Tuscan, Arizona has relied heavily on groundwater to supply its water needs. Over time, the pumping associated with residential, agricultural and industrial water use has outstripped nature's ability to replenish the underground aquifers. To reduce the overdraft of groundwater in the Tuscan...Read more

Recently very much center stage and in the spotlight, water conservation seems to be an idea whose time has come. If, however, we define water conservation as the careful use of water to better maintain current supplies, then water conservation is not a recent development. What is relatively new is...Read more

We use a hedonic price model to simultaneously estimate the effects of street trees on the sales price and the time-on market(TOM)of houses in Portland, Oregon. On average, street trees add $8870 to sales price and reduce TOM by 1.7days. In addition, we found that the benefits of street trees spill...Read more