Search Results - subject:"built environment"

What empowers individuals and teams in project settings? A critical incident analysis

Tuuli, Martin M.; Rowlinson, Steve - 2010

Purpose – Empowerment is a concept that means different things to different individuals. The factors that engender feelings of empowerment are thus multifarious. The purpose of this paper is to focus on to the factors that empower individuals and teams in projects...

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Developing Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Built Environment: Capacity Analysis in Sri Lanka

Kanchana, Ginige; Dilanthi, Amaratunga; Richard, Haigh - In: International Journal of Strategic Property Management 14 (2010) 4, pp. 287-303

This paper introduces a framework for capacity development for disaster risk reduction in the built environment. The … in the built environment to ensure that disaster risk reduction meets its mission and goals in a sustainable way. It is … presented as a matrix that identifies four stages of capacity development against six groups of stakeholders in the built …

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Built environment and pedestrian behavior at rail rapid transit stations in Bangkok

Townsend, Craig; Zacharias, John - In: Transportation 37 (2010) 2, pp. 317-330

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Developing Capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Built Environment: Capacity Analysis in Sri Lanka

Kanchana, Ginige; Dilanthi, Amaratunga; Richard, Haigh - In: International Journal of Strategic Property Management 14 (2010) 4, pp. 287-303

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Local environments as determinants of walking in Melbourne, Australia

Bentley, Rebecca; Jolley, Damien; Kavanagh, Anne Marie - In: Social Science & Medicine 70 (2010) 11, pp. 1806-1815

Structural changes to neighbourhoods that promote walking are likely to benefit everyone in a community and result in long-term improvements in the population's physical activity and health. We consider time spent walking in relation to objectively measured features of people's local...

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Sense of community and its relationship with walking and neighborhood design

Wood, Lisa; Frank, Lawrence D.; Giles-Corti, Billie - In: Social Science & Medicine 70 (2010) 9, pp. 1381-1390

examine the association between sense of community (SofC) and aspects of the built environment, physical activity, and …

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Experience of energy performance contracting in Hong Kong

Davies, Hilary; Chan, Eric K. S. - 2001

Hong Kong has experienced an average annual growth in final energy consumption of 4.7 per cent over the last ten years. An initiative being undertaken by a small number of government and commercial organisations is to limit their own consumption of electricity through performance contracting....

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Socio-demographic and built environment influences on the odds of being overweight or obese: The Atlanta experience

Bodea, Tudor D.; Garrow, Laurie A.; Meyer, Michael D.; … - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 43 (2009) 4, pp. 430-444

This paper explores the association of socio-demographic and built environment characteristics on the odds of being … plot provides important information into the relative importance of socio-demographic and built environment characteristics … 16 years old in the household have smaller effects. Built environment characteristics such as increased net residential …

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Sustainable urban design: principles to practice

Carmona, Matthew - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 48-77

environmental sustainability of the built environment. …

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Sustainable urban design: principles to practice

Carmona, Matthew - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 48-77

environmental sustainability of the built environment. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049005