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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Republican River Basin"”.
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Integrating institutional and local decision-making with emergent environmental phenomena: the case of the Republican River Basin
The concept of the river basin as a complex system necessitates integrated science and modeling frameworks. The linkages between policy and planning and the environment are important components governing societal response to and causes of environmental phenomena. However, large differences in …
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Properties of natural systems and the efficiency of market-based solutions to environmental externalities
… data set of irrigation wells in Nebraska's Republican River Basin to analyze whether adopting spatially differentiated groundwater markets leads to significant savings in abatement cost while protecting nearby streams. Although the marginal damage of groundwater use on stream flows depends …
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Essays on the spatial dynamic interaction of individual behavior, institutions, and the environment
… in each chapter use field-level data on the Republican River Basin in Nebraska to account explicitly for spatial heterogeneity in the economic, hydrologic, and agronomic variables that affect farm decisions. The first chapter is a discrete-time hazard analysis of irrigation technology …
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Studying coupled human and natural systems from a decentralized perspective: the case of agent-based and decentralized modeling
… levels within a portion of the aquifer below the Republican River Basin in the High Plains region in Nebraska. A set of simulations show that incorporating behavioral heterogeneity of individuals in the model leads to the formation of spatial and temporal patterns. In other words, some of the …