FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI MASYARAKAT DALAM PENGGUNAAN TAMAN PUBLIK SEBAGAI FUNGSI SOSIAL DI TAMAN KECAMATAN NGALIYAN BERDASARKAN PREFERENSI MASYARAKAT

Ngaliyan District Park is public park in the city of Semarang which designed a social function. The social function of the Ngaliyan District Park is not fully optimal. This research talked about conducted to determine the factors influence the community in using public parks such as social function based on community preferences. The research uses qualitative and quantitative approach with the analysis to take achieve these objectives including the characteristics of public parks. The results of this research indicate that the factors that influence the use of public parks as a social function are in accordance with community preferences, comfort, security and accessibility.Abstrak: Taman Kecamatan Ngaliyan adalah taman publik di Kota Semarang yang dirancang dengan fungsi sosial. Namun, fungsi sosial pada Taman Kecamatan Ngaliyan belum optimal. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi masyarakat dalam pemanfaatan taman publik sebagai fungsi sosial, berdasarkan preferensi publik. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dan kuantitatif dengan Tahap analisis yang dilakukan untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut memberikan definisi tentang karakteristik taman publik. Selanjutnya, penganalisisan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi masyarakat lokal dalam pemanfaatan taman publik di Taman Kecamatan Ngaliyan.Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi pemanfaatan taman umum sebagai fungsi sosial sesuai dengan preferensi masyarakat, seperti kenyamanan, keamanan dan aksesibilitas.

A look back: Ongoing dilemmas for rural schools

The December 1983 Kappan featured the story of Clinch School in Hawkins County, Tennessee, a small rural school with a student body of 161 students in 12 grades. Teresa Preston explains how the story of the community’s fight to keep this school open and under local control is illustrative of the dilemmas surrounding rural schools that have been covered in Kappan for a century. Articles have grappled with whether schools should focus on encouraging students to stay in rural communities, how to ensure that schools are large enough to provide adequate programs but small enough to reflect the immediate community, and what role parent and community preferences should play in improvement plans for rural schools.

Islamic Perspectives on the Implementation of Wadiah Products at Islamic Banks in Indonesia

The aim of this paper is to study the implementation of Wadiah Product at an Islamic Bank in Indonesia. Bank Syariah Mandiri is the first government bank that operates according to the Islamic Syariah system in Indonesia. The Bank Syariah Mandiri provides wadiah products to serve its customers who are concerned with a free interest product in a financial transaction. This study was carried out with a qualitative method, and the data were gathered through in-depth interviews with the bank staff and manager, observation, and written material. The results of this study show that wadiah application in Bank Syariah Mandiri of Palu runs in accordance with the Syariah principles of Islamic Law. The results of this study also show that costumers lack knowledge regarding how to access the wadiah product. Then the Muslim community preferences in wadiah savings products is still relatively small because Muslim society perceived the profit sharing at the Islamic bank is lower compared to similar products from conventional banks.Further study may focus on Islamic banks customers perception of the wadiah product.

Distribution of Woody Plant Species Among Different Disturbance Regimes of Forests in a Temperate Deciduous Broad-Leaved Forest

Forests in different disturbance regimes provide diverse microhabitats for species growth. However, whether the species distribution of wood plant is random or follows ecological specialization among forests in different disturbance regimes remains to be elucidated. In this study, four 1 hm2 (100 m × 100 m) forest dynamic monitoring plots in different disturbance regimes of forests were randomly selected in a temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest. We examined the specificity of woody plants to forests through network analysis. Torus-translation test was used to analyze the species distribution preference of woody plants to forests in different disturbance regimes. The specialization index of woody plants was 0.3126, and that of shrubs (51.01%) was higher than that of trees (25.16%). Moreover, 66.67% (38/57) of woody plants were associated with different forests. More shrub species (70.00%) had specific preferences than tree species (45.95%) with respect to forests in different disturbance regimes. Our findings suggest that the distribution of woody plants among forests with different disturbance regimes is not random but is specialized. Different woody plants show different community preferences in different disturbance regimes of forests. Shrubs show higher specialization than trees in different disturbance regimes of forests.

Future directions in Blue-Green Infrastructure research

<p>As global cities rethink their approaches to urban flood risk and water management in response to climate change, accelerating urbanisation and reductions in public green space, Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is gaining increasing recognition due to the advantages of multifunctional BGI solutions over traditional piped drainage and grey infrastructure. BGI, including green and blue roofs, swales, rain gardens, street trees, ponds, urban wetlands, restored watercourses, reconnected floodplains, and re-naturalised rivers, is designed to turn ‘blue’ (or ‘bluer’) during rainfall events in order to reduce urban flood risk. In addition to managing flood risk and increasing water security, BGI generates a range of socio-cultural, economic and environmental co-benefits that help city authorities tackle other urban challenges and ultimately improve the quality of life of city dwellers.</p><p>Extensive research over the last decade has focused on improving knowledge of BGI systems in several broad areas, including: hydrological and hydraulic modelling of water flow through BGI assets; biochemical assessments of sediment and water quality; public preferences; identification and evaluation of BGI co-benefits, and; BGI planning and governance. Emerging research into adaptation pathways, natural capital accounting and social practice approaches for understanding community preferences demonstrate how BGI research is moving beyond hydrodynamic modelling to explore decision making under future uncertainty and placing greater emphasis on the role of community preferences in designing BGI that is accepted and supported by those who directly benefit.</p><p>This presentation will explore these emerging research areas, particularly focusing on the need for interdisciplinary research into BGI to enable the challenges and opportunities to be fully appreciated. Current knowledge gaps that present research opportunities in BGI will also be discussed, including the need for rigorous assessment criteria to determine the success of multifunctional BGI systems; greater investigation of the social benefits of BGI and the value people place on different types of BGI; the role of implicit perceptions in designing BGI assets, and; the role of urban watercourses as multifunctional BGI corridors able to safely convey stormwater while boosting water quality, providing multiple urban pathways (active transport, wildlife movements, etc.) and increasing green space in cities.</p>