The urban fabric of the Greater Dublin Area (GDA) has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years. This has lead to a decrease in environmental quality throughout the region and disturbance of protected areas. In an effort to ...
The purpose of the Adoption Guide and the Framework is to enable agencies and their professional workers to perform their key functions to an appropriate, explicit and consistent standard; to make explicit and transparent ...
This article discusses the revelations and outcry about children in state care being placed with families who have not yet been assessed and approved and it argues that there is a danger of generating confusion about the ...
Contingent Valuation is now the most widely used method for valuing non-marketed goods in cost benefit analysis. Yet, despite the fact that many externalities manifest themselves as costs to some and benefits to others, ...
In the scope of a recently launched European Research Project, a team of experts from public laboratories and TSO is in charge of defining the concepts and methodological approaches to design and analyse the technical and ...
Hutson, Elaine(University of Canterbury School of Law, 1998)
As the process of financial and economic reform gains pace throughout
the Asia-Pacific region, one important aspect that deserves the attention of
business and legal analysts is the regulation of corporate control. ...
Assessment of highway bridge safety requires a prediction of the probability of
occurrence of extreme load effects during the remaining life of the structure. While the
assessment of the strength of an existing bridge ...
This paper revisits the notion of random commuting within the excess commuting framework. In doing so, it argues that the average random commute, is a more appropriate basis for measuring the efficiency of urban commuting ...
With the increase in interest in formulas, or apparently non-productive utterances in children's speech, a range of definitions has emerged and sometimes conflicting criteria have been proposed for their identification. ...
This paper describes a model and resulting simulations to assess the appropriate age
structure of intervention in childhood on the theme: should we intervene early or late?
We use asset theory approaches to construct a ...