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2007. Environment, vol. 49, no. 1. Authors: H. Karl , Susskind, L. , and Wallace, K.

2009. Author: Nishanthi Amerasinghe. Disparities in water supply coverage in urban and rural areas are high in developing countries, with rural coverage being much lower. The inability of governments to provide the service because of resource constraints, and the paradigm shift in development that called for a bottom up approach to development, led to the widespread adoption of community managed rural water supply schemes since the 1980's. Over 3000 community managed rural water supply schemes...

2019. Author: Ben Preis. On September 14, 2015, the Obama Administration announced its Smart Cities Initiative, a $160 million investment in a range of research and development activities focused on "Smart Cities." The MetroLab Network, a consortium of partnerships involving cities and their universities, was announced as part of the Initiative. In order to join the Network, university-city partners had to agree to follow a set of rules and procedures to govern their partnership. This research...

2011. Author: Catherine Ashcraft. Governance of international rivers is characterized by complex institutional arrangements aimed at minimizing uncertainty and making it difficult for participants to avoid their responsibilities. However, as new information emerges, new impacts of activities on rivers are identified, new stakeholders emerge and new technologies are developed, international river management agreements and treaties may have to be modified. At the very least, the implementation of...

2009. U.S. Department of the Interior. Authors: T. Weimer , Williams, B. , Szaro, R. , and Shapiro, C. The purpose of this technical guide is to present an operational definition of adaptive management, identify the conditions in which adaptive management should be considered, and describe the process of using adaptive management for managing natural resources. The guide is not an exhaustive discussion of adaptive management, nor does it include detailed specifications for individual projects...

2015. Author: Allegra Fonda-Bonardi. Cities with industrial legacies often seek to redevelop former brownfield sites into opportunities for economic growth. Some of these same cities are also attempting to promote neighborhood-scale arts-oriented development for that same purpose. In this research, I explore whether and how cities with both rapidly intensifying real estate markets and a growing creative economy promote neighborhood-scale arts-oriented development projects. My research is based...

2009. Author: Nathan Lemphers. The Athabasca Oil Sands, located in northeastern Alberta, Canada, were for many years anomalous. Two oil sands operators developed their extraction techniques for 30 years, refining their technology before production became economically profitable. In the last 15 years as oil prices climbed, a tremendous amount of growth has occurred in the oil sands. Dozens of new projects are under construction or awaiting approval, creating one of the largest and most capital...

2009. Author: Allison Lassiter. South Florida's Everglades is home to 67 threatened and endangered species. By 2100 it is estimated that sea level rise will inundate over 20% of existing conservation lands. Species will be dislocated and migrate to new land. Simultaneously, more than 500,000 people are moving to the region annually. The new populations are subdividing and developing rural lands. By 2100, it is estimated that over 60% of rural land will be urbanized. In this thesis, I use...

2018. Author: Haleemah Qureshi. With declining federal assistance for essential infrastructure upgrades, water and wastewater utilities have increasingly relied on customer revenue to fill funding gaps. This has led most recently to "water crises" in cities such as Baltimore and Detroit, where residents who cannot afford to pay increasing rates have been disconnected from water services altogether. Although utility disconnection is a common practice to collect unpaid revenue, the scale and...

2020. Frontiers in Built Environment, vol. 6. Authors: L. Susskind, Chun, J., Goldberg, S., Gordon, J., Smith, G., and Zaerpoor, Y. Malaysia has made an ambitious commitment to reduce the intensity of its carbon emissions, notably a 40% reduction (compared to 2005 levels) by 2020 and a 45% reduction (compared to 2005 levels) by 2030. As with other developing countries, Malaysia’s challenge is to decarbonize its energy-centric economy in the face of population growth pressures and substantial...

2006. Authors: L. Susskind and Cruikshank, J. Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate. Whether they are aware of it or not, the procedures that most such groups rely on to reach decisions were first laid out as Robert's Rules more than 150 years ago by an officer in the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers. Its arcane rituals of parliamentary...

1987. Authors: L. Susskind and Cruikshank, J. Drawing on his experience in the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, a leading mediator and his co-author provide the first jargon-free guide to consensual strategies for resolving public disputes-indispensable to citizen activists and to business and government leaders.