scholarly journals Axiological of Residual Green Urban Areas

Environments ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Maria Rosa Trovato
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Contingent Valuation Method ◽  
New Order ◽  
Private Funding ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Urban Greenery ◽  
Valuation Method ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Selection Of

Our cities are often characterised by a complex, ungrammatical articulation of spaces, volumes, intended uses, and values. The residual green urban areas are representative of a low level or absence of order, but above all, of functions and values. The study proposes a new methodological and operational approach to the rehabilitation of green residual urban areas, participatory type that can generate a new order between values, functions and actors, to mediate private and public needs, to promote new forms of responsibility and thus to implement some of the priority objectives set out in the 2030 Agenda. The operational tools supporting the approach are the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), public and private partnership (PPP) and crowdfunding. This approach supported the selection of the project and the creation of a budget with public and private funding to support the participatory rehabilitation of a residual green urban area in the municipality of Acireale. The amount of funding identified largely covers rehabilitation costs. The issue of the quality and quantity of urban greenery is crucial for the sustainability and resilience of cities to climate change. Rehabilitation of remaining urban green areas is an opportunity to meet the new needs of green areas, supporting communities in this new challenge.

Urban Transport

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
José van
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Ride Sharing ◽  
The World ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Selection Mechanisms

Platformization affects the entire urban transport sector, effectively blurring the division between private and public transport modalities; existing public–private arrangements have started to shift as a result. This chapter analyzes and discusses the emergence of a platform ecology for urban transport, focusing on two central public values: the quality of urban transport and the organization of labor and workers’ rights. Using the prism of platform mechanisms, it analyzes how the sector of urban transport is changing societal organization in various urban areas across the world. Datafication has allowed numerous new actors to offer their bike-, car-, or ride-sharing services online; selection mechanisms help match old and new complementors with passengers. Similarly, new connective platforms are emerging, most prominently transport network companies such as Uber and Lyft that offer public and private transport options, as well as new platforms offering integrated transport services, often referred to as “mobility as a service.”

scholarly journals Private and Public Sector Employer Actions for Home Office Workers During the COVID-19 Epidemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 509-519
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Nowacki ◽  
Sandra Grabowska ◽  
Teresa Lis
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Statistical Sample ◽  
Questionnaire Method ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Sector Employer ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract A research was conducted among the employees referred to work in the home office in connection with the announced state of the epidemic in Poland. The research was conducted using a questionnaire method, the study was attended by 199 respondents. The research is burdened with an error in the selection of statistical sample units, which resulted from the respondents’ involvement and their truthfulness. The aim of the article is to assess the activities of employers from the private and state sectors in Poland, related to the delegation of employees to work in the home office, and to analyze the skills and possibilities of self-organization of work by employees. An important result of the survey was to demonstrate the differences in the behavior of public and private sector employers. The study shows that the private sector has adapted better to sudden changes than the state sector.

Application of the contingent valuation method in a developing country: a case study of the Yusufeli Dam in northeast Turkey

2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emre Alp ◽  
Ülkü Yetiş
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Valuation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Contingent Valuation Method ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Hydroelectric Power Plant ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Valuation Method

Hydroelectric power plants and dams often play an important role in developing countries in terms of their contribution to economy. In accordance with the energy policies of Turkish Republic, Yusufeli Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant in Northeastern Turkey have been initiated. In this study, the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) was conducted in Yusufeli Village to determine the environmental costs of the Yusufeli Project. The purpose is to assess the willingness to pay (WTP) of Yusufeli Village residents for restoration of the environmental impacts of the dam project and also to investigate the underlying economic, psychological, and social motivations for WTP. WTP was calculated as US$761 per person which can further be used in the cost–benefit analysis. The results from the study suggest that application of the CVM in rural and urban areas located in the same region can show differences.

RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS' OUTAGE COST ANALYSIS FOR URBAN AND SEMI-URBAN AREAS IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 581-593
Author(s):  
NAVA RAJ KARKI ◽  
AJIT KUMAR VERMA ◽  
RAJESH KARKI ◽  
ARBIND KUMAR MISHRA
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Contingent Valuation Method ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Electricity Supply ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Load Curve ◽  
Valuation Method ◽  
Preparatory Action

This paper discusses cost of unreliability of electricity supply to the residential customers. Electricity supply outage cost is evaluated by customers' survey technique for urban and semi-urban residential areas of a developing country. The energy consumption pattern of urban and sub-urban areas is determined. Electricity supply outage cost is evaluated using both preparatory action approach and contingent valuation method. A detailed breakdown of customer's average outages costs for a entire day based on 8 three-hourly time durations are obtained that give easily understandable figures to the utilities. The power consumption pattern obtained are in close agreement with the utility's load curve. A MATLAB based computer program using Least Square Error Approximation is used to evaluate the outage cost.

Tuition Funding for Common Schools

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-133
Author(s):  
Nancy Beadie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
School Funding ◽  
State Level ◽  
Private Funding ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Common Schools ◽  
Rural Town ◽  
Level Data

Funding for schools of all kinds was largely market-based until the Civil War. Parents in New York and other northern states continued to pay tuition, or rate bills, in addition to taxes to support common schools. Previous research relied on aggregate state-level data to estimate the amount of funding from public and nonpublic sources for common schools, while existing case studies of local school practices focus exclusively on Massachusetts or on urban locations and thus on exceptions to the rule. This study looks at local practices of school funding for multiple types of schools in one unexceptional rural town in western New York from 1815 to 1850. The results reveal considerable in-state variation in the proportion of public and private funding for common schools that is otherwise obscured by state-level data. The proportion of school funds that came from tuition was much higher for rural areas than for urban areas. The article also compares tuition funding for common schools with that for other types of market-based schooling, including two local venture schools and one local academy. The results show that, although tuition prices for academies and venture schools were predictably higher than for common schools, the overall structure of school funding for rural common schools and academies was more similar than different in New York in the antebellum era.

scholarly journals The study of effects of greenery on temperature reduction in urban areas

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (Suppl. 4) ◽  
pp. 988-1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Djekic ◽  
Petar Mitkovic ◽  
Milena Dinic-Brankovic ◽  
Milica Igic ◽  
Petar Djekic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Central City ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Tree Canopy ◽  
Surface Cooling ◽  
Temperature Reduction ◽  
Urban Greenery ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
The Impact

Urban landscape is largely characterized by high degree of built space, high share of artificial surface material and the reduction of green areas, which leads to changes in the microclimate and the deterioration of thermal comfort in out-door urban space. One of the most important roles of urban greenery is the impact on the reduction of air temperature due to less heating of green space com-pared to paved surfaces and due to tree shading. The paper analyses the influence of urban greenery on temperature reduction. Aim of the study was to measure the difference in warming up of grassy surfaces and paving materials commonly used for public areas and to evaluate the impact of tree shading on the surface cooling during the day. For this purpose, measuring of surface temperatures was performed during the summer months in 2015 in the central city zone of the city of Nis. The measuring included: grass, asphalt as most commonly used paving material, and concrete tiles commonly used for pedestrian areas. Results show the temperature of grass is significantly lower than the temperature of paved surface at any time of day. In the case of paved surfaces, temperature of shaded or partially shaded material is lower than the temperature of surface exposed to sunlight during the whole day, a temperature difference exists even after nocturnal cooling. The results indicate the importance of green areas for cooling of urban spaces, due to their lower warming and surface shading from tree canopy.

scholarly journals Valuing preferences for the removal of a disamenity from the Port Elizabeth harbour

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Du Preez ◽  
Deborah Lee ◽  
Leann Cloete
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Contingent Valuation Method ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Tank Farm ◽  
Valuation Method ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Port Elizabeth ◽  
Random Part ◽  
Parametric Estimate ◽  
Non Parametric

This paper examines the Nelson Mandela Bay public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for the removal of a local undesirable land use, the manganese ore dumps and the oil tank farm situated within the boundaries of the Port Elizabeth harbour, Eastern Cape, South Africa, by means of the contingent valuation method. Both a non-parametric and parametric estimate of the WTP is derived. Estimated WTP for the removal of this disamenity ranges from R47.09 to R93.21 per household. The aggregate WTP ranges from R13 489 683 to R26 701 496. Due to the sensitivity of the parametric estimate of WTP to functional form specification and the distribution of the random part of preferences, the less restricted non-parametric WTP estimate (R47.09) is more appropriate. The results of this study show that policy-makers should take heed of the importance communities attach to the location of pollution-creating activities in urban areas.

scholarly journals Lighting of urban green areas – the case of Grabiszyn Park in Wrocław. Searching for the balance between light and darkness through social and technical issues

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 00049
Author(s):  
Agata Łopuszyńska ◽  
Małgorzata Bartyna-Zielińska
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
Urban Greenery ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Urban Green Areas ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
Big City ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Local Awareness

Illuminating the urban green spaces could lead to conflicts of spatial, technical and social nature. This relatively new, though already global, problem is expected to grow bigger with the further increase of urban areas artificial brightness. The case of Grabiszyn Park in Wrocław is an example of how difficult it is to find a balance between big-city lights and a natural darkness. The situation is even more difficult if the light is not legally recognized as a significant source of air pollution and direct nuisance at the legal level. The aim of the paper is to recognize the broader perspective of urban greenery lighting issues, global recommendations basis and the local awareness. The authors also made an attempt to analyze and assess the project implementation, as well as to characterize the components of the quality of an urban green areas lighting.

scholarly journals Private and public schools: A spatial analysis of social segregation in France

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Courtioux ◽  
Tristan-Pierre Maury
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information Index ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
Private And Public

This article shifts our understanding of the geographies of education away from large cities. It provides a geographical and urban analysis of the contribution of differences in enrolment between the public and private sectors to social segregation in French middle schools. Using the mutual information index, we show that the contribution of public/private divergences is rising and is higher in middle-sized urban areas and central municipalities. These geographical areas, however, are not those where social segregation is highest, nor those where the private sector is commonly regarded as the main cause of segregation. Moreover, the gaps between the public and the private sectors are stronger at the local level. This confirms the idea that the private sector is indeed a tool for circumventing France’s School Map ( la Carte scolaire) for allocating places to pupils and that private schools create additional social differences locally.

scholarly journals Willingness to Pay for Improving Household Solid Waste Management in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Phan C. Chinh ◽  
Nguyen T.Q. Hung ◽  
Nguyen M. Ky ◽  
Nguyen T.L. Ai ◽  
Nguyen M. Tam
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Contingent Valuation Method ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Household Solid Waste ◽  
Valuation Method

Management of solid waste is a major challenge in urban areas of most parts of the world, especially in developing countries. The study aimed to determine and estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) of the selected households for the improvement of solid waste management in Vietnam. The research evaluated WTP of household solid waste in case studies in Bien Hoa and My Tho cities using contingent valuation method (CVM). The data were collected through a closed-ended questionnaire survey and interviews with 200 households. The results showed that the most willingness to pay was equal to 10,000 and 15,000 VND per month. The respondents were willing to pay in Bien Hoa and My Tho with an average of 14,450 VND (0.63 USD) and 13,000 VND (0.56 USD) per month, respectively. Regression model identified influential factors on WTP of households in the two cities of Vietnam. The factors that significantly influence households’ WTP were monthly household income, education of respondents, age, occupation and solid waste volume (p<0.05). The results of this study can be used for the urban planning and implemented the sustainable development process in Bien Hoa and My Tho cities.

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