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Optimal Flood Warning Threshold and a Case Study in Milton, Pennsylvania

Flood warning systems are studied in a two-level hierarchical system framework. The interactions between the forecast subsystem and the response subsystem are investigated. The probabilistic evaluation of a fo...

Yacov Y. Haimes, Duan Li, Eugene Z. Stakhiv in Water Resources Engineering Risk Assessment (1991)

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China’s Research on Resource Accounting and Its Application to the National Economic Accounting System

In cooperation with Dr. Robert Repetto and other experts of the World Resource Institute and with the support of the Ford Foundation of the United States, we have developed the research on natural resource acc...

**chang Li in Approaches to Environmental Accounting (1993)

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Drought in China: Present Impacts and Future Needs

In recent years, frequent and severe drought has become a major climate disaster throughout the world, adversely affecting developed and develo** regions as well as the environment. Drought can occur in virt...

Kerang Li, **anchao Lin in Drought Assessment, Management, and Planni… (1993)

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Decision Support for Sustainable Land Development

Anthony Gar-On Yeh, **a Li in Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Development (2000)

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Nanosponges for water purification

 We synthesized a new class of organic nanoporous polymers using cyclodextrins as basic building blocks. These processible nanoporous polymers were named 'nanosponges' because they have nanometer-size pores (d...

D. Li, M. Ma in Clean Products and Processes (2000)

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Material life cycle assessment in china

From the very beginning, the research of Material Life Cycle Assessment (MLCA) has been an important part of the ecomaterials research in China, and large numbers of researchers have been focusing their effort...

Nie Zuoren, Di **anghua, Li Guiqi… in The International Journal of Life Cycle As… (2001)

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A Stochastic Model for a Price-Based Unit Commitment Problem and Its Application to Short-Term Generation Asset Valuation

In this paper, we model the unit commitment problem as a multi-stage stochastic programming problem under price and load uncertainties. We assume that there are hourly spot markets for both electricity and fue...

Chung-Li Tseng in The Next Generation of Electric Power Unit Commitment Models (2001)

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Harvesting versus Biodiversity: An Occam's Razor Version

The point of departure for this paper is the familiar prototype fisheriesmodel where a fictitious sole owner harvests a fish population to maximizepresent discounted profits. The paper answers analytically the...

Chuan-Zhong Li, Karl-Gustaf Löfgren… in Environmental and Resource Economics (2001)

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Environmental Research Joint Ventures under Emission Taxes

The effect of environmentalpolicy depends crucially on the strategicbehavior of firms. Firms can undertakepollution abatement innovation cooperativelythrough environmental R&D joint ventures(RJVs). Environment...

Jiunn-Rong Chiou, **-Li Hu in Environmental and Resource Economics (2001)

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The case of China

Wang Yinchu, Zuo Li in Economy-Energy-Environment Simulation (2002)

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An accumulative model for the comparative life cycle assessment case study: iron and steel process

Life cycle assessment is a powerful tool in the evaluation of the environmental performance. However, there is no generally accepted methodology. To develop a practical method, an accumulative model for the co...

Guiqi Li, Zuoren Nie, Hemin Zhou… in The International Journal of Life Cycle As… (2002)

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LCA case study for lead and zinc production by an imperial smelting process in china a brief presentation

An LCA case study was conducted for the production of lead and zinc by an Imperial Smelting Process (abbreviated hereafter as ISP) in Shaoguan Smelter, China. The detailed inventory analysis was performed by a...

Guo Xueyi, **ao Songwen, **ao **ao, Li Qihou… in The International Journal of Life Cycle As… (2002)

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Early Warning Systems for the Reduction of Natural Disasters in China

Early warning systems are an important means to reduce disaster losses. Damage caused by a disaster can be effectively contained if disaster warning can be given and communicated to disaster management departm...

Zhen-Yao Wang, Yuan-Chang Zheng, Ji-Xun Li in Early Warning Systems for Natural Disaster… (2003)

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Impact and Adaptation Assessment on a National Scale: Case Studies on Water in China

In order to assess vulnerability to climate change, not only the degree of climate change impact but also the adaptive capacity of the region with regard to the impact needs to be considered. To achieve such a...

Kiyoshi Takahashi, Songcai You, Jiulin Sun, Zehui Li… in Climate Policy Assessment (2003)

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Building Institutions for Markets: Experiences and Lessons from China's Rural Forest Sector

Through the lens of institutional economics, this paper reviews the reform and development experience in China's rural forest sector and discusses lessons that can be learned by China and other countries. We f...

Runsheng Yin, **tao Xu, Zhou Li in Environment, Development and Sustainability (2003)

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Water as a reaction medium for clean chemical processes

Solvent usage is often an integral part of manufacturing process, whether it is chemical or another industrial sector. Thus, this unavoidable choice of a specific solvent for a desired manufacturing process ca...

Wu Wei, Charlene C. K. Keh, Chao-Jun Li… in Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy (2004)

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Bribery, hierarchical government, and incomplete environmental enforcement

A two-player model is established in order to examine the effects of environmental policy instruments, budget control, and bribery on decision making of local government and the firms. With or without bribery,...

**-Li Hu, Chung-Huang Huang, Wei-Kai Chu in Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (2004)

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Using Choice Experiments to Value the Natura 2000 Nature Conservation Programs in Finland

This paper is concerned with the preferences of the Finnish households for a controversial nature conservation program – the European Union's Natura 2000 Network. Since the program was mainly based on biologic...

Chuan-zhong Li, Jari Kuuluvainen, Eija Pouta… in Environmental and Resource Economics (2004)

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Awaji Takehisa, Isono Yayoi, Teranishi Shun’ichi… in The State of the Environment in Asia (2005)