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Risk Based Urban Watershed Management Under Conflicting Objectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Ecological impairment and flooding caused by urbanization can be expressed numerically by calculating the risks throughout the watershed (floodplain) and along the main stems of the streams.
Booth, Douglas   +3 more
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Smart Urban Management Strategies: An Approach to Improve Urban Productivity Management

open access: yesمدیریت بهره وری, 2022
Today, the optimal way of managing cities is the application of the productivity management system as cities undergo physical expansion under the influence of management forces and processes. Controlling the growth and development of cities in terms of physical and population requires an organized efficient management that can organize all the ...
Aref Monadi, Mostafa Behzadfar
openaire   +1 more source

The Biofuels Blueprint: Understanding the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We provide a comprehensive review of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), synthesizing nearly two decades of program evolution, market outcomes, and economic analysis. The RFS mandates minimum volumes of renewable fuel blending through a nested structure based on life‐cycle greenhouse gas reductions, enforced via tradeable Renewable ...
Maria Gerveni   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tree collections of Auckland : biodiversity and management : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Applied Science in Landscape Management at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Appendix 1: Personal Communications Contact List. Page 182 has been removed. Please consult the print copy held in the Library.Recent developments in New Zealand environmental legislation and government policies are based on an economic world-view ...
Cliffin, Penelope Frances
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Energy use for urban water management by utilities and Households in Los Angeles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Reducing energy consumption for urban water management may yield economic and environmental benefits. Few studies provide comprehensive assessments of energy needs for urban water sectors that include both utility operations and household use.
Escriva-Bou, A   +9 more
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Analysis of Improvement of Urban Management in Small Cities (Case Study: Songhor City) [PDF]

open access: yesجغرافیا و پایداری محیط, 2014
The aim of the present study is to recognize and analyze the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threatens encountered by urban management of Songhor in order to achieve the excellent strategies of urban management.
Hossain Komasi , Mojba Rostaei
doaj  

The role of markets in food availability and market integration among smallholder farmers: the case of Western Kenya [Poster] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Poster presented at Tropentag 2013. International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development. "Agricultural development within the rural-urban continuum".
Bhagwat, S.   +4 more
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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Private Public Partnership in Urban Infrastructure Projects: Getting Sweet Curd from Spoilt Milk? [PDF]

open access: yes
Rapid growth in urban population has made Solid Waste Management an important issue for civic administration. The 74th amendment of the Constitution of India and Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules 2000 has made municipal solid waste ...
Varkkey, Biju
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