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An Integrated System Dynamics Model for Analyzing Behaviour of the Social-Energy-Economic-Climatic System: Model Description
Akhtar, Mohammad Khaled; Simonovic, Slobodan P.; Wibe, Jacob - 2011
) allows understanding and modeling of complex global change and (b) assists in the investigation of possible policy options … grows. Experimentation with different policy scenarios demonstrated their consequences on future behaviour of the society …-economic policy development strategy.This report describes the model structure in details and illustrates its use through the analysis …
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Developing Decision Support System For water Resources Management Under Uncertainty
base a robust decision policy. …
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Organizational Arrangements for Developing Long-Range Water Resources Plans for Georgia
Hatcher, Kathryn J. - 1989
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has developed a state water plan, introduced by Governor Harris, which calls for the state to construct 12 regional reservoirs in north Georgia and to fund design and construction for approximately 30 local reservoirs. The 1989 Georgia General...
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Cost-Sharing and Project Financing
Almodovar, Lillian; Meyer, John W. - 1993
The Water Resources Development Act of 1986(WRDA 86), Public Law 99-662, established new rules for the cost sharing of Federally authorized water resources projects. For the first time, sponsors are required to sharein the cost of feasibility studies to ensure that dwindling Federal dollars are...
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A study of hydraulic dynamics in vegetated and non-vegetated biorention mesocosms
Lucas, William C.; Greenway, Margaret - 2006
Paper presented at The Seventh International Conference on HydroScience and Engineering (ICHE) hosted by the College of Engineering at Drexel Univeristy on September 10-13, 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The conference theme was IT in the Field of HydroSciences. It included several...
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A System dynamics model to facilitate public understanding of water management options in Las Vegas, Nevada
Stave, Krystyna Anne - 2003
consequences of different policy options. One approach that can help managers communicate with stakeholders is system dynamics …
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Adaptive Agent Modeling in a Policy Context
Gulden, Timothy R - 2004
individual based modeling) as a tool in public policy research. It uses the adaptive agent technique to produce useful results in … the basis of comparative advantage arguments, making room for industrial policy and the regulation of trade. Next, the … data. The dissertation concludes that adaptive agent modeling is useful in a policy context because it allows quantitative …
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Multi-agent utility theory for ethical conflict resolution, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2002, nr 3
Tamura, Hiroyuki
In this paper we try to construct a two-attribute group disutility function for two conflicting decision makers, taking into account the property of utility independence and/or convex dependence between them. Two variables in the group utility function are disutility levels of two conflicting...
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ESSAYS IN OUTSOURCED IS PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
Parolia, Neeraj - 2013
IS vendor organizations are increasingly using program management practices to manage complex projects (Gierra 2004). The move to program teams is due to the realization that the management of many client projects and their underlying dependencies requires teamwork among project managers from...
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Policy and organizational implications of gender imbalance in the NHS
Miller, Karen - 2007
The purpose of the paper is to examine the policy and organizational implications of gender imbalance in management … micro and meso organizational dimensions which impact on women's ability to influence macro health policy. …
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