The last year has seen financial crisis, and the threat of further more dramatic financial events across Europe dominate much of the global economic news. This is having an increasing impact on the commercial real estate market. Many participants are wondering about how this will feed through to...

Regional spatial planning in Northern Ireland is directly linked to the transition from conflict to peace, as identified in the Belfast Agreement of 1998. Political consensus, a rare commodity, was secured in the Northern Ireland Assembly for a regional development strategy (RDS), the first...

We utilize the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (1964) mechanism to estimate the willingness to pay for clean drinking water technology in northern Ghana. The BDM mechanism has attractive properties for empirical research, allowing us to directly estimate demand, compute heterogeneous treatment effects,...

This article reviews the research on fortification of food in the context of South Asia, with an emphasis on avenues for future research in economics and policy. We argue that while the efficacy of fortified foods in controlled settings is well established, more research is needed to evaluate...

The dramatic growth and collapse of land and property markets in Spain has been the subject of recent analysis. Such analysis has focused on the political and economic factors including the modernisation of financial systems and institutions since the 1980s. This paper examines the causes and...

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Abstract: In the light of continued financial and economic turmoil, there has been a marked increase in the volatility in real estate markets. This is impacting on the pricing of property assets, partly through market sentiment, particularly concerning risk. In a downturn, the perception of...

This paper presents the initial results of a major research project concerning real estate value. A central consideration is the analysis of those factors that impact upon value, in particular how value is created in real estate development ventures and investment deals. The converse of how real...

Growing global consciousness for sustainable development necessitates the requirement for location specific responses to environmental problems in terms of planning and design of urban built form. A quantitative study was undertaken to compare the energy use of two residential neighbourhoods of...

A quantitative research was undertaken to calculate the energy use in mobility in two residential neighbourhoods having distinct urban form characteristics in a middle tier city in India. The research considered four key attributes of mobility: mode of travel, trip distances, trip frequency and...