Using On-Line Geographical Visualisation Tools to Improve Land Use Decision-Making with a Bottom-Up Community Participatory Approach

2004 ◽  
pp. 53-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Pettit ◽  
A. Nelson ◽  
W. Cartwright
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
On Line

Excluded communities and participatory land-use planning: experience from informal Roma settlements in Serbia

2021 ◽  
pp. 095624782110240
Author(s):  
Zlata Vuksanović-Macura ◽  
Igor Miščević
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Active Involvement

Citizen participation in the planning and decision-making process in the European post-socialist context is much debated. Still, the involvement of excluded communities in the urban planning process remains understudied. This paper presents and discusses the application of an innovative participatory approach designed to ensure active involvement of an excluded ethnic minority, the Roma community, in the process of formulating and adopting land-use plans for informal settlements in Serbia. By analysing the development of land-use plans in 11 municipalities, we observe that the applied participatory approach enhanced the inhabitants’ active participation and helped build consensus on the planned solution between the key actors. Findings also suggested that further work with citizens, capacity building of planners and administration, and secured financial mechanisms are needed to move citizen participation in urban planning beyond the limited statutory requirements.

Interpreting Bottom-up Decision-Making of CNNs via Hierarchical Inference

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Dan Wang ◽  
Xinrui Cui ◽  
Rabab Ward ◽  
Z. Jane Wang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Bottom Up

scholarly journals Monetary Valuation of Flood Protection Ecosystem Service Based on Hydrological Modelling and Avoided Damage Costs. An Example from the Čierny Hron River Basin, Slovakia

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Igor Gallay ◽  
Branislav Olah ◽  
Zuzana Gallayová ◽  
Tomáš Lepeška
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Hydrological Modelling ◽  
Flood Protection ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Monetary Valuation ◽  
Monetary Value ◽  
Damage Costs

Flood protection is considered one of the crucial regulating ecosystem services due to climate change and extreme weather events. As an ecosystem service, it combines the results of hydrological and ecosystem research and their implementation into land management and/or planning processes including several formally separated economic sectors. As managerial and economic interests often diverge, successful decision-making requires a common denominator in form of monetary valuation of competing trade-offs. In this paper, a methodical approach based on the monetary value of the ecosystem service provided by the ecosystem corresponding to its actual share in flood regulating processes and the value of the property protected by this service was developed and demonstrated based on an example of a medium size mountain basin (290 ha). Hydrological modelling methods (SWAT, HEC-RAS) were applied for assessing the extent of floods with different rainfalls and land uses. The rainfall threshold value that would cause flooding with the current land use but that would be safely drained if the basin was covered completely by forest was estimated. The cost of the flood protection ecosystem service was assessed by the method of non-market monetary value for estimating avoided damage costs of endangered infrastructure and calculated both for the current and hypothetical land use. The results identify areas that are crucial for water retention and that deserve greater attention in management. In addition, the monetary valuation of flood protection provided by the current but also by hypothetical land uses enables competent and well-formulated decision-making processes.

scholarly journals Ageing on-line in risk society: Elderly people managing the new risks via new media in the context of decreasing ontological security

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irena Carpentier Reifova ◽  
Sylvie Fišerová
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Media ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Old People ◽  
Individual Decision Making ◽  
On Line ◽  
Second Modernity

This article proposes a theoretical framework for studying new media and its use by elderly people in risk society. Old people and their practices of new media use are discussed in light of the concepts of age cohort, generation and media generation. The article detects homology between individualization (a backbone of the second modernity as defined by Ulrich Beck) in the management of new risks and operation of new media language. Consequently, the concept of “double individualization of responsibility” is coined and connection is made to the effects of new media and new risks on ontological security. The argument is taken further onto the ground of critical gerontology, which claims that individual decision-making and fluidity of the second modernity is a source of insecurity and anxiety mainly for the old people. The article eventually presents the area of e-health as a research field for further exploration of how old people experience autonomy, individual decision making, and the absence of (or conflict with) external authority while dealing with the health risks on-line.

scholarly journals Theoretical foundations of human decision-making in agent-based land use models – A review

2017 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Groeneveld ◽  
B. Müller ◽  
C.M. Buchmann ◽  
G. Dressler ◽  
C. Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Human Decision ◽  
Land Use Models ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

On-line Flow Cytometry for Real-time Surgical Guidance

Neurosurgery ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali H. Mesiwala ◽  
Louis D. Scampavia ◽  
Peter S. Rabinovitch ◽  
Jaromir Ruzicka ◽  
Robert C. Rostomily
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Dna Content ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Tissue Samples ◽  
Surgical Decision ◽  
Surgical Guidance ◽  
On Line ◽  
Surgical Decision Making ◽  
Line Analysis

Abstract OBJECTIVE: This study tests the feasibility of using on-line analysis of tissue during surgical resection of brain tumors to provide biologically relevant information in a clinically relevant time frame to augment surgical decision making. For the purposes of establishing feasibility, we used measurement of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) content as the end point for analysis. METHODS: We investigated the feasibility of interfacing an ultrasonic aspiration (USA) system with a flow cytometer (FC) capable of analyzing DNA content (DNA-FC). The sampling system design, tissue preparation requirements, and time requirements for each step of the on-line analysis system were determined using fresh beef brain tissue samples. We also compared DNA-FC measurements in 28 nonneoplastic human brain samples with DNA-FC measurements in specimens of 11 glioma patients obtained from central tumor regions and surgical margins after macroscopically gross total tumor removal to estimate the potential for analysis of a biological marker to influence surgical decision making. RESULTS: With minimal modification, modern FC systems are fully capable of real-time, intraoperative analysis of USA specimens. The total time required for on-line analysis of USA specimens varies between 36 and 63 seconds; this time includes delivery from the tip of the USA to complete analysis of the specimen. Approximately 60% of this time is required for equilibration of the DNA stain. When compared with values for nonneoplastic human brain samples, 50% of samples (10 of 20) from macroscopically normal glioma surgical margins contained DNA-FC abnormalities potentially indicating residual tumor. CONCLUSION: With an interface of existing technologies, DNA content of brain tissue samples can be analyzed in a meaningful time frame that has the potential to provide real-time information for surgical guidance. The identification of DNA content abnormalities in macroscopically normal tumor resection margins by DNA-FC supports the practical potential for on-line analysis of a tumor marker to guide surgical resections. The development of such a device would provide neurosurgeons with an objective method for intraoperative analysis of a clinically relevant biological parameter that can be measured in real time.

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