Most regional economic databases (e.g., US Economic Census and County Business Patterns [CBP]) have some employment records suppressed and then represented as ranges, in order to guarantee the confidentiality of the data. This article incorporates the implicit temporal relationships between...

While there has been controversy over the negative and positive effects of urban containment policies (UCPs), little is known about their impact on urban growth with policy tightness. This paper empirically analyses UCP impacts on changes in population, employment, built-up areas, and housing...

In this paper we present and apply a modeling methodology to reduce stormwater runoff through land-use planning, in order to mitigate the impact of nonpoint source pollution. A stormwater-runoff simulation model is used to generate peak discharge pseudodata, that are inputted into a regression...