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

• Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State with N.A. Ashford (Routledge: 2018).
• Sustainable Transportation: Indicators, Frameworks, and Performance Management, with H. Gudmundsson, G. Marsden, and J. Zietsman (Springer, 2015).

Articles

• GC, R.K. and Hall, R. P. (2020) Exploring Smart City Project Implementation Risks in the Cities of Kakinada and Kanpur, Journal of Urban Technology, DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2020.1796115
• Ashford, N. A., Hall, R. P., Arango-Quiroga, J., Metaxas, K. M., and Showalter, A. L.(2020) Addressing Inequality: The First Step Beyond COVID-19 and towards Sustainability. Sustainability, 12, 5404.
• Holm, R.H., Hall, R.P., Muthukrishnan, S., Munthali, T., and Sinda, M. (2020) Promoting multiple-use water services by leveraging existing rural water supply and smallholder farmer groups, Malawi. International Journal of Water Resources Development, DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2020.1765745
• GC, R.K. and Hall, R.P. (2020) The Commercialization of Smallholder Farming—A Case Study from the Rural Western Middle Hills of Nepal. Agriculture 2020, 10, 143.
• Gupta, K. and 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.
•  Gupta, K., Zhang, W., and Hall, R. P. (2020) 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, 1–15.
• “Universal Basic Income and Inclusive Capitalism: Consequences for Sustainability,” with Ashford, R., Ashford, N.A., and Arango-Quiroga, J., Sustainability, 11, 4481 (2019).
• “Achieving Global Climate and Environmental Goals by Governmental Regulatory Targeting,” with Ashford, N.A., Ecological Economics, 152, 246-259 (2018).
• “Pathways to Better Project Delivery: The Link between Capacity Factors and Urban Infrastructure Projects in India,” with Y. An and M. Garvin, World Development 94: 393–405 (2017).
• “A General Micro-level Modeling Approach to Analyzing Interconnected SDGs: Achieving SDG 6 and More through Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS),” with S. Ranganathan and G. C. Raj, Sustainability, 9(2): 314 (2017).
• “The Human Right to Water: The Importance of Domestic and Productive Uses of Water,” with Van Koppen, B. and Van Houweling, E., Science and Engineering Ethics. 20(4):849–868 (2013).

• 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