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The Willamette River greenway : environmental and attitudinal considerations
ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Willamette River greenway : environmental and attitudinal considerations |
| Names |
Honey, William D.
(creator) Hogg, Thomas C. (advisor) |
| Date Issued | 1975-05-09 (iso8601) |
| Note | Graduation date: 1975 |
| Abstract | The Willamette River Basin, Oregon, viewed in terms of a cultural-ecological system, has been subject to three phases of cultural development: hunting and gathering, agrarian, and industrial-urban. Each population base has employed a technology to exploit the environment to the extent that its patterns of culture would allow. This technology has been oriented towards one relevant resource within the ecological system--the Willamette River. The environmental quality of the Willamette River began to show signs of impairment with the onset of the industrial-urban development, and the use of a more sophisticated technology. Only through the efforts of a few concerned citizens did the quality of the water begin to improve by the mid-Twentieth Century. The Willamette River Greenway emerges as a governmental response to renew the relevant resource of the cultural-ecological system. Public attitudes toward the Greenway indicate that basin residents feel industrial-urban technology should be utilized to renew the Willamette River, allowing it to once again become the cultural focal point of the ecological system. |
| Genre | Thesis |
| Topic | Regional planning -- Oregon -- Willamette River Valley |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1957/9170 |
