Landscape character assessment, perception surveys of stakeholders and SWOT analysis: A holistic approach to historical public park management

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 100418
Author(s):  
Aikaterini Gkoltsiou ◽  
Angeliki Paraskevopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Park Management ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Character Assessment ◽  
Landscape Character

scholarly journals Facilitating Successful Smart Campus Transitions: A Systems Thinking-SWOT Analysis Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 2044
Author(s):  
Bankole Awuzie ◽  
Alfred Beati Ngowi ◽  
Temitope Omotayo ◽  
Lovelin Obi ◽  
Julius Akotia
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Smart Campus ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Gap Data

An identification of strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) factors remains imperative for enabling a successful Smart Campus transition. The absence of a structured approach for analyzing the relationships between these SWOT factors and the influence thereof on Smart Campus transitions negate effective implementation. This study leverages a systems thinking approach to bridge this gap. Data were collected through a stakeholder workshop within a University of Technology case study and analyzed using qualitative content analysis (QCA). This resulted in the establishment of SWOT factors affecting Smart Campus transitions. Systems thinking was utilized to analyze the relationships between these SWOT factors resulting in a causal loop diagram (CLD) highlighting extant interrelationships. A panel of experts drawn from the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and South Africa validated the relationships between the SWOT factors as elucidated in the CLD. Subsequently, a Smart Campus transition framework predicated on the CLD archetypes was developed. The framework provided a holistic approach to understanding the interrelationships between various SWOT factors influencing Smart Campus transitions. This framework remains a valuable tool for facilitating optimal strategic planning and management approaches by policy makers, academics, and implementers within the global Higher Education Institution (HEI) landscape for managing successful Smart Campus transition at the South African University of Technology (SAUoT) and beyond.

scholarly journals Landscape typology in Czechia and abroad: State of the art, methods and theoretical basis

Geografie ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-83
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Lipský ◽  
Dušan Romportl
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Intensive Agriculture ◽  
European Landscape Convention ◽  
Character Assessment ◽  
Landscape Character

The main goal of this paper is to introduce the importance of landscape typology in present times when many landscapes are exposed to dynamic human impacts such as land use changes, urbanization, intensive agriculture, forestry or industrialization. Different approaches to landscape typology in Czechia and other European countries as well as relations of landscape typology to landscape character assessment and the European Landscape Convention are discussed. A requirement of a new exact and applicable landscape typology is a great challenge for Czech geographers.

The Effectiveness of Public Park Management and Design for Sustainable Livelihood in Malaysian Context

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 8402-8407
Author(s):  
Alice Sabrina Ismail ◽  
Hazrina Haja Bava Mohidin ◽  
Muhammad Syafiq Muhamad Sani
Keyword(s):  
Park Management ◽  
Sustainable Livelihood ◽  
Public Park

scholarly journals Wilderness and aesthetic values in the Antarctic

Polar Record ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 37 (203) ◽  
pp. 337-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosamunde Codling
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Character Assessment ◽  
Antarctic Treaty ◽  
Landscape Character ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Objective Description ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Aesthetic Values

AbstractIn Article 3 of the 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties committed themselves to ‘the protection of the Antarctic environment…and the intrinsic value of Antarctica, including its wilderness and aesthetic values.’ The phraseology of the Protocol requires clarification. ‘Wilderness and aesthetic values’ links two disparate concepts, best handled by separation. Annex V, Article 3, of the Protocol covers many topics, and their assessment must be by a composite of frameworks specifically designed for the different purposes set out in the Annex.A working definition of wilderness in the Antarctic is suggested: ‘Any part of the Antarctic in which neither permanent habitation nor any other permanent evidence of present or past human presence is visible.’ Using this, a very high proportion of the continent will be recognised as having wilderness status. The phrase ‘aesthetic values’ should be seen as part of a wider process—Landscape Character Assessment—that is at present unknown to most in the Antarctic community. It is based on the principle of objective description and classification of landscape character. This basic characterisation can then be put to different uses, one of which may be to make more subjective judgements or evaluations that lead to area designations.

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