The forms and contexts in which risk analytical methods can provide useful inputs to policy decisions remains an open question. This paper assesses the role of uncertainty in cost- effectiveness estimation using the example of life-saving interventions available to regulators in the United...

Intertidal clam fisheries seem ideal candidates for the devolution of management authority from government to local stakeholders. In St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia, a private firm recently applied for a 10-year renewal of a large (1,627 ha) lease for quahog clam aquaculture. This case study...

We present a result of hourly simulation performed using hourly load data and the corresponding simulated output of wind and solar technologies distributed throughout the state of California. We examined how we could achieve very high-energy penetration from intermittent renewable system into...