SOCIO-ECONOMIC CARRYING CAPACITY ASSESSMENT FOR BUKIT TINGGI

Rapid Visual Screening Method for Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Existing Buildings in Bukit Tinggi, Pahang, Malaysia

Bukit Tinggi may experience low earthquake hazard but are still at high risk of substantial damage and loss. Dense concentration of buildings and infrastructure in some areas mainly due to the hospitality industry can generate this high risk level. This study is focused on identify, inventory and rank buildings in Bukit Tinggi to assess seismic vulnerability buildings. The methodology is based ...

Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment.

Nat iona l and international economic policy has usually ignored the environment. In areas where the environment is beginning to impinge on policy, as in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it remains a tangential concern, and the presumption is often made that economic growth and economic liberalization (including the liberaliz...

Analysis of an Economic Growth Model with Variable Carrying Capacity

In this paper, a kind of nonlinear delayed differential equations which can describe an economic model is considered. In this economy, population is modelled according to a logistically variable carrying capacity and capital’s accumulation has a time delay. By choosing time delay as a bifurcation parameter, it is proved that the system loses stability and a Hopf bifurcation occurs when the time...

Social and Recreational Carrying Capacity Assessment of Daland Forest Park, Golestan, Iran

WOMEN’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT THROUGH PARTICIPATORY APPROACH A Critical Assessment

This study assesses the effects of a Government run participatory development project on the social and economic empowerment of women and its implications for poverty alleviation in Nasirabad area of Balochistan (a province of Pakistan). The need to evaluate the project’s effects in terms of empowerment arises due to the perception that interventions in the form of programs and projects have li...