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Community Response Strategies for Environmental Problems of Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal in Fairbanks, Alaska
This report examines the history of the response strategies of the
Fairbanks, Alaska, community to problems of water supply and wastewater
disposal. Fairbanks is significant since it is the largest settlement in
the northern subarctic and arctic regions of North America. Today, the
City of Fairbanks and the surrounding urban area have a combined population
of over 40,000
Environmental quality conditions in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1972
Published by
The Institute of Water Resources
and
The Institute of Social, Economic and Government Research
Fairbanks, AlaskaThis study represents a starting point for investigating the nature and interconnectivity of environmental quality problems in Fairbanks in the 1970's. Since the Fairbanks flood of 1967, no
detailed survey of environmental quality conditions has been conducted despite the impact of the flood, the considerable
expansion of the city limits, and the population expansion (anticipated and actual) associated with the oil pipeline.
The study focuses on selective aspects of environmental quality of continuing and increasing concern to Fairbanks area residents and also to the city and borough governments. Specifically, the issues
analyzed are (1) the environmental setting of the area, (2) structures, especially housing conditions, (3) premise conditions, and (4) waste control.
Much of the data was derived from a program called NEEDS, an acronym for Neighborhood Environmental Evaluation and Decision
System. NEEDS was developed by the Bureau of Community Environmental Management of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for rapid gathering of environmental, health,
and social information in urban areas.1 The NEEDS survey design consists of two separate stages. Stage I is concerned with collecting
general environmental quality information to determine geographically where the most pronounced environmental health problems exist in a given urban area. Stage II consists of detailed interviews with residents of the identified "problem areas" to determine the exact nature of existing health and environmental problems, e.g., housing, health, availability of services, and attitudes regarding existing government (local, state, and federal) programs.
With this information, local officials could begin to reorganize existing programs and/or develop new programs to solve some of the
interrelated environmental quality problems in the disadvantaged sections of their cities.The work upon which this report is based was
supported by funds provided by the State of
Alaska, the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, the United States Public Health Service, and the Office of Water Research and Technology
(Un)Conditional Sample Generation Based on Distribution Element Trees
Recently, distribution element trees (DETs) were introduced as an accurate
and computationally efficient method for density estimation. In this work, we
demonstrate that the DET formulation promotes an easy and inexpensive way to
generate random samples similar to a smooth bootstrap. These samples can be
generated unconditionally, but also, without further complications,
conditionally utilizing available information about certain probability-space
components.Comment: published online in the Journal of Computational and Graphical
Statistic
The Deleuzian Revolution: Ten Innovations in Difference and Repetition
Difference and Repetition might be said to have brought about a Deleuzian Revolution in philosophy comparable to Kant’s Copernican Revolution. Kant had denounced the three great terminal points of traditional metaphysics – self, world and God – as transcendent illusions, and Deleuze pushes Kant’s revolution to its limit by positing a transcendental field that excludes the coherence of the self, world and God in favour of an immanent and differential plane of impersonal individuations and pre-individual singularities. In the process, he introduces numerous conceptual innovations into philosophy: the becoming of concepts; a transformation of the form of the question; an insistence that philosophy must start in the middle; an attempt to think in terms of multiplicities; the development of a new logic and a new metaphysics based on a concept of difference; a new conception of space as intensive rather than extensive; a conception of time as a pure and empty form; and an understanding of philosophy as a system in heterogenesis – that is, a system that entails a perpetual genesis of the heterogeneous, an incessant production of the new.
Keywords: concepts, becoming, multiplicity, singularity, the middle [au milieu], difference, intensity, time, system, the ne
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