Ralph P. Hall

• Ph.D., Technology, Management & Policy, MIT, 2006
• M.S., Civil Engineering, MIT, 2002
• MEng., Civil Engineering, University of Southhampton, 1999

• Provision of sustainable water supply services in developing countries
• Sustainable transportation in developed countries
• Strategies to transform the industrial state towards sustainable development
• Inclusive capitalism

• SPIA 2244 (GEOG 2244): Sustainable Urbanization
• UAP 1004: Introduction to Carriers in Urban Affairs annd Planning
• UAP 4914: Seminar in Public and Urban Affairs
• UAP 5324: Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries
• UAP 5764: International Development Planning Studio

Books

• Ashford, N. A. & Hall, R. P. (2018). Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State. Revised Edition. Routledge, New York, 774 pages. ISBN: 9781138605534.
• Gudmundsson, H., Hall, R. P., Marsden, G., & Zietsman, J. (2015). Sustainable Transportation: Indicators, Frameworks, and Performance Management. Springer, New York, 304 pages. ISBN: 9783662469231. 
• Ashford, N. A. & Hall, R. P. (2011). Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State. Yale University Press, New Haven, 752 pages. ISBN: 9780300169720.

Articles

• 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.

• 020 USAID Long-Term Assistance and Services for Research (LASER), Partners for University-Led Solutions Engine (PULSE), [USAID LASER PULSE], “Exploring the Use of Blockchain Technology to Improve Food Security Through African Indigenous Vegetables in Western Kenya.”
• Title: Convergence HTF: RCN: “Enhancing small and mid-level farm viability through a systems-based research network: Linking technology and sustainable development and practice”
  Website: https://www.harvestrcn.org/
  Description: NSF Research Coordination Networks (RCN) Grant
  Funder name: National Science Foundation
  Funder reference: 1745477
  Amount: USD 499,748
  Principal investigators: Srinivasan D; Niewolny K; Leonessa A
  Start date: 01 Sep 2017
  Status: Active
• Beloved Community Initiative: https://belovedcommunityinitiative.com/
• Mzuzu Library Initiative: https://malawiedandchildwelfare.wordpress.com/

• Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Regions
• Sustainable Transportation
• Sustainable Development
• Improving Data Quality
• Inclusive Capitalism
• Technology-Enhanced Learning