The increased importance of non-market values in land management planning means that fire management and planning needs to more directly and effectively incorporate them into the planning and decision-making process. This means developing better understanding of the role of non-market valuation in the context of fire effects in prevention and suppression. It also means better knowledge and syst...

At a time of public sector retrenchment in urban regeneration it has become increasingly important to understand how planners can help create better places. Recent studies suggest that planners must behave as market actors by deploying planning tools strategically to influence market behaviour. In this context, this paper examines how local planning authorities use a variety of policy instrumen...

Ukraine became independent in 1991 and formally abandoned central planning. But the development of market methods of input supply and product distribution was impeded by continuing price distortions and the survival of various methods of administrative commodity allocation from the central planning period. This paper outlines the background environment of central planning in Ukraine, reviews th...

This thesis hypothesizes that market dynamics obfuscate identification of optimal project delivery mechanisms. In particular, selection of primary planning consultants can benefit from a rational methodology. Market dynamics reflect changing characteristics of both owner organizations and the projects that they require. The construction industry adapts in response to market change, altering pro...

This paper examines the tradeoffs between agents that can predict (and, therefore, take into account) other agent’s actions and agents that act on their own without taking other agents’ actions into account. A simple prediction mechanism allows agents to make reasonably accurate guesses about other agents’ future actions, thereby making better decisions about their own actions. Our experimental...