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Browsing Scholarly Works, School of Public and International Affairs by Title
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Addressing Inequality: The First Step Beyond COVID-19 and Towards Sustainability
(MDPI, 2020-07-03)The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted billions of lives across the world and has revealed and worsened the social and economic inequalities that have emerged over the past several decades. As governments consider public health ... -
Amenities, affordability, and housing vouchers
(Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2018-06-19)Against the background of an emerging rental affordability crisis, we examine how the standard rule that households should not spend more than 30% of their income on housing expenditures leads to inefficiencies in the ... -
Assessing Sustainability in Rural Water Supply Systems in Developing Countries Using a Novel Tool Based on Multi-Criteria Analysis
(MDPI, 2019-09-27)Rural water supply systems (RWSS) in developing countries typically have deficiencies that threaten their sustainability. This research used Multi-Criteria Analysis and the Analytical Hierarchy Process to identify indicators ... -
Assessing systems thinking: A tool to measure complex reasoning through ill-structured problems
(2018-06)An increasingly important aim of higher education is to develop graduates capable of addressing complex, interdependent problems. Systems thinking is a critical interdisciplinary skill that describes the cognitive flexibility ... -
Barriers and Drivers to Accessing and Using Workforce and Technical Assistance Resources for Small and Medium Manufacturers (SMMs) in Rural Regions
Workforce shortages and market shifts have left many small and medium manufacturers (SMMs) struggling to maintain their operations. Still some SMMs tend not to utilize the workforce development and technical assistance ... -
Carnivore–livestock conflicts in Chile: evidence and methods for mitigation
(Berryman Institute, 2019)Human population growth and habitat loss have exacerbated human–wildlife conflicts worldwide. We explored trends in human–wildlife conflicts (HWCs) in Chile using scientific and official reports to identify areas and species ... -
Catawba Sustainability Center and Catawba Hospital Renewable Energy Site Planning Process Study
(Virginia Tech, 2020-09-29)The transdisciplinary Renewable Energy Facilities Siting Project produced a white paper outlining their proof-of-concept using a case study from the Catawba Valley. -
Combining expert and crowd-sourced training data to map urban form and functions for the continental US
(2020-08-11)Although continental urban areas are relatively small, they are major drivers of environmental change at local, regional and global scales. Moreover, they are especially vulnerable to these changes owing to the concentration ... -
The Commercialization of Smallholder Farming—A Case Study from the Rural Western Middle Hills of Nepal
(MDPI, 2020-04-30)A vast majority of farmers in the rural middle hills of Nepal are smallholders who often use family labor and follow traditional agricultural and water management practices. This study examines a range of perspectives (from ... -
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 ... -
Comparative Area Studies and the Study of the Global South
(RUDN University, 2020-06)Comparative Area Studies (CAS) offers a template to bring the Global South back into the foreground of social science inquiry. CAS urges researchers to grapple directly with empirical variations derived from across the ... -
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 ... -
Dialogue and the Creation of Transformative Social Change: the Case of Social Enterprises
(Informing Science Institute, 2018-04-09)There is little scholarship about the process of social change creation and the necessary conditions to promote social change over time. Understanding the process of social change creation and the individual, interpersonal, ... -
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.
