In yellow is the building that was in the site of the current Faraday Building (Map ‘Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland“): By the 1950s, the current Faraday Building along Victoria Street had been built, and the building on Addle Street had extended east, ...
Business support agencies were the Canterbury Development Corporation (CDC), which is the economic development arm of the Christchurch City Council, and the Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce (CECC). Government agencies included the Ministries of Economic and Social Development, New Zealand Trade ...
Social acceptance has also been described as a factor of knowledge and understanding of a practice (Kreye et al., 2019; McFarlane et al., 2012) whereby what people know and believe to be important contributes to building trust. In the absence of strong knowledge or understanding about a ...
Of course, I should have anticipated that the “conversation” wasn’t really going to be anything at all disinterested. If you were concerned about the way in which politics and society were going, and were interested in exploring common ground, rebuilding trust, engaging in efforts towards mut...
In New Zealand, the Corrections Department provides funding for only two halfway houses in the whole country – Moana house in Dunedin, and Salisbury Trust in Christchurch. These two facilities provide beds for a grand total of 25 ex-prisoners at any one time – bearing in mind that about ...
Using evidence from a case study of reforms in the building sector in Norway, and a case study of water and flood risk management in central Mexico, we analyze the implications of the adoption of the tenets of NPM for adaptive capacity. Our cases illustrate that some of the key attributes ...
2.1Existence Acceptance and Trust in Autonomous Service Robots in Public 2.1.1Existence Acceptance Co-existence describes a form of HRI which is indirect as humans and robots share the same space but not the same goal. The human mostly has the role of a bystander with the primary aim of avoi...
Although the number of texts on social capital is vast, for this research we adopt an operational definition based on Woolcock’s proposals [27] consisting in the construction of social ties of trust, solidarity, and reciprocity inside the community, linking with other communities and building syn...
India’s Urban Awakening: Building Inclusive Cities, Sustaining Economic Growth; McKinsey & Company: New York, NY, USA, 2010; Available online: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/urbanization/urban-awakening-in-india (accessed on 5 March 2023). Dhyani, S.; Lahoti, S.; Khare, S.; ...