December 3, 2014
November 10, 1934: Arizona declares war against California at Parker Dam
From above, tiny green irrigation circles draw a narrow buffer along the 2,300-kilometer course of the Colorado River like the brush strokes of a …
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October 15, 2013
Caspian Sea: Negotiation Support System
To supplement their efforts at modeling the Caspian conflict using game theory and, potentially, to aid the five littoral countries as they …
October 15, 2013
Gaming the system in the Caspian Sea: Can game theory solve a decades-old dispute?
Water-rights disputes are never easy. Whether they are over pumping from aquifers shared among adjacent landowners, allocation of resources at …
August 15, 2013
Rescuing geologic maps during a coup
The author shows a map of the geomorphology of northern Afghanistan to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and others at the University of Nebraska in …
January 5, 2012
Voices: Climate change and civil conflict: New clues from El Nino
In 2007, 11 retired admirals and generals from the U.S. armed forces published a report arguing that global climate changes represented a major …