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Discussions of risk within corporate America usually precede crises. Rarely talked about in times of economic prosperity, risk is generally at the forefront immediately following events many were not able to predict. Today, risk management practices are frequently discussed within nearly every sector of our economy. However, despite these discussions, many corporations have yet to embrace what is...
The United States Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) is a user-driven, coordinated network of people, organizations, and technology that generate and disseminate continuous data about our coastal waters, Great Lakes, and oceans supported by strong research and development activities. IOOS® is our Eyes on our Oceans, Coasts and Great Lakes that enable the United States to track, predict, manage,...
Coordinated development of resources, environment, economy and society in Henan province during the years of 1990-2007 as an example is made by empirical research. Conclusions such as physical capital investment and energy are important input factors, the utilization of number of employed persons is low, and inputs of resources and the environment made inadequate contribution to the social system...
Based on the research of the ecological water compensation benefit in ecology, resource, economy and society aspects, the author established the AHP-FCA assessment model with both of the analytic hierarchy process and the fuzzy comprehensive assessment, considering the overall benefit indicator system of the water source areas and water receiving areas in the river basin. The comprehensive benefit...
At the age of post-Kyoto Protocol, international forestry carbon sequestration project not only has strongly achieved the form of harmoniously developing between economy and environment conservancy in developing countries, but also is promoting the relative research on theory and technology in Forestry Carbon Sequestration. And this paper has discussed that how to establish the Geo-Spatial Model of...
The port has become the focus of economy. This paper aims to construct analysis model of port logistics arrangement using Delphi and analytical hierarchy process method, furthermore, establishment of fuzzy theory and analytical hierarchy process model and factor set. And calculate every index weight with the weighting method-G1 based on differential principle and appraise comprehensive efficiency...
Appropriate logistic operation, maintenance and support are important for civil aero-engines in terms of safety, reliability and economy. Engine health management is an important method to reduce the maintenance and support costs, which has generated an increasing interest among researchers. In this paper, according to the nature of civil aero-engine operation and maintenance, the concept of civil...
With the fast development of economy, the project investment method became the most attractive and prosperous way of infrastructural facilities investment. At the same time, the problem of BOT project investment risk has gained increasingly more people's attention. This paper applies real option theory to BOT project investment decision. The BOT project investment decision model based on the binary...
With the development of economy in the emerging markets, the export from emerging markets is coming to be a larger portion of the global trade area. Agriculture industry is one of the primary dynamics that improved the growth of export from emerging markets. The export competitiveness of agriculture industry is important for emerging markets. The paper assessed the export competitiveness of agriculture...
Recently, most methods for replacement decision-making of electrical equipments in distribution network have some limitations like insufficient concern with reliability and economy. As a solution, a new method considering both network reliability and equipment economy is presented in this paper. It consists of two parts: equipment-replacing necessity decision-making, which is used for all electrical...
This presentation applies basic economic theory to the energy sector. The paper explores the introduction of Climate Change policies such as the Kyoto Protocol to identify economic market opportunities for the energy efficiency economy. This will expose market trends providing decision makers with information they can use to benefit their organization. When viewed in classical economic terms Climate...
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