Catalyzing Change: Social Science for Water Resources Management

A Stochastic Model for Water Resources Management

Irrigation water management is crucial for agricultural production and livelihood security in many regions and countries throughout the world. Over the past decades, controversial and conflictladen water-allocation issues among competing municipal, industrial and agricultural interests have raised increasing concerns. Particularly, growing population, varying natural conditions and shrinking wa...

SozioNet: Networking Social Science Resources

SozioNet 1 forms part of a forthcoming national social science information portal, which is currently being developed by the German Infoconnex initiative. Inspired by successful examples like MathNet or SOSIG, SozioNet provides access to freely available web resources with relevance to social science. It is based on a network of social science institutions and scientists, to agree on and establ...

Project portfolio management: prioritising resources for change

While a number of studies have analysed portfolio management in goods firms, few have focused on the processes and practices within service firms. This research project investigated the attitudes, approach and practices geared towards project portfolio management (PPM) in UK based financial service firms. An exploratory research approach is undertaken via in-depth interviews with key informants...

Artificial intelligence model for water resources management

Diversity in chemistry: catalyzing change.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the underrepresentation of African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans in the scientific workforce is becoming a national crisis. In the past decade, reports by the American Association for the Advancement of Science1, the US National Science Board2 and the US National Science Foundation3 have pointed out that our country’s continued success in scienc...