Adapting Grounded Theory to Investigate Sustainability Heritage in Informal Settlements: Case Studies from Islamabad, Pakistan

Practical Sustainability - From Grounded Theory to Emerging Strategies

This book commences without an introduction that should have been dedicated to laying out the overall aims of the book, presumably to offer companies (and students of business administration and related subjects) a clear picture and pathway for addressing sustainability issues where they are concerned. After presenting the concept of sustainability in the first chapter, the second aims to lay t...

Investigating the Relationship Between Density and Social sustainability in Informal Settlements Case Study: Khezr District of Hamadan

Social sustainability has focus on the type of development that promotes social interaction and inclusion. It gives emphasis to inclusive community, social cohesions, quality of life, social equity and diversity. In fact, as one of the three domains of sustainability social sustainability plays a vital role in enhancing the community by the means of giving delivering equal opportunities, creati...

Adapting to Drought from Sustainability Dimensions in Nomads via Factor Explaining

This purpose of this research is to explain adaptation with drought from sustainabilitydimensions in nomadic societies. A questionnaire was developed from a review of literature,observations and open and semi-structural interviews with public and informant Nomads,local leaders and with experts from the local and provincial institutions. Prior to theapplication of factor analysis, two internal r...

Informal Settlements Upgrading: The Gecekondus in Ankara

Adapting Wikification to Cultural Heritage

Large numbers of cultural heritage items are now archived digitally along with accompanying metadata and are available to anyone with internet access. This information could be enriched by adding links to resources that provide background information about the items. Techniques have been developed for automatically adding links to Wikipedia to text but the methods are general and not designed f...