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The Effects Of A Political Boundary Running Through A Metropolitan Area: A Case Study Of The Establishment And Functioning Of The Jantzen Beach Shopping Center, Rose Romaine Reed

Dissertations and Theses

Jantzen Beach Shopping Center is an anomaly on the landscape challenging traditional criteria for the location of regional shopping centers. Located on Hayden Island on the Oregon side of the border, it has access from only one exit in each direction off the Interstate 5 freeway. The predominantly industrial and recreational land use of the region within a five minute travel time from the shopping center results in an exceptionally small adjacent residential population. Its potential trade area is further limited by the intervening shopping opportunity for Washington residents afforded by the Vancouver central business district which lies adjacent to …

The Effect Of Declining Timber Supplies And Productivity Increases In The Forest Products Industries Upon Employment In Douglas County, Oregon, Patrick L. Burden

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines some of the factors that will have significant impact upon employment in Douglas County, Oregon to the year 2000.

The major question this research attempts to answer is: Given a continuation of current policies and programs, what will future employment levels in the forest product industries and total employment levels in all industries in Douglas County be to the year 2000.

Netarts Bay, Oregon: An Assessment Of Human Impact On An Estuarine System, Larry D. Mccallum

Dissertations and Theses

Problems associated with planning the future use of estuarine areas stem from:

1. A lack of knowledge on the critical aspects of the system.
2. Inability to predict the future changes which will occur within the system in order to effectively manage the resource base.

These difficulties lie in the fact that changes within the system occur because of both "natural" and "cultural" conditions. The thesis hypothesis and subsequent research is to describe the physical changes that have occurred within the Netarts system, primarily due to man's impact.

Types of data gathered for the analysis includes that on historical and current land …