimberly member were volcanic xenocrysts indicative of rhyolite assimilation or magma mixing. These components are embayed volcanic quartz, and composite plagioclase-anorthoclase grains (mantled by sanidine upon assimilation). Complex zircon grains could be sourced from metasomatized rhyolite or intrusion, and complex apatite grains could be due to mixing or assimilation. We propose the distinct glass types are caused by mingling of the Kimberly magma with the melted metasomatized assimilant. This scenario demonstrates the complexity of open system processes involved in some Snake River Plain magmas.

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Delamatta, Annie. "Participant observation of an inerdisciplinary educational innovation project on the Saint Lawrence River in a Grade 11 class in Quebec City." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/66577.

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Les principes fondateurs sur lesquels les systèmes éducatifs occidentaux reposent font l’objet de nombreux débats depuis des décennies. Des études ont montré d'importantes lacunes qu'il faut résoudre (Giroux, 1988 ; Koehler et Kim, 2012 ; Shields, 2003). Il est donc primordial d’envisager des avenues structurantes qui pourraient y pallier. Afin de contribuer à cette réflexion, ce mémoire, qui se situe dans le champ de l’administration scolaire, a pour but de réfléchir sur les pratiques éducatives innovantes afin de mieux comprendre ce qui fait appui ou obstacle à l’innovation pédagogique en milieu scolaire. La démarche méthodologique retenue s’inspire de l’ethnographie, à partir de l’observation participante d’une étude de cas unique dans le cadre du projet international d’Éducation Interculturelle à l’Environnement et au Développement Durable (EIEDD): Rapports aux savoirs scientifiques, aux territoires et engagement écocitoyen de jeunes de la fin du secondaire en France et au Québec de Barbara Bader et Jean-Marc Lange (2017-2020, FRQSCANR). Les données sont recueillies à l’aide d’enregistrements audio, de notes de journal de bord et de différents documents relatifs aux réflexions des élèves. La présente recherche porte plus particulièrement sur la démarche menée à Québec auprès de 19 jeunes de 5e secondaire en collaboration avec deux enseignantes. Le principal apport de cette recherche est de décrire les éléments ressortis au cours de la mise en œuvre de la démarche ainsi que les réflexions qui accompagnent ce processus d’innovation pédagogique, et ce en portant une attention particulière au leadership de la direction d’école et à son rôle transformatif. Par ses observations des activités pédagogiques, et le contraste entre les entretiens des jeunes et ceux des enseignantes, cette recherche contribue à la réflexion sur les pratiques pédagogiques innovantes et émancipatrices, ainsi qu’à l’élaboration des pistes qui paraissent les plus prometteuses pour soutenir la mise en place de ce type d’innovation pédagogique.
The founding principles on which western education systems hinge have been the subject of much debate for decades. Studies have shown important shortcomings in the system that remain to bead dressed (Giroux, 1988; Koehler et Kim, 2012; Shields, 2003). It is therefore essential to consider structuring avenues that could alleviate them. In order to contribute to this reflection, this thesis,set within the field of educational administration, ponders innovative educational practices in order to better understand what prevents or supports pedagogical innovation in schools. To that end, the methodology is based in a participant observation of a case study with an ethnographic approach as part of the international project Intercultural Education for Environment and SustainableDevelopment (IEESD): Young people’s rapport to scientific knowledge, territories and their ecocitizen commitment at the end of secondary school in France and Quebec led by Barbara Baderand Jean-Marc Lange (2017-2020, FRQSC-ANR). Data are collected via audio-recordings, a journal with field notes and different documents relating to students’ reflections. This research particularly focuses on the implementation process in Quebec City, with 19 high school students in Grade 11 and in collaboration with two female teachers. The main contribution of this research is to describe the emerging elements that support and hinder educational innovation as well as the reflections that accompany its implementation, with an emphasis on the school administration leadership and its transformative role. Through its observations of educational activities, and descriptions of the contrast between the student and teacher interview content, this research contributes to the reflection on innovative and emancipatory educational practices, as well as to the development of avenues that seem most promising to support the implementation of this type of educational innovation.

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Campbell, Douglas S. "The proposed Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge : a case study in public perception." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/902483.

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This study determines opinions of two Indiana communities concerning the proposed Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge. Surveys were mailed to residents of Pike County and Noblesville, Indiana. The response rate was 38%. Differences in attitudes were measured between residents of the two areas regarding ten issues of concern. The issues respondents were most concerned with were those focusing on the loss of county tax base, road closings and access, and a possible increase in the mosquito population. Surprisingly, the issues concerning avian diseases and land acquisition/ condemnation were not major concerns. It was originally thought that these issues of employment and property would have been of primary concern to respondents. Residents of Pike County in the affected refuge area were more aware of the refuge and the issues of concern. However, of the respondents who were aware of the refuge in both Pike county and Noblesville, few differences in their perceptions of the issues were noted.
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Friesen, Wilbert J. "Development ethics and the Canadian North : a case study analysis of the Churchill-Nelson Rivers Hydro Diversion Project." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0018/NQ55332.pdf.

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Le, Roux Babette. "Music in the community : a study of community music projects in the Western Cape, with specific reference to the Redefine Music Education Project, in Kuils River." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3028.

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Thesis (MMus (Music))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
The initiation and establishment of community music projects have been increasing in number in South Africa in the last decade due to the growing interest in these projects’ beneficial outcomes. Music education, music activities and a myriad of opportunities through music are provided to under-privileged communities who would otherwise be deprived thereof. The Redefine Music Education Project is a community music project situated in Kuils River and which draws learners from local impoverished communities and townships. The efficient management of project, staff and learner commitment, and community involvement has resulted in various project and learner achievements. However, it has also undergone several setbacks and faces frequent challenges. Due to the Redefine Music Education Project’s success rate and sustained years of operation, it is considered as one of the Western Cape’s reputable community music projects. This research study sets out by evaluating the need and role of a community music project in disadvantaged communities as well as describing the qualities that make a community music project successful. The research uncovered the impact that such a project has on the individual and on local communities in the Western Cape. A noteworthy result of the study is the fact that it serves as guidance and motivation to other operating and upcoming community music projects. It also provides and opens further opportunities of study and research regarding music in the community.
Die inisiëring en vestiging van gemeenskaps-musiekprojekte het in die laaste dekade in Suid-Afrika toegeneem vanweë die groeiende belangstelling in die voordelige uitkomste van hierdie projekte. Hierdie projekte bied musiekopvoeding, musiekaktiwiteite en ontsluit geleenthede deur musiek aan minder bevoorregde gemeenskappe wat andersins nie daarmee in aanraking sou kom nie. Die Redefine Music Education Project is 'n gemeenskaps-musiekprojek geleë in Kuilsrivier. Die projek staan grootliks in diens van leerders uit plaaslike verarmde gemeenskappe en townships. Die doeltreffende bestuur van die projek, personeel en leerder-toewyding, en gemeenskapsbetrokkenheid het verskeie projek- en leerderprestasies tot gevolg gehad. Die projek het egter ook verskeie terugslae ervaar en staar voortdurende uitdagings in die gesig. As gevolg van die Redefine Music Education Project se suksesse en die hoeveelheid jare wat dit reeds bestaan, word dit gereken as een van die Wes-Kaap se maatgewende gemeenskaps-musiekprojekte. Hierdie navorsing evalueer die behoefte aan en rol van 'n gemeenskaps-musiekprojek in minder bevoorregde gemeenskape. Dit ondersoek ook die kwaliteite wat so 'n projek help om suksesvol te wees. Die navorsing toon uiteindelik ook die impak wat so 'n projek op individue en op plaaslike gemeenskappe in die Wes-Kaap het. 'n Betekenisvolle resultaat van die studie is dat dit as gids en motivering dien vir ander huidige en toekomstige gemeenskaps-musiekprojekte. Dit beskryf ook verdere geleenthede vir studie en navorsing ten opsigte van musiek in die gemeenskap.

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Suteepichatpan, Penpaka. "Addressing cross-cultural narratives and design issues of the Second World War memorials : aftermath of the Bridge on the River Kwae project /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARCHLM/09archlmp416.pdf.

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Varriale, Jerome A. "The MH-2 Core from Project Hotspot: Description, Geologic Interpretation, and Significance to Geothermal Exploration in the Western Snake River Plain, Idaho." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4677.

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The MH-2 science drill hole, on Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, was drilled in 2012 to a total depth 1821 m as part of Project Hotspot. It encountered flowing artesian thermal water at 1,745 m below ground surface. This signature of a potential blind high temperature geothermal resource indicates that further analyses are needed to characterize the resource. Whole rock core was recovered to a total depth of 1821 m below ground surface and a suite of wireline logs collected. In this thesis I describe the lithologies represented in the core, correlate these lithologies to outcrop analogs, and identify and characterize petrophysical properties observable within the wireline logs, which represent fine-scale variations in stratigraphy, composition and/or alteration. The lithologies in the core are a series of basalts, brecciated and altered basalt, basaltic sands, carbonate-rich muds, and siliciclastic sediments. Basalt flows with evidence of increasing influence of an aqueous environment with time typify the lower half of core, whereas the upper half represents a period of diminished volcanism, lacustrine depositional environment, and a catastrophic water overflow event. The top of the core represents a resurgence of basaltic volcanism in the area. An overprint of brecciation at depth, fracturing, and secondary mineralization records the history of the geothermal system. All the elements of a relatively shallow and potentially energy generating geothermal resource are present at the MH-2 well location. These new data from the MH-2 borehole contributes to evaluating a parallel geothermal risk assessment of the Snake River Plain. Play fairway analysis was implemented for perhaps the first time in a geothermal regime. The Snake River Plain was divided up into three distinct play types; the area surrounding the Mountain Home Air Force Base was systematically identified as prospective. A region where sedimentary and altered rocks may create a seal, and blind faults create porosity in deep basalts.

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Ellingston, Linda Jean. "An environmental education field guide for Mystic Lake wetland habitats." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1831.

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This curriculum guide is for grades four through six. It examines how wetlands, wildlife, and people interact and depend upon each other. The San Jacinto Valley wetland area is used as an example of wetland habitat destruction from population pressures that have changed the natural landscape. It is also used as an example of what habitat reconstruction can do to restore vital habitats. Through student contact with the wetlands increased awareness of the fragile interrelationships between the physical and biological components of a wetland habitat is gained. Students can use ecological themes to help them assimilate collected and given data into logical cohesive ideas, laying the ground work for developing an environmental action project.

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Gandhi, Ajay. "State (under)development, transnational activism, and tribal resistance in India's Narmada valley." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33895.

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This thesis examines how the Narmada damming project in India is constituted and contested by the state, affected tribal peoples ( adivasis), and a transnational advocacy network led by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement). Based on ethnographic fieldwork, and employing critical anthropological perspectives on development and globalization, the power relations underlying dominance and resistance are mapped out. The conflicting discourses, strategies and practices of Narmada proponents and opponents are conceptualized within local, regional, national, and transnational sites and modalities. Further, the negotiation of state dominance and adivasi resistance is analyzed through contradictory practice and shifting political alignments. Lastly, this thesis delineates how the Narmada conflict is permeated by complex symbolic and moral mechanisms activated by both state authorities and activist resistors.

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Banker, Catherine Mary Courser. "A structural history of the Old Stone Hotel in Daggett utilizing archaeological and documentary evidence." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/856.

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Kolpakova, Vera. "The political implications of regional cooperation in Northeast Asia: Russia's changing role in the region, and the potentials of the Tumen River Project." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278350.

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This paper discusses the political implications of creating a Northeast Asian system of regional cooperation, as the current global political changes now make it possible, and the security and economic measures that have to be taken to implement these new developmental projects. The Tumen River Project is one of the developmental projects designed to bring together former political and ideological adversaries, such as China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, Russia and South Korea. Due to the economic regionalism in the world, and to the subsequent need to create some sort of regional structure in the Asia-Pacific, these countries are striving to promote regional cooperation and overcome such serious problems as the reunification of the two Koreas, the security issues on the Korean Peninsula, the Russo-Japanese territorial dispute, and others.

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Hwang, Jaeho. "The significance of regionalism as an element of China's security and foreign policy : the case of the Tumen River Area Development Project (TRADP)." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2003. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2293/.

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Since the end of Cold War, processes of regionalisation have developed in a world experiencing globalisation. The Tumen River Area Development Project (TRADP) is an UNDP-initiated multilateral sub-regional scheme for economic cooperation that emerged in 1992 and was institutionalised by the establishment of the Tumen Secretariat in 1995. It is based on 'North-South' cooperation as well as a socialist-capitalist division of labour among six neighbouring countries (China, Russia, DPRK, ROK, Mongolia, and Japan), involving certain adjacent areas in the Tumen River region - which serves as a natural border for China, Russia, and North Korea. Arguing that the project has a significance that is more political than economic, the thesis will explore the significance of regionalism as an element of China's security and foreign policy. China was the project's most active supporter, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. This thesis will argue that China developed the Tumen project not only as part of its own pursuit of domestic development, but also in order to take the initiative in regional economic development and to alter the distribution of power in Northeast Asia, in particular, the Korean Peninsula. The thesis will also attempt to explain why China has found it so difficult to bring the project to fruition. The Chinese government did not provide proper infrastructure and give the project high priority in its national development policy. As a result, the project could not be attractive to the private sector, which was to be the major source of international investment. Further, the participating countries were concerned about Chinese motives and the economic and political-security implications of the project for the region. Thus, the project came to be regarded as a political ploy and was treated accordingly. This research hopes to make a contribution in two major ways. One is to understand the characteristics and trends of regionalism in East Asia; and the other is to delineate the scope and limits of China's seemingly more interdependent, cooperative, and multilateral foreign behaviour since the late 1980s.

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Coleman, Lori I. "Our Whole Future is Bound up in this Project: The Making of Buford Dam." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_theses/30.

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Twentieth Century Americans witnessed the construction of numerous massive dams that controlled the flow of rivers across the country. Many of these dams were built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to improve navigation and to provide inexpensive electricity and flood control. This paper will seek to shed light on Georgia’s current water crisis by analyzing the initial purposes behind the building of Buford Dam in North Georgia, investigating how water supply issues were addressed in the first half of the twentieth century, and exploring how expectations of the Chattahoochee River changed over time due in part to metropolitan Atlanta’s population growth. This paper will show that Atlanta area leaders secured appropriations for Buford Dam primarily to obtain a reliable water supply and additional electricity for their burgeoning community.

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Akyurek, Gokce. "Impact Of Ataturk Dam On Social And Environmental Aspects Of The Southeastern Anatolia Project." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606992/index.pdf.

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In this thesis the impact of the Atatü
rk Dam on social and environmental aspects of the Southeastern Anatolia Project has been discussed in terms of planning and policy making, institutional arrangements, infrastuctural development and human resources development. In order to analyse the impacts of Atatü
rk Dam data related to several components are collected. These components can be listed as resettlement, land acquisition and land consolidation, education, health, gender issues. The results show that the Atatü
rk Resettlement has been done involuntarily. The people mostly have their compensation. However the management abilities of the resettlers for the compensations were poor. Generally the Southeastern Anatolia Project as a large scale multi sectoral projects have positive impacts on the literacy ratio and health standards. Actually the social and environmental aspects of this kind of large scale projects are difficult to predict and measure. Therefore reasonable studies on prediciting the problems related to the environemental and social issues and producing sufficient solutions become more and more important day by day. The Southeastern Anatolia Project becomes an important example for similar projects by considering its both positive and negative impacts

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Simonsen, Mai. "Why is collective participation not progressing in irrigation water management systems in India today? : case study Distributary 54 in Tungabhadra River Project, Karnataka, India /." Oslo : Centre for Development and the Environment, Universitetet i Oslo, 2008. http://www.duo.uio.no/publ/sum/2008/81051/Final_Mai_Simonsen_master_thesis_2008.pdf.

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Jamil, Fathi El Sadig. "Irrigation management transfer in a hostile context : a case study of the implementation of a transferred policy in the Kano River irrigation project - Northern Nigeria." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289387.

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Morse, Cody. "Quantifying the Environmental Performance of a Stream Habitat Improvement Project." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2018. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1972.

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River restoration projects are being installed worldwide to rehabilitate degraded river habitat. Many of these projects focus on stream habitat improvement (SHI), and an estimated 60%of the 37,000 projects listed in the National River Restoration Science Synthesis Program focus on SHI for salmon and trout species. These projects frequently lack a sufficient monitoring program or account for the environmental costs associated with SHI. The present study used life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques and topographic effectiveness monitoring to quantify environmental costs on the basis of geomorphic change. This methodology was a novel approach to assessing the cost-benefit relationship of SHI. To test this methodology, two phases of the Lower Scotts Creek Floodplain and Habitat Enhancement Project (LSCR) were used as a case study. The LSCR was a SHI project installed along the northern coast of Santa Cruz County, California, USA. A limited scope LCA was used to quantify the life cycle impacts of raw material production, materials transportation, and on-site construction. Once these baseline results were produced, a topographic monitoring program was used to quantify the topographic diversity index (TDI) in pre- and post-project conditions. The TDI percent change was used to scale the baseline LCA results, which quantified the environmental impacts based on geomorphic change. Phase II outperformed phase I. Phase I had greater cumulative environmental impacts and experienced a 7.7 % TDI increase from pre- to post-project conditions. Phase II had 43% less cumulative environmental impacts and experienced a 7.9% TDI increase from pre- to post-project conditions. The impacts in phase I were greater because of the amount of material excavated to create off-channel features, which were a key feature of the LSCR. A scenario analysis also was conducted within the LCA component of this study. The scenario analysis suggests that life cycle impacts could be reduced by 30%-65% by using the accelerated recruitment method in place of importing materials to build large wood complexes. The results of this study suggest that managers may improve the environmental performance of SHI projects by: (1) using the accelerated recruitment method to introduce larger key pieces to the channel, reducing the need to import materials; (2) using nursery grown plants as opposed to excavating plants for revegetation; (3) minimizing fuel combustion in heavy equipment and haul trucks by ensuring clear access to the channel and streambank, using small engine equipment to clear access corridors during site preparation, running more fuel-efficient machinery or bio-fuel powered machinery, and by attempting to minimize haul distances by sourcing materials locally; and (4) utilizing a “franken-log” design (a ballasted LWC configuration with a rootwad fastened to the downstream end of a log) in LWCs which led to favorable TDI change. This study concluded that LCA could be a valuable tool for monitoring SHI and river restoration projects and that further research of the TDI analysis is justified.

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Williams, Jeff T. "Utah Boating and Fishing Survey: Applying Contingent Valuation and Travel Cost Methods to Estimate Recreational Values in Northern Utah for the Bear River Water Development Project." DigitalCommons@USU, 1994. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4517.

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The intent of this thesis is to compare contingent valuation methods (CVM) and travel cost methods (TCM) to estimate consumer surplus for boaters and anglers in northern Utah. TCM results are about three times that of CVM. Several limitations are noted, specifically that CVM solicits given willingness to pay (WTP for specific reservoir sites. TCM analyzes aggregated trips to reservoirs with a wide array of site characteristics.

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