Increasing scale and scope of corruption in the former Soviet Bloc, as well as numerous other countries, urges better understanding of the problem within the context of socio-economic transformations as it touches upon issues of organizational structures. This paper presents an overview of the research on corruption in organizations and develops models of corrupt organizations, including the ve...

The paper discusses how the Urban System Abstraction Hierarchy (USAH) can be used as an informative hazard-agnostic tool to understand interdependencies between shocks which impact tangible parts of city system, and longer-term stressors intangible outcomes system. To create resilient cities, we must grapple with such complex interdependencies. Effective solutions that foster resilience require...

Migration and quality of redistribution of population across country is one of the main factors that planners take into account to control population and guide its movements to economic poles. Scientific recognition of migration phenomenon is important for managing and policy making in the country. These movements change migration pattern, in a way that along with increase in population and the...

Title of Document: A BALANCING ACT? —AN EMPRICIAL EXAMINATION OF WHETHER THE DYNAMIC BALANCE POLICY HAS HELPED CHINA RECUDE CULTIVATED LAND LOSS AMID RAPID URBAN LAND EXPANSION Juan Feng Doctor of Philosophy 2011 Directed By: Professor Erik Lichtenberg Agricultural and Resource Economics Associate Professor Chengri Ding Urban Studies and Planning For decades, the Chinese government has been con...

The Analytic Hierarchy Process and Entropy Weight Method were used to measure the green development level of nine major urban areas in Yangtze River Delta Nanjing-Hangzhou Eco-economic Zone. results demonstrated that firstly, Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou metropolitan area shows increasingly sequential characteristics, with each city generally experiencing a “ladder” over time displaying hierarchy ...

The modeling of a common set of urban land features in a topological structure useful for a range of applications, including routine operations and decision-making, is described in this paper. This collection of non-redundant shareable data is based on an identification of administrative agencies that would use and/or manage these data. Using this information, an object-based conceptual model i...

The development of urban ecosystems is usually restricted by a few key limiting factors, including both the natural resource condition and the socioeconomic performance. To link the natural, economic and social subsystems together and uniformly measure the multiple ecological flows within and amongst these subsystems, emergy analysis was applied in this paper to describe the status quo of urban...