Browsing Faculty Works, School of Public and International Affairs by Title
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The Compact vs. the Dispersed City: History of Planning Ideas on Sofia’s Urban Form
(Sage Publications, 2007)This paper reviews the planning history of Sofia since its designation as Bulgarian capital in 1879. It argues that Sofia’s planning has been persistently shaped by two perennial dilemmas—how to reconnect the city with ... -
Considering the Relationships among Social Conflict, Social Imaginaries, Resilience, and Community-based Organization Leadership
(Resilience Alliance, 2011)This article focuses on the question of what role community-based organization leaders play in shaping the possibility for the emergence of new social imaginaries. It argues that deep social conflicts and efforts to secure ... -
Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat Landscape
(2019-06-06)The life sciences now interface broadly with information technology (IT) and cybersecurity. This convergence is a key driver in the explosion of biotechnology research and its industrial applications in health care, ... -
Cyberbiosecurity: A New Perspective on Protecting US Food and Agricultural System
(2019-03-29)Our national data and infrastructure security issues affecting the "bioeconomy" are evolving rapidly. Simultaneously, the conversation about cyber security of the U.S. food and agricultural system (cyber biosecurity) is ... -
Cyberbiosecurity: An Emerging New Discipline to Help Safeguard the Bioeconomy
(2018-04-05)Cyberbiosecurity is being proposed as a formal new enterprise which encompasses cybersecurity, cyber-physical security and biosecurity as applied to biological and biomedical-based systems. In recent years, an array of ... -
The Dilemmas of Citizen Inclusion in Urban Planning and Governance to Enable a 1.5 °C Climate Change Scenario
(Cogitatio Press, 2018-04-24)Cities around the world are facilitating ambitious and inclusive action on climate change by adopting participatory and collaborative planning approaches. However, given the major political, spatial, and scalar interdependencies ... -
Does Rural Water System Design Matter? A Study of Productive Use of Water in Rural Nepal
(MDPI, 2019-09-23)In Nepal, rural water systems (RWS) are classified by practitioners as single-use domestic water systems (SUS) or multiple-use water systems (MUS). In the rural hills of Nepal, subsistence farming communities typically use ... -
Engaging IDPs in Sri Lanka: a Buddhist approach
(Oxford, 2014-11)A Buddhist Sri Lankan NGO provides an example of how endogenous faith-based civil society organisations can help mobilise IDPs in owning and defining strategies for their own protection. -
The Forgotten Lessons of Civil Defense for the Homeland Security Era
(Journal Of Policy History / Cambridge University Press, 2014-09-01)Scholars investigating civil defense generally focus on where it fell short of protecting the nation against attack. But civil defenders trained volunteers, organized state and local associations, educated citizens about ... -
A General Micro-Level Modeling Approach to Analyzing Interconnected SDGs: Achieving SDG 6 and More through Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS)
(MDPI, 2017-02-21)The 2030 agenda presents an integrated set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets that will shape development activities for the coming decade. The challenge now facing development organizations and governments ... -
A Generalizable Method for Estimating Household Energy by Neighborhoods in US Urban Regions
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Green Affordable Housing: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Zoning Incentives
(MDPI, 2019-11-08)In the year 2017, about 89% of the total energy consumed in the US was produced using non-renewable energy sources, and about 43% of tenant households were cost burdened. Local governments are in a unique position to ... -
Household-Level Spatiotemporal Patterns of Incidence of Cholera, Haiti, 2011
(2014-09)A cholera outbreak began in Haiti during October, 2010. Spatiotemporal patterns of household-level cholera in Ouest Department showed that the initial clusters tended to follow major roadways; subsequent clusters occurred ... -
The Human Right to Water: The Importance of Domestic and Productive Water Rights
(Springer, 2013-12-12)The United Nations (UN) Universal Declaration of Human Rights engenders important state commitments to respect, fulfill, and protect a broad range of socio-economic rights. In 2010, a milestone was reached when the UN ... -
In the Middle East, Separatists Are the New Spoilers
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International Refugee Research: Evidence for Smart Policy
(Virginia Tech. School of Public and International Affairs, 2018-09)The Virginia Tech School of Public and International Affairs Refugee Research Project was prompted by discussions among institutional partners in the aftermath of the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe. With the number of ... -
Joint Fact-Finding in Practice: Review of a Collaborative Approach to Climate-Ready Infrastructure in Rotterdam
(TUDelft, 2016)Joint fact-finding has been advanced as a method for helping stakeholders grappling with technically intensive policy and planning challenges to collaboratively engage in research and arrive at shared sets of facts to ...
