Integrating Urban Climate Knowledge: The Need for a New Knowledge Infrastructure to Support Climate-Responsive Urbanism

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-192
Author(s):  
Gerald Mills ◽  
Julie Futcher
Keyword(s):  
Urban Climate ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Climate Knowledge

scholarly journals First Evidence of Human's Influence on Climate of Prague and Brno

Geografie ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Jan Munzar
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Quality Deterioration ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact

The paper brings some new knowledge on air quality deterioration as a part of urban environment in Prague and Brno in the end of the 18th and in the 19th centuries. The impact of man-induced processes on the creation of specific features of urban climate is documented.

Becoming Knowledge-Powered

2002 ◽  
pp. 274-295
Author(s):  
Dave Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Transformation Process ◽  
Network Support ◽  
Knowledge Culture ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Knowledge Strategy ◽  
Culture Transformation ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Value Propositions ◽  
Support Mechanisms

In this article, Dave Pollard, Chief Knowledge Officer at Ernst & Young Canada since 1994, relates the award-winning process his firm has used, and which many of the corporations that have visited the Centre for Business Knowledge in Toronto are adapting for their own needs, to transform the company from a knowledge-hoarding to a knowledge-sharing enterprise. The article espouses a five-phase transformation process: • Developing the Knowledge Future State Vision, Knowledge Strategy and Value Propositions • Developing the Knowledge Architecture and Determining its Content • Developing the Knowledge Infrastructure, Service Model and Network Support Mechanisms • Developing a Knowledge Culture Transformation Program • Leveraging Knowledge into Innovation The author identifies possible strategies, leading practices, and pitfalls to avoid in each phase. He also explores the challenges involved in identifying and measuring intellectual capital, encouraging new knowledge creation, capturing human knowledge in structural form, and enabling virtual workgroup collaboration.

First Policy, Then Action: A Co-Production Approach to Understand the Application of Urban Climate Knowledge in Land Use Planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 2050005
Author(s):  
Mariana Barreto Alfonso Fragomeni ◽  
Jennifer L. Rice ◽  
Rosanna G. Rivero ◽  
J. Marshall Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Response Planning ◽  
Climate Knowledge ◽  
Heat Response ◽  
The City

Barriers to the application of climate science in land use planning are often understood as a problem related to perceived disciplinary knowledge gaps. This paper argues that, instead, limitations to the application of knowledge are not strictly linked to transference, but are also attributed to the thought processes that planners use to understand and use information. This study uses an interactional co-production framework from Science and Technology Studies (STS) to explore these processes in the context of heat response planning in Chatham County, Georgia, in the United States: a coastal county exposed to hot and humid conditions that render its population, particularly its growing elderly and low-income, vulnerable to heat health risks. We specifically focus on the processes used by planners during a heat response planning workshop, exploring the discussions and actions taken to develop a plan. We attempt to answer the following questions: What are the processes used by planners to respond to climatic issues such as heat vulnerability? How do these processes determine the application of the scientific knowledge produced? How does this process enable or limit the use of climate knowledge in decision making at the city scale? This paper argues that planners engage in three steps to determine the applicability of climate knowledge to urban planning: (1) using their own experiences to contextualize and visualize the information in their community, (2) being extremely cautious about the use of information because of a fear of failure, and (3) asking for specific policies to be in place to justify and legitimate actions and promote projects throughout the city. Using these insights, this paper concludes with some thoughts on how climate knowledge might be better integrated into urban planning.

scholarly journals Learning Objects and Their Implications on Learning: A Case of Developing the Foundation for a New Knowledge Infrastructure

10.28945/2907 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bednar ◽  
Christine Welch ◽  
Almerindo Graziano
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Socratic Method ◽  
Discovery Process ◽  
Problem Space ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Advanced Stages ◽  
And Control

In an era of lifelong learning, empowerment of the learner becomes fundamental. Therefore exploitation of the full potential of learning objects depends upon creation of an appropriate infrastructure to promote symmetrical control of inquiry. The learner needs to be empowered because learning is a discovery process and thus must be under his or her own control. In early stages of education it is often assumed that choice of material is to be decided by experts. At the more advanced stages, however, any subject problem space becomes more complex, and thus any decision related to relevance of inquiry properly rests with the learner. However without access to relevant contextual material (in addition to content) the learner will not be in a position to make responsible judgments. Two problems are to be adduced. First, current attempts to contextualise content, such as those based on the use of Metadata etc, have been shown to be insufficient. Secondly, current developments in infrastructure assume that access and control of inquiry rests with the provider and fail to accommodate support of symmetrical dialogue. Many strategies for the use of Learning Objects assume that a learner wishes to be led through the material and precludes the possibility of an educational experience which promotes critical thinking (such as that inspired by Socratic method). We would argue that an infrastructure is needed which is capable of supporting both types of learning practice.

Becoming Knowledge-Powered

2000 ◽  
pp. 196-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Transformation Process ◽  
Network Support ◽  
Knowledge Culture ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Knowledge Strategy ◽  
Culture Transformation ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Value Propositions ◽  
Support Mechanisms

In this article, Dave Pollard, Chief Knowledge Officer at Ernst & Young Canada since 1994, relates the award-winning process his firm has used, and which many of the corporations that have visited the Centre for Business Knowledge in Toronto are adapting for their own needs, to transform the company from a knowledge-hoarding to a knowledge- sharing enterprise. The article espouses a five-phase transformation process: • Developing the Knowledge Future State Vision, Knowledge Strategy and Value Propositions • Developing the Knowledge Architecture and Determining its Content • Developing the Knowledge Infrastructure, Service Model and Network Support Mechanisms • Developing a Knowledge Culture Transformation Program • Leveraging Knowledge into Innovation The author identifies possible strategies, leading practices, and pitfalls to avoid in each phase. He also explores the challenges involved in identifying and measuring intellectual capital, encouraging new knowledge creation, capturing human knowledge in structural form, and enabling virtual workgroup collaboration.

Enacting Open Scholarship in Transnational Contexts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Joseph Wrisley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Gulf States

This essay addresses emerging open scholarly practices in transnational contexts, in particular in the Eastern Arab countries. It also describes some of the larger contours of the globalization in higher education in the regions of Middle East/North Africa (MENA) and Asia. Drawing upon work in the field in Lebanon and the Gulf States, it discusses some of the opportunities and challenges for open scholarship in the region, notably a gap in knowledge infrastructure. Finally, it argues that an important opportunity has emerged for the region’s globally connected institutions of higher education to shape and enact new knowledge environments.

Tacit Knowledge Elicitation Techniques Applied to Complex Manufacturing Processes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Guerra-Zubiaga
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Elicitation ◽  
Manufacturing Processes ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Motion Sequence ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Knowledge Type ◽  
The Right ◽  
Complex Activities

Tacit knowledge is one of the main intangible assets in different corporations and an important issue is to explore new tacit knowledge elicitation techniques, being able to identify, categorize, represent, store and reuse this important knowledge type. This paper presents a new tacit knowledge technique called MAKMOSE (Manufacturing tAcit Knowledge MOtion Sequence Elicitation). The new knowledge elicitation technique explores the uses of motion sequence to explore the movements that workers and robots use when performing complex activities. This research provides a knowledge infrastructure representing a tacit knowledge super class to extract valuable experiences. This paper argues that the implementation of MAKMOSE requires exploration and connection of (a) a tacit knowledge infrastructure as a repository, (b) a tacit knowledge life cycle, and (c) implementing the right technology capturing valuable experiences through motion sequence. An important challenge is to demonstrate how new tacit knowledge types can be identified, categorized, stored and reused using motion sequences techniques. This paper presents some research ideas to implement the MAKMOSE in Complex Manufacturing Processes (CMP).

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