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Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are collaborating with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service (ERS), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service to evaluate how individual and combined farm management decisions impact biofuel sustainability and feedstock production. The collaborative research centers around detailed computer models. [...]
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There’s an interesting post on ReadWriteWeb about the economics of aggregation in the health field. The piece profiles a presentation by Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations. The book emphasizes the power of aggregating both information and people to address health issues, and warns against magical thinking that [...]
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This column is sponsored by ESRI There’s such great promise for the model-based future for projects that incorporate multiple disciplines and have sustainability as their goal. When the interdisciplinary approach meets a collaborative model-based interface, where all inputs become a shared model, expertise and insight into complex systems will be greatly enhanced. It’s the model [...]
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