Designing robust water planning institutions in remote regions: a case of Georgina and Diamantina catchment in Australia

Water Policy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silva Larson
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Water Planning ◽  
The Social ◽  
West Part ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Water Reform

Several catchment-based water planning processes are currently underway in Australia, with the Water Reform Agreement of 1994 providing the legislative umbrella. This paper presents the results of a case study conducted in the joint catchment of the Diamantina and Georgina rivers, located in the remote central-west part of the state of Queensland. The paper investigates the new water planning processes from the perspective of the design principles for the robust institutions, while taking into account the specifics of the social and ecological environment they will need to operate in. The analysis uses both the actual plans as well as stakeholders' perceptions of the planning process. The analysis found that four of the design principles for robust institutions: clearly defined boundaries, collective choice arrangements, gradual sanctioning and nested enterprises; were well covered in the planning process. However, the principles of: equivalence between costs and benefits; conflict resolution mechanisms; recognition of right to organise; and monitoring; were not clearly or sufficiently addressed in the Plans and have resulted in significant concerns by stakeholders interviewed. The paper discusses the implications of the findings for other water planning processes located in remote and desert regions in general.

scholarly journals Dialectical Design Dialogues: Negotiating Ethics in Participatory Planning by Building a Critical Design Atlas

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-251
Author(s):  
Barbara Roosen ◽  
Liesbeth Huybrechts ◽  
Oswald Devisch ◽  
Pieter Van den Broeck
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
The City

This article explores ‘dialectical design dialogues’ as an approach to engage with ethics in everyday urban planning contexts. It starts from Paulo Freire’s pedagogical view (1970/2017), in which dialogues imply the establishment of a horizontal relation between professionals and amateurs, in order to understand, question and imagine things in everyday reality, in this case, urban transformations, applied to participatory planning and enriched through David Harvey’s (2000, 2009) dialectical approach. A dialectical approach to design dialogues acknowledges and renegotiates contrasts and convergences of ethical concerns specific to the reality of concrete daily life, rather than artificially presenting daily life as made of consensus or homogeneity. The article analyses an atlas as a tool to facilitate dialectical design dialogues in a case study of a low-density residential neighbourhood in the city of Genk, Belgium. It sees the production of the atlas as a collective endeavour during which planners, authorities and citizens reflect on possible futures starting from a confrontation of competing uses and perspectives of neighbourhood spaces. The article contributes to the state-of-the-art in participatory urban planning in two ways: (1) by reframing the theoretical discussion on ethics by arguing that not only the verbal discourses around designerly atlas techniques but also the techniques themselves can support urban planners in dealing more consciously with ethics (accountability, morality and authorship) throughout urban planning processes, (2) by offering a concrete practice-based example of producing an atlas that supports the participatory articulation and negotiation of dialectical inquiry of ethics through dialogues in a ‘real-time’ urban planning process.

Assessment of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) Techniques From Requirement View

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
Abdullah M Basahel
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
Strategic Information ◽  
Strategic Information Systems ◽  
Strategic Information Systems Planning ◽  
Systems Planning ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Information Systems Planning

This study reviews Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) literature with a focus on the global dimension. The research evaluates SISP techniques against Information System (IS) strategic requirements. These techniques can be vital contributors in the IS Strategy (ISS) design process. Therefore, classification of the techniques of ISS planning is developed. Keeping in mind the global dimension, the planning team needs to identify how it can cluster the ISS requirements of an organisation. This may be achieved by analysing the benefits that can be obtained by IS for the organisation. The result of this research is the taxonomy of SISP techniques with a case study for X airlines. This classification can benefit the evaluation of ISS planning processes to support decision makers through the planning process.

Planning Processes for Reconstruction with Citizen Participation After Large-Scale Disasters: A Case Study of Reconstruction Study Meetings in Miyako City After the Great East Japan Earthquake

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michio Ubaura ◽  
◽  
Sei Akiyama ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Local Study ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Local Residents

Town planning for reconstruction after large-scale disasters that is led exclusively by the local government may be insufficient. However, it is also difficult to effectively incorporate citizen participation into planning because of insufficient government manpower and a lack of time among citizens. The present study surveys and analyzes a process of mutual coordination between a local government and citizens involved in town reconstruction planning after a large-scale disaster in order to understand how citizens’ participation in the early stages of the planning process for town reconstruction should be. A local study meeting in Miyako City is taken as a case example. As a method of incorporating citizen participation, it is found that the local study meeting was simple and effective method in obtaining consensus among local residents, but was not effective and may even have exacerbated disagreement regarding fundamental issues.

scholarly journals Tactical capacity planning in hospital departments

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Agneta Larsson ◽  
Anna Fredriksson
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Tactical Planning ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Context Specific

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore tactical planning potential within hospital departments. The study had two objectives: first, to develop a framework for tactical capacity planning in healthcare departments by identifying and structuring essential components for healthcare capacity management; and, second, to identify context-specific requirements and functionality demands on tactical planning processes within healthcare. Design/methodology/approach A framework for tactical capacity planning was developed through a literature review. Additionally, an exploratory multiple-case study was performed, with cases from three Swedish hospital departments, which provide the opportunity to study framework applicability in its natural context. Findings Findings illustrate how an active tactical planning process can facilitate adjustments to capacity. However, the multiple-case study shows that there are contextual differences between departments, depending on available treatments and resources that affect capacity adjustments, and how the planning process activities should be structured. Originality/value This project develops a framework for a tactical capacity-planning process adapted to healthcare provider contexts. By developing the framework, based on the literature and tactical level planning processes within three Swedish hospital case studies, the authors bridge gaps between theory and application regarding healthcare capacity planning.

scholarly journals Planning for Vita Activa—Labor, Work, and Action in a Communal Urban Gardening Project in Vienna

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9864
Author(s):  
Rita Mayrhofer
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Urban Gardening ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
Vita Activa ◽  
Framework Conditions

Today, communal urban gardening (CUG) is a widespread phenomenon in European cities. Gardening has many positive qualities, ranging from growing healthy food to meaningful everyday life activities and political action. However, its integration into existing urban planning processes remains a challenge. Planning has a great influence on the qualities that can actually be realized by the gardeners. In order to develop a more appropriate planning process for CUG, a deeper understanding of the different activities that people engage in when they are gardening in an urban environment under given conditions is needed. In this paper, a garden project from Vienna is discussed against the background of Arendt’s theory of political action to advance the theoretical debates on the planning of CUGs. The case study shows that the three central spaces of a vita activa can emerge in one place if the appropriate framework conditions are provided through planning: containment, sovereign rights of use, egalitarian participation, plurality, and spatial organization towards the three activities of a vita activa: labor, work, and action.

Local stakeholder judgements of the social acceptability of applying environmental water in the Gunbower Island forest on the Murray River, Australia

Water Policy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Mendham ◽  
Allan Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Water ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Local Stakeholder ◽  
Murray River ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Water Reform

Abstract Australian governments have purchased large volumes of water from irrigators to decrease the amount of water diverted for agriculture to improve the health of the Murray River. Irrigation entitlements ‘bought back’ are managed by government agencies and are broadly described as ‘environmental water’. The water reform process, the volume of water bought back from irrigators and the objectives and application of environmental water are all contested by irrigators and local communities. This paper provides the first examination of the social acceptability of environmental water in Australia with a case study of Gunbower Island on the Murray River using a survey of local stakeholders. Most respondents visited Gunbower Island regularly, placed a high value on the island and were committed to maintaining the health of the island. Nevertheless, respondents were more likely to exhibit unfavourable judgements about environmental water. Positive judgements were associated with pro-environmental values, belief in the benefits of environmental water and higher levels of trust in the managing agency. Findings provide insights about how the key agency can improve the social acceptability of environmental water in Gunbower Island, including a greater focus on on-ground work as an opportunity to engage local people in learning and action.

Equity, Opportunity, Community Engagement, and the Regional Planning Process: Data and Mapping in Five U.S. Metropolitan Areas

2020 ◽  
pp. 0739456X2094538
Author(s):  
Nicholas Finio ◽  
Willow Lung-Amam ◽  
Gerrit-Jan Knaap ◽  
Casey Dawkins ◽  
Brittany Wong
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Planning Processes

Government agencies and nonprofit organizations have increasingly used spatial data to create equity and opportunity atlases or maps. This paper investigates how such maps have been integrated into planning processes, and if they have been useful in catalyzing engagement on equity issues. We employ a multiple case study approach to assess efforts in five U.S. regions: Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis–St. Paul, Portland, and Seattle. Our findings show that equity and opportunity mapping have stimulated new conversations, local actions, and regional plans, but many regions are still struggling to adopt policies that could meaningfully shift their landscapes of equity and opportunity.

Unplanning urban transport: Unsolicited urban highways in Lima

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2110078
Author(s):  
Matteo Stiglich
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Highway Projects ◽  
Private Finance ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Impact Planning ◽  
Case Study Methods

During the last three decades, the use of public–private partnerships to deliver urban infrastructure has increased considerably around the world. The objective of this paper is to understand how the availability of private finance that comes with the use of public–private partnerships and, specifically, unsolicited proposals, affects planning. To do so, I investigate the case of Lima, Peru, where between 2009 and 2012 three urban highway projects worth a total of US$1.3bn were approved, and a new metropolitan plan was written in 2014. I use qualitative case study methods to reconstruct the process. I find that the introduction of private finance deeply shapes the planning process, including the selection of the projects that will get built. Thus, beyond transforming the implementation stage of a two-step process, private finance has a profound impact on the planning phase itself by setting constraints on what can be done and to what ends. Furthermore, I find that the logic following the profit motive to prioritize infrastructure projects then becomes embedded within formal planning, as plans are written according to what can be built with private finance. I call the specific mechanism by which this happens “unplanning.” The paper contributes to understanding how public–private partnerships and private finance impact planning processes and outcomes.

scholarly journals MAPPING OF FLOOD SUSCEPTIBILITY IN CAMPINA GRANDE COUNTY - PB: A SPATIAL MULTICRITERIA APPROACH

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscila Barros Ramalho Alves ◽  
Hiran de Melo Filho ◽  
Bárbara Barbosa Tsuyuguchi ◽  
Iana Alexandra Alves Rufino ◽  
Patrícia Hermínio Cunha Feitosa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Flood Susceptibility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pixel Analysis ◽  
The Government

Abstract: The social and economic impacts caused by floods in urban areas are diverse and increase as the land becomes gradually impervious. Due to the increasing urbanization of cities, it is necessary to implement a better planning process and optimize the urban spaces management and occupation. Thus, the government needs to gather reliable and useful data for the decision-making process. Therefore, the GIS plays an important role among urban planning instruments. Given the current situation in Campina Grande County, Paraiba State, Brazil - an area continually facing disturbances caused by occasional and concentrated rainfalls - the current study aims to map the areas seen as the most susceptible to floods, by using a MCDA GIS-based model (Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis). There are five quantitative criteria considered in the analysis: slope, altitude, roads with drainage infrastructure, distance from water bodies and land use. It is a pixel by pixel analysis based on predetermined assumptions. Fuzzy functions were developed and overlay operations were performed. The results were consistent with historical records and with previous studies about the county, thus adding reliability to the model, which can be considered a potential management instrument for the case study area, as well as for cities facing similar issues.

scholarly journals The impact of equipment productivity and pushback width on the mine planning process

2020 ◽  
Vol 120 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Araya ◽  
M. Nehring ◽  
E.T. Vega ◽  
N.S. Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Mine Planning ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mining ◽  
Capital Costs ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Equipment Utilization ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Selection Of

SYNOPSIS Conventional mine planning processes result in the selection of pushback widths that maximize equipment productivity. This paper challenges the current notion that pushback width should be set at the distance that assures maximum equipment productivity. A hypothetical case study is presented, which shows that the value of a project may increase beyond that determined by traditional planning practices. It was found that it may be better to deploy more aggressive mining strategies, which are likely to result in greater operational complexity and thus reduced equipment productivity. A higher equipment productivity, which often corresponds to wider (and therefore a lower number of) pushbacks, will also often result in later ore extraction and require higher capital costs. Keywords: open pit mining, pushback width, mine planning, schemes of exploitation, mining rate, equipment utilization.

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