Controlling Groundwater Exploitation Through Economic Instruments: Current Practices, Challenges and Innovative Approaches

Groundwater can be considered as a common-pool resource, is often overexploited and, as a result, there are growing management pressures. This chapter starts with a broad presentation of the range of economic instruments that can be used for groundwater management, considering current practices and innovative approaches inspired from the literature on Common Pool Resources management. It then goes on with a detailed presentation of groundwater allocation policies implemented in France, the High Plains aquifer in the USA, and Chile. The chapter concludes with a discussion of social and political difficulties associated with implementing economic instruments for groundwater management

Fundamental Groundwater Hydrology and Well Hydraulics

23 pages (includes illustrations and maps)

An application of a generalized management information system to energy policy and decision making : the user's view

HD28 .M414 no.776-, 75,

TO ENERGY POLICY AND DECISION MAKING: THE USER'S VIEW

This paper presents an approach to the development and use of management information systems that is particularly applicable to systems with the following characteristics:- several classes of users, each of which has a different degree of sophistication- complex and changing security requirements- data exhibits complex and changing inter-relationships- changing needs to be met by information system,- must be built quickly and inexpensively- complex data validation requirements The approach is hierarchical from the user's view in that he may access the system at distinct levels, corresponding to his degree of computer sophistication. A casual user has high level primitives to work with, while an experienced user has more flexible but more detailed low-level primitives. also We/have advocated that such systems be implemented in a hierarchical fashion, because this technique provides for ease of debugging, independence of hardware, and a basis for investigating properties of completeness, integrity, correctness, and performance

Unpublished letter from US Geological Survey Scientists to the editor of the New York Times Magazine regarding William J. Broads` November 18, 1990 article on Yucca Mountain

This letter documents objections of a group of US Geological Survey Scientists to an article appearing November 18, 1990 in New York Times Magazine. The article was written by William J. Broad and dealt with a hypothesis of Jerry S. Szymanski. The letter addressed areas of concern; including hydrology, geology, tectonics, and the integrity of the scientists and their conclusions. (SM

A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Outpatient Protocol for Transitioning Children from Tube to Oral Feeding: No Need for Amitriptyline

OBJECTIVE: To assess the role of amitriptyline in the effectiveness of an outpatient protocol for weaning medically complicated children from tube to oral feeding. STUDY DESIGN: Twenty-one children seen in multidisciplinary outpatient feeding teams across four sites were recruited to a randomized placebo-controlled trial of a six-month outpatient treatment protocol with behavioral, oral-motor, nutrition and medication components. RESULTS: All of the children who completed the six-month program (73%) were weaned to receive only oral feeding, regardless of group assignment. The transition from tube to oral feeding resulted in decreases in BMI percentile and pain, some improvements in quality of life, and no statistically significant changes in cost. CONCLUSIONS: Amitriptyline is not a key component of this otherwise effective outpatient, interdisciplinary protocol for weaning children from tube to oral feeding. Trial registration Clinical Trials.gov: NCT0120647