Urbanization - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

argument is that it has a theory of change for this intervention, based on existing research that suggests urban sanitation improves environmental and human health. But it has made a conscious decision that measuring such longer-term... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

much unstoppable when he sets his sights on something. In the past, that has included carving green space out of Atlanta’s urban wastelands; writing legislation to preserve Georgia’s Native American archaeological sites threatened by... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

areas as information and transparency, the roles of capital and talent, public and private property rights, social constraints on market forces, attitudes toward expatriates abroad and foreigners at home, entrepreneurial and corporate opportunities, and the importance... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

Abstract—With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

study this question in the context of the first Great Migration (1915–1930), when 1.5 million African Americans moved from the U.S. South to urban centers in the North, where 30 million Europeans had arrived since 1850. We test the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

session, attendees will learn about risk, readiness, and resources: How to assess the probably of incidence of a natural peril like wildfire or flood; how to consider readiness of a house or campus or portfolio of assets or urban... View Details

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Print View - Course Catalog

decentralized solutions, and biomass), mobility, clean-tech, agriculture, urban resilience and adaptation, hard to abate sectors (steel, cement), carbon sequestering, and waste management. Students will be able to select which research... View Details

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