While financial costs are an important component in water resource planning and management, it is rare for water resource planning to thoroughly identify and calculate all costs and benefits, including both environmental costs and the true costs of water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure...

This paper presents a classroom experiment where students participate in a simulated futures market. This experiment can be run in about an hour and allows students to interact, negotiate, try different strategies, see how their accounts are closed, and observe how spot and futures markets...

This article aims to examine the impact of the Good Friday Agreement on political cooperation. It examines party political cooperation in Northern Ireland and also bilateral British-Irish intergovernmental cooperation. In the first section,theAgreement's consociational system and its...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the economic impact from dark-sky tourism in national parks in the USA on the Colorado Plateau. The Colorado Plateau is a region encompassing parts of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah that is known for its dark, star-filled night skies. Tourists in...

Understanding large amounts of information and efficiently using that information in improved decision making has become increasingly challenging as businesses collect terabytes of data. Businesses have turned to emerging technology including neural networks, symbolic learning, and genetic...