Visions : Smart urban planning / Simon Huston, Arvy Jadevicus and Zafir Sahin ; Green infrastructure / Will Manley and Sophia Price ; Food, waste and water -- the urban paradox / Richard Baines ; Place and community consciousness / Negin Minaei -- Institutions : Local innovation in emerging...

Although the Global Financial Crisis raised the profile of risk management (RM) the current framework remains largely ad hoc and descriptive. The research investigates how general systems theory (GST) could contribute to a more rational development of RM. It then conducts a preliminary inquiry...

Residential property price premia (‘premia’) have long fascinated investors, particularly in times of euphoria, but their social, climatic and urban ramifications are much wider. A proper understanding of premia is hindered by the variety of exogenous influences determining them. They occur...

The dissemination of robust real estate data can help to improve market efficiency and investment analysis. To provide a perspective on property prices, a long series is vital. While long commercial and residential real estate data series are available, agricultural land is less well served....

The dissemination of robust asset price data can help to improve market efficiency, resource allocation and investment analysis. Beyond commercial decisions, land prices influence housing affordability, food security or low carbon infrastructure. Yet price and return histories for farmland in...

The term ‘smart' and ‘strategy' are widespread but convey different notions across disciplines. Unsurprisingly, when ‘smart strategy' is applied its meanings vary with context. It is therefore instructive to look for some cross-disciplinary insights with a view to sketching a smart...