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Community relations management systems in the minerals industry: Combining conventional and stakeholder-driven approaches

Kemp, Deanna; Boele, Richard; Brereton, David - 2006

As part of a broader commitment to corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, major minerals companies are developing and implementing a management systems approach to community relations. While the application of management systems to community relations represents an advance...

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Property Tax Assessments as a Finance Vehicle for Residential PV Installations: Opportunities and Potential Limitations

Bolinger, Mark A; Bolinger, Mark - 2008

of residential PV in their communities through this type of program is no doubt an interesting development. Given …

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Community-Level Impacts Projection System (CLIPS). Final report

Monts, J.K.; Bareiss, E.R. - 2007

The Community-Level Impacts Projection System includes a set of techniques for providing detailed advance information required for rational planning. The computerized system generates reports which enable the user: to describe the energy development activity in terms of its employment demands...

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Potential for producing and marketing gasoline substitutes from western coal

Currie, J.W.; Braun, D.J. - 2008

Through June, 1978, one major emphasis of the program is a regional coal assessment for input to the ERDA National Coal Assessment (NCA). The NCA will utilize information on regional energy options to (1) generate development scenarios and to (2) evaluate regional impacts associated with these...

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Critical infrastructure assurance guidelines for municipal governments : planning for electric power disruptions.

2008

The economic prosperity and the well-being of our nation's communities depend on the reliable functioning of critical …. Communities often are not well prepared to deal with widespread infrastructure failures, which could become commonplace in the new … millennium. This report, prepared on behalf of the partnership, is a first-of-a-kind effort to compile this type of information …

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Economic foundations of permanent pioneer communities

Jones, E.M. - 2009

Although pioneer settlements are often founded for political or ideological reasons distinct from short-term economic justifications, their survival and growth depend on economic factors. The settlers must be able to make a living, whether at subsistence, commercial farming, fishing, mining,...

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How can energy-efficient structures compete in an inefficient energy market

Noll, S. - 2009

The only way resources can be efficiently allocated in our market system is if prices of resources, goods, and services properly reflect their true value to society. However, because of (a) imperfections in the pricing mechanisms that currently influence private-sector decision making; (b) the...

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Using STELLA System Dynamic Model to Analyze Greenhouse Gases' Emission From Solid Waste Management in Taiwan

Horng, Jao-Jia; Lee, R.F.; Liao, K.Y. - 2008

's research communities. We have developed an easy and relatively accurate model for analyzing the greenhouse gases emission for …

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Designing Program Roadmaps to Catalyze Community Formation: A Case Study of the Long-Term Stewardship Science and Technology Roadmapword

Dixon, Brent; Hanson, Duane; Matthern, Gretchen - 2009

communities are key to roadmap implementation as they provide the collaborative energy necessary to obtain the political support … between roadmaps and special-interest communities, using the recently drafted Department of Energy's Long-Term Stewardship …

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A basis of settlement: Economic foundations of permanent pioneer communities. [Lunar settlement]

Jones, E.M. - 2009

High transport costs will dominate the pattern of lunar development. During the earliest phases, when lunar facilities consist of a research and resource development complex with staff serving tours of a few months, transport costs will encourage local production of food, fuel, and building...

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