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Monica A. Haddad is a Professor in the Department of Community and Regional Planning, at Iowa State University. Environmental justice is the driving force of her scholarship. Dr. Haddad research has followed four related themes: social justice, social development, environmental planning, and economic development. Because of the applied nature of her research, she usually develops case studies located in Brazil and the U.S.
Her website can be viewed at: www.monicahaddad.net
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Urban heat islands (UHIs) are one of the major global issues that need to be addressed because of the negative effects that higher temperatures can cause to people and the environment, such as health issues and higher energy consumption. Within the literature on climate justice, specifically heat inequity, there are very few studies about Global So...
This study explores the formation of economic complexity within a city from the Global South, during 2011–2019. It proposes an expanded interpretation of the Economic Complexity Index (ECI) to be applied at the intra-urban context of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, focusing on three different spatial levels of analysis (i.e., local, neighbourhood, and comm...
This study makes a methodological contribution by exploring the relationship between motor vehicle traffic crashes at intersections and the built environment. The study focuses on specific neighborhoods within the city of Des Moines, Iowa, with contrasting socio-economic characteristics to examine variation between the neighborhoods. Exploratory sp...
This study evaluates the use of virtual, human-interpreted, field observations using Google Street View (GSV) to examine the presence of conditions that may be used to analyze green gentrification in the Global South. We propose that green gentrification is characterized by the introduction or improvement of green amenities (such as parks) as well...
Mining brings about positive and negative changes for the residents of regions that are heavily dependent on such economic activity. In Brazil, the so-called Iron Quadrangle fits within a complex regional arrangement that results in various conflicts of interest between different stakeholders, which complicates decision-making processes regarding m...
Micropolitan areas (between 10,000 and 50,000 people) are not immune to economic shocks that threaten their vitality. Factors related to economic shocks can range from local companies leaving a town or national economic crises affecting local economies. Using the perspective of local micropolitan area stakeholders, this research seeks to identify w...
This paper examines residential income segregation and individual commuting time to work in a sub-region of the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region (BHMR), in Brazil. The main goal of this case study is to test the spatial mismatch hypothesis, with specific attention drawn to change in commute duration from 2000 to 2010. The methodology includes spa...
(Lucas Magalhães, co-author)
In this article we present a case study using the evaluation model of Carl Steinitz Geodesign framework. The evaluation model is used to identify suitable sites for bike stations for a bike share program in Ames, a college town where Iowa State University (ISU) is located. The proposed methodology can be applied to other site suitability analysis....
We present a case study using the evaluation model of Carl Steinitz Geodesign framework. The evaluation model is used to identify suitable sites for bike stations for a bike share program in Ames, a college town where Iowa State University (ISU) is located. The proposed methodology can be applied to other site suitability analysis. First, we, the p...
The presentation is based on an extensive literature review of cities that have been strategizing to improve water and sanitation services, under the pressure of climate change. From an urban planning perspective, compiling strategies that are presently successful in urban areas in the Global South is essential to progress in ensuring access to wat...
This article examines how beneficiaries of Brazil’s Bolsa Família (BFP) conditional cash transfer program find employment in a Brazilian municipality and assesses their participation in decent work. Using Belo Horizonte as a case study, researchers conducted a survey of BFP recipients. The article compares responses of informally and formally emplo...
In this presentation, I highlight the importance of income segregation in urban mobility, and emphasize that improving some urban characteristics may help promote upward mobility for the urban poor. Using a Brazilian metropolitan sub-region as a case study, I look for empirical evidence to expand part of Chetty et al. geography of mobility approach...
We examined whether Brazil’s educational spending on public primary schools resulted in better quality of education, 2003–2009. Our hypothesis was municipalities that received higher government spending on primary education had higher student tests scores. We used a panel analysis with fixed effects, including a simulated instrumental variable to c...
Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management. Utrecht, Netherlands. July 2-5 2013
This study uses spatial regressions and spatial statistics to examine the changes in the distribution of Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) households within an expanded San Francisco Bay Area region. From 2000 to 2010, the density of HCV households grew disproportionately across the region, and areas of significant increase emerged in both the region’s...
Brazil faces numerous environmental challenges despite having many laws and policies in place. The implementation process of such laws and policies does not exist a majority of the time, affecting the quality of environmental governance in the country. Within the urban planning context, the City Statute law enacted in 2001 included the environmenta...
Conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) are common strategies for social protection worldwide. One of the largest is Brazil’s Bolsa Família (BF) program, which reaches millions of households (Fiszbein et al 2009). BF provides direct cash transfer to poor families who agree to keep their children in school. However, BF does not directly help adult...
Urban parks are community assets, providing people places to play and rest. Access to parks in urban environments promotes social equity and improves quality of life for surrounding neighborhoods. In this context, social equity is related to accessibility, i.e. the possibility of walking or biking from home to a public park, giving people who do no...
A Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte é composta por 34 municípios e apresentou diferentes eixos de crescimento (norte, sul e oeste) ao longo do tempo, sobretudo nos últimos 10 anos. Esse crescimento aconteceu principalmente em 19 municípios, que compõem um conjunto onde se encontra 79.68% da população da RMBH, e onde vivem 4.314.967 habitantes....
(Shannon Thol and Gary Taylor, co-authors)
The Corn Belt has experienced a rapid expansion of corn-based ethanol plants. This has provided researchers the opportunity to examine the relative importance to the renewable fuels industry of several location factors previously identified as important to agro-industries. Using probit regressions, this study identifies the factors significant to e...
The bioeconomy is changing the landscape of some U.S. Corn Belt states. Not surprisingly, Iowans are experiencing significant effects from the developing ethanol industry, and many, including Greene County residents, are becoming more aware of bioeconomic trends. Knowing that positive and negative impacts arise as bioeconomic initiatives evolve in...
In this chapter, we use two urban indicators to examine intra-urban inequalities in the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil:
the Human Development Index (HDI), from the United Nations Development Program, and the Economic Concentration Index (ECI),
proposed in this study. Using district-level data, we apply Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) me...
(Ana Fava, co-author)
In this study, we use geographic information systems technology to identify potential locations in a Midwestern region for collection and storage of corn stover for use as biomass feedstock. Spatial location models are developed to identify potential collection sites along an existing railroad. Site suitability analysis is developed based on two ma...
This paper examines whether the Brazilian social programme Bolsa Família is contributing to greater social equality within the country. As a measure of success, we rely on the programme's impact on public-school enrolment, which we consider an input for social equity. Our findings show that policy makers should continue with the same system of allo...
(Karen Quance Jeske, co-author)
(Gary Taylor and Francis Owusu, co-authors)
Social inequality is a continuing problem in Brazil, but as president, Luiz Inãcio Lula da Silva has focused more attention on the issue than his predecessors. When he took office in January 2003, Lula created the new Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome) to manage the countr...
(Kelly Delmonico, co-author).
(Raul A. C. Santos, co-author).
Like many cities in developing countries, Sao Paulo, Brazil, is characterized by major intra-urban inequalities with respect to human development. The center-periphery spatial regimes are the most obvious spatial manifestation of this phenomenon. In this paper we apply confirmatory spatial data analysis to examine these inequalities and their relat...
(Julie Le Gallo and Rachel Guillain, co-authors).
