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Articles 1 - 11 of 11
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Utility Manual (2006), Bill Young
Utility Manual (2006), Bill Young
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
The purpose of this manual is to provide cities with a better understanding of funding water and sewer utility operations.
How Probability Weighting Affects Participation In Water Markets, Ram Ranjan, Jason F. Shogren
How Probability Weighting Affects Participation In Water Markets, Ram Ranjan, Jason F. Shogren
Ram Ranjan
The behavioral tendency to overestimate probabilities of loss can affect a farmer’s participation in water markets. We examine this issue with a theoretical model of a non-expected utility maximizing farmer who places subjective weights on the actual probabilities of loss of water rights due to market transactions. The farmer bargains over sharing of surpluses with the buyer of water. The farmer then incorporates the bargaining outcome in his inter-temporal expected benefit maximization problem that accounts for the possible loss of water rights due to its sale out of agriculture. Three key results emerge. First, subjective weighting of probabilities leads to …
Water And Wastewater Management: A Training Manual For Board Members, Steve Wyatt, Brett Ward, Bill Young
Water And Wastewater Management: A Training Manual For Board Members, Steve Wyatt, Brett Ward, Bill Young
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
The purpose of this manual is to provide a resource for both new and experienced water board members and municipal officials who have little or no formal training for the job.
Slides: Taking The Long View: Doing Something About Climate Change, David Getches, Susan Avery, Maggie Fox, Roger Pielke
Slides: Taking The Long View: Doing Something About Climate Change, David Getches, Susan Avery, Maggie Fox, Roger Pielke
Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions (Summer Conference, June 7-9)
Presenter: Maggie Fox, President, America Votes, Boulder, CO.
Presenter: Susan Avery, Interim Provost and Executive Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Colorado.
Presenter: Roger Pielke, Jr., Professor, Environmental Studies, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado.
4 slides.
Slides: Agriculture: Climate Change Problem, Solution, Or Both? And U.S. Agriculture And Climate Change: Challenge And Opportunity, David L. Carlson
Slides: Agriculture: Climate Change Problem, Solution, Or Both? And U.S. Agriculture And Climate Change: Challenge And Opportunity, David L. Carlson
Climate Change and the Future of the American West: Exploring the Legal and Policy Dimensions (Summer Conference, June 7-9)
Presenter: David L. Carlson, President, Resource Analysis, Inc., Denver, CO.
1 page and 19 slides.
Contains footnotes.
Finding Money For Municipal Water, Wastewater, And Solid Waste Projects In Tennessee, Sharon Rollins
Finding Money For Municipal Water, Wastewater, And Solid Waste Projects In Tennessee, Sharon Rollins
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
This guide provides an overview of various financing programs available to Tennessee's local governments for water, wastewater, solid waste, and other project needs.
Quantifying Chlorophyll A Content Through Remote Sensing: A Pilot Study Of Utah Lake, Tiana Davis
Quantifying Chlorophyll A Content Through Remote Sensing: A Pilot Study Of Utah Lake, Tiana Davis
Theses and Dissertations
Utah Lake is a really large but shallow lake located in the arid environment of the Western United States. Due to a variety of factors it is listed by the Environmental Protection Agency as an "impaired water body" and must be closely monitored. Because of its large extent and shallow depth the water quality is heterogeneous and can change rapidly. This means that traditional water quality monitoring methods, which require large investments in field personnel, equipment, and water sample analysis, cannot produce a model that is truly representative of the entire water body. This thesis examines the feasibility of using …
Building Governance Capacity: The Case Of Potable Water In First Nations Communities, John Graham, Evlyn Fortier
Building Governance Capacity: The Case Of Potable Water In First Nations Communities, John Graham, Evlyn Fortier
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
No abstract provided.
A Glass Half Empty: Drinking Water In First Nations Communities, Sarah N. Morales
A Glass Half Empty: Drinking Water In First Nations Communities, Sarah N. Morales
Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)
No abstract provided.
Natural Areas, Regions, And Two Centuries Of Environmental Change On The Great Plains, David J. Wishart
Natural Areas, Regions, And Two Centuries Of Environmental Change On The Great Plains, David J. Wishart
Great Plains Quarterly
A careful reading of recent issues of the Natural Areas Journal, the publication of the Natural Areas Association, will leave you with the conclusion that humans are not a part of natural areas. When humans do appear, it is either as disturbing agents, disrupting the naturalness through, for example, the introduction of exotic plants and animals, or as managers, enhancing the naturalness through, for example, prescribed burning. This is an explicit and purposeful exclusion: "We can probably all agree," wrote the editor of the journal in 2004, "that 'natural' places are areas where human actions have minimally changed the …
Access And Resilience: Analyzing The Construction Of Social Resilience To The Threat Of Water Scarcity, Ruth Langridge, Juliet Christian-Smith, Kathleen A. Lohse
Access And Resilience: Analyzing The Construction Of Social Resilience To The Threat Of Water Scarcity, Ruth Langridge, Juliet Christian-Smith, Kathleen A. Lohse
All UNF Research
Resilience is a vital attribute that characterizes a system’s capacity to cope with stress. Researchers have examined the measurement of resilience in ecosystems and in social–ecological systems, and the comparative vulnerability of social groups. Our paper refocuses attention on the processes and relations that create social resilience. Our central proposition is that the creation of social resilience is linked to a community’s ability to access critical resources. We explore this proposition through an analysis of how community resilience to the stress of water scarcity is influenced by historically contingent mechanisms to gain, control, and maintain access to water. Access is …