Sustainable decision-making involves political decisions at the local, regional, or national levels, which aim at a balanced development of socio–environmental systems. A fundamental question in sustainable decision-making is that of defining and measuring sustainable development. Many methods have been proposed to assess sustainability. Recently, a model has been developed, called Sustainabili...

than a non-neutral network that biases network traffic in a fashion that is unfavorable to end users. The contribution of this paper is linking the total value of network infrastructure based on the degree of its neutrality to market uncertainty. Rapidly changing Internet technology has created a very uncertain market (market uncertainty is defined below) in the context of providers being able ...

1. ABSTRACT This report is focused on new design directions for the Energy Challenge 09, a student competition to conserve water and electricity in dormitories at the Indiana University Bloomington campus. These new design directions emphasize the use of eco-visualizations (EVs). EVs are "any kind of interactive device targeted at revealing energy use in order to promote more sustainable behavi...

The ability to form cooperative societies may explain why humans and social insects have come to dominate the earth. Here we examine the ecological consequences of cooperation by quantifying the fitness of cooperative (large groups) and non-cooperative (small groups) phenotypes in burying beetles (Nicrophorus nepalensis) along an elevational and temperature gradient. We experimentally created l...

Body size correlates with a large number of species traits, and these relationships have frequently been used to explain patterns in populations, communities, and ecosystems. However, diverging patterns occur, and there is a need for more data on different taxa at different scales. Using a large dataset of 155,418 individual beetles from 588 species collected over 13 years of sampling in Norway...