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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 …

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 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 …

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

City and Regional Planning

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Portable, Linear-Focused Solar Thermal Energy Collecting System, James C. Fletcher, Charles G. Miller, Jens G. Pohl

Architecture

A solar heat collection system is provided by utilizing a line-focusing device that is effectively a cylindrically curved concentrator within a protected environment formed by a transparent inflatable casing. A target, such as a fluid or gas carrying conduit is positioned within or near the casing containing the concentrator, at the line focus of the concentrator. The casing can be inflated at the site of use by a low pressure air supply to form a unitary light-weight structure. When deflated, the collector, including casing, concentrator and target, is readily transportable. A system constructed from a plurality of such line-focusing devices …

Three-Dimensional Tracking Solar Energy Concentrator And Method For Making Same, James C. Fletcher, Charles G. Miller, Jens G. Pohl

Architecture

A tracking three-dimensional solar energy concentrator is provided by a stretched aluminized polymeric membrane supported by a hoop, the polymeric membrane being formed to a desired curvature by differential loading. The loading on the polymeric membrane determines its curvature. The loading can be varied by utilizing a plastic membrane that has a non-uniform radial distribution of thickness with uniform differential pressure or by applying a non-uniform differential pressure on a membrane having uniform thickness. Reflector membranes having a non-uniform radial distribution of thickness can be obtained by selective spraying of a dissolved plastic such as Krylon on the underside of …

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 …

Multi-Storey Air-Supported Building Construction, Jens G. Pohl, Henry J. Cowan

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

Recently, over a three-year period, a new concept of multi-storey building construction based on pneumatic principles was investigated in the Department of Architectural Science at the University of Sydney, Australia. The results of this research, which formed the basis of a doctorate thesis l and various technical publications, have indicated that multi-storey buildings supported by internal air-pressure and surrounded by a thin, flexible or rigid membrane acting both as structural container and external cladding, are feasible and highly economical for a number of building applications. This article by Jens G. Pohl, Faculty of Architecture, University of New South Wales, Kensington, …

Pneumatic Construction Applied To Multistory Buildings, Peter R. Smith, Jens G. Pohl

Collaborative Agent Design (CAD) Research Center

Extension of the principles of pneumatic construction to include multistory buildings is discussed by Peter R. Smith, Senior Lecturer in Architectural Science at The University of Sydney (Australia) and Jens G. Pohl, Lecturer, School of Architecture and Building, University of New South Wales.