The identification of environmentally stressed areas for planning soil conservation measures requires an efficient decision support tool to provide appropriate weights for various topographical, morphological, climatological and management factors responsible for soil erosion. In the present...

Groundwater being an important component of the hydrological cycle, estimation of its annual replenishment is essential to evolve a plan for optimum utilization. Groundwater balance approach, which is used extensively for the quantification of recharge and discharge components has been adopted...

The development of rainfall runoff relationship for ungauged watersheds using topography, geomorphology and other regional information remains the most active area of research in the field of hydrology. In the developing countries, some thumb rules and very old equations are in practice for...

A decision-theoretic framework is described for sequential classification when the parameter space is a finite partially ordered set. An example of an optimal strategy is then presented. This example establishes that an asymptotically optimal class of experiment selection rules is not...

The (socio-)psychological concepts of individual aspiration for con- formity and consistency are integrated into the rational-choice frame- work. By using this integrative approach it is shown that after a shock the aspiration for conformity results in an equilibrium which deviates from the homo...

Recent experience shows that under certain conditions it can be assumed that demand for luxury goods is partly abnormal. To tackle the problem whether they can and should be taxed we (a) show that a positive slope of demand is possible by distinguishing snob and network benefits, (b) demonstrate...