Urban Heritage as Ethos in Resource-Based Small-Scale Property Management

GIS-Based Small-Scale Hydropower Resources Assessment in Kurdistan - Iran

The industry development and the life standards increment have caused the human feels more easement, but it also has caused an increase of energy consumption, environmental pollution and the large volume of greenhouse gases emission. Those changes make the researchers to find out the alternative energy sources such as renewable energies. The most prominent and the oldest source of clean and re...

Resource Integration and Value Co-Creation in Cultural Heritage Management

Cultural Heritage-Management (CHM) in Italy appears to chronically suffer from resources fragmentation. The aim of this chapter is to highlight the need for a value co-creation logic based on resource integration in CHM to improve awareness and involve citizens, organizations and other stakeholders in the cultural heritage preservation and enhancement activities. The methodological approach ado...

Resource Management in the Urban Sphere: Ambon’s Urban Environment

A preliminary foray into recent research on physical environmental conditions in Kota Ambon, reveals disturbing trends of ecosystem degradation and decline in quality of life for urban residents. Rapid population growth and urbanization activities have taken a massive toll on Ambon’s coastal environment, and in turn, environmental degradation is progressively undermining the quality of life of ...

Property Rights and Natural Resource : Socio - Economic Heterogeneity and Distributional Implications of Common Property Resource Management

Developing a Conceptual Framework of Integrity in Urban Heritage Conservation

The concept of integrity, as a factor of sustaining values and significance of cultural heritage, is considered to be a key element in the process of urban heritage conservation. Review and analysis of documents, conventions and theories concerning the role of integrity in urban heritage conservation shows that in recent decades, the concept of integrity has attracted attention worldwide in the...