Urban Planning, Hazardous Installations, and Blight: An Evaluation of Responses to Hazard — Development Conflict

10.1068/c9782 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Walker
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Community Facilities

Urban planning has played an increasing role in response to threats to health and safety, but this can create problematical conflicts with other planning priorities. The author examines how the UK planning system deals in practice with the safety implications of hazardous installations involving the storage and use of toxic, explosive, and flammable substances. The responses that have been made by local planning authorities to hazard – development conflicts in the vicinity of hazardous installations are evaluated. A distinction is made between those responses focused on development restraint through refusing permission for housing, community facilities, and other sensitive land uses, and those focused on the hazard source. It is argued that these last are becoming increasingly significant despite limitations in the statutory powers available. Through focusing on recent developments and drawing on a wide range of experience, the author adds to the existing research literature on planning and hazardous installations in which the evolution of policy and practice in this area has hitherto been rather sporadically examined. The implications of a recent policy focus on brownfield redevelopment, of new European regulations for hazardous sites, and of wider trends in relationships between industry, regulators, and communities at risk are considered.

Effectiveness, Research and Youth Justice

Youth Justice ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Research Literature ◽  
Effectiveness Research ◽  
Youth Crime ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Practice Experience ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Meaningful Data

Policy and practice developments in the field of youth justice have become highly politicised across the UK. The growing demand for greater transparency of outcomes sets new challenges for practitioners who have to marry direction from research with practice experience. A better dialogue is needed between practitioners and researchers to support the generation of a wide range of meaningful data on what is likely to be effective, with whom and in what situations. This paper examines issues of responding effectively to youth crime by drawing key messages from the research literature.

Beyond evidence-based policy and practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Mike Fisher
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This paper concerns the impact of social work research, particularly on practice and practitioners. It explores the politics of research and how this affects practice, the way that university-based research understands practice, and some recent developments in establishing practice research as an integral and permanent part of the research landscape. While focusing on implications for the UK, it draws on developments in research across Europe, North America and Australasia to explore how we can improve the relationship between research and practice.

From Compliance to Concordance and Beyond

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Daz Greenop ◽  
Katherine Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Self Care ◽  
Patient Experiences ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Concordance Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Health Research ◽  
Healthcare It ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Descriptive Framework

This commentary begins with a brief overview of recent developments in healthcare policy and practice in the UK. Particular attention is paid to the demise of the concept (and practice) of compliance along with and rise of the concept (and practice) of concordance. Analysis suggests that despite considerable changes in the organisation and delivery of healthcare there remains a clear gap between rhetoric and reality. Drawing on insights from qualitative health research issues of identity, embodiment and self-care are explored and synthesised in a single descriptive framework. Neither compliance nor concordance alone adequately captures the reality of patient experiences in everyday life. The framework of understanding proposed here contextualises compliance and concordance and their corollaries within distinct horizons of expectation. For a truly user-driven healthcare it is not a question of either/or but both and more and asking, in reality, what can a body do?

Managing Nuclear Liabilities in the UK: Evaluating Strategic Options and Communicating Financial and Resource Implications

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Harper ◽  
J. Harrison ◽  
D. N. Swan
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
Resource Requirements ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Utilisation Data

Decisions on the strategies to follow in dealing with these operational and decommissioning wastes require consideration of a wide range of issues including environmental impact, safety, stakeholder acceptability, cost and practicability. In this paper, we focus on an approach that we have developed to analyse the time-varying resource requirements of different waste management options in terms of cost and plant capacity. The approach addresses the need for: • a standardised approach that can be used across different organisations; • a range of standard graphical outputs that can be used to communicate the key issues; • the need to match waste management strategy with the potential availability of relevant plant and facilities; • the need to evaluate the risks that arise to any strategy as the result of changes in policy or the failure of some component of the strategy. Many of the required issues can be addressed using a simple spreadsheet approach. However, this does not provide for standardisation, auditability or transparency and does not provide a wide range of analysis and presentation tools. We therefore advocate the use of a specifically designed decision support tool. ALPS (Advanced Liabilities Planning System) has been developed over a number of years to meet these requirements. It has been developed around the database package ACCESSTM and runs on Pentium TM PCs but has the essential features of project management packages that are necessary for strategic planning. The principal outputs of the system are cost, timing and utilisation data for waste stores, processing facilities, transport and disposal operations. The outputs can be displayed at any level of aggregation to allow the effects of different scenarios to be evaluated.

The ‘Sexting’ Quagmire: Criminal Justice Responses to Adolescents’ Electronic Transmission of Indecent Images in the UK and the USA

Youth Justice ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Stone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Child Pornography ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

Adolescent embrace of electronic communication with peers often involves sharing indecent images of each other, sometimes with abusive consequences. How should the criminal justice system respond? Use of conventional child pornography legislation can be inappropriately heavy-handed and draconian. This article considers recent developments in the United States and considers how this mode of juvenile indiscretion fits with law, policy and practice in England and Wales.

scholarly journals Sanitation Dilemmas and Africa’s Urban Futures: Foregrounding Environmental Public Health in Contemporary Urban Planning

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Bob O. Manteaw
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Environmental Public Health ◽  
Human Habitat ◽  
Public Health Challenges ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Planning Processes

Africa is rising, so goes the current narrative on Africa’s growth and development prospects. While most of these narratives are in direct reference to economic indicators and existing potentials for Africa’s sustainable development, there is no doubt that the rapidly urbanizing landscapes of Africa, characterized by sprawling cities, high-rise buildings, and flashy city lights represent an urban revolution in most of Africa’s cities.  Beneath the glow of flashy city lights lies a dark and gloomy contrast: inner city slums, sanitation dilemmas and environmental public health challenges which converge to pose significant challenges to Africa’s broader sustainable development aspirations. This paper foregrounds urban sanitation challenges and public health imperatives from a contemporary urban planning perspective. The paper argues that urban planning and public health have shared a close historical relationship both in thinking and practice; however, recent developments in urbanization processes have seen the two professions drift apart. The paper further asserts that human habitat considerations from the perspective of urban planning in Ghana, in particular, treat issues of sanitation management and public health and safety issues as after-thoughts and are excluded in initial planning processes. While the paper acknowledges the influence of increased population growth and the reality of climate change in current urbanization processes, the paper advocates for new approaches that make cities and other urbanizing communities resilient.

From Compliance to Concordance and Beyond

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Daz Greenop ◽  
Katherine Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Patient Experiences ◽  
Delivery Of Healthcare ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Qualitative Health Research ◽  
Healthcare It ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Descriptive Framework

This commentary begins with a brief overview of recent developments in healthcare policy and practice in the UK. Particular attention is paid to the demise of the concept (and practice) of compliance along with and rise of the concept (and practice) of concordance. Analysis suggests that despite considerable changes in the organisation and delivery of healthcare there remains a clear gap between rhetoric and reality. Drawing on insights from qualitative health research issues of identity, embodiment and self-care are explored and synthesised in a single descriptive framework. Neither compliance nor concordance alone adequately captures the reality of patient experiences in everyday life. The framework of understanding proposed here contextualises compliance and concordance and their corollaries within distinct horizons of expectation. For a truly user-driven healthcare it is not a question of either/or but both and more and asking, in reality, what can a body do?

Biodiversity Offsetting and the English Planning System: A Regulatory Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-557
Author(s):  
John Condon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
System A ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Contractual Governance ◽  
Regulatory Analysis ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Under the Environment Bill, the UK government plans to formally implement biodiversity offsetting in the English planning system as a way to reduce the impact of development on biodiversity. Certain developments will be required to achieve a ‘biodiversity gain’ through the use of developer contributions. This article provides a regulatory analysis, assessing whether the planning system supports the key requirements of biodiversity offsetting, most notably the need to protect biodiversity. The lens of contractual governance is used to spotlight problems with local planning authorities negotiating environmental objectives with developers when other planning objectives are also ‘on the table’. The wider planning system is also addressed, where it is argued that environmental objectives are undermined by a lack of central policy and coordination to regulate the decision-making of local planning authorities. The case is made for an ‘ecological’ approach to planning as means of more reliably protecting biodiversity through offsetting.

scholarly journals Re-Envisioning Aging in the Right Place to Disrupt Homelessness for Older People

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 292-292
Author(s):  
Rachel Weldrick ◽  
Sarah Canham ◽  
Joyce Weil
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Aging In Place ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Housing Programs ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Right

Abstract Recent developments in the aging-in-place literature have recognized the significance of aging-in-the-right-place. That is, aging in a place that supports an individual’s unique values, vulnerabilities, and lifestyles. This symposium will build upon existing research by critically examining the potential for older persons with experiences of homelessness (OPEH) and/or housing insecurity to age-in-the-right-place. Presenters will include interdisciplinary researchers with a diversity of perspectives stemming from gerontology, social work, and environmental design. The symposium will begin with Weldrick and Canham presenting a conceptual framework for aging-in-the-right-place that has been developed to outline indicators relevant to OPEH and housing-insecure older people. Elkes and Mahmood will then discuss findings from a study of service providers working with OPEH to consider the relative benefits and challenges of temporary housing programs. Following, Brais and colleagues will present findings from an environmental audit, developed as a novel assessment tool to evaluate the accessibility and physical design of housing programs for OPEH. A final presentation by Kaushik and Walsh will highlight findings from a photovoice study on perspectives of aging-in-the-right place among OPEH during the Covid-19 pandemic. Joyce Weil, an expert in measurement of person-place fit and life course inequalities, will discuss the implications of these papers and reflect on the potential for the aging-in-the-right-place framework to address the diverse needs of the growing population of OPEH through policy and practice. Together, the participants of the symposium will advance this emerging scholarship using a wide range of methods and perspectives.

Asbestos Disease in Australia: Looking Forward and Looking Back

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-373
Author(s):  
A. D. Lamontagne ◽  
C. E. Hunter ◽  
D. Vallance ◽  
A. J. Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Related Disease ◽  
Disease Research ◽  
Health Response ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Asbestos Related Disease ◽  
Looking Back

This article provides an overview and analysis of recent developments in policy and practice in relation to asbestos disease in Australia. It complements three other concurrent publications in this issue representing important contributions of people and organizations toward addressing the health and social impacts of Australia's asbestos disease epidemic. The campaign to “Make James Hardie Pay” as well as the efforts of workers and advocates are profiled in this article as well as in this issue's Documents and Voices sections. Discussion of recent developments in asbestos-related disease research and mesothelioma surveillance is followed by articulation of the comprehensive public and social health response that is needed to fully engage and address the asbestos disease legacy and to apply lessons learned to help revive the currently waning societal commitment to occupational health and safety in Australia and elsewhere.

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