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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"alternative development"”.
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Urban hybridity: an alternative development strategy for Woodstock
At the beginning of this year, my initial concept lay in understanding the influence of hybridisation on contemporary urban society and how this, in turn, affects and changes places within the city. I find this subject interesting as I personally feel influenced by the hybridisation of global and …
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Alternative development options for a site in downtown Seattle
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Cary Cortona: an alternative development model for the Research Triangle Area
Cary-Cortona is a city that lies on the periphery of two realities; the reality of pragmatism and the reality of abstraction. It was conceived as a response to the pragmatic questions posed by an uncertain, yet impending future. It was nurtured by the correlation of vaguely related information …
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Towards an alternative development approach to low cost housing delivery in KwaZulu-Natal province
… world’s population remains a festering global development challenge given the plethora of housing delivery models which abound. In South Africa, the capital subsidy scheme and the comprehensive plan for the development of sustainable human settlements are the dominant policy models that the …
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Maintaining a Nitrogen Cap for Virginia's Potomac River: The Contribution of Alternative Development Patterns
… savings that may result from using one of two alternative development patterns within the rapidly urbanizing Northern Virginia portion of the Potomac Watershed. The first alternative is prohibiting low-density development within the Northern Virginia region, and the second is to restrict all …
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A Study of Some of the Challenges of the Alternative Development Program in Bolivia
Finding an effective alternative to coca production has been a goal of almost every Bolivian and American administration since the 1970's and a goal of various international institutions around the world as well. What appears to be a solution is the application of an Alternative Development …
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Financing alternative development through double bottom line private equity funds & a real estate social investment framework
… cities, as a decentralized form of real estate development, conventional development, has become the dominant real estate development paradigm. As conventional development has become pervasive it has contributed to a host of negative economic, social, and environmental impacts. Growing …
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Small scale, community based economic development in the Canadian Arctic
The term "northern development" in the Canadian Arctic is often associated only with large, non-renewable resource extraction projects. Other alternative development projects such as the co-operatives provide development on a scale that a community itself can manage and control. The "boom and bust" …
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The politics of indigenous social struggle in Colombia
… movements can critically engage processes of development best allow us to conceptualize Nasa indigenous social movements of Colombia as resistance to neoliberal globalization. The thesis uses Escobar’s three concepts: alternative development, alternative modernity, and alternatives to …
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Open space preservation in rural residential development
Under conventional residential development practices, minimum lot sizes are established by zoning ordinances. Under these requirements, a piece of property is subdivided into as many lots as allowed. This results in suburban development where all land is committed to individually owned parcels. The …
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Comparing United States Counternarcotics Strategies in Colombia, Afghanistan, and Mexico
… strategies involve eradication, interdiction, alternative development, and integrating host nation law enforcement with military capabilities. All of these have been used at varying capacities in the three countries. Integrating counternarcotics strategies into counterinsurgency operations in …
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The relationship between changing economic structure and performance: diversification, diversity, growth, stability, and distribution impacts
… that can be used to assess the impacts of alternative development strategies. This study attempts to sort out the overlaps, contradictions, and gaps among the different economic and finance theories, and the different definitions and measures of economic diversification and diversity. The …
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Analytic Continuation and Functional Equations of Cuspidal Eisenstein Series for Maximal Cuspidal Subgroups
… cuspidal subgroups. This approach suggests an alternative development to part of Langlands' theory of Eisenstein series. It also opens up the possibility of more precise knowledge about the poles of Eisenstein series.
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Beijing Consensus: alternative for Africa's development challenges? The case for Zimbabwe
… study whether the Beijing Consensus, a Chinese development model is an alternative development model for Africa. The study used Zimbabwe's plan to collateralise its natural resources mainly minerals under the Angola Model strategy as a test case. Zimbabwe's economic revival is currently ransomed …
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Willingness to pay for industrial recruitment: A look at local decision-maker activity versus citizen preference
Academic research in the area of economic development policy is overwhelmingly critical of industrial recruitment, recommending instead that resources be directed towards strategies such as business retention and expansion, fostering local entrepreneurship, and amenity development. This research …
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The Interplay Between Economic Growth and the Environment: The Case of China
<p>Historically, economic development has come at the cost of environmental degradation. Since the 1980s, neoliberalism rooted in neoclassical theory has dominated mainstream economic thought. The result has been a dramatic increase in environmental degradation in favor of economic growth. The …
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Re-Architecting the DoD acquisition process : a transition to the information age
… and at increasing expense. The military material development process was designed around a platform-centric system and worked well, but now the information age is causing a move to network-centric systems. This fundamental shift is not aligned with the DoD development process and reform will …
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THE EFFICACY OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE IN COUNTER NARCOTICS
… applied toward eradication, interdiction, and alternative development programs are delineated in their efficacy toward achieving the desired end state. Additional analysis is made for six of the top coca-cultivating departments in Colombia. Economic factors are also considered as a contributing …
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"Keep it rural": the politics of planning for smart growth in South Fulton County, Georgia
… arisen in response to the sprawling forms of development that are characteristic of most North American cities. While these movements represent the development of a broad set of tools for directing growth and preserving agriculturally and biologically important land, political and …
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