The paper analyses potentials, challenges and problems of the rural tourism from the point of view of its impact on sustainable rural development. It explores alternative sources of income for rural people by means of tourism and investigates effects of the rural tourism on agricultural production in local rural communities. The aim is to identify the existing and potential tourist attractions ...

Antitrust law provides that successful private plaintiffs are entitled to treble damages. Despite this, in antitrust class action litigation, courts have subtly dismantled the treble damage regime by manipulating the standard for reviewing proposed settlements. Federal law requires judicial approval of class action settlements in order to ensure that the class members’ interests are adequately ...

Rapid urbanization on the coast of China has attracted much attention. The objective of this study was to explore the differences in dynamics and related driving forces between urban and rural settlements. Applying the quantitative method, we demonstrate that substantial heterogeneity in settlement growth, landscape pattern metrics, change, land sources and driving forces is exhibited across th...

In Bangladesh, the health risks of unplanned urbanization are disproportionately shouldered by the urban poor. At the same time, affordable formal primary care services are scarce, and what exists is almost exclusively provided by non-government organizations (NGOs) working on a project basis. So where do the poor go for health care? A health facility mapping of six urban slum settlements in Dh...

Although perceptions of landscape aesthetics are currently attracting great research interest, some aspects of the topic have remained almost unexamined. This review highlights some less studied areas that are of particular importance for landscape management, with special focus on rapidly growing exurban areas. While the visual quality of the environment is undoubtedly one of the drivers that ...

Final offer arbitration (FOA) and conventional arbitration (ARE) are compared as mechanisms for settling labor disputes. It is recognized that the parties can manipulate their final offers under FOA in order to achieve a more desirable outcome, and the equilibrium pair of final offers is derived as a function of the uncertainty about the arbitrator's award and the relative risk preferences of t...

Purpose The purpose of this article is the discussion a service-learning experience in architecture pedagogy, based on two core courses at private university Mexico. aim to identify learning opportunities, challenges and implications arising from engaging with inhabitants an informal urban settlement limited digital resources La Campana-Altamira Monterrey, Design/methodology/approach methodolog...

The ecological reconstruction forms and methods of rural settlements were explored in the paper. The construction project of Hedong town resettlement was as research subject in order to reconstruct the traditional rural settlements. The location settlement, settlement distribution form and space of street, and the reconstruction of ecological architecture system were used as research method. Th...

Intention spaces can be described as the implicit definition of the kinds of settlements that an agent is in principal willing to accept in order to perform a transaction in an electronic market. This intention space might, for instance, define the desired range of disk sizes or the maximum price for a computer. Explicit offers to buy or sell can then be issued or evaluated on the basis of this...