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Managing risks in construction projects: life cycle and stakeholder perspectives

Zou, P; Zhang, G - 2009

As an integral part of risk management process, effective risk transfer should be based on a collective understanding of risks in terms of their impacts, responsible project stakeholders as well as likely stages of occurrence in a project life cycle. Until now, most research has focused on...

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THE EFFECT OF THE FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYER TAX CREDIT ON HOME PRICES IN LOW AND MODERATE INCOME COMMUNITIES

Schwinden, Chris - 2011

The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) is a Durham-based organization that works to promote homeownership and …

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Essays in uninsurable income risk and household behavior.

Narita, Machiko - 2011

.S. homeownership rate by investigating the effect of each factor on the housing and mortgage decisions. The second paper assesses how … credit crunch caused the recent decline in the homeownership rate in the U.S. To answer this question, I develop a life … bust: the proportionally larger decrease in homeownership among non-college educated households. The fade-out of …

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State and Local Anti-Predatory Lending Laws: The Effect of Legal Enforcement Mechanisms

Bostic, Raphael W; Engel, Kathleen C; McCoy, Patricia A; … - 2007

Subprime mortgage lending has grown rapidly in recent years and with it, so have concerns about predatory lending. In response to evidence of predatory lending, most states have enacted new laws or expanded existing laws to address abuses in the subprime home loan market. The effect of these...

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Industrielle Ökologie : theoretische Annäherung an ein Konzept nachhaltiger Produktionsweisen

Bauer, Joa - 2008

Diese Arbeit rezipiert den Begriff der Industriellen Ökologie (IÖ) von einer transdisziplinären Warte aus. Explizit geprägt und verwendet wird dieser Begriff seit gut einem Jahrzehnt vor allem im angloamerikanischen Sprachraum als industrial ecology (IE). Dahinter verbergen sich zwei...

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Internetbasierte Abwicklung von Consulting-Projekten und -Analysen im Umfeld betriebswirtschaftlicher Softwarebibliotheken

Bätz, Volker - 2001

Kaum ein Berufsstand hat einen so schlechten Ruf wie der des professionellen Beraters. Die fachbezogenen Medien im Bereich integrierter Informationssysteme sind voll von Berichten über mangelhafte Beratungsleistungen. Die einschlägige Literatur veröffentlicht zahllose Ratgeber in Buchform,...

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A Life Cycle Analysis System to Support D and D, Pollution Prevention, and Asset Recovery

Bishop, L.; Tonn, B.E.; Yuracko, K.L. - 2008

This paper describes a life cycle analysis system (LCAS) developed to support US Department of Energy (DOE) decision-making regarding deactivation and decommissioning (D and D), pollution prevention (P2), and asset recovery, and its deployment to analyze the disposition of facilities and capital...

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Design of Studies for Development of BPA Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Accounting Policy Phase II, Volume II, 1985-1988 Technical Report.

Kneese, Allen V. - 2008

The incremental costs of corrective measures to lessen the environmental impacts of the hydroelectric system are expected to increase and difficult questions to arise about the costs, effectiveness, and justification of alternative measures and their systemwide implications. The BPA anticipate...

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Roadmap for Development of Natural Gas Vehicle Fueling Infrastructructure and Analysis of Vehicular Natural Gas Consumption by Niche Sector

Stephen C. Yborra - 2008

Vehicular natural gas consumption is on the rise, totaling nearly 200 million GGEs in 2005, despite declines in total NGV inventory in recent years. This may be attributed to greater deployment of higher fuel use medium- and heavy-duty NGVs as compared to the low fuel use of the natural...

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Market disruption, cascading effects, and economic recovery:a life-cycle hypothesis model.

Sprigg, James A. - 2008

This paper builds upon previous work [Sprigg and Ehlen, 2004] by introducing a bond market into a model of production and employment. The previous paper described an economy in which households choose whether to enter the labor and product markets based on wages and prices. Firms experiment with...

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