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User based perceptions of on-plot sanitation systems in low income urban communities in Africa and Asia
Saywell, Darren L. - 2000
-plot sanitation systems potentially offer a solution to the sanitaryneeds of the urban poor. Nevertheless, commonly held assumptions … appropriateness anduser acceptability of on-plot sanitation options. The thesis contributes to an improvedunderstanding of the context …, Mozambique and India areincluded in the thesis in order to permit sampling of key latrine types used internationally.The thesis …
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Development, Technology Adoption, and Social Networks
Vasilaky, Kathryn Nadine - 2011
Agriculture remains a key component of economic development, but the methodology for how development policies are determined has changed for developing countries. In the last decade, the focus of economic growth in developing countries has shifted from country-wide prescriptions to testable...
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Burning through boundaries: collaborative governance and wildland fire planning in the United States and New South Wales, Australia.
Brummel, Rachel Fassbinder - 2010
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. October 2010. Major: Conservation Biology. Advisor: Kristen C. Nelson, PhD. 1 computer file (PDF); x, 182 pages, appendices 1-3.
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ONLINE RETAILING IN SPATIALLY DISPERSED OFFLINE MARKETS
Choi, Jeonghye - 2010
This dissertation comprises three essays that study online demand coming from local offline markets. In the first essay, I study two social influence effects reflected in physical proximity and in demographic similarity, respectively, on online demand evolution. As these effects can be...
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ESSAYS ON MARKETING MODEL APPLICATIONS FOR ONLINE AND OFFLINE COMMUNITIES
Gao, Jing - 2011
Social interactions in a community influence perceptions and values of members of the community. Recently Web 2.0 technologies have stimulated rapid growth of online communities, where communications between participants are made much easier. It is important to study how participants' behaviors...
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Towards Sustainable Urban Water and Sanitation Services: Barriers and Bridges
Hjorth, Peder - 2009
found that in most developing countries the state of water supply and sanitation services were deplorable. Consequently, a … call for concerted action to improve coverage and efficiency of the water supply and sanitation sector was launched. This … call resulted in the International Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (1981–1990). The Decade provided important lessons …
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Global systems of innovation: Water supply and sanitation
Cozzens, Susan E.; Catalan, Pablo - 2008
information on responses to global challenges in the household water supply and sanitation sector (WSS). In this research, we use …
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Community-Based Research and Development (R&D) Patterns in the Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) Sector
Catalan, Pablo; Cozzens, Susan E. - 2009
I explore patterns in regard to community based Research and Development in the Water Supply and Sanitation sector. I …
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Economic perspectives on the siting of a municipal solid waste facility
Kim, Hyuncheol - 2003
LULU (Locally Unwanted Land Use) and NIMBY (Never In My Back Yard) are often cited as two major hurdles to overcome for successful siting of a noxious facility. Among various types of waste in Korea, food waste has been posing a serious problem for its high rate of moisture and salt component...
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Corruption in social services and human development: water, sanitation and electricity sectors
Sohail (Khan), M.; Cavill, Sue - 2010
Corruption costs the Water, Sanitation and Electricity (WSE) sectors millions of dollars everyyear, siphoning off … India Ltd]. The publisher's website is at: http://www.macmillanindia.com/ …
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