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Mainstreaming Risk Reduction In Urban Planning And Housing: A Challenge For International Aid Organisations, Christine Wamsler

Christine Wamsler

The effects of ‘natural’ disasters in cities can be worse than in other environments, with poor and marginalised urban communities in the developing world being most at risk. To avoid post-disaster destruction and the forced eviction of these communities, proactive and preventive urban planning, including housing, is required. This paper examines current perceptions and practices within international aid organisations regarding the existing and potential roles of urban planning as a tool for reducing disaster risk. It reveals that urban planning confronts many of the generic challenges to mainstreaming risk reduction in development planning. However, it faces additional barriers. The main …

Building On Disasters, Christine Wamsler

Christine Wamsler

Disasters occur when a hazardous event strikes a vulnerable human settlement whose inhabitants have insufficient capacity to respond. Natural hazards include earthquakes, wind storms, landslides, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, droughts, tsunamis and flooding. The growing vulnerability of human settlements to natural hazards makes disasters more likely and more severe. The numbers confirm this trend: between 1975 and 2005 there was a five-fold increase in disasters, and over the past 10 years, approximately 2.6 billion people have been affected, compared with 1.6 billion during the previous decade.

In cities, disaster risk has increased as a result of (a) high population densities and …

Integrating Risk Reduction, Urban Planning And Housing: Lessons From El Salvador, Christine Wamsler

Christine Wamsler

Increasingly, attention has been given to the need to mainstream risk reduction in development work in order to reduce the vulnerability of the urban poor. Using El Salvador as a case study, the paper analyses the mainstreaming process in the developmental disciplines of urban planning and housing. The overall aim is to identify how the existing separation between risk reduction, urban planning and housing can be overcome and integration achieved. Since Hurricane Mitch in 1998, and especially after the 2001 earthquakes, not only relief and development organisations, but also social housing organisations have initiated a shift to include risk reduction …

Marco Operativo Para La Integración De La Gestión Del Riesgo Para Organizaciones Trabajando En El Desarrollo De Los Asentamientos Humanos, Christine Wamsler

Christine Wamsler

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Operational Framework For Integrating Risk Reduction: For Organisations Working In Settlement Development Planning, Christine Wamsler

Christine Wamsler

Over the past decades, the frequency of the occurrence of so-called ‘natural’ disasters has grown significantly worldwide, resulting in escalating human and economic losses. In this context, it is the developing countries that bear the greatest burden in terms of the human lives and proportion of gross domestic product lost as a result of disasters. Increasing attention has thus been given to the need to reduce disaster risk through development work, in order to bring about sustainable poverty reduction. However, aid organisations (including donor and implementing organisations), as well as national and municipal authorities still struggle to effectively tackle disaster …

Book Review For: Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis And Growth , Chetan Ghate

Chetan Ghate

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Shifting Currents In Media Awareness, Christopher Boulton, Erica Scharrer

Christopher Boulton

This longitudinal qualitative research study examines how a group of parents and teachers sought to raise awareness in their community about harmful media effects. Initially condemning the influx of new digital media technologies such as violent video games, the group eventually shifted tactics in an effort to go beyond ‘preaching to the choir’ and bring other parents into the fold. Their experience suggests that we might reconsider media literacy as a form of social work.

Implications For The Vietnamaese Textile And Apparel Industry In Light Of Abolishing The Multifiber Arrangement And The Us - Vietnam Bilateral Investment Treaty, Joseph Pelzman

Joseph Pelzman

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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law Andspeed Of Privatization In Transition Countries: 11 Years Later, Joseph Stiglitz, Sergio Godoy

Joseph Stiglitz

This paper examines alternative hypotheses concerning the determinants of success in the transition from Communism to the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more important in explaining the growth of the transition countries in the years since the end of the Cold War. In the mid 90s a large empirical literature attempted to relate growth to policy measures. A standard conclusion of this literature was the faster countries privatized and liberalized, the better. We now have more data, so we can check whether these conclusions are still valid six years …

Institutional Determinants Of The Judicialisation Of Policy In Brazil And Mexico, Julio Antonio Rios-Figueroa, Matthew M. Taylor

Julio Ríos-Figueroa

This article offers a comparative perspective on judicial involvement in policy change in Latin America during the last decade and a half. Drawing on the literature on new institutionalism and the judicialisation of politics, and on case studies from Latin America’s two largest countries, we propose a comparative framework for analysing the judicialisation of policy in the region. On the basis of this framework, we argue that institutional structure is a primary determinant of patterns of the judicialisation of policy. In particular, institutional characteristics of the legal system affect the way political actors fight to achieve their policy objectives and …

Town Of Odessa Comprehensive Plan, Troy D. Mix, Martin Wollaston, William Decoursey

Troy D Mix

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Delaware Ceds: A Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy For The State Of Delaware, Troy D. Mix, Marcia Scott, Julia O'Hanlon, Maria Aristigueta, William Mcgowan, Lisa Mcilvaine

Troy D Mix

No abstract provided.

Price Structure In Two-Sided Markets: Evidence From The Magazine Industry, Ulrich Kaiser, Julian Wright

ULRICH KAISER

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On The Robustness Of Robustness Checks Of The Environmental Kuznets Curve, Marzio Galeotti, Matteo Manera, Alessandro Lanza

Matteo Manera

Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental Kuznets Curve has been subject of continuous and intense scrutiny. The literature can be roughly divided in two historical phases. Initially, after the seminal contributions, additional work aimed to extend the investigation to new pollutants and to verify the existence of an inverted-U shape as well as assessing the value of the turning point. The following phase focused instead on the robustness of the empirical relationship, particularly with respect to the omission of relevant explanatory variables other than GDP, alternative datasets, functional …

The Asymmetric Effects Of Oil Shocks On Output Growth: A Markov-Switching Analysis For The G-7 Countries, Alessandro Cologni, Matteo Manera

Matteo Manera

In this paper we specify and estimate different Markov-switching (MS) regime autoregressive models. The empirical performance of the univariate MS models used to describe the switches between different economic regimes for the G-7 countries is in general not satisfactory. We extend these models to verify if the inclusion of asymmetric oil shocks as an exogenous variable improves the ability of each specification to identify the different phases of the business cycle for each country under scrutiny. Following the wide literature on this topic, we have considered six different definitions of oil shocks: oil price changes, asymmetric transformations of oil price …

The Role Of Connective Tissue Growth Factor In Skeletal Growth And Development, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

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Anti-Dumping Sunset Reviews: The Uneven Reach Of Wto Disciplines, Bolormaa Tumurchudur, Olivier Cadot, Jaime De Melo

Olivier Cadot

The paper uses a new database on Anti-Dumping measures worldwide to assess whether the 1995 Uruguay Round Agreement on AD sunset reviews had any effect. Estimates from a count of revocations for a panel of AD-using countries over 1979-2005 show that a five-year cycle is more apparent after the WTO agreement than before, with the marginal propensity to revoke AD measures at five years jumping from 0-2% to 45%. A survival analysis of AD measures confirms that those covered by the agreement stick on average for shorter periods, and a semi-parametric difference-in-difference approach confirms a strong de-jure component to the …

Regularização Fundiária Sustentável Na Vila Acaba Mundo, Rafael De Oliveira Alves, Vívian Barros Martins

Rafael de Oliveira Alves

Na primeira seção apresentamos o Programa Pólos de Cidadania; e, em seguida, o seu Projeto na Vila Acaba Mundo. Na terceira parte, expomos referenciais teóricos e metodológicos da regularização fundiária; e, finalmente, a quarta parte, encarrega-se de apresentar uma proposta pedagógica inovadora para o ensino do direito urbanístico.

Princípios Do Direito À Cidade: Território Da Cidadania, Rafael De Oliveira Alves

Rafael de Oliveira Alves

No abstract provided.

Construindo O Conceito De Justiça No Território Urbano, Rafael De Oliveira Alves

Rafael de Oliveira Alves

No abstract provided.

“Papa, Patriarchy And Power: Snapshots Of A Good Haitian Girl, Feminism And, Gina Athena Ulysse

Gina Athena Ulysse

No abstract provided.

In India, It's Ikea Without The Assembly, Indrani Sen

Indrani Sen

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Scholarly Use Of Information: Graduate Students' Information Seeking Behaviour, Carole A. George, A. Bright, T Hurlbert, E C. Linke, G St. Clair, J Stein

Carole A. George

Introduction. This study explored graduate students' information behaviour related to their process of inquiry and scholarly activities. Method. In depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with one hundred graduate students representing all disciplines and departments from Carnegie Mellon University. Analysis. Working in pairs, we coded transcripts of interviews into meaningful categories using ATLAS.ti software. The combined use of quantitative and qualitative analysis aimed to reduce subjectivity. Results. Graduate students often begin with a meeting with professors who provide direction, recommend and provide resources. Other students help to shape graduate students' research activities, and university library personnel provide guidance in finding resources. …

“Fiddling While The Border Festers: The Dim Prospects For Immigration Reform”, Roger D. Waldinger

Roger D Waldinger

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Mutual Recognition And Enforcement Of Arbitral Awards In Mainland China And Taiwan: A Breakthrough In Cross-Strait Relations, Jason A. Blatt

Jason A Blatt

While political relations between China and Taiwan have gone from bad to worse in recent years, the growing importance of economic relations between both sides of the Taiwan Strait has compelled governments on both sides to amend relevant laws and regulations so that courts may recognize and enforce arbitral awards rendered by each other's arbitral organizations. This historic trend started in 1992, when Taiwan passed a statute authorizing courts to recognize and enforce Chinese arbitral awards. China reciprocated in 1998 by issuing regulations permitting recognition and enforcement of Taiwan-issued arbitral awards. Significantly, courts on both sides have recently begun enforcing …

Social Choice Theory Implications For Management Control Systems, David Randall Jenkins

David Randall Jenkins

This paper contributes a social choice theory competent context to managerial accounting. This context enables an economic progression framework that will ultimately drive performance measure content and, inter alia, contribute a meaningful standard for financial accounting's going concern assumption.

Austrian Economics, Christopher Prendergast

Christopher Prendergast

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From Exceptionalism To Imperialism: Culture, Character, And American Foreign Policy, Meghan A. Burke, Laura Langman

Meghan A. Burke

Arthur Schlessinger (1983) suggested that the contradictions and paradoxes of American foreign policy reflected contradictions and paradoxes in the underlying character of the people. We would go further to suggest that the early years of colonial life, much like the early years of a person's life, had major consequences ever since. The intersection of Puritanism, available land, and eventually the rise of a commercial culture would forge a unique trajectory of what would be called “American Exceptionalism”, reflecting an “American character”, which itself is subject to three paradoxes or polarities, individualism vs. community, toughness vs. compassion, and moralism vs. pragmatism. …

"Kenya-U.S. Relations: The Urgent Need To Manage Kenya’S Migrant And Hiv-Aids Brain Drain,", Amadu Jacky Kaba

Amadu Jacky Kaba

This paper is divided into three brief parts, the first examines Kenya’s special relationship with the U.S. and some reasons that have led to such a friendship; the second presents statistics showing migration and terminal brain drain and the various implications they are having on Kenya, and third, suggestions on how Kenya and its special friend, the United States could work together to manage the serious challenges confronting Kenya.

"Race, Geography And Territorial Inheritance: People Of Black African, European And Chinese Descent,", Amadu Jacky Kaba

Amadu Jacky Kaba

No abstract provided.