Moving the Goalposts: Aspiration Re-operationalization in Response to Failure to Achieve Environmental Performance Targets

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Malen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Performance Targets

scholarly journals Assessing How Sustainability Is Promoted in Ghana’s National Urban Policy and Action Plan

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7556
Author(s):  
Kwasi Anarfi ◽  
Chris Shiel ◽  
Ross A. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
Performance Targets ◽  
Poverty Reduction Strategy ◽  
Evaluation Matrix ◽  
Sustainability Framework

Managing contemporary and future urbanisation to create sustainable outcomes is a globally acknowledged policy goal. However, despite the increasing uptake and implementation of National Urban Policies (NUPs), little research has explored how these policies incorporate and promote sustainability as a concept in the context of urbanisation. This paper provides a critical analysis of the extent to which sustainability is promoted within urban policy in the context of Ghana. We review Ghana’s NUP and supporting Action Plan (AP) to determine whether their initiatives promote sustainability. An evaluation matrix is used to show how the initiatives in the documents align with the dimensions of urban sustainability outlined in the UN-Habitat’s City Prosperity Index (CPI); and in addition, consideration is given to how the contents align with the dimensions of the World Bank’s Urban Sustainability Framework (USF). The overarching argument that emerges from the analysis is that while Ghana’s NUP and AP provide adequate scope and an eclectic mix of initiatives that promote urban sustainability, the sustainability benefits are potentially undermined by factors which include: (i) threats to inclusivity and social sustainability due to the neo-liberal outlook of policy documents; (ii) explicit lack of a poverty reduction strategy; and (iii) lack of environmental performance targets. To this end, suggestions are provided that could potentially enhance the sustainability impacts of Ghana’s NUP and AP in the context of urbanisation.

scholarly journals HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE COMPARISON IN WASTE MANAGEMENT IN JAKARTA

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-90
Author(s):  
Soegeng Basoeki ◽  
I Made Putrawan ◽  
Susy Setiawati
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Performance Comparison ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Budget Management ◽  
Performance Targets ◽  
Environmental Technologies

This study is a survey of the performance of the hospital environment in the field of waste management. Survey was conducted in RS. Cipto Mangunkusumo, RS. Persahabatan and RSPI Sulianti Saroso. Environmental performance of the Hospital would be good if 1) has sufficient human resources, budget management and have good facilities and adequate environmental technologies 2) Environmental regulations adhered to apply quality standards.  The budget for the maintenance of waste management facilities and the recruitment of human resources outsourcing needs to be improved. Efforts to increase the motivation of the human resources environment also needs to be done in order to achieve predetermined performance targets

ARCHITECTURAL OR MODULAR INNOVATION? MANAGING DISCONTINUOUS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN RESPONSE TO CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE TARGETS

2003 ◽  
Vol 07 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS MAGNUSSON ◽  
GÖRAN LINDSTRÖM ◽  
CHRISTIAN BERGGREN
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Discontinuous Change ◽  
Industrial Firms ◽  
Performance Targets ◽  
Architectural Innovation

By adopting challenging targets on environmental performance, pro-active industrial firms may push themselves towards discontinuous product innovation. Such innovation can be understood as being either architectural, i.e. arranging components in new ways, or modular, i.e. introducing new technologies in specific components or subsystems. We argue that these two dimensions of discontinuous change call for some specific managerial responses. Architectural innovation challenges the whole engineering organisation, making it necessary to focus development efforts on technological interfaces, whereas modular innovation has a more isolated effect, making specialisation and co-ordination over organisational boundaries particularly important. Altogether, our analysis highlights the importance of adapting the project organisation to the development task and addressing part-whole relationships when managing innovation in established products and systems, something that becomes increasingly important in the strive towards sustainable development.

Forage-Based Heifer Development Program for North Florida

EDIS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose C.B. Dubeux ◽  
Nicolas DiLorenzo ◽  
Kalyn Waters ◽  
Jane C. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Development Program ◽  
Warm Season ◽  
Beef Cows ◽  
Good News ◽  
Cool Season ◽  
Beef Industry ◽  
Performance Targets ◽  
Grazing Systems ◽  
Heifer Development ◽  
Reducing Costs

Florida has 915,000 beef cows and 125,000 replacement heifers (USDA, 2016). Developing these heifers so that they can become productive females in the cow herd is a tremendous investment in a cow/calf operation, an investment that takes several years to make a return. The good news is that there are options to develop heifers on forage-based programs with the possibility of reducing costs while simultaneously meeting performance targets required by the beef industry. Mild winters in Florida allows utilization of cool-season forages that can significantly enhance the performance of grazing heifers. During the warm-season, integration of forage legumes into grazing systems will provide additional nutrients to meet the performance required to develop a replacement heifer to become pregnant and enter the mature cow herd. In this document, we will propose a model for replacement heifer development, based on forage research performed in trials at the NFREC Marianna.   

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