Recent research demonstrates that land use choices, which date back to a century ago still powerfully shape the current development patterns. With advances in digitization, scholars have started studying the long-term effects of historic federal placed-based policies. One such area that has...

A 'refugee' under the UN Convention definition is someone who is outside their country of nationality, and who has a 'well-founded fear of persecution' for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a particular social group. The person must be 'unwilling or...