Affordable and subsidized housing providers must design and implement housing strategies: where, when and with what types of housing to best meet the needs of lowand moderate-income households for affordable/low-cost permanent shelter. Recent research has proposed a multiobjective integer programming model for this purpose that jointly optimizes measures of net social benefit and equity and add...

there is much discussion going on lately whether dam construction is economic or not in termsof social consequences. accordingly, various techniques and software have been released to estimate the real social cost of dam construction among which, the software simpacts has been used extensively by researchers, worldwide. the present version of simpacts software only focuses on adverse effects of...

there is much discussion going on lately whether dam construction is economic or not in termsof social consequences. accordingly, various techniques and software have been released to estimate the real social cost of dam construction among which, the software simpacts has been used extensively by researchers, worldwide. the present version of simpacts software only focuses on adverse effects of...

Public transfer programs in industrial nations are thought to benefit the elderly through pension and health care programs at the expense of the young and future generations. However, this intergenerational picture changes if public education is also considered as a transfer program. We calculate the net present value (NPV) of benefits received minus taxes paid for US generations born 1850 to 2...

the study on gender and net farm income of cassava-based farmers under individual land tenure system was done in abia state of nigeria. the main objective was to determine the net farm income (nfi) and the benefit cost ratio (bcr) of the cassava farmers by gender vis-aviz their income levels as well as food security in the state. a multi-stage random sampling technique was adopted while data we...

The study on gender and net farm income of cassava-based farmers under individual land tenure system was done in Abia State of Nigeria. The main objective was to determine the Net Farm Income (NFI) and the Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) of the cassava farmers by gender vis-aviz their income levels as well as food security in the state. A multi-stage random sampling technique was adopted while data we...

eremurus and forage are main by-products in the khazangah rangelands of makoo region. eremurus is harvested and used by local people in a period of 30 days during the spring in this region. at this study, eremurus and forage have been evaluated financially and the data were obtained through field work using unstructured interviews as well as direct observation. the harvested eremurus value was ...

the price of water in agriculture plays an important role in the water allocation management. therefore, the optimum strategies of cropping pattern could be designed when water price analysis are considered in a predetermined economic framework. in the present study, a programming model was developed using the genetic algorithm for optimal water allocation in the eastern north of khuzestan prov...