scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR THE HAINES ROAD PORTION OF THE SHAKWAK PROJECT, BRITISH COLUMBIA/YUKON TERRITORIES, CANADA

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-478
Author(s):  
Collin Kingman ◽  
Paul Knysh
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Planning And Design

Conceptualization and Application: Psychological Processes in Environmental Cognition and Assessment

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald D. Weisman
Keyword(s):  
Research Finding ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Research Utilization ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Research Application ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Environmental Cognition ◽  
Program Policy ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Effective research application has always been an important but illusive goal in environment- behavior research. However, the fact that we have not been entirely successful in realizing this goal should not be a source of particular surprise or dismay. Problems of effective research utilization are not at all unique to environment-behavior studies; they are common across disciplines and professions that endeavor to link knowledge and action (Weisman, 1983). Such difficulties are a reflection of fundamentally different ideas of what constitutes effective research application. Assessment of the applicability of the models of psychological processes presented by Böök, Küller, and S. Kaplan (this volume), therefore, is not a simple or entirely straightforward task. It is necessary to first consider the quite different yet useful ways in which application has been defined. After this discussion of application, each of the models in this section will be briefly reviewed, and some conclusions drawn regarding their applicability to environmental planning and design. Throughout this chapter, particular emphasis is placed on the need to confront the physical environment in theoretically meaningful terms and the ways in which this can advance our ability to link environmental knowledge and action. Application may be viewed in many different ways. For some practitioners, research utilization is defined in terms of “instrumental application” (Weiss, 1980). This straightforward view focuses on “the direct application of a research finding in a project, program, policy or administrative decision” (Seidel, 1985, p. 50). Such instrumental application, however, is not the only nor necessarily the most significant avenue for research application. Almost 30 years ago, in a particularly thoughtful article, policy analyst Max Millikan explored the relationship of knowledge and action. Decision makers, Millikan suggested, “commit their elementary error in an inductive fallacy—the assumption that the solution of any problem will be advanced by the simple collection of fact.” “This is easiest to observe,” Millikan noted, “in government circles, where research is considered as identical with ‘intelligence’” (1959, p. 163).

A Voice for Children and Young People in the City

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Wilks ◽  
Julie Rudner
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Urban And Environmental Planning

AbstractA major challenge for researchers and urban planning practitioners is how to obtain meaningful and influential contributions on urban and environmental planning activities from children and young people within the constraints of adult policy and practice. The key elements of this challenge concern traditional methods of communication between ‘experts’ and children and young people in rationalist planning settings, versus emerging research in relation to children's and young people's views and agency around civic participation. This article will address the work of a number of researchers and practitioners who have grappled with the inherent tenions of making planning practice and urban design more inclusionary, while facilitating and respecting children and young people's civic participation. This article also advocates the advantages and strengths of their participation in planning and urban design processes.With a focus on two exploratory programs developed by the authors in the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria, this article will demonstrate how the sharing of knowledge and skills between planning and design professionals and children and young people can lead to more meaningful and influential contributions from them. The programs examined were informed by leading practice both in Australia and internationally, and have assisted to develop children and young people's sense of spatial competence, and their confidence and efficacy in their local environment, contributing ultimately to their wellbeing. They have also supported the establishment of youth leadership groups with the confidence and skills to contribute to ongoing local government urban and environmental planning activities.

Conservation and Maintenance as a Means of Sustainable Development - Finnish Perspective

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Kaisa Broner-Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Subsequent Change ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Grassroots Level

The article deals with the environmental consciousness emerged from the 1970's onwards, and with subsequent change in the ideology of city planning. The focus is on the development of urban conservation methods and on the maintenance of the built environment, which have marked a decisive shift away from the CIAM theses that dominated urban thinking during half-a-century. The decision to take the existing built environment as the starting point for all actions of city planning and design has been a radical stand for a new approach, corresponding to and paralleling the idea of sustainable development that crystallized in the 1980's up to the 1992 UN Conference. Grassroots-level strategies are considered important for all actions towards a sustainable way of life. The case of Finland is studied in some detail, with the conservation atlas of the historic milieu as an example of teaching a sustainable approach to environmental planning and design.

scholarly journals Community energy planning in Ontario and British Columbia: Climate action at a municipal planning level

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Brodeur
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Municipal Planning ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Climate Action

Community Energy Planning (CEP) is a process that allows municipalities to develop and implement local climate action, meet carbon reduction goals, and ensure a steady supply of clean energy. This MRP compares CEP in four municipalities in Ontario and British Columbia, to examine the reasons that led municipalities to undertake CEP and the roles that the municipalities undertook in the process. By using a policy comparison and interviews with Subject Matter Experts, the role that the municipality played to develop and implement CEP, and the role of the CEP within the community were evaluated. The municipalities studied were seen to have undertaken the expected roles to varying degrees and with various methods. Key Words: An article on energy and emissions planning in Canadian municipalities, used the key words: community energy planning, climate action, energy policy, local environmental planning

scholarly journals Community energy planning in Ontario and British Columbia: Climate action at a municipal planning level

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Brodeur
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Planning ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Municipal Planning ◽  
Carbon Reduction ◽  
Climate Action

Community Energy Planning (CEP) is a process that allows municipalities to develop and implement local climate action, meet carbon reduction goals, and ensure a steady supply of clean energy. This MRP compares CEP in four municipalities in Ontario and British Columbia, to examine the reasons that led municipalities to undertake CEP and the roles that the municipalities undertook in the process. By using a policy comparison and interviews with Subject Matter Experts, the role that the municipality played to develop and implement CEP, and the role of the CEP within the community were evaluated. The municipalities studied were seen to have undertaken the expected roles to varying degrees and with various methods. Key Words: An article on energy and emissions planning in Canadian municipalities, used the key words: community energy planning, climate action, energy policy, local environmental planning

scholarly journals Appraisal of Smart City, Compact/Resilient City and Sustainable City: implications for Design

2018 ◽  
pp. 52-61
Author(s):  
Augusta I.E. ◽  
Jerry N.O. ◽  
Justus N.O.
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Resilient Design ◽  
Developed World

In recent times the concepts of smart city, compact city, resilient city, resilient design, sustainable design and sustainable city have crept into city/ environmental planning/design discourse and practice. While the meanings are not clearly understood especially as they apply to cities of a developing country like Nigeria, there seems to be a very thin divide between them. This study appraised these terms with respect to their intrinsic design principles in a bid to make the professionals and the stakeholders in our built environment aware of their implicit need for application to Nigerian cities. The methodology relied on literature review of the terms and concepts. The study drew examples from the developed world to establish that the definitions of these concepts and terms are overlapping and complimentary. The concepts are also found to be applicable to Nigerian cities in the identified circumstances therein. Although some frameworks were identified, no cook-book or methodological pathways for their application to cities generally was encountered in the literature surveyed. It is hoped that the study has exposed their implications for current and future urban planning and design paradigms in Nigeria.

scholarly journals The quality of environmental planning in the assessment of residents of Moscow

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 11007
Author(s):  
Igor’ Pryadko
Keyword(s):  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Ecological Planning ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Ecological Culture ◽  
New Moscow

The paper analyzes the results of a sociological survey conducted in February-March 2020 by teachers and students of NRU MSUCE on the topic “Urboecological planning and design in the assessment of the young generation of townspeople.” The survey was conducted among young people permanently residing in the metropolitan area, including in the territory of New Moscow. The study identified the main challenges and problems facing city authorities and civil society in the in the metropolitan area and Moscow region. Some measures of urban ecological planning and design are considered. The author analyzes the components of the ecological culture of the townspeople, in the structure of which he distinguishes ecological education, ecological upbringing and ecological behavior. The results of the study can be used in planning and conducting environmental protection measures both in large metropolitan areas, in particular in Moscow, and in medium-sized settlements.

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