Sustainable development requires the resolution of many spatial decision problems in regard to managing the rights, restrictions and responsibilities between people and land. Most spatial decision problems are multicriteria in nature, involving economic, social, environmental and political dimensions and competing values. However, the process of multicriteria decision-making is not well establi...

The purpose of this study is theoretical and methodological substantiation, deepening of conceptual provisions and development of scientific and practical recommendations for the formation of an integrated sector of national security and defense based on the principles of national resilience. The relevance of this study is due to the need to build national resilience to address the main problem...

In order to forecast the geological disaster, a forecasting model of geological disasters in Hefei area has been established. The model is based on raster data model. Because that the data from local SDI are vector data, some pretreatment must be done before they are used in the forecasting model. Some data, such as geological data, meteorological data and precipitation, has been translated int...

U.S. global defense strategy is at a critical juncture. After seven years of confl ict and with a change of president imminent, new options should and surely will be considered. Th is calls for reasoned analysis of alternatives before a new national defense strategy is set. Policymakers are well aware of this imperative because of recent history in which the United States grossly underestimated...