Hydroelectric dams produce electricity, provide flood control, and improve agricultural irrigation. But the building and operation of these dams frequently involve forced displacement of local communities. Displacement often has an outsized impact on indigenous persons, who are...

This exploration paper examines the original government system in Bangladesh and its vulnerability to central government pressure. The original government system plays a pivotal role in decentralizing power and ensuring effective governance at the grassroots level. Still, the extent to which...

This exploration paper examines the crossroads of public policy and mortal rights in the environment of Bangladesh, with a particular focus on gender equivalency and women's rights. The paper explores the impact of public programs on colourful aspects, including violence against women,...

Objectives: To obtain dynamic spatial-temporal accessibility measurements of travel times by car to haemodialysis services and assess potential benefits of adding new services.Design: Cross-sectional analyses of dynamic spatial-temporal accessibility, accounting for traffic congestion. A...

This paper urges that policy decisions be based on important and reliable performance measures. Robust measures that assess the performance of the transportation and land use dimensions of cities, however, are typically missing from such discussionsÑthey typically focus on congestion and...

Adopting an agent-based approach, this paper explores the topological evolution of road networks from a microscopic perspective. We assume a decentralized decision-making mechanism where roads are built by self-interested land parcel owners. By building roads, parcel owners hope to increase...

Five decades of development planning in India has been unable to ensure a decent living for a large number of people residing in rural areas. Despite many large scale rural development schemes, the absolute number of people in poverty has not declined substantially; abject poverty still remains...

The city is a collective project that seeks to improve the general welfare of the population. Residential structuring agents have an inclination to get richer without reason. If collective actions that control and regulate this inclination are missing, the city becomes a powerful instrument to...

This paper focuses on formulating a conceptual framework of recording municipal property so as to lay the foundations of an effective strategic management. The empirical part of the paper refers to the case of Bucharest Municipality, defining a series of characteristics of the entities included...

This paper proposes a spatial analysis of statistical data concerning the number and areas of rural dumpistes for local administrative units (LAU in Romanian’s rural terrirory = communes) from 6 counties of North-East region using thematic cartography.Database created at local scale is...