ePBPM: a graphical language supporting interoperability of participatory process

This article departs from the perspective of Swedish regional transport authorities and focuses on the public procurement of bus transports. Many of these public organizations on the county level have the ambition to contribute to a transition involving the continued marginalization of fossil fuels and improved sustainability performance. However, there are several renewable bus technologies to choose between and it can be difficult to know what alternative (or combination) is preferable. Prior research and the authors’ experiences indicate a need for improved knowledge and supportive methods on how sustainability assessments can support public procurement processes. The purpose of this article is to develop a multi-criteria assessment (MCA) method to support assessments of public bus technologies’ sustainability. The method, which was established in an iterative and participatory process, consists of four key areas and 12 indicators. The article introduces the problem context and reviews selected prior research of relevance dealing with green or sustainable public procurement and sustainability assessments. Further on, the process and MCA method are presented and discussed based on advice for effective and efficient sustainability assessments. In the companion article (Part II), the MCA method is applied to assess several bus technologies involving biodiesel, biomethane, diesel, electricity, ethanol and natural gas.

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Credit Risk Management of Property Investments through Multi-Criteria Indicators

Risks ◽

10.3390/risks9060106 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 106

Author(s):

Marco Locurcio ◽

Francesco Tajani ◽

Pierluigi Morano ◽

Debora Anelli ◽

Benedetto Manganelli

Keyword(s):

Real Estate ◽

Credit Risk ◽

Risk Index ◽

Capital Requirements ◽

Basel Iii ◽

Participatory Process ◽

Regulatory Capital ◽

The Real Estate ◽

Financial Variables ◽

Synthetic Index

The economic crisis of 2008 has highlighted the ineffectiveness of the banks in their disbursement of mortgages which caused the spread of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) with underlying real estate. With the methods stated by the Basel III agreements, aimed at improving the capital requirements of banks and determining an adequate regulatory capital, the banks without the skills required have difficulties in applying the rigid weighting coefficients structures. The aim of the work is to identify a synthetic risk index through the participatory process, in order to support the restructuring debt operations to benefit smaller banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), by analyzing the real estate credit risk. The proposed synthetic risk index aims at overcoming the complexity of Basel III methodologies through the implementation of three different multi-criteria techniques. In particular, the integration of objective financial variables with subjective expert judgments into a participatory process is not that common in the reference literature and brings its benefits for reaching more approved and shared results in the debt restructuring operations procedure. Moreover, the main findings derived by the application to a real case study have demonstrated how important it is for the credit manager to have an adequate synthetic index that could lead to the avoidance of risky scenarios where several modalities to repair the credit debt occur.

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Movements, Networks, Hierarchies: A Gender Perspective on Global Environmental Governance

Global Environmental Politics ◽

10.1162/152638003322068245 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 103-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Charlotte Bretherton

Keyword(s):

Environmental Governance ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Women's Movements ◽

Participatory Process ◽

Global Environmental Governance ◽

Women's Participation ◽

Number Of Factors ◽

Global Environmental ◽

Transnational Mobilization ◽

Environmentally Sound

Environmental governance may be distinguished from environmental management by the implication that, in the former, some form of participatory process is involved. Here, the focus is upon the potential for women's movements and networks to influence the principles and practices of global environmental governance (GEG). It is contended that, in principle, women are uniquely placed to oppose the dominant norms informing GEG; and that women's participation would, in consequence, be crucial to the achievement of equitable and environmentally sound forms of governance. In practice, however, a number of factors combine to create divisions between women, and hence to impede transnational mobilization by women around environmental issues. This article examines these issues.

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XML-GL: a graphical language for querying and restructuring XML documents

Computer Networks ◽

10.1016/s1389-1286(99)00014-6 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 31 (11-16) ◽

pp. 1171-1187 ◽

Cited By ~ 98

Author(s):

Stefano Ceri ◽

Sara Comai ◽

Ernesto Damiani ◽

Piero Fraternali ◽

Stefano Paraboschi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Graphical Language ◽

Xml Documents

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A community participatory process for peer group HIV prevention

African Journal of Midwifery and Women s Health ◽

10.12968/ajmw.2011.5.3.111 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 111-116 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ellen Mbweza Chirwa ◽

Kathleen Norr ◽

Address Malata ◽

Janet Mambulasa

Keyword(s):

Hiv Prevention ◽

Peer Group ◽

Participatory Process

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Framing the Values of Vernacular Architecture for a Value-Based Conservation: A Conceptual Framework

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13094974 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 4974

Author(s):

Obafemi A. P. Olukoya

Keyword(s):

Vernacular Architecture ◽

Conservation Strategy ◽

Participatory Process ◽

Value Assessment ◽

A Value ◽

Wide Range ◽

Flexible Framework ◽

Value Model ◽

Contextual Values ◽

Range Of Values

While a growing number of researchers have provided series of tough critiques of the typology-led heritage value assessment over the recent years, the impacts have been constrained by the continued obsession with expanding the list of the predetermined value typologies rather than escaping its limitations. While these sustained debates have provided important insights, this article argues that operationalizing these predetermined ‘one-size-fits-all’ value typologies is symptomatic of a number of shortcomings, especially in the context of capturing the pluralities of values in contextualized heritage such as vernacular architecture. It also often undermines inclusivity and participation in the valuing processes. However, rather than simply rejecting the values-based paradigm, this article proposes a conceptual value assessment framework that is informed by the theorization of vernacular architecture as a contextualized heritage. The proposed Vernacular Value Model (VVM) puts forward the ‘when(s)’ and ‘how(s)’ of amalgamating both technical and normative processes to capture the range of contextual values present in built vernacular heritage. To this end, this article posits that by drawing on such a proposed flexible framework, the conservation strategy for built vernacular heritage can be propagated as an inclusive and participatory process which captures the wide range of values for a more sustainable practices for conservation.

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