ISSE Publications
Research Reports and other publications
Barkenbus, Jack, R. Jamey Menard, Burton C. English, and Kim L. Jensen. “Resource and Employment Impact of a Renewable Portfolio Standard in the Tennessee Valley Authority Region” (ISSE Report No. 2006-01). This report calculates the amount and nature of renewable energy production in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) region associated with Congressional passage of a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) and examines the employment consequences derived from this initiative.
Das, Sujit, Bruce E. Tonn, and Jean H. Peretz. “Application of Economic Evaluation Techniques to Automotive Lightweighting Materials Research and Development Projects,” Research Evaluation (2008 forthcoming).
Davis, Kimberly L. and Robert Emmett Jones. “Understanding Public Opinion and Support for the Maintenance and Protection of Trees in Knox County, Tennessee: A Mail Survey of Area Homeowners” (ISSE Report 2006-02). This is a two-year study of attitudes of Knox County homeowners about the protection and maintenance of the local urban forest.
English, Mary (with Fred Wegmann, UT Civil Engineering; Jerry Everett, UT Center for Transportation Research; Shih-Lung Shaw and Yibin Zhao, UT Geography Department). “Environmental Justice in Transportation Planning and Projects: A Desk Guide for Tennessee” (ISSE Report 2007-02). This report was prepared as part of a project conducted for the Tennessee Department of Transportation. The other major part of the project was a GIS-based demographic screening tool developed by Shaw and Zhao.
English, Mary. “The Resource Team in a Context Sensitive Solutions Process” (ISSE Report 2007-01). This report is a "lessons learned" report based on observations of two CSS processes conducted for the Tennessee Department of Transportation.
Ezzell, Tim and Eric Ogle. “Destination Madisonville: A Community-Driven Downtown Revitalization Plan.” Download and read the PDF file with the Appendix or without the Appendix. The report was prepared by the Community Partnership Center and the University of Tennessee's Planning Program (Ed Jepson, Consulting Faculty).
Gentry, R.W., A. Layton, L. McKay, J. McCarthy, D. Williams, S. R. Koirala, and G. S. Sayler. 2007. Efficacy of Bacteroides for Reducing the Statistical Uncertainty Associated with Hydrologic Flow and Fecal Loads in a Mixed Use Watershed, Journal of Environmental Quality 2007 36: 1324-1330.
Kenst, Andrew B., Edmund Perfect, Steven W. Wilhelm, Jie Zhuang, John F. McCarthy, and Larry D. McKay. 2008. Virus transport during infiltration of a wetting front into initially unsaturated sand columns. Environmental Science and Technology, 42(4), 1102-1108.
Koirala, S. R., E. Perfect, R. W. Gentry, and J. Kim (2008), Effective saturated hydraulic conductivity of two-dimensional random multifractal fields, Water Resour. Res., doi:10.1029/2007WR006199, in press.
Koirala, S.R., R. W. Gentry, E. Perfect, J. Schwartz, and Sayler, G.S. 2008. "Temporal Variation and Persistence of Bacteria in Streams," Journal of Environmental Quality, in press.
Peine, John. 2007. “Social Considerations of Species Conservation,” Conservation of Rare and Little Known Species: Biological, Social and Economic Considerations, M. Raphael and R. Molina, Eds., Island Press (forthcoming November). Peine also co-authored two additional chapters for the book, “Conservation Goals and Objectives” and “A Process for Selection and Implementation of Conservation Approaches.”
Tonn, Bruce E. and Jean H. Peretz, “State-Level Benefits of Energy Efficiency,” Energy Policy 2007, 35: 3665-3674.
Shang, Jianying, Markus Flury, Gang Chen, and Jie Zhuang. 2008. Impact of flow rate, water content, and capillary forces on in situ colloid mobilization during infiltration in unsaturated sediments. Water Resources Research, 44, W06411; doi:10.1029/2007WR006516.
Suter, Jordan F., Christian A. Vossler and Gregory L. Poe. 2008. Experiments on Damage-Based Ambient Taxes for Nonpoint Source Polluters. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90(1):86-102.
Zhuang, Jie, John F. McCarthy, Edmund Perfect, Lawrence M. Mayer, and Julie D. Jastrow. 2008 (January/February). Soil Water Hysteresis in Water-Stable Microaggregates as Affected by Organic Matter. Soil Science Society of America Journal 72(1): 212-220.
Zhuang, Jie and Yan Jin. 2008. Interactions between virus and goethite during saturated flow: effects of solution pH, carbonate, and phosphate. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 98(1-2), 15-21; DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.02.002.
ISSE researchers Jean Peretz and Bruce Tonn are co-authors of a recent report, “Automotive Lightweighting Materials Benefit Evaluation.” The report was produced by Oak Ridge National Laboratory as ORNL/TM-2006/545 (a PDF file); the third co-author is ORNL's Sujit Das.
The ISSE Indicator is a semi-annual newsletter covering the activities of ISSE researchers and staff. The files below are in PDF format.
Spring/Summer 2008 - Vol. 3, Issue 1