Publications

Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development. The book presents a deep analysis of the ways that industrial states – both developed and developing – are currently unsustainable and how economic and social welfare are related to the environment, to public health and safety, and to earning capacity and meaningful and rewarding employment. In the book we offer multipurpose solutions to the sustainability challenge that integrate industrial development, employment, technology, environment, national and international law, trade, finance, and public and worker health and safety.

Sustainable Transportation: Indicators, Frameworks, and Performance Management provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability in the context of transportation planning, management, and decision-making. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, indicators and frameworks for measuring sustainable development in the transportation sector are developed. In the second, we analyze actual planning and decision-making in transportation agencies in a variety of governance settings. This analysis of real-world case studies demonstrates the benefits and limitations of current approaches to sustainable development in transportation. The book concludes with a discussion on how to make sustainability count in transportation decision-making and practice.

Journal Articles (peer reviewed)

Manthapuri, S., & Hall, R. P. (2023). Does the economic DNA of the city exist? Science Talks, 100240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sctalk.2023.100240
Velez, A.-L., Hall, R. P., & Lewis, S. N. (2021). Designing transdisciplinarity: Exploring institutional drivers and barriers to collaborative transdisciplinary teaching. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/15236803.2021.1992196.
GC, R. K., Hall, R. P., & Hammett, A. L. (2021). Thinking beyond domestic water supply: approaches to advance multiple-use water systems (MUS) in the rural hills of Nepal. Water International, 47(1), 92–113. DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2021.1966976.
Holm, R. H., Hall, R. P., Muthukrishnan, S., Munthali, T., & Sinda, M. (2021). Promoting multiple-use water services by leveraging existing rural water supply and smallholder farmer groups, Malawi. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 37(2), 321–338. DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2020.1765745.
An, Y., Hall, R. P., & Yoon, T. (2021). The Complex Relationship between Capacity and Infrastructure Project Delivery: The Case of the Indian National Urban Renewal Mission. Sustainability, 13(16), 9356. DOI: 10.3390/su13169356.
Gupta, K. & Hall, R. P. (2021). Exploring Smart City Project Implementation Risks in the Cities of Kakinada and Kanpur. Journal of Urban Technology, 28(1-2), 155–173. DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2020.1796115.
Gupta, K., Zhang, W., & Hall, R. P. (2021). Risk priorities and their co-occurrences in smart city project implementation: Evidence from India’s Smart Cities Mission (SCM). Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(4), 880–894. DOI: 10.1177/2399808320907607.
GC, R. K., Ranganathan, S., Hammett, A. L., & Hall, R. P. (2020). What factors determine the technical performance of community-managed rural water systems in the middle hills of Nepal? Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 11(2), 222–230. DOI: 10.2166/washdev.2020.189.
GC, R. K. & Hall, R. P. (2020). The Commercialization of Smallholder Farming—A Case Study from the Rural Western Middle Hills of Nepal. Agriculture, 10(5), 143. DOI: 10.3390/agriculture10050143.
Ashford, N. A., Hall, R. P., Arango-Quiroga, J., Metaxas, K. M., & Showalter, A. L. (2020). Addressing Inequality: The First Step Beyond COVID-19 and towards Sustainability. Sustainability, 12(13), 5404. DOI: 10.3390/su12135404.
Gupta, K. & Hall, R. P. (2020). Understanding the What, Why, and How of Becoming a Smart City: Experiences from Kakinada and Kanpur. Smart Cities 3(2), 232-247. DOI: 10.3390/smartcities3020014.
Hall, R. P., Ashford, R., Ashford, N. A., & Arango-Quiroga, J. (2019). Universal Basic Income and Inclusive Capitalism: Consequences for Sustainability. Sustainability, 11(16), 4481. DOI: 10.3390/su11164481.
Domínguez, I., Oviedo-Ocaña, E. R., Hurtado, K., Barón, A., & Hall, R. P. (2019). Assessing Sustainability in Rural Water Supply Systems in Developing Countries Using a Novel Tool Based on Multi-Criteria Analysis. Sustainability, 11(19), 5363. DOI: 10.3390/su11195363. Supplementary material.
GC, R. K., Ranganathan, S., & Hall, R. P. (2019). Does Rural Water System Design Matter? A Study of Productive Use of Water in Rural Nepal. Water, 11(10), 1978. DOI: 10.3390/w11101978.
Yeganeh, A. J., Pearce, A. R., Hall, R. P., & Hankey, S. (2018). A social equity analysis of the U.S. public transportation system based on job accessibility. Journal of Transportation and Land Use, 11(1), 1039–1056. DOI: 10.5198/jtlu.2018.1370.
Stedman, S., Mnyimbiri, A. M., Kawonga, Z., Malota, M., Njera, D., Hall, R. P., & Holm, R. (2018). Using irrigation to kick-start multiple-use water services for small-scale farmers in Malawi: A case study of the Nkhata Bay District. Irrigation and Drainage, 67(5), 645–653. DOI: 10.1002/ird.2282.
Ashford, N. A., & Hall, R. P. (2018). Achieving Global Climate and Environmental Goals by Governmental Regulatory Targeting. Ecological Economics, 152, 246–259. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.06.002.
Ashford, R., Hall, R. P., & Ashford, N. A. (2017). Koncepcja binary approach jako instrument kształtowania zrównoważonego wzrostu. Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 4, 191-201. DOI: 10.14746/rpeis.2017.79.4.15.
An, Y., Garvin, M., & Hall, R. P. (2017). Pathways to Better Project Delivery: the Link between Capacity Factors and Urban Infrastructure Projects in India. World Development, 94, 393–405. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.02.004.
Hall, R. P., Ranganathan, S, & Raj, G. C. (2017). A General Micro-level Modeling Approach to Analyzing Interconnected SDGs: Achieving SDG 6 and More through Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS). Sustainability, 9(2), 314. DOI: 10.3390/su9020314.
Chirwa, C. F. C, Holm, R. H., Hall, R. P., Krometis, L-A, H., Vance, E., Edwards, A., & Guan, T. (2017). Pit latrine fecal sludge resistance using a dynamic cone penetrometer in low income areas in Mzuzu city, Malawi. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(2), 87. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph14020087.
van Houweling, E., Hall, R. P., Carzolio, M., & Vance, E. (2016). My neighbor drinks clean water, while I continue to suffer;” an analysis of the intra-community and intra-household impacts of a rural water project in Mozambique. Journal of Development Studies, 53(8), 1147–1162. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1224852.
Hall, R. P., van Houweling, E., Huang, W., & Vance, E. (2015). Willingness to Pay for VIP Latrines in Rural Senegal. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 5(4), 586-593. DOI: 10.2166/washdev.2015.053.
Hall, R. P., Vance, E., & van Houweling, E. (2015). Upgrading Domestic-Plus Systems in Rural Senegal: An Incremental Income-Cost (I-C) Analysis. Water Alternatives 8(3): 317-336.
Hall, R. P., Vance, E., & van Houweling, E. (2014). The Productive Use of Rural Piped Water in Senegal. Water Alternatives 7(3), 480-498.
Bryce, J, Flintsch, G., & Hall, R. P. (2014). A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Technique for Sustainable Infrastructure Management Business Practices. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 32, 435-445. DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2014.08.019.
Seiss, M., Vance, E., & Hall, R. P. (2014). The Importance of Cleaning Data During Fieldwork: Evidence from Mozambique. Survey Practice 7(4), 1–11. DOI: 10.29115/SP-2014-0017.
Hall, R. P. (2014). Teaching Using Google Glass and Apps: Creating a platform to enable the fluid and continuous exchange of ideas and information. The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
Hall, R. P., van Koppen, B., & van Houweling, E. (2013). The Human Right to Water: The Importance of Domestic and Productive Uses of Water. Science and Engineering Ethics. 20(4), 849–868. DOI: 10.1007/s11948-013-9499-3.
van Houweling, E., Hall, R. P., Sakho Diop, A., Davis, J., & Seiss, M. (2012). The role of productive water use in women’s livelihoods: Evidence from rural Senegal. Water Alternatives 5(3), 658-677.
Ashford, N. A., Hall, R. P., & Ashford, R. (2012). The Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Environmental Sustainability. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2, 1-22.
Ashford, N. A. & Hall, R. P. (2011). The Importance of Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development. Sustainability, 3(1), 270-292. DOI: 10.3390/su3010270.
Ramani, T. L., Zietsman, J., Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R. P., and Marsden, G. (2011). Framework for Sustainability Assessment by Transportation Agencies. Transportation Research Record, 2242(1), 9-18. DOI: 10.3141/2242-02.
Burton, M. A. & Hall, R. P. (1999.) Asset Management for Irrigation Systems: Addressing the Issue of Serviceability. Irrigation and Drainage Systems, 13(2), 145-163. DOI: 10.1023/A:1006295501430.

Books

Ashford, N. A. & Hall, R. P. (2018). Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State. Revised Edition. Routledge.
Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R. P., Marsden, G., & Zietsman, J. (2015). Sustainable Transportation: Indicators, Frameworks, and Performance Management. Springer or Samfundslitteratur, pages 304.
Ashford, N. A. & Hall, R. P. (2011). Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State. Yale University Press, New Haven, pages 752.

Book Chapters

Hall, R., & Ranganathan, S. (2021). Completing the cycle: An Inclusive Capitalism approach linking sustainable consumption and production. In Sustainable Consumption and Production: Volume I, pp. 65-84. Palgrave Macmillan. 10.1007/978-3-030-56371-4_4.
Hall, R. P., Gudmundsson, H., Marsden, G., & Zietsman, J. (2014). Sustainable Transportation. The Encyclopedia of Transportation: Social Science and Policy, SAGE, pp. 1300-1305.

Book Reviews:

Hall, R. P. (2012). Book Review. Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 32, 240-242.

Magazine Articles

Hall R. P. & Ashford N. A. (2020). Covid-19 Could Be an Opportunity to Combat Inequality. Tribune Magazine, August 4, 2020. [This short article summarizes the main ideas captured in the 2020 Sustainability article.]
Ashford, N. A., Hall, R. P., & Ashford, R. (2012). Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Environmental and Financial Sustainability. The European Financial Review, October-November, 2012, 63-68.
Ashford, R., Hall, R. P., & Ashford, N. A. (2012). Broadening Capital Acquisition with the Earnings of Capital as a Means of Sustainable Growth and Environmental Sustainability. The European Financial Review, October-November, 2012, 70-74.
Ashford, N. A. & Hall, R. P. (2012). Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development. Administrative & Regulatory Law News, Spring 2012, 37(3), 21-23.

Research Reports

Agnew, J., Hall, R. P., Mwangi, J., Sumner, D., & Kristofikova, N. (2022). The Impact of Blockchain Technology on Food Insecurity through African Indigenous Vegetables in Western Kenya: Final Report. USAID LASER PULSE, 73 pages. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/110444.
Majawa, F. & Hall, R. P. (2021). Establishment of a data centre at Mzuzu University: A Survey of anticipations and aspirations of key project stakeholders. IASSIST Quarterly 45(3-4), pp. 1-13. DOI: 0.29173/iq999.
Agnew, J., Mwangi, J., Hall, R. P., Sumner, D., & Kristofikova, N. (2021). Transaction and Information Pain Points in African Indigenous Vegetable Value Chains in Western Kenya: A Gender-Responsive AIV Value Chain and Market Analysis Report. USAID LASER PULSE, 09 Jul 2021. 46 pages. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/111357.
Hall, R. P., Ranganathan, S., Agnew, J., Christie, M. E., Clark, S., Kirk, G., Lucero, C., & Archibald, T. (2019). Virginia Tech Food Access and Security Study. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/95218.
van Houweling, E., Botta, R., Hall, R. P., Holm, R., Tembo, M., & Jenkins, M. (2017). Marion Medical Mission Shallow Well Evaluation. Submitted to Marion Medical Mission, November 2017.
Hall, R. P., van Houweling, E., Polys, N., Wenzel, S., & Williams, P. (2015). Interdisciplinary Exploratory Research: Visualizing Water Services for Decision Making. Field Report. Submitted to the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Tech, August 2015.
Hall, R. P., Davis, J., van Houweling, E., Vance, E., Carzolio, M., Seiss, M., & Russel, K. (2014). Impact Evaluation of the Mozambique Rural Water Supply Activity Under a Cooperative Agreement between MCC and Stanford University. Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, April 15, 2014, 120 pages. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1498.9844.
Hall, R. P., van Houweling, E., Vance, E., Carzolio, M., & Davis, J. (2014). Evaluation of Eight Small-Scale Solar Systems in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, April 15, 2014, 51 pages.
Hall, R. P., Davis, J., Vance, E., van Houweling, E., Carzolio, M., & Russel, K. (2013). Impact Evaluation Design and Implementation Report. Impact Evaluation of the Rural Water Activity in Nampula, Mozambique. Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, April 30, 2013, 35 pages.
Hall, R. P. & Puckett, E. (2013). Analysis of TRB’s Research Needs Statements (RNS) Database for Records Related to Sustainability, Virginia Tech, pages 22.
Hall, R. P. & Davis, J. (2012). Impact Evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation-Supported Rural Water Supply Activity (RWSA) in Nampula, Mozambique. Mid-Term Report. Submitted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation, June 30, 2012, pages 94.
Hall, R. P., van Houweling, E., Vance, E., Hope, R., & Davis, J. (2011). Assessing the Link between Productive use of Domestic Water, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainability. Senegal Country Report. Submitted to the Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank, September 9, 2011, pages 95.
Davis, J., Hall, R. P., Hope, R., Marks, S., & van Houweling, E. (2011). Assessing the Link between Productive use of Domestic Water, Poverty Reduction, and Sustainability. Synthesis Report. Submitted to the Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank, September 9, 2011, pages 35.

Data

Hall, R. P., Agnew, J., Petrie, L., Liu, W., & North, C. (2024). 2021 VT Food Access and Wellbeing Survey. Center for Open Science. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/BNUQV.

Conference Papers/Proceedings/Working Papers

Ashford, N. A. & Hall, R. P. (2016). Disrupting Innovation Driven by Governmental Regulatory Targeting, Not Slow Guided Incremental Innovation Involving Incumbents is What is Needed to Transform the Industrial State. Paper presented by Nicholas Ashford at the 2016 Berlin conference on Global Environmental Change: Transformative Global Climate Governance, Berlin, 23-24 May, 2016.
Hall, R. P., van Koppen, B., van Houweling, E., & Kurian, M. (2015). The Human Right to Domestic and Productive Water. Policy Brief published on ResearchGate.
Ashford, N. A. & Hall, R. P. (2015). Making Serious Inroads into Achieving Sustainable Development: Is Strategic Niche Management/Transition Management Sufficient to Transform the Industrial State? Paper presented by Nicholas Ashford at the 6th International Sustainability Transitions (IST) Conference, University of Sussex Campus (Falmer), UK.
Crawford, D., Davenport, J., Dustin, J., Gilbert, C., Gray, K., Hall, R. P., Hahn, E., Hu, D., Kniola, D., Lee, S., Patrick, C., Sparrow, J., & Yacovelli, J. (2014). Google Glass: A Tech Teams White Paper, Tech Teams, Virginia Tech.
An, Y., Hall, R. P., & Garvin, M. (2014). Promoting SID (Sustainable Infrastructure Development): Strategies for India and the US. Paper presented by Yehyun An at the International Symposium on New Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia (USMCA2013), October 9-11, 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam.
An, Y. & Hall, R. P. (2013). Capacity Factors for Implementing Urban Infrastructure Projects in India. Paper presented by Yehyun An at the International Symposium on New Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega Cities in Asia (USMCA2013), October 9-11, 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Sanchez, T. & Hall, R. P. (2014). Social Network Analysis of TRB Standing Committees. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 12-16, 2014, in Washington, D.C.
van Houweling, E. & Hall, R. P. (2010). Assessing the Benefits of Productive Water Use on Women’s Lives: A Conceptual Framework developed from Focus Groups in Senegal. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Washington, D.C., April 2010. [Diagram from paper.]
Ramani, T. L., Zietsman, J., Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R. P., & Marsden, G. (2010). A Generally Applicable Sustainability Assessment Framework for Transportation Agencies. Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 24-27, 2011, in Washington, D.C.
Hall, R. P., Ashford, N. A., & Söderbaum, P. (2008). Trade-off Analysis (with a revised Rawlsian Decision-Making Philosophy) as an Alternative to Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) in Socio-technical Decisions. Proceedings of the COST 356 Seminar, Towards the Definition of a Measurable Environmentally Sustainable Transport, 20 February 2008, TOI, Oslo, Norway, 79-104.
Hall, R. P. & Ashford, N. A. (2007). Trade-off/Positional Analysis (with a Rawlsian Approach to Equity) as an Alternative to Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) in Socio-technical Decisions. Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 21-25, 2007, Washington, D.C.
Hall, R. P. & Sussman, J. (2006). Promoting the Concept of Sustainable Transportation within the Federal System – The Need to Reinvent the U.S. DOT. Working Paper ESD-WP-2006-13. MIT, Engineering Systems Division.
Hall, R. P. (2006). The Federal Role in Achieving Sustainability in Transportation. Paper presented at the New Scholars Conference on Sustainable Transportation, May 15-16, 2006, Indiana University.
Hall, R. P. & Sussman, J. (2004). Sustainable Transportation – A Strategy for System Change. Working Paper ESD-WP-2004-02. MIT, Engineering Systems Division.
Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J., Field, F., Hall, R. P., Kirchain, R., Marks, D. H., Oye, K., & Sussman, J. M. (2004). Sustainability as an Organizing Design Principle for Large-Scale Engineering Systems. Chapter 8 of the MIT Engineering Systems Division’s (ESD’s) ‘Engineering Systems Monograph.’

Videos

This Is USG: Episode 30 – Sustainability and Community Wealth Building (Dr. Ralph Hall) (June 2021)
Riccardo Mastini’s Presentation to the Spring 2021 VT Honors SuperStudio (May 2021)
Virtual Hooding of My Summer/Fall 2020 PhD Graduates (December 2020)
A message for the 2020 SPIA undergraduates (May 2020)
Grace Blakeley – Introductory Remarks to the VT Honors SuperStudio (April 2020)
Payton Green to Grace Blakeley – How to build a “populist narrative”? (April 2020)
Natalie Serio to Grace Blakeley – How to create an influential social media platform? (April 2020)
McKenna Magoffin to Grace Blakeley – Is there a way to “hack” financialization? (April 2020)
Lorena Beltran to Grace Blakeley – Impacts of COVID-19 on efforts to advance the Green New Deal? April 2020)
Caitlín Adams to Grace Blakeley – Where to study heterodox economics? (April 2020)
Ralph Hall to Grace Blakeley – Will automation/AI undermine efforts to strengthen unions/labor? (April 2020)
Lonnie Hamilton III to Grace Blakeley – Thoughts on democratic socialism in Nordic countries? (April 2020)
VT Navy ROTC Helps the Mzuni Library Initiative (November 2018)
Second Mzuni Delegation Visits Virginia Tech (August 2018)
Bus Ad Installation for the Smart and Sustainable Cities (SSC) Major (August 2018)
2018 PUA and EPP Graduation Video (May 2018)
CAUS Dean’s Discussion: Innovation Ecologies – Changing Universities (December 2017)
The 2018 VT-VUU Beloved Community Initiative Essay Contest (November 2017)
Malawi Team Spirit 2017 (July 2017)
2017 EPP and PUA Graduation (May 2017)
Dr. Virgil Wood: Three questions you must answer during your life (March 2017)
Mzuni Library Initiative 2016 (December 2016)
Virginia Tech 100&Change: Inclusive and Sustainable Prosperity for All (September 2016)
Organizing Books for Mzuzu University (June 2016)
Selma Elouardighi’s 2016 Commencement (May 2016)
Organizing Books for Mzuzu University (April 2016)
Mzuni Library Initiative (March 2016)
2015 Graduate Commencement (May 2015)
2015 Graduate Commencement Ceremony at Virginia Tech (A faculty perspective) (May 2015)
3.2-Mile Run in Remembrance (April 2015)
“Experience VT” Through Glass (October 2014)
Conversation with Prof. Sudhir Misra about the IITK-VT Partnership (October 2014).
Using Google Glass at Virginia Tech (April 2014).
Student Feedback on Using Google Glass and Apps in Teaching (April 2014).
Leveraging Statistics to Improve Data Quality (April 2013).

Theses

Hall, R. P. (2006) Understanding and Applying the Concept of Sustainable Development to Transportation Planning and Decision-making in the U.S. Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pages 872.
Hall, R. P. (2002) Introducing the Concept of Sustainable Transportation to the U.S. DOT through the Reauthorization of TEA-21. Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pages 203.
Hall, R. P., Marsden, A., Penn, C., and Self, J. (1999) Asset Management Investment Planning for Irrigation Schemes. Group Thesis/Design Project, The University of Southampton, pages 161.
Hall, R. P. (1998) The Development of an Irrigation Serviceability Matrix for use in Asset Management Planning for Irrigation Schemes. Masters Thesis, The University of Southampton, pages 76.