Resumen-La sociedad actual demanda el desarrollo de sistemas que den soporte al trabajo colaborativo (CSCW). Sin embargo, su inherente complejidad dificulta la especificación de los requisitos reales, así como su producción rápida y barata. Para analizar, diseñar y desarrollar sistemáticamente este tipo de sistemas en el seno de nuestro grupo de investigación se ha creado la metodología AMENITI...

This paper and the proposed formulation contribute to an apparent gap in transit research design by integrating equity considerations into the transit frequency-setting problem. The proposed approach provides a means to design transit service such that equitable access to basic amenities (e.g., employment, supermarkets, medical services) is provided for lowincome populations or disadvantaged po...

Environmental hazards caused by living conditions and human behaviour in residential areas are types of manmade hazards which have rarely been studied and documented in literature. Available studies that had considered theconventional residential environment had proved that residents’ perception were influenced by human and environmental factors. With focus on educational institutions, this pap...

Global warming is a worldwide and protracted phenomenon with heterogeneous local economic effects. In order to evaluate the aggregate consequences of higher temperatures, we propose dynamic assessment model world economy high spatial resolution. Our features number mechanisms through which individuals can adapt global warming, including costly trade migration, technological innovations natality...

We use GIS and econometric methods to estimate the marginal implicit values of environmental amenities associated with residential land parcels in the mountain town of Logan, Utah. Amenities include proximity to open spaces (such as parks, golf courses and lakes), commercial zones, major roads, streams, and general visibility of surrounding topography in the valley as determined by the elevatio...

Public health is increasingly engaging with multi-faceted obesity prevention efforts. Although parks represent key community assets for broader public health, they may not be distributed equitably and associations with obesity are equivocal. We investigated park access and quality relative to deprivation and obesity with individual-level data from the Yorkshire Health Study. Compared to the lea...

In this paper we analyze the effect of increasing labor (i.e. graduates’/academics’) and student mobility on net tax revenues when revenuemaximizing governments compete for human capital by means of income tax rates and amenities offered to students (positive expenditure) or rather tuition fees (negative expenditure). We demonstrate that these instruments are strategic complements and that incr...

BACKGROUND One strategy to address health problems related to insufficient physical activity is to examine modifiable neighborhood characteristics associated with active transportation. PURPOSE The aim of this study is to evaluate whether neighborhoods with more aesthetic amenities (sidewalk cafés, street trees, and clean sidewalks) and fewer safety hazards (pedestrian-auto fatalities and hom...

OBJECTIVE We examined the association of neighborhood social and physical characteristics with ADHD, accounting for individual and family factors. METHOD The 2007 National Survey of Child Health, a nationally representative data set, was used (N = 64,076). Three neighborhood scales were generated: social support, amenities, and disorder. Logistic and ordinal logistic regressions were conducte...