Analytical Methods and Approaches for Water Resources Project Planningis part of a larger study that was conducted in response to a request from the U.S. Congress in the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 for the National Academy of Sciences to review the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's peer review methods and analytical approaches. This report reviews the Corps' analytical procedures and planning methods, largely in the context of the federal Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies, also known as the Principles and Guidelines or "P and G" (P&G), as well as the Corps' Planning Guidance Notebook (PGN).
National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Ocean Studies
Board, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee to Assess the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers Methods of Analysis and Peer Review for Water
Resources Project Planning, Panel on Methods and Techniques of Project
Analysis. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has long constructed civil works
projects to help manage the nation's inland and coastal water systems. The
Corps' earliest water-related ...
The destructive force of earthquakes has stimulated human inquiry since ancient times, yet the scientific study of earthquakes is a surprisingly recent endeavor. Instrumental recordings of earthquakes were not made until the second half of the 19th century, and the primary mechanism for generating seismic waves was not identified until the beginning of the 20th century. From this recent start, a range of laboratory, field, and theoretical investigations have developed into a vigorous new discipline: the science of earthquakes. As a basic science, it provides a comprehensive understanding of earthquake behavior and related phenomena in the Earth and other terrestrial planets. As an applied science, it provides a knowledge base of great practical value for a global society whose infrastructure is built on the Earth's active crust. This book describes the growth and origins of earthquake science and identifies research and data collection efforts that will strengthen the scientific and social contributions of this exciting new discipline.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10493.html 4 Observing the Active Earth: Current
Technologies and the Role of the Disciplines ... calibrating the scaling laws that
relate their reductionistic approach to the nonlinear dynamics of macroscopic
faulting ...
The National Academies' National Research Council undertook this study in response to a request from the Under Secretary of Energy to provide strategic advice on how the Department of Energy could improve its Environmental Quality R&D portfolio. The committee recommends that DOE develop strategic goals and objectives for its EQ business line that explicitly incorporate a more comprehensive, long-term view of its EQ responsibilities. For example, these goals and objectives should emphasize long-term stewardship and the importance of limiting contamination and materials management problems, including the generation of wastes and contaminated media, in ongoing and future DOE operations.
Committee on Building a Long-Term Environmental Quality Research and Development Program in the Department of Energy, Board on Radioactive Waste
Management, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council.
