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The Changing Farmscape: A Case Study Of German Farmers In Southeast Michigan, Hemalata C. Dandekar, Mary Bockstahler

City and Regional Planning

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The Silo: A Century Of Experimentation On The Michigan Farm, Hemalata C. Dandekar, John A. Savitski

City and Regional Planning

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Educating First And Third World Development Planners: The Role Of Qualitative Evaluations, Hemalata C. Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

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Review Of Shelter, Settlement And Development By Lloyd Rodwin, Hemalata C. Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

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Managing Household Hazardous Waste, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

Many household products contain hazardous chemicals. When discarded, these products become household hazardous waste, which poses a potential threat to human health and the environment. Planners may be called upon to assist local government officials, who increasingly are coming under pressure to implement special HHW programs, especially collection day events. However, there has been little systematic examination of the actual risks created by HHW, or of the full costs, benefits, and liabilities associated with collection days and other programs. This article synthesizes the current literature on HHW and identifies directions for needed research.

Review Of Urban Shelter And Services: Public Policies And Management Approaches By G. Shabbir Cheema, Spontaneous Shelter: International Perspectives And Prospects By Carl Patton, And Shelter, Settlement And Development By Lloyd Rodwin, Hemalata C. Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

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Processing Hazardous Materials Risk Information, W. David Conn, William L. Owens, Richard C. Rich, Jarol B. Manheim

City and Regional Planning

This is the final report on Phase 1 of this project, conducted between March and October, 1988, under Cooperative Agreement No. 814921. It addresses the issue of environmental risk communication under Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA). That act calls for the creation in each state of Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs) which are to include representatives of local government; police, fire, hospital and other emergency response and public health agencies; facilities likely to use hazardous materials covered by SARA; community groups and the media. Each LEPC's initial responsibility has been to develop a …

Graphic Communications, Hemalata C. Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

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Review Of Bombay In Transition: The Growth And Social Ecology Of A Colonial City, 1880-1980 By Meera Kosambi, Hemalata C. Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

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Some Uses And Potentials Of Qualitative Methods In Planning, Hemalata C. Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

Planners use methods borrowed from many disciplines. These are usually modified and adapted to meet planner's needs to acquire and sift through many diverse information sources helpful in dealing with complex problems. The quantitative methods which planners use are well known, well established in practice, and acknowledged by most as tools of the planners' trade. In contrast to this, most planners also use qualitative methods but these are rarely explicitly acknowledged. In this paper some of the qualitative methods used in planning are identified and categorized into three groups according to the special contribution that they make to the practice …

Indian Women's Development: Four Lenses, Hemalata Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

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Review Of Scientific-Technological Change And The Role Of Women In Development By Pamela D'Onofrio-Flores And Sheila Pfafflin, Hemalata C. Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

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Simulation/Gaming In Third World Development Planning, Hemalata C. Dandekar, Allan Feldt

City and Regional Planning

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The Impact Of Bombay's Textile Industry On Work Of Women From Sugao Village, Hemalata C. Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

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Modernization Of Agriculture And The Monetization Of A Village Economy In Deccan Maharashtra India, Hemalata C. Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

The focus of everyday life in Sugao revolves around farming. Village activity changes with the agricultural season and farm tasks are the rotating pivot around which village society is organized. The agricultural cycle has traditionally been geared, in the Sugao farmer's mind, to the moon and the astrological sign (of which there are twenty-seven in the Hindu calendar) in dominance at the time. In practice, cultivation tasks have become associated with phases of the Hindu lunar calendar which give the farmer guidance when to do what in his fields. This paper describes some of the changes that have occurred in …

Book Review: The Environmental Protection Hustle: By Bernard J. Frieden, David Conn

City and Regional Planning

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Gobar Gas Plants: How Appropriate Are They?, Hemalata C. Dandekar

City and Regional Planning

The technology of producing methane gas from cow-dung and other wastes and using it as fuel for various, purposes has received considerable attention in India during the last decade. In the light of the growing energy shortage that the country faces gobar gas is being cited as having great potential for answering the energy needs of rural areas. In this climate it is relevant to explore the desirability of gobar gas technology from the village perspective since, after all, it is the farmer in' the countryside who, ultimately decides whether or not to invest in a gobar gas plant.

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Role Of Industries In Rural Development, Hemalata Dandekar, Sulabha Brahme

City and Regional Planning

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Developing A Tentative Model Of Disposal Decisions, W. David Conn, Elaine C. Warren

City and Regional Planning

Concern over problems of resource depletion, environmental damage, and the ever-increasing costs of disposing of solid wastes has led to a search for new approaches to managing these wastes. One way of reducing the rate at which the wastes are first generated might be to extend the lifetimes of durable products. To assist policymakers in understanding how the lifetimes are determined, an exploratory study has examined factors influencing consumers' decisions to dispose of certain small electrical appliances. Selected findings of a household survey are presented here, focusing on 1) the frequency distribution of disposal choices and the reasons given for …

Factors Affecting Product Lifetime: A Study In Support Of Policy Development For Waste Reduction, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

An exploratory study has been examined factors affecting the lifetimes of selected small electrical appliances, to assist in the development of policies to extend these lifetimes (for the purposes of conserving resources, protecting the environment, and reducing the costs of solid waste management). The study included (i) a consumer survey, (ii) in-depth interviews with manufacturers, and (iii) a limited investigation of second-hand markets. Tentative findings are that physical durability appears to be a key factor affecting the lifetime of a few of the products examined (particularly those that malfunction after less than three years' use) while the lifetimes of other …

The Neglect Of Socioeconomic Research By Us Energy And Environmental Agencies, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

The published research plans of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) have each been criticized by the Office of Technology Assessment for focusing largely on the development of technological “hardware” and giving little attention to socioeconomic research (broadly defined). This paper first examines socioeconomic research areas that EPA might be expected to cover and shows that its plans for doing so are inadequate. The paper then identifies gaps in ERDA's coverage of socioeconomic research that remain unfilled even in the agency's updated plan. Several reasons for this neglect of socioeconomic research …

Planning For Resource Recovery: Lessons From The California Experience, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, which emphasizes resource recovery as a goal, provides for states or regional authorities to prepare comprehensive solid waste management plans. A review of the experience in California, where solid waste planning has been required since 1972, shows that communities have generally hesitated to include resource recover in their plans; this seems to be due largely to technological uncertainties, to the existence of economic and institutional biases against recovery, and to the lack of financial assistance for planning and implementation. Some of these obstacles may be overcome, at least in part, by provisions …

The Treatment Of Resource Recovery In Solid Waste Plans, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

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Waste Reduction: Issues And Policies, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

This paper reviews the major problems that confronted the Committee set up by the Solid Waste Management Board of the state of California to prepare a background report and recommend alternative methods for reducing solid waste generation. The results of their analysis are presented, together with discussion of the conclusions reached.

The Uses Of Completed Landfills, Jo Anne H. Aplet, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

Completed landfills can provide the base for parks and other beneficial land uses, thus serving to recycle waste products into new forms. However, the conversion is not trouble-free. This paper examines some of the uses to which completed landfills have been put as well as the problems which have been encountered to date, and suggests actions which planners and solid waste managers can take to mitigate some of these problems in the future. Information is based largely on experiences in Los Angeles County, California, where landfilling has been both practised and studied over an extended period.

The Difficulty Of Forecasting Ambient Air Quality: A Weak Link In Pollution Control, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

This article examines one important component of the problem of implementing the federal government's Clean Air policy, namely, the difficulty of quantifying the relationship between emissions to the atmosphere and ambient air quality. Short-, middle-, and long-term control strategies are discussed with an emphasis on the information needed for their effective assessment and implementation. The requirement thus identified is compared with the information provided by air pollution models; it is shown that at their present stage of development, even the most sophisticated diffusion models are of limited usefulness in implementing current air pollution legislation. In view of the high cost …

The Evaluation Of Social Costs And Benefits, W. David Conn

City and Regional Planning

Some members of the industrial marketing profession may not realize that their efforts in creating new markets and facilitating communication between producers and consumers are grist to the mill of economic theory. One example is that observed market prices are very often taken as measures of social value in benefit/cost analyses which purport to balance economic and social benefits against economic and social disbenefits. Furthermore benefit/cost analysis is often used when a decision is to be made on internalization of social cost within an enterprise. For example, should a manufacturer be asked to pay for the cost of pollution to …