scholarly journals Urban Sprawl and its Effects on Environment and Farmland a Timisoara Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Smaranda BICA ◽  
Diana BELCI
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
East European ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
American Cities

Urban sprawl has been plaguing Western European and American cities for the last 70 years. One has fought against this phenomenon all over the world with a combination of strategic planning and urban regulations, focusing on growth management, sustainable development and preservation of farmland. East European cities, Romanian cities included, have been rapaciously consuming the free natural and agricultural land around them, without long-term development policies. The aim of this paper is analyzing urban sprawl around Timișoara and finding efficient ways of economizing urban and rural land. The article is based on several urban studies, statistical and traffic data showing the magnitude of the phenomenon and its dramatic effects on the environment.The European Union required to recent members to follow the path set by the developed countries, even if their economies have a system more or less centralized inherited from communism. It is still unclear who should be responsible for urban planning; the rules and regulations are made along the way, while the investors’ pressure is huge. Meanwhile extended rural and agricultural land might be destroyed. Most politicians do not acknowledge this problem as they approve further expansion into farmland without any previous planning. This paper might be just tackling this subject, but its target should be making urban sprawl more visible, understanding its dimension and dramatic effects around Romanian cities.

The Reproduction Vector of the Russian Economy: 1999-2007

2008 ◽  
pp. 94-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sorokin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Real Sector ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Developed Countries

The problem of the Russian economy’s growth rates is considered in the article in the context of Russia’s backwardness regarding GDP per capita in comparison with the developed countries. The author stresses the urgency of modernization of the real sector of the economy and the recovery of the country’s human capital. For reaching these goals short- or mid-term programs are not sufficient. Economic policy needs a long-term (15-20 years) strategy, otherwise Russia will be condemned to economic inertia and multiplying structural disproportions.

PENGARUH INFRASTRUKTUR SECARA SPASIAL TERHADAP KONVERGENSI PERTUMBUHAN EKONOMI DI INDONESIA

INFO ARTHA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Anisa Fahmi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Regional Economics ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Neoclassical Growth Theory

Motivated by inter-regional disparities condition that occurs persistently, this study examines the Indonesian economy in the long run in order to know whether it tends to converge or diverge. This convergence is based on the Solow Neoclassical growth theory assuming the existence of diminishing returns to capital so that when the developed countries reach steady state conditions, developing countries will continuously grow up to 'catch-up' with developed countries. Based on regional economics perspective, each region can not be treated as a stand-alone unit,therefore, this study also focuses on the influence of spatial dependency and infrastructure. Economical and political situations of a region will influence policy in that region which will also have an impact to the neighboring regions. The estimation results of spatial cross-regressive model using fixed effect method consistently confirmed that the Indonesian economy in the long term will likely converge with a speed of 8.08 percent per year. Other findings are road infrastructure has a positive effect on economic growth and investment and road infrastructure are spatially showed a positive effect on economic growth. In other words, the investment and infrastructure of a region does not only affect the economic growth of that region but also to the economy of the contiguous regions. 

Aid for trade

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Stiglitz ◽  
Andrew Charlton
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Transition Costs ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Aid For Trade ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
First Time ◽  
Trading Regime

Adjustment to a post‐Doha trading regime will be disproportionately costly and difficult for developing countries. Increased aid is vital for the poor countries if they are to grasp the opportunities provided through trade and meet transition costs. With aid‐for‐trade, for the first time, the developed countries have another bound and meaningful commitment that they can offer developing countries. Our proposal to provide new resources to meet adjustment needs, however, does not suggest that trade, when combined with aid, will be a panacea for developing countries. Interactions between trade, aid, and broader development policies and reforms are important.

scholarly journals Growth of urbanization in Himachal Pra-desh : A statistical analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.4) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Ridima Sharma ◽  
Sakshi Tanwar ◽  
Safder Rizvi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Himachal Pradesh ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Land Use Management ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Development Policies

Cities appear as a major role player in the economy of any area reflecting the global integration of its economy as they house majority of large business groups. Migratory population and urban growth are direct contributors in this economic expansion, particularly in the present-day phase of globalization which in under developed countries causes densification and instability of agriculture and other existing land use thus bringing in the need of a proper land resource management.Focused attention is needed to integrate infrastructure development in various cities and linkages should be established between the creation and management of assets through a system of reforms for long-term sustainability. Himachal Pradesh is a hill state with some most difficult terrains of the country making the preparation of complete cadastral record of land nearly impossible only 80% of land is under revenue records. Thus the amount of habitable land decreases further with around 50 % of the land under forest cover. The aim of the study is to analyze the growth of urbanisation in Himachal Pradesh along with the factors responsible. This growth pattern can later be used to formulate proper land use management and infrastructure development policies for equitable development of the area.

Distribution Research of Survival Road for Local Retail Businesses in Relatively Backward Areas - A Case Study on Luoyang Dazhang

2014 ◽  
Vol 989-994 ◽  
pp. 5090-5093
Author(s):  
Wei Xiong ◽  
Man Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Management Level ◽  
Retail Business ◽  
Business Enterprises ◽  
The Developed Countries

Distribution of logistics plays an important role in the modern market, and the distribution of retail has its own unique characteristics and needs. The economy market of China has been developed with an amazing speed. But there are weakness and risks in the market compared with the developed countries, thus it need time and practice to increase the management level of economy market in China. Since the development of the market will bring risks and anti-changes to business, enterprises should prepared for the challenge. The paper analyzed successful cases of retail business to provide advices for retail business in backward areas to prepared for market challenge and risks in order to promote the development of local retail business in backward areas in China.

Potential Problems and Possible Solutions for Electronic Information Industry Development in Chongqing

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 3576-3580
Author(s):  
Mei Hua Zhang ◽  
Xin Yi Xiang ◽  
Qiang Wu
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Electronics Industry ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Industry Development ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Developing Area ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Electronic Information Industry

Under the context of improving the world's ecological standards, the developed countries are making higher standards, which may lead to the traditional "high end" industry transferring to China and other developing countries, especially the industry which takes more subtle pollution or longer incubation period. In China, reflection after three decades of development in Guangdong and other pre-open areas may lead to these "high end" industries transfer to the developing area, such as Chongqing. From the example of four confrontations between Greenpeace and Hewlett-Packard, it can be found that the electronic information industry development may bring long-term worries. In this context, in order to avoid the "high end" industries development’s pitfalls, the electronic information industry in Chongqing must be conducted with a comprehensive system of research about its concealed or latent ecological and environmental worries of electronics industry.

scholarly journals Does the onset of trends towards convergence within the differentiation of the global system confirm the general assumptions about the development of territorial and social hierarchies?

Geografie ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Hampl
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Global System ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Developed Countries

We are currently witnessing a significant turn in the evolution of the global system. The long term rise in the dominance of the “West” has been recently not only halted, but if fact reversed. Within the last two decades, close to a fifth of the world’s GDP has been transferred from the core to the semiperiphery, and increasingly also the periphery, of the global system. The hierarchic manner of the asymmetric geographic distribution of the world’s economy and population, and its transformation, remains a significant subject of scientific research and a key issue within the decision-making sphere of world politics. However, the discrepancy between the hierarchical differentiation of states and civilizations in terms of their size on one hand and their development (wealth) on the other remains an important issue. The degree of this discrepancy (or lack of) depends on the scale on which the differentiation is examined. At the macroregional level, it remains very pronounced, while it decreases in significance on the mezoregional and microregional levels – within the developed countries, a relative correspondence exists between both types of hierarchy. This article therefore intends to delineate the basic types of hierarchical differentiation to discuss the causal mechanisms of their formation and prospective change.

BIM Implementation Maturity Level and Proposed Approach for the Upgrade in Lithuania

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Natalija Lepkova ◽  
◽  
Rana Maya ◽  
Sonia Ahmed ◽  
Vaidotas Šarka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Building Information Modelling ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Building Information ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Level 2 ◽  
Aec Industry

Recently, Building information modelling (BIM) proves its capability to solve the raised AEC industry issues. Therefore, several countries and entities pursue to transform into BIM especially the developed countries. Lithuania as a European country has a great challenge to cap up with the surrounding environment to implement BIM. This study aims to determine the BIM maturity levels in Lithuania and supposed the missed steps to upgrade to the next level. Eighteen important Lithuanian construction projects awarded the most successful implementing BIM are chosen as a case study. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with several BIM experts whose work at the chosen projects. The analysis conducted by the most effective theoretical model entitled BIM Maturity Matrix (BIMM). The key findings of this research that Lithuania reached the BIM implementing maturity level 2 while some projects still at level 1 that proves the ability of Lithuanian AEC industry to softly and completely transfer the maturity to level 2 by the recommendation provided through the proposed approach at the end of the paper. These results provide a stunning opportunity to improve the AEC project performance and reap the benefits of implementing BIM. Future studies can develop a framework to improve the BIM implementation in Lithuania softly.

Freight Transport Demand Forecasting in Urban Logistics Planning: A Case Study of Yiwu City

2014 ◽  
Vol 505-506 ◽  
pp. 915-921
Author(s):  
Shi Chao Sun ◽  
Zheng Yu Duan ◽  
Chuan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Demand Forecasting ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Key Indicator ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Logistics Demand ◽  
Exponential Smoothing Method ◽  
Coefficient Method ◽  
Logistics Planning

Freight transport demand forecasting as one of the basis in urban logistics planning, is not only an important premise of designing a variety of logistics development policies and infrastructure constructions, but also a key indicator to measure whether the logistics planning is reasonable. This paper addresses the methods of the freight transport demand forecasting in urban logistics planning based on a case study of Yiwu city. Considering the change of long-term trend emphatically, conventional trend extrapolation method, regression analysis method, elasticity coefficient method, linear exponential smoothing method and grey model are applied to predict the logistics demand of Yiwu city respectively. Then the results of five kinds of forecasting methods are analyzed to obtain the final forecasting logistics demand.

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