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UNISA996213959203316 |
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Titolo |
Housing economics and public policy [[electronic resource] ] : essays in honour of Duncan Maclennan / / edited by Tony O'Sullivan and Kenneth Gibb |
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Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, USA, : Blackwell Science, 2003 |
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1-281-31860-4 |
9786611318604 |
0-470-79007-5 |
0-470-69068-2 |
0-470-68041-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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O'SullivanTony |
GibbKenneth |
MaclennanDuncan |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Housing policy |
Housing |
Housing policy - Great Britain |
Housing - Great Britain |
Huisvesting |
Huisvestingsbeleid |
4.240 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"RICS Foundation"--Cover. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-317) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Housing Economics and Public Policy; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Perspectives on theory; Policy and practice; Contributions to this book; Recurrent themes and key issues for the future; 2 Urban Housing Models; Introduction; Urban residential trade-off models; Filtering in urban housing markets; Simulation models of urban housing; Conclusions; 3 Segmentation, Adjustment and Disequilibrium; Introduction; The causes and consequences of housing market segmentation; A model of housing market |
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disequilibrium; Urban housing sub-market identification; Conclusions |
4 Transactions Costs and Housing MarketsIntroduction; A taxonomy; A simple model of transactions costs; Some policy implications; 5 Hedonic Pricing Models: a Selective and Applied Review; Introduction; What is a hedonic price index?; Repeat sales models; The roots of hedonic price models; Conceptual issues in hedonic modelling; Specification issues; Hedonic modelling: the current position; Examples of applications; Concluding thoughts; 6 Housing, Random Walks, Complexity and the Macroeconomy; Introduction; The relationship between housing and the macroeconomy; Are house prices predictable? |
Conclusions7 Taxation, Subsidies and Housing Markets; Introduction; Distributional issues; Tax arbitrage; Taxation, inefficiency and market processes; Concluding comments; 8 The Economics of Social Housing; Introduction: the role of economic analysis in social housing; Ef. ciency reasons for social housing provision; Housing as a means of redistribution; The governance of housing; Conclusions; 9 Neighbourhood Dynamics and Housing Markets; Introduction; Defining neighbourhood; Idiosyncrasies of neighbourhood; How neighbourhoods come to be; Changes in neighbourhood |
Implications for neighbourhood regeneration policySummary and conclusion; 10 Access to Home Ownership in the United States: the Impact of Changing Perspectives on Constraints to Tenure Choice; Introduction; Constraints to tenure choice - theory and empirical evidence; Wealth constraints and racial differences in ownership in the United States; Implications for the affordability debate; Summary and conclusion; 11 Planning Regulation and Housing Supply in a Market System; Introduction; Researching housing supply; Planning and regulation of land use; Setting up an inter-urban panel model |
Model resultsConclusions; 12 Economics and Housing Planning; Introduction; The policy and institutional framework; Housing plans in practice; The land use planning system and housing planning; The roots of the problem; Conclusions; 13 The Right to Buy in Britain; Introduction; Policy objectives; The evidence base for the 1980 legislation; Subsequent research on the statutory Right to Buy; The relationship between policy and research; The modernised or strategic Right to Buy in Scotland; Conclusions; 14 The Political Economy of Housing Research; Introduction |
Housing research resumes after World War II |
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This book is a timely assessment of 20 years of progress in the field of housing economics and its application to policy and practice. Two decades on from the publication of Duncan Maclennan's influential Housing Economics, 16 leading housing experts - both academics and policy makers from across the world - now honour Maclennan's contributions. The chapters here present a contemporary survey of key issues in housing, from urban housing markets and sub-market modelling, to the economics of social housing, the basis for housing planning, economic analysis of neighbourhoods, |
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UNINA9910960888303321 |
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Bioarchaeology of East Asia : movement, contact, health / / edited by Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-8130-4626-2 |
0-8130-4501-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (535 p.) |
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Collana |
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Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PechenkinaEkaterina A (Ekaterina Alexandrovna) |
OxenhamMarc |
LarsenClark Spencer |
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Disciplina |
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Human remains (Archaeology) - East Asia |
Excavations (Archaeology) - East Asia |
Human skeleton - Analysis |
Paleopathology - East Asia |
Paleoanthropology - East Asia |
East Asia Antiquities |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Research on human skeletal biology in East Asia: a historical overview / Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham -- 2. Human ecology in continental and insular East Asia / Kate Pechenkina and Marc Oxenham -- Part 1: Biological indicators of population histories in East Asia -- 3. The population history of China and Mongolia from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period (2500 BC-AD 1500) / Christine Lee -- 4. Mongolian origins and cranio-morphometric variability: Neolithic to Mongolian Period / Tumen Dashtseveg -- 5. A nonmetric comparative study of past and contemporary Mongolian and Northeast Asian crania / Erdene Myagmar -- 6. Tuberculosis and population movement across the Sea of Japan from the Neolithic Period to the Eneolithic / Takao Suzuki -- 7. Biological connections across the Sea of Japan: a multivariate comparison of ancient and more modern crania from |
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Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia / Michael Pietrusewsky -- 8. Population dispersal from East Asia into Southeast Asia: evidence from cranial and dental morphology / Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc Oxenham. Part II. Community health. 9. Conflict and trauma among nomadic pastoralists on China's northern frontier / Jacqueline T. Eng and Zhang Quanchao -- 10. Stresses of life: a preliminary study of degenerative joint disease and dental health among ancient populations of Inner Asia / Michelle L. Machicek and Jeremy J. Beach -- 11. Dental wear and oral health as indicators of diet among the early Qin People: a case study from the Xishan site, Gansu Province / Wei Miao, Wang Tao, Zhao Congcang, Liu Wu, and Wang Changsui -- 12. Yangshao oral health from West to East: effects of increasing complexity and contacts with neighbors / Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, Fan Wenquan, Wei Dong, and Zhang Quanchao -- 13. Life on the frontier: the paleopathology of human remains from the Chinese Early Imperial Taojiazhai Mortuary site / Zhang Jinglei -- 14. Bioarchaeological perspectives on systemic stress during the agricultural transition in prehistoric Japan / Daniel H. Temple and Clark Spencer Larsen -- 15. Change in the linear growth of long bones with the adoption of wet-rice agriculture in Japan / Kenji Okazaki -- 16. Trauma and infectious disease in Northern Japan: Okhotsk and Jomon / Marc Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Allison Drake -- 17. A paleohealth assessment of the Shih-San-Hang site from Iron Age Taiwan / Liu Chin-Hsin, John Krigbaum, Tsang Cheng-Hwa, and Liu Yi-Chang -- 18. Trajectories of health in early farming communities of East Asia / Kate Pechenkina, Ma Xiaolin, and Fan Wenquan -- 19. East Asian bioarchaeology: major trends in a temporally, genetically, and eco-culturally diverse region / Marc Oxenham and Kate Pechenkina. |
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Examines current understandings of human population histories, adaptations, dietary changes, and health variations within the geographical context of ancient east Asia. |
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