Ralph P Hall

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Major Works:

 Articles/Books in Process:

• Gupta, K., Zhang, W., and Hall, R.P. (under development) Framework for risk classification and analysis of smart city projects’ implementation in India.
• An, Y. and Hall, R. P. (under development) The Complex Relationship between Capacity and Project Delivery in Urban Infrastructure Development in India.
• Paysour, J., Hall, R. P., and Ashford, R. (under development) Productivity and Inequality: How advancing productivity has put us further behind and farther apart.
• Stedman, S., Mnyimbiri, A. M., Kawonga, Z., Malota, M., Njera, D., Hall, R. P., and Holm, R. (submitted for review) Using irrigation to kick -start multiple -use water services for small-scale farmers in Malawi: A case study of Nkhata Bay District.
• Ashford, N.A. and Hall, R.P (revise resubmit) Making Serious Inroads into Achieving Global Climate Goals: Disrupting Innovation Driven by Governmental Regulatory Targeting
• Ashford, N.A. and Hall, R.P. (under contract) Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State. Second Edition.

Published Articles:

• An, Y., Garvin, M., and 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.
• Hall, R. P., Ranganathan, S, and 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.
• Chirwa, C. F. C, Holm, R. H., Hall, R. P., Krometis, L-A, H., Vance, E., Edwards, A., and 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.
• Van Houweling, E., Hall, R. P., Carzolio, M., and 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. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1224852.
• Hall, R. P., Van Houweling, E., Huang, W., and Vance, E. (2015) Willingness to Pay for VIP Latrines in Rural Senegal. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 5(4) 586-593.
• Hall, R. P., Vance, E., and 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., and Van Houweling, E. (2014) The Productive Use of Rural Piped Water in Senegal. Water Alternatives 7(3): 480-498.
• Bryce, J, Flintsch, G., and 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., and, Hall, R. P. (2014) The Importance of Cleaning Data During Fieldwork: Evidence from Mozambique. Survey Practice 7(4).
• 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., and 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.
• Ashford, N. A., Hall, R. P., and Ashford, R. (2012) Addressing the Crisis in Employment and Consumer Demand: Reconciliation with Environmental and Financial Sustainability. The European Financial Review, October-November, 2012, pp. 63-68.
• Ashford, R., Hall, R. P., and 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, pp. 70-74.
• Van Houweling, E.; Hall, R.P.; Sakho Diop, A.; Davis, J. and 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., and Hall, R. P. (2012) Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development. Administrative & Regulatory Law News, Spring 2012, 37(3): 21-23.
• Ashford, N. A., Hall, R. P., and 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., and Hall, R. P. (2011) The Importance of Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development. Sustainability, 3(1), 270-292. [See the European Commission’s summary of the paper.]
• Ramani, T. L., Zietsman, J., Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R. P. , and Marsden, G. (2011) Framework for Sustainability Assessment by Transportation Agencies. Transportation Research Record, No. 2242, 2011, pp. 9–18.
• Burton, M.A. and Hall, R. P. (1999) Asset Management for Irrigation Systems: Addressing the Issue of Serviceability. Irrigation and Drainage Systems, Volume 13, No. 2, pp. 145-163.

Books:

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

Book Chapters:

• Hall, R. P., Gudmundsson, H., Marsden, G., and 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.

Research Reports:

• Van Houweling, E., Botta, R., and Hall, R.P, Holm, R., Tembo, M., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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., and 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. and 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., et al. (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., and 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., and 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.

Conference Papers/Proceedings/Working Papers:

• Ashford, N. A., and 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., and Kurian, M. (2015) The Human Right to Domestic and Productive Water. Policy Brief published on ResearchGate.

• Ashford, N. A., and 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., and Yacovelli, J. (2014) Google Glass: A Tech Teams White Paper, Tech Teams, Virginia Tech.
• An, Y., Hall, R. P., and 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. and Hall, R. P. (2013) Capacity Factors for Implementing Urban Infrastructure Projects in India (2014). 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. and 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. and 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., and 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., and 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, pp. 79-104.
• Hall, R. P. and 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. and 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. and 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., and 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:

• 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.