The United States Department of Energy has designated Clark County, Nevada as an "Affected Unit of Local Government" due to the potential for impacts by activities associated with the Yucca Mountain High Level Nuclear Waste Repository project. Urban Transit, LLC has led a project team of transportation experts from the University of Nevada Las Vegas Transportation Research Center and Visual Risk Technologies of Nashville, Tennessee to conduct a hazardous materials community flow study along Clark County's rail and truck corridors, as well as a critical infrastructure analysis in order to assess the potential impacts of transportation within Clark County of high level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel to a proposed repository 90 miles away in an adjacent county. These studies were designed to obtain information relating to the transportation, identification and routing of hazardous materials through Clark County. Coordinating with the United States Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U. S. Federal Highway Administration, the Nevada Department of Transportation, and various other stakeholders, these studies examine the risk factors along the entire transportation corridor within Clark County.

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This paper discusses the evolution of the Clark County, Nevada Monitoring Program. This monitoring program is a community indicator system originally designed and implemented in 2005 to establish a baseline, monitor changes over time, and provide an "early warning system" as to the potential and actual impacts of transportation to and storage at a repository for high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel less than 100 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada.

Las Vegas, Nevada, is an emerging leader in urban sustainability. A large component of bringing change at a metropolitan scale comes from targeting behavioral changes through community education. This paper presents two such initiatives for mass outreach being employed in the Las Vegas valley. While completely distinct from each other in their delivery methods, these initiatives explore local technologies and region-specific information disseminated to the public as a means for enabling action.The Las Vegas Springs Preserve (the Preserve) is a 180-acre cultural institution in the heart of the valley, which provides guidance and vision for sustainable living to the community. Using it as an example, a discourse is offered about what sustainable tourism means in the peculiar setting of Las Vegas, where tourism has historically been the primary driver in shaping local culture. The very inception of modern-day Las Vegas can be accounted to the onset of gaming that forms the backbone of the tourist industry. Unlike other tourist-driven economies where tourism is typically driven by the unique history, culture or natural resources offered by the place, the history of tourism in Las Vegas is the history of Las Vegas. Thus, 'sustaining' tourism so as not to harm the culture that is defined by it then becomes a self-closing loop. In such a setting, tools designed to bring behavioral shifts are posited as purposeful agents of change and become the overarching connectors leading to inter-sectoral dialogue, influence urban policy, and create a positive 'feed' into the existing culture; an inside-out transformation. This paper explains the architectural

Tourism based communities universally struggle with the ability to maintain a balance between a desired community identity, long-term economic vitality, and sensitivity to and protection of natural resources. Both urban and rural communities can benefit from the implementation of methods, tools, and techniques that help identify a cohesive community vision. In particular, rural communities at risk of encroaching growth from neighboring urban communities can establish measurable goals and strategies for maintaining the integrity and character of the community, and an appropriate, sustainable growth rate which accommodates both residents and visitors with a thriving environment within which to live, work and play.