The Poisoned Well: New Strategies for Groundwater Protection

Protection Strategies in New Optical Networking Paradigms

To handle the increasing amount and heterogeneity of Internet traffic, a set of recent innovations have been proposed for optical backbone networks. One is mixedline-rate (MLR) network, where the wavelength channels of optical paths (i.e., lightpaths) can have a variety of capacities (10/40/100 Gbps) in a wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) network. Another is elastic network, where the trad...

Valuing potential groundwater protection benefits

This paper explores the implications of endogenous risk for the economic value of preventing groundwater contamination. We consider the analytical implications of endogenous risk for five key building blocks frequently used to structure studies of groundwater valuation: the probability and the location of contamination, the exposed population, risk perceptions, and intertemporal issues.

Transparent Accountable Data Mining: New Strategies for Privacy Protection

Attempts to address issues of personal privacy in a world of computerized databases and information networks -from security technology to data protection regulation to Fourth Amendment law jurisprudence -typically proceed from the perspective of controlling or preventing access to information. We argue that this perspective has become inadequate and obsolete, overtaken by the ease of sharing an...

Groundwater Externalities with Endogenous Well Deepening

We develop a dynamic groundwater model that incorporates both groundwater pumping and investment in deeper wells and apply the model to the arid, alluvial aquifer region of Northern India that is experiencing rapid depletion. We compute the potential benefits of regulating groundwater use by comparing the net benefits of groundwater under optimal management to the net benefits under a common po...

The New Prosperity Strategies for Improving Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa