Rogers' Chocolates Ltd. and the Corporation of the City of Victoria: A Case Comment on Involuntary Designation and the Conservation of Heritage Buildings

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian S. J. Piggott
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The One

AbstractThe process adopted by the local government to protect the interior of an old building in Victoria, British Columbia, culminated in a significant compensation award in favor of the building's owner and highlights the shortcomings of a coercive regulatory approach to heritage conservation. This study focuses on the relationship between cooperative resolution of conflicts between the rights of the public to protect heritage buildings and the rights of private property owners to the use of their property without interference, on the one hand, and the long-term utility and conservation of historic buildings and the sustainability of local government heritage programs, on the other. Analysis includes discussion on (a) key issues arising out of an involuntary heritage designation, (b) flexible alternative conservation mechanisms and incentives available to local governments, (c) approaches to conservation of heritage buildings in other jurisdictions, and (d) opportunities for improvement in the local government heritage conservation program.

Pengambilan Keputusan Dengan Pendekatan Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Studi Kasus pada Pengembangan Kawasan Situ Pulo, Bekasi

Liquidity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
Pitri Yandri
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Responsible Party

In the era of autonomy, swamp (situ) is the one of property that could be managed by the local government in order to raise their revenues (PAD). However, in order to maximize its PAD, the decisions made by local governments usually faced with a complex situation. The research objective is to assess the perceptions and preferences of stakeholders that include the public, private sector and government towards the development of swamp. One of the eighteen swamps in Bekasi is "Situ Pule By using AHP obtained information that the most responsible party for the development of Situ Pulo is local government. Seeing this fact, the local government should be able to do development initiatives. However, the process of swamp development should depart from the aspirations of local communities.

Heritage Incentive Programs : The Key to Achieving the Potential of Heritage Conservation in Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna Langdale
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Property Rights ◽  
Incentive Programs ◽  
Incentive Program ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Effective Conservation

This paper explores heriage conservation and its implementation in Ontario and argues that changes to the Ontario Heritage Act in 2005 raised concerns about the infringement of private property rights for the conservation of a public good. The author argues that greater honesty, foresight and more robust incentive programs are critical to the effective conservation on Ontario's cultural heritage resources and in balancing public and private interests. A survey of heritage incentive programs identified that Ontario's 10 largest municipalities offer at least one incentive program for designated property owners. The survey also identified numerous small municipalities with a rich complement of incentive programs. Recommendations are provided for more flexibility both in the framework and approach to heritage conservation in Ontario including expanded heritage incentive programs, greater flexibility in alterations to heritage buildings and less onerous requirements for heritage incentive program applications.

scholarly journals Heritage Incentive Programs : The Key to Achieving the Potential of Heritage Conservation in Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna Langdale
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Property Rights ◽  
Incentive Programs ◽  
Incentive Program ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Effective Conservation

This paper explores heriage conservation and its implementation in Ontario and argues that changes to the Ontario Heritage Act in 2005 raised concerns about the infringement of private property rights for the conservation of a public good. The author argues that greater honesty, foresight and more robust incentive programs are critical to the effective conservation on Ontario's cultural heritage resources and in balancing public and private interests. A survey of heritage incentive programs identified that Ontario's 10 largest municipalities offer at least one incentive program for designated property owners. The survey also identified numerous small municipalities with a rich complement of incentive programs. Recommendations are provided for more flexibility both in the framework and approach to heritage conservation in Ontario including expanded heritage incentive programs, greater flexibility in alterations to heritage buildings and less onerous requirements for heritage incentive program applications.

scholarly journals The Role of Social Media in Promoting Information Disclosure on Environmental Incidents: An Evolutionary Game Theory Perspective

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Ling ◽  
Shan Gao ◽  
Wenhui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The Public

Despite the expectation that social media use in the public sector contributes to enhancing government's transparency, few studies have been investigated whether social media use actually leads to more disclosure during environmental incidents in practice and how social media influence local governments and their officials' information disclosure. In this article, we model information disclosure during environmental incidents as an evolutionary game process between the central government and local government in social media context, and examine the internal mechanism that how social media influence the progress of information disclosure during environmental incidents. The findings indicate that social media plays an active constructive role in central-local government game relations. Specific- ally, social media can provides an efficient information channels for the central government supervise regional officials in environmental incidents, and thus improves its supervision efficiency, and it also provides an important means for internet mobilization and online-offline interaction by encouraging the public exchange information and express their views, and in turn forces local governments and their officials tend to disclosure ahead.

scholarly journals URGENCY OF INSURANCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE BUILDING IN SURABAYA

Yuridika ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
Hilda Yunita Sabrie
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Heritage Building

The cultural heritage of a region is the identity and richness of history for the region. Given the importance of the existence of cultural heritage in an area, the local government should pay special attention to the continuity of its existence. Through inventory, listing the cultural heritages, maintenance until its restoration must be done properly and continuously. This is not only the responsibility of the local government, but it is the responsibility of all parties including the local community. But in practice, local government or society are less concerned about the existence of cultural heritage in the area. This research focuses on cultural heritage buildings in Surabaya because this city is one of the cities in Indonesia which has many buildings of cultural heritage with various conditions. Local governments need to act quickly and effectively to solve the problem, so the solution can be done by including third parties such as insurance companies engaged in the insurance of losses, which can help to cover some form of damage that occurred in the building of the reserve culture in Surabaya. From the problems mentioned above, the research method used is statute approach and conceptual approach.

Conditions and prospects for cooperation between Polish and Ukrainian local governments

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-241
Author(s):  
Mariusz W. Sienkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
The Eu

The fact that Poland and Ukraine share a border, the convergence of the political goals of the peoples of both countries, and the constant efforts towards the development of democracy and decentralisation of public life determine the need to intensify cooperation in various areas of the functioning of society and the economy. An important sphere of cooperation is the public sector, in particular at the level of local government. The local government cooperation of both countries was already visible at the beginning of the social and political transformations after 1990. The development of this cooperation, with varying results, took place in the 1990s and, to an even greater extent, after Poland’s accession to the European Union. In the last three decades, local and regional communities in Ukraine have become an important partner for Polish local governments, both at the local and regional levels. The local government cooperation that has been implemented is based on the diversification and multidimensionality of forms and models. Some result from legal regulations, while others are based on mutual experiences, previous contacts, and sympathies of public authorities. The aim of the study is to analyse and present the conditions and forms of Polish-Ukrainian local government cooperation. The aim is also to show the barriers to cooperation and to define proposed solutions to improve partner contacts of territorial units. The local government cooperation of the two countries is undoubtedly hindered by the fact that Ukraine is not a member of the EU, and often by mutual misunderstanding and non-acceptance of historical experiences. On the other hand, common goals at different levels of social, public, and economic life are a significant factor motivating parties to increase cooperation and achieve a synergistic effect thanks to it.

IMPLEMENTACIJA KVALITETA U SISTEMU MENADžMENTA JAVNIH USLUGA

2021 ◽  
pp. 233-250
Author(s):  
Milan Palević ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Quality Management Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legitimate Expectations ◽  
The One

The work and work of public administration should strive to continuously improve the quality of its services, as well as to improve the overall quality of public administration as an organization. It is necessary to constantly set new goals and gradually, over time, get closer to those goals. In this way, the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization, that is, the entire system, would be improved. The new concept of management in public administration should improve the functioning of the public sector, which means that administrative bodies operate in accordance with the legitimate expectations of the users of their services. This paper presents a review of the current state of eGovernment and eServices that local governments in Serbia provide to citizens and the economy, from the aspect of service providers on the one hand and service users on the other. The author intends to point out the areas in which there is room for improvement, but also the challenges that local governments face every day in their work. The contribution of the paper is in the theoretical presentation of the importance of the implementation of quality management systems in public service management systems in order to improve them.

Customizing Soil-Water Expertise for Different Users

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Wagenet ◽  
J. Bouma
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Soil P ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transfer Processes ◽  
Regulatory Bodies ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The One ◽  
Soil Surveys

Our lives depend upon and determine the fluxes of water and chemicals in the environment. Atmospheric, aquatic, and terrestrial systems are all characterized by transfer processes that make our lives possible. Some of these processes deliver the air, water, and nutrients that we need to produce food and fiber. Other transfer processes relocate our wastes as environmental contaminants that must be properly managed. As society grows in absolute numbers, so, too, must our concern for maintaining the balance between the wise use of our natural resources in a sustainable manner on the one hand, and the misuse of these resources through short-sightedness and mismanagement on the other hand. Utilization of our resources must be accompanied by protection of them, and knowledge of the role that transfer processes play in this balancing act is important. Management for the long term means that wise decisions in the short term are based on two key issues. First, there is a crucial need to further understand how natural processes, particularly transfer processes, operate. Without this knowledge base, we are unable to formulate logical and lasting solutions to environmental problems. While soil scientists have always focused on tabulating land characteristics in the form of soil surveys, there now is the need to translate these static characterizations into dynamic land qualities, such as soil transfer processes. As important, but less appreciated, is the fact that scientists are becoming increasingly accountable to our clients, the public, for approaches to solve problems that are important to society. This is particularly true for those scientists knowledgeable in transfer processes, for the obvious reasons of public focus on environmental management and pollution prevention. The decisions regarding the impact of our science will be debated, enacted, and enforced outside the scientific community. As we now realize, this means we must consider solutions to environmental problems that are endorsed not only by the scientific community, but also by the public citizenry and regulatory bodies. Many soil and water scientists are experts on transfer processes in the unsaturated zone of the soil.

Elucidating the Linkages Between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Local Government Sustainability Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Deslatte ◽  
William L. Swann
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
And Performance

Linking strategic management to performance has been called essential for public managers to confront pernicious environmental and community problems in the 21st century. This article examines the role that an organization’s entrepreneurial orientation (EO) plays in the linkages between organizational capacities, strategies, and perceived performance. An EO is considered a key driver of a public organization’s willingness to engage in risk taking, innovation, and proactivity aimed at enhancing organizational routines, decision-making, and performance. Scholars have provided empirical guidance for the antecedents and consequences of entrepreneurialism in bureaucracy, yet we know little systematically about how EO links to strategies that may affect performance in the public sector. To investigate, we employ a mixed methods design using a nationwide survey of U.S. local governments and interviews with local government managers about their experiences in sustainability programs. Quantitatively, we find evidence for environmental factors of political and administrative capacities positively influencing EO, and that strategic activities of performance information use, venturing, and interorganizational collaboration mediate the relation between EO and perceived sustainability performance. Interviews corroborate these findings and illuminate how local government managers proactively engage stakeholders, consider risk taking, build capacity, and pursue innovation in sustainability.

scholarly journals Legislating community engagement at the Australian local government level

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Reporting Requirements ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
Government Level

Community engagement has assumed a more salient role in the operations of Australia’s local governments. A vast number of legislative instruments and reporting requirements are imposed upon local governments by the states and the Northern Territory across Australia’s seven local government jurisdictions. Consequently, a set of identifiable practices is solidifying as a core element of local government practice and state–local relations. However, while practices have recently proliferated, it is easy to forget that they are relatively new. This article examines the legislative frameworks of Australian local government systems by chronologically mapping the development of legislation and other reporting requirements. It is argued that community engagement now occupies a central place in local government, and that the jurisdictions use four different types of approaches, often simultaneously, which can fruitfully be described as ‘prescriptive’, ‘aspirational’, ‘empowering’ and ‘hedging’. The discussion draws comparative observations and identifies key issues and challenges for the future of community engagement. KeywordsCommunity engagement; Australia; local government; public participation; legislation

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