scholarly journals Territorial Resilience: Toward a Proactive Meaning for Spatial Planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grazia Brunetta ◽  
Rosario Ceravolo ◽  
Carlo Alberto Barbieri ◽  
Alberto Borghini ◽  
Francesca de Carlo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Structural Engineering ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
New Research

The international debate on resilience has grown around the ability of a community to prepare for and adapt to natural disasters, with a growing interest in holistically understanding complex systems. Although the concept of resilience has been investigated from different perspectives, the lack of understanding of its conceptual comprehensive aspects presents strong limitations for spatial planning and for the adoption of policies and programs for its measurement and achievement. In this paper, we refer to “territorial resilience” as an emerging concept capable of aiding the decision-making process of identifying vulnerabilities and improving the transformation of socio-ecological and technological systems (SETSs). Here, we explore the epistemology of resilience, reviewing the origins and the evolution of this term, providing evidence on how this conceptual umbrella is used by different disciplines to tackle problem-solving that arises from disaster management and command-control practices to augment the robustness. Assuming the SETSs paradigm, the seismic and structural engineering, social sciences and history, urban planning and climatology perspectives intersects providing different analytical levels of resilience, including vulnerability and patrimony from a community and cultural perspective. We conclude that territorial resilience surpasses the analytical barriers between different disciplines, providing a useful concept related to complex problem-solving phenomena for land use planning, opening a new research question: how can territorial resilience be measured, acknowledging different units and levels of analysis aiding decision-making in spatial plans and projects? In attempting to understand a resilient system, quantitative and qualitative measurements are crucial to supporting planning decisions.

scholarly journals Application of EIA/SEA system in land use planning: Experience from Serbia

Spatium ◽  
2005 ◽  
pp. 18-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bozidar Stojanovic
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Scientific Validity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Assessment ◽  
Eu Directives ◽  
Assessment Procedures ◽  
Effective Integration

This paper discusses the experience and current status of EIA/SEA procedures and assessment methodologies in Serbia, aiming to propose strategies that can lead to effective integration of the SEA in spatial planning. Institutional and practical problems with regard to the regulations of EIA/SEA were considered. Experience from the past decade shows that implementation of EIA system in Serbia has not been effective as expected. New legislation on EIA and SEA is harmonized with corresponding EU Directives. First steps in the application of the SEA show that the main issues are screening, scooping and decision making. According to the research results, it is suggested that extra evaluation processes should be incorporated into current assessment procedures to improve their scientific validity and integrity.

Burstiness in Quasi-Group Decision Making in Business Settings

2018 ◽  
pp. 97-131
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Group Decision Making ◽  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
New Research

Business advances its business process in order to adapt to a constantly changing situation in economy and society. Analysis of buyers' burstiness assists in optimization of flow of business process in order to increase the profit. However, burstiness in quasi-group decision making in business settings has not attracted a lot of research efforts. The aim of the chapter is to explore the nature, origins, and impact of burstiness in quasi-group decision making in business settings underpinning implementation of an empirical study and elaboration of a new research question for further studies. The meaning of such key concepts as burstiness, mirror neurons, quasi-group, and decision making is studied. Moreover, the study demonstrates how the key concepts are related to the idea of business settings. The novel contribution of this manuscript is the newly defined research question on burstiness in quasi-group decision making in business settings. Directions of further research are proposed.

scholarly journals Effect of Mobile-Augmented Reality (MAR) in Digital Encyclopedia on The Complex Problem Solving and Attitudes of Undergraduate Student

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (07) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Alfyananda Kurnia Putra ◽  
Sumarmi Sumarmi ◽  
Alfi Sahrina ◽  
Azni Fajrilia ◽  
Muhammad Naufal Islam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Control Group ◽  
First Year ◽  
Mobile Augmented Reality ◽  
Complex Problem Solving ◽  
First Year Students

The study aimed to determine the effect of mobile aug-mented reality in the digital encyclopedia on complex problem-solving ability and responsible decision making attitude of first-year students. The research was a quasi-experiment (quantitative research) with pre-test and posttest methods. The population was first-year students of 2019/2020 in the Geography Education program, Faculty of Social Sci-ences, State University of Malang. The experimental group was from the PGEO6006-L class, and the control group was from the PGEO6006-A class, totaled 73 participants. Data were collected using a qualitative method using interviews and a quantitative method using a questionnaire for 4 weeks. The data analysis used an independent t-test to determine the effect of mobile augmented reality on students' complex problem-solving ability and responsible decision making atti-tude in Cosmography class. The results indicated that mobile augment-ed reality in the digital encyclopedia has a significant effect on stu-dents' complex problem-solving ability and responsible decision mak-ing attitude.

scholarly journals Tolerance for Uncertainty and Patterns of Decision-Making in Complex Problem-Solving Strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Vitalii Epishin ◽  
Nataliya Bogacheva
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Decisional Conflict ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Complex Problem Solving ◽  
Decision Making Factors ◽  
Problem Solving Strategies ◽  
Risk Intelligence

Current studies of complex problem-solving do not commonly evaluate the regulatory role of such personality-based variables as tolerance for uncertainty, risk-readiness, and patterns for coping with decisional conflict. This research aims to establish the contribution of those traits into individual parameters of complex problem-solving strategies. The study was conducted on 53 healthy individuals 17 to 29 years old (M = 20.42; SD = 2.34). Our own computerized complex problem task “The Anthill” was developed for this research. We identified five measurable parameters of the participants’ problem-solving strategies: preferred orientational level (POL); orientational level variability (OLV); class quotas‘ range (R); mean and median quotas shift (MS and MeS); and abrupt changes of strategy (AC). Psychodiagnostic methods included: new questionnaire of tolerance/intolerance for uncertainty; personal decision-making factors questionnaire; Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire; Subjective Risk Intelligence Scale; Eysencks’ Impulsiveness Scale. The study showed the role of tolerance for uncertainty, risk-readiness, negative attitude toward uncertainty, and decision-making styles in the regulation of complex problem-solving strategies. Specifically, procrastination, tolerance for uncertainty, and risk-readiness were significant predictors of individual strategy indicators, such as POL, OLV, and MeS. Thus, personality traits were shown to regulate resource allocation strategies and the required level of orientation in a complex problem.

Framing Effects: Implications in Complex Problem Solving Tasks

2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 258-262
Author(s):  
Damodar Bhandarkar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Task Performance ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Framing Effects ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Complex Problem Solving ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Decision Framing

In decision-making literature, framing effects have been studied in a wide number of task and context conditions. In much of these studies, there is strong support that decision framing can result in inconsistent behavior among individuals. While much of the literature has been in static, one-time tasks, there is a dearth of studies in decision framing in complex problem solving tasks. This dearth in part can be attributed to an assumption that operators in complex environments are often well trained in decision-making routines, and as such, may not be vulnerable to framing effects. However, what is still unclear is whether trained operators are resistant to the effects of framing when they operate under non-routine conditions, and more importantly, what relation, information processing changes caused due to framing may have on the task performance of operators. The study reported here was conducted to answer these two questions. The outcome of this work is expected to have both theoretical and practical implication towards understanding individual's adaptive behavior and design of real time complex systems.

Crown–Coastal First Nation governance of the Great Bear Rainforest: An introduction to my research

2012 ◽  
Vol 88 (05) ◽  
pp. 525-527
Author(s):  
Laura Marie Bird
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Shared Decision ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Operating Rules ◽  
Master's Thesis

This article introduces a 2011 Master’s thesis that undertook two objectives. First, it assesses whether the Coastal First Nations, a coalition of First Nations on the coast of British Columbia, have acquired a share of governmental decision-making authority for three types of decisions: land use zones, ecosystem-based management (EBM) operating rules, and approval of operational plans. Second, it provides an overview of the unique government-to-government process that evolved for the resource management for British Columbia’s North and Central Coast, and the framework for shared decision-making that has been established between the Crown and the Coastal First Nations regarding the three land use planning decisions under investigation.

scholarly journals Designing Interfaces that Stimulate Ideational Super-fluency

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Oviatt
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Graphical Interfaces ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Computer Input ◽  
And Performance ◽  
New Research ◽  
Ideational Fluency

Current graphical keyboard and mouse interfaces are better suited for handling mechanical tasks, like email and text editing, than they are at supporting focused problem solving or complex learning tasks. One reason is that graphical interfaces limit users’ ability to fluidly express content involving different representational systems (e.g., symbols, diagrams) as they think through steps during complex problem solutions. We asked: Can interfaces be designed that actively stimulate students’ ability to “think on paper,” including providing better support for both ideation and convergent problem solving? In this talk, we will summarize new research on the affordances of different types of interface (e.g., pen-based, keyboard-based), and how these basic computer input capabilities function to substantially facilitate or impede people’s ideational fluency. We also will show data on the relation between interface support for communicative fluency (i.e., both linguistic and non-linguistic forms) and ideational fluency. In addition, we’ll discuss the relation between interface support for active marking (i.e., both formal structures like diagrams, and informal ones such as “thinking marks”) and successful problem solving. Finally, we’ll present new data on interfaces that improve support for learning and performance in lower-performing populations, and we will discuss how these new directions in interface media could play a role in improving their education and minimizing the persistent achievement gap between low- versus high-performing groups 

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