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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Development alternatives"”.
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The impact of office, retail, and industrial development on neighborhood change : evaluating development alternatives for the Cambridgeport Industrial District
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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Devising a framework for the development of the medium scale coal sector in Colombia
… of the country, with an emphasis on finding development alternatives for the medium-scale coal sector, tackling its shortcomings, and improving the sector's situation. The framework integrates three dimensions of analysis including the Colombian national policies for productivity and …
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Sustainable Development in Costa Rica: A Moral Geography
Sustainable development has been uncritically adopted in Costa Rica and elsewhere as a desirable ideal informing development practice. Nevertheless, critical voices outside the development establishment have questioned the efficacy of the concept to guide social change and productive practices in …
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A market and feasibility analysis for the American Brewery rehabilitation project in Baltimore, Maryland
… data, 2) evaluation of potential design alternatives, and 3) validation of an industrial use proposal. The market analysis defined the demographic characteristics of the area surrounding the Brewery site in terms of population, households, employment, and income. The pros and cons of the …
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An economic appraisal of agricultural development and adjustment possibilities for a low income farm area
… studied was a portion of the Broadview Rural Development Area in southeastern Saskatchewan. Only the section containing Oxbow-Ryerson soils was analyzed so that assumptions made with respect to one farm unit in the area would have some relevance to other farms in the area. The major source of …
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The contradiction of south-south sustainable development in Chinese-Mauritanian fishmeal factories and environmental violence in the Gambia
… as fishmeal have been promoted as sustainable development alternatives to wild-caught fisheries. In particular, high returns on investments are also associated with fishmeal processing. Subsequently, many governments and development practitioners, especially in the global South, push discourses …
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Innovation of a design method (MoIST) that incorporates non-traditional 'soft' systems science into traditional 'hard' information systems design
… explores ways of making the information systems development process more effective. The thesis documents an original design method. This is the method of incorporating Systems thinking into Information Systems Design (MoIST). The thesis demonstrates that MoIST improves information systems design …
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Gold, Water, and Governance: the Stakes in the Santurbán Páramo Debate
… 'locomotora' (driving force) of national development, allows different expressions of state and civil society actors to either bypass or use environmental protections as means of personal gain and/or capitalist expansion. Mobilizing under a discourse of conservation, down-stream urban …
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Evaluating the role of spatial planning and environmental impact assessment in facilitation environmentally appropriate development : the case of the Big Bay development in Blaauwberg, Cape Town
… Impact Assessment (EIA) in informing appropriate development in the case of the Big Bay development. The roles considered are those that relate to the planning of the biophysical environment. The dissertation further assesses how the roles relate to the nature of the relationship between the …
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Hydrothermal processing of biogenic residues in Germany
… work is identifying reasons for this sluggish development and deriving appropriate recommendations for action. Based on the hypothesis that HTP can contribute to the efficient utilisation of biogenic residues in the future, potentials and obstacles for the development of HTP in Germany are …
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Decentralisation and Local Economic Development in Zambia
Local economic development is about the involvement of all key stakeholders from the local community in resolving the socio-economic challenges faced in the local areas in order to improve the livelihoods of the local community members. Decentralised government systems are more effective in …
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Shortcomings of South African Economic Growth on Poverty Alleviation and Job Creation
The paper analyses shortcomings of low economic growth that affects poverty alleviation and job creation in South Africa. After the 27 years of democracy, the South African government is still struggling to alleviate poverty within its unequal income societies. There is a massive gap of poverty …
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Can Investing in Information Systems Boost Economic Complexity in South Africa: Movement Towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
Countries need to accelerate the growth and development of their economies by increasing the productive capacity for better living conditions of their citizens. For countries to improve their economies, they need to boost their economic complexity by producing and exporting commodities that embody …
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Velocity of Money and Financial Development in BRICS Countries
… The study determined the "impact of financial development on the velocity of money in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) countries for the period 1996 to 2019". The study employed a panel autoregressive distributive lag (PARDL) to estimate the relationship between financial …
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A Clarion Call for Decolonisation of Curriculum in South Africa: The Struggle Left Unattended
The purpose of this paper is to explore in greater details and assess the potency of the current educational curriculum's responsiveness towards socio economic issues and market demand. The paper proposes the need for the decolonising of the inclusive and well-resourced education in South African …
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Cyber Risk Management Frameworks for the South African Banking Industry
Since the dawn of technology, the banking industry has relied on technology to support its operations. Unfortunately, the banking industry has been exposed to cyber risks as a result of the same technology, which has resulted in enormous financial losses. South Africa has the world's third-highest …
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Conceptualising Online Operations to Transition Student Governance in Higher Education Amid Covid-19: A Turbulent Experience
… are not fully addressed as the result of developments brought by the various stages of Industrial Revolutions. This impacts mostly student movements who emerged ideologically from previous and current underprivileged group in the society. This deprived group through observation …
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The Model for Application of Research Solution-Focused Andragogy in Higher Education: A Meta-Synthesis
Higher education research in South Africa presents huge and complex problems that often inhibit timely throughput and leaving student exiting the learning space without the acquisition of the intended qualifications. Literature that tracked throughput progress at different South African …
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Low-Income Workers Perceptions About a Living Wage in the Tshwane Municipality
… with these United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals: 1 (poverty reduction), 8 (decent wage) and 10 (gender parity). In terms of the former, it is argued that the wage gap is a reality in the workplaces because males still earn higher than females. Research show that low-remuneration …
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A Qualitative Review of the Recurrence of Xenophobic Violence and their Effects on South Africa's Role in International Diplomacy
The recurring xenophobic violence in South Africa has become a horrific problem that continues to affect the country's international diplomacy in the region and its international relations with other states. Migrants continue to encounter xenophobic violence almost every year, and a number of them …
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