This book presents recent innovative trends in land, water and energy management in Vietnam. Presenting the main projects and outcomes of a close collaboration between Italian and Vietnamese researchers in the last three years, the book is divided into three main sections: envir…
This study focuses on the construction of a structural economic model for the wheat market in Afghanistan. We create two models with alternative approaches to model closure, one based on a price linkage approach and the other using a trade linkage approach. The study addresses t…
Natural and man-made architectural infrastructures are viewed as forming a single, overarching whole. This book examines this new and ecologically sustainable approach.
Infrastructure, as we know it, no longer belongs in the exclusive realm of engineers and transportation planners. In the context of rapidly changing cities and towns, infrastructure is experiencing a paradigm shift where multiple-use programming and the integration of latent eco…
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This study examines the role of the Del Monte plantation as a tool of colonialism and its impact on issues of land and property in Bukidnon, Philippines. Primary data was collected through ethnographic interviews with former employees of the DM corporation as well as indigenous …
Gentrification is a real aspect of American life and society in most cities in the United States, and it cannot be denied that gentrification impacts human values and society to a great degree. Understanding what gentrification is, how Washington, DC (DC) is experiencing it, and…
In the years since the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlined an obligation for government to “affirmatively further fair housing” (AFFH), actual follow-up on this promise has often fallen short. Local efforts to advance fair housing goals have also received limited attention…
Buffalo was one of America’s most prominent manufacturing cities until its decline after the mid–20th century. Its industrial structures, both revolutionary and globally iconic, served as precedents for modernist architecture. A few pivotal government interventions in Buffalo si…
Městský veřejný prostor je nezastavěným územím, kde se lidé mohou setkávat a spolu komunikovat. Dle § 34 Zákona 128/2000 o obcích jde o náměstí, ulice, chodníky, parky a další místa, přístupná každému bez omezení. Tento prostor podléhá trvale udržitelnému rozvoji. Zahrnuje bydle…
The research presented in this dissertation examines a modern-day recovery of a ma uka ʻāina kuleana, a ma waena nenelu, and a ma kai loko iʻa, all located in the same ahupuaʻa and undergoing rehabilitation simultaneously. By studying three different sites currently undergoing r…
This dissertation contains three essays on Urban Economics. The first two chapters study the impact of land-use regulation on economic development. Many countries have land-use regulations to preserve farmland from urban land expansion. In Chapter 1 and 2, I show that such regul…
Impact assessment and resource management practices grapple with knowledge and research drawn across paradigms, disciplines, and cultures. In this lies the central challenge of managing developments, especially where Indigenous rights are concerned, and it is this aspect of impa…