The globalization of Japanese industries has become a pervasive trend particularly after the mid-1980s. While there are abundant studies on successful Japanese industries in business and management, few study exists within the realm of economic geography that provides an empiric…
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The main objective of the research is to examine the human and institutional interactions in urban water resources management in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the impacts on the resource. The study has three specific objectives: (1) to investigate in detail at a city level, using Ower…
The Bangladesh government constructed a bridge in 1998 on one of the country's largest river Jamuna, which displaced around 100,000 people from their land and homestead. This study attempted to explore the social, cultural and economic effects on resettled households caused by t…
Saudi Arabia's enormous achievements in construction of infrastructure and rapid economic growth in the past two decades have been the subject of several studies. The objective of this research is not to present those achievements, but to analyze the sources of growth and change…
This study provides a framework and general guidelines for the development of an Incident Responsive Spatial Decision Support System (IRSDSS) using a geographic information system approval. The system designed is for disaster response operations of the Saudi Red Crescent Society…
The rapid development of contemporary housing and residential areas in Saudi cities raises serious questions about the need for continuity in local urban patterns and their responsiveness to the Saudi cultural and design traditions. The main objectives of this research have been…
This thesis's initial hypothesis is that the highly centralized and structured form of government in Saudi Arabia would likely lead to a relatively more systematic and coordinated adoption of GIS than that witnessed in other significantly less centralized countries of Western Eu…
Prior to the Iraqi invasion and occupation, there was limited landscaping in Kuwait. Public gardens, highways, streets, governmental and private buildings had been planted to some extent. In the post invasion days the Amir of Kuwait has set a goal to beautify Kuwait by intensifi…
Saudi cities have experienced tremendous expansion during the last four decades because of population growth and economic development. These cities also experienced changes in their urban morphology, especially in their housing designs. Today, Saudi cities have two main distingu…
Economic growth in the developing nations has been a topic of major international concern, especially since the middle of this century. The international community as well as scholarly researchers has dedicated increasing amounts of time, energy and resources to determining how …
This research examines the government housing policies and the performance of the housing market in AbuDhabi City. AbuDhabi City and other cities in United Arab Emirates were among the poorest cities in the world about thirty years ago but the new wealth from oil production whic…
The objectives of this thesis are to identify criteria affecting Priority-rating of Building Maintenance Projects, to develop a methodology for obtaining a priority index of projects and finally to implement the methodology in a case study. The methodology adopted in this resear…
This study explores the suitability of traditional Islamic versus modern Western built-environments to the current cultural climate in Damascus. The issue of privacy, and that of women in particular have been important in the Arabic-Islamic society. However, women in this societ…
Settlement policy in the Third World has been stimulated by the availability of public land. This availability of public land has prompted many Third World countries to adopt policies or schemes called resettlement, transmigration, or land development. These have been presented …
This study evaluates the impact of water scarcity in both of Syria and Iraq due to the construction of Attaturk Dam in Turkey. The main objectives of the study may be summarized as: FIRST: to devise a methodology to better deal with the allocation of water resources. Another obj…
L'urbanisation des villes africaines, amorcee tres timidement lors de la periode coloniale, s'impose aujourd'hui comme une realite avec laquelle il faut desormais composer. C'est une dimension non negligeable dans les programmes de developpement economique et social. Par ailleur…
During the last decades the roles and responsibilities of public bureaucracies have increased to meet and satisfy more needs and demands of the public. To meet and satisfy those needs and demands more effectively and efficiently, bureaucrats must know, understand, and carry out …
The purpose of this research was to study the traditional and contemporary urban development in Saudi Arabia. In order to determine the preferable urbanism most appealing to the Saudi residents to fulfill their needs and values, an evaluation of two existing types of contemporar…
Scope and method of study. Currently, Saudi Arabia faces a severe water shortage problem which has been attributed mainly to the imbalanced use of national groundwater resources especially by the agricultural sector. A linear-dynamic programming model was developed to determine …