Abstract Local control of land-use regulation creates a not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) problem that can suppress housing construction, contributing to rising prices and potentially slowing economic growth. I study how increased local affects production by exploiting common electoral reform—changing from “at-large” “ward” elections for town council. These reforms, which are not typically motivated m...

In the past few years, social research has been examining what contributes to the attitude-behaviour gap in people's responses to large-scale renewable energy technologies. The NIMBY explanation for the gap has long dominated that area of research, but has also been criticised. Alternative proposals to NIMBY were advanced, but it is still evident that some of those maintain presuppositions of N...

yard crane is an important resource in container terminals. efficient utilization of the yard crane significantly improves the productivity and the profitability of the container terminal. this paper presents a mixed integer programming model for the yard crane scheduling problem with non- interference constraint that is nphard in nature. in other words, one of the most important constraints in...

Tony was my first social service case; the child had failed to attend the clinic regularly, and the hospital sent me into the crowded back street where he lived to visit his home and discover what kept him from his treatments. The house at the address given me proved to be a dilapidated, tipsy looking, two story affair, with a front porch that tilted rakishly forward, and a patch of front yard ...