Mauritania – Major Development Projects

2022 ◽  
Vol 58 (11) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Development Projects ◽  
Major Development

scholarly journals When research met policy: a history of innovation and a complicated relationship in three Swedish development projects in mathematics education, 1960–2018

ZDM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Prytz
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
School Governance ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Major Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Contemporary Development

AbstractThis paper concerns the relationship between research and governance policy in three Swedish major development projects in mathematics education: the New Math project (1960–1975), the PUMP project (1970–1980), and the Boost for Mathematics project in (2012–2016). All three projects were driven or financed by the Swedish central school authorities. Using a historical comparative method, this study deepens the understanding of how research co-exists with governance policy when preparing innovations in mathematics education. The main historical sources are official reports and governmental decisions concerning the three projects. The analysis is focused on the nature of the innovations of each project and the role of researchers in the process of creating the innovations. The analysis highlights the theories and the methods involved in those processes. The three projects are also positioned in a context of school governance policy. In Sweden, the prevailing school governing policy changed from a highly centralised governance in the 1960s to a highly decentralised governance in the 2010s. The paper concludes by discussing to what degree the researchers adhered to principles of research or school governance; in particular, the Boost for Mathematics project is considered in this regard. The relevance of the paper in relation to the emerging field of implementation research in mathematics education concerns how historical studies can give new insights about contemporary development projects in mathematics education.

Making time work: sampling floodplain artefact frequencies and populations

Antiquity ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (339) ◽  
pp. 241-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Evans ◽  
Jonathan Tabor ◽  
Marc Vander Linden
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Buried Soils ◽  
Settlement Density ◽  
Work Sampling ◽  
Major Development ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Population Numbers

The expansion of large-scale excavation in Britain and parts of Continental Europe, funded by major development projects, has generated extensive new datasets. But what might we be losing when surfaces are routinely stripped by machines? Investigation by hand of ploughsoils and buried soils in the Fenlands of eastern England reveals high densities of artefacts and features that would often be destroyed or overlooked. These investigations throw new light on the concept of site sequences where features cut into underlying ground may give only a limited and misleading indication of the pattern and timing of prehistoric occupation. The consequential loss of data has a particular impact on estimates of settlement density and population numbers, which may have been much higher than many current estimates envisage.

scholarly journals The Sustainability of Post-Conflict Development: The Case of Algeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 3036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaldoon A. Mourad ◽  
Helen Avery
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transition ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Major Development ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Structural Impacts

The Algerian civil war, 1992–2002, affected all aspects of life in the country. Major development efforts were therefore initiated in the post-conflict era. Almost 20 years later, the economy remains fragile, and the country’s large hydrocarbon revenues have not been used to develop the infrastructure for sustainability, support energy transition or reduce structural vulnerabilities. This paper provides an overview of Algerian development strategies before and after the conflict, examining in particular the orientation of major development projects involving foreign financing. Two rural development programmes are described to illustrate the outcomes of such projects. The results show that the conflict stopped or hindered many ongoing and planned development projects in the country, especially in the agriculture sector, while new investments in industry started after the conflict. The review of individual development projects further revealed that many projects between 1980–2017 had doubtful benefits with respect to long-term development goals. Initiatives tended to be discontinued once the funding period closed, and the involvement of the private sector was low. It is therefore concluded that additional attention needs to be devoted to long-term and structural impacts of development projects, including considerations regarding sustainability, demographics, and climate-related future changes.

Strategic Planning at Brisbane Airport

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 265-293
Author(s):  
Justin Paul ◽  
Eva De Groot
Keyword(s):  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Major Development ◽  
Economic Downturns ◽  
Retail Outlets ◽  
Executive Manager ◽  
Planning Department ◽  
Environment Noise ◽  
The Impact

The CEO of Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC), Koen Rooijmans, and his airport planning executive manager, Mark Willey, were preparing strategic plan for BAC's required development projects to facilitate the forecasted future demand of aircraft traffic movements at Brisbane Airport. This forecast, estimated an 80% increase in the total number of passengers who will use the airport by 2012–13. As a consequence, BAC's current facilities would not be sufficient to handle this increase in operations. Therefore, BAC had to expand its airport by constructing new roads, extending its terminals, and building a new runway. This case takes a look at how BAC's airport planning department implemented its new projects. Before BAC was allowed to expand its airport, the company had to write an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Major Development Plan (MDP). In case of the new runway, all possible problems concerning the community, the environment, noise pollution, and the impact on its current operations had to be considered. Another important issue is the diversification possibility of Brisbane airport as an airport city. In this way, the airport become less dependent on their aeronautical-related revenues that tend to diminish in case of terrorist attacks, economic downturns, and collapsing airlines. Besides providing transportation means, the airport city can also offer exhibition complexes, regional corporate headquarters, entertainment, and retail outlets.

scholarly journals Intensive tourist-related urbanisation impacts on a mountain village: The case study of Veľká Lomnica in Slovakia

2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Petrikovičová ◽  
Alfred Krogmann ◽  
Dana Fialová ◽  
Andrej Svorad
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Golf Course ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Golf Courses ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Development Activity ◽  
Major Development ◽  
The Impact

Abstrakt: A key feature of contemporary tourism is massive investment on the part of developers in tourism-related urbanisation, with this made most manifest in the construction of recreational apartment houses, and the expansion of ski slopes and golf courses. For obvious reasons, such activities are directed at traditional centres of tourism, which respond to the current trend towards hedonism present in society. However, major development activity has also taken place in municipalities in which tourism only began to play its more significant part once social and political transformation had already occurred. An example is the Slovak municipality of Veľká Lomnica, a village in which golf-course construction has initiated large-scale development projects. The aim of the work described in this paper was precisely to address this example in assessing the impact of tourism-related urbanisation on the municipality in question.

Opposition loses place in Hong Kong politics

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Major Development ◽  
Independent Candidates

Significance The election was a triumph for Hong Kong’s Beijing-friendly politicians, with only one of 90 seats won by a non-establishment candidate. Most opposition politicians did not take part in the election. The few independent candidates that did performed badly due to low turnout among pro-democracy voters. Impacts Major development projects are likely to remain on hold as long as pandemic-related border restrictions continue. Political engagement by the generally pro-democracy middle and professional classes may wane, weakening some of the city's institutions. Emigration may continue in the next year due to continued disillusionment.

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