scholarly journals Local GIS: development and assessment of the geoportal for local governments and local communities. Case study of a small town in Poland

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Medolińska ◽  
Izabela Gołębiowska ◽  
Izabela Karsznia
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Administrative Unit ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Pilot Implementation ◽  
Local Levels

AbstractOf the numerous applications of GIS, administration and public services count among the main fields of application. They are both the users and the owners of the largest amount of spatial data. Portals for higher authorities have been the subject of extensive discussions, but the development and possible use of GIS systems in the form of geoportals at local levels still seems to have been insufficiently discussed. This article presents the process of designing and developing a portal for the lowest authorities - local authorities and the local community. A small town in Poland, Sokółka, was assumed as the study area. The concept development was preceded by, among others: recognition of the needs of an administrative unit in conducting spatial policy; establishment of the objectives, functionalities and assumptions of the designed GIS; a SWOT analysis of the designed geoportal; and an analysis of data resources. Pilot implementation was completed with an evaluation of the geoportal encompassing various groups of potential users.

scholarly journals Tourism Potential and Strategy to Develop Competitive Rural Tourism in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-141
Author(s):  
Dina Mayasari Soeswoyo ◽  
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Mellia Jeneetica ◽  
Liliana Dewi ◽  
Made Handijaya Dewantara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Tourism Potential

This study aims to identify tourism potential and a set of strategies for a competitive rural tourism development using a case study in Sukajadi Tourism Village, Bogor Regency, West Java. This study is a descriptive qualitative type with an exploratory case study approach. Primary data were obtained from deep field observation and interview with key informants, while secondary data was obtained from the results of literature studies and documentation. This research used identification analysis techniques of 11 tourism components modified from several experts, CHSE analysis, work program government (PROKER), market preferences, and SWOT analysis as well as SWOT Matrix. The result of this study was obtained great potential and 15 main strategies for the development of the Sukajadi Tourism Village which is currently starting to grow, namely making serious and aggressive efforts on the internal aspects of village tourism destination, as well as collaboration with tourism industry and local governments to create a competitive rural tourism destination. An active and aggressive strategy is needed for the development of Sukajadi village as a competitive rural tourism destination, based on micro and macro perspectives.

Project We Propose!

2019 ◽  
pp. 350-382
Author(s):  
Sérgio Claudino
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Upper Secondary School ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Local Problems ◽  
The Subject

In 2011, the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), University of Lisbon, launched the We Propose! project. In the subject of upper-secondary school geography, making a case study that focuses more in particular on local problems is compulsory. However, it would go against school routines. The We Propose! project was designed in order to encourage work on a case study and it has taken up the challenge of promoting young people's territorial citizenship by means of overhauling school practices and forging partnerships among universities, schools, and the community, especially the municipalities in local government. Pupils have to identify what the problems are in their own residential areas, carrying out field work on them and putting forward proposals to help solve them. Their proposals are then shared with the local community. Apart from Portugal, it has now been disseminated in Spain, Brazil, Mozambique, Colombia, and Peru.

Will Review for Points: The Unpaid Affective Labour of Placemaking for Google’s ‘Local Guides’

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
Alexander Tarr ◽  
Luis F. Alvarez León
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Qualitative Information ◽  
Gendered Spaces ◽  
The Us ◽  
Urban Places

A growing number of people are relying on technologies like Google Maps not only to navigate and locate themselves in cartographic space but also to search, discover and evaluate urban places. While the spatial data that underlies such technology frequently appears as a combination of Google-created maps and locational information passively collected from mobile (GPS-enabled) devices, in this article we argue that for such systems to function as both useful tools for exploration for users and sources of revenue, users must actively produce massive quantities of granular spatial data that would otherwise be significantly more difficult and expensive to collect. The production of this qualitative information about places constitutes significant unremunerated affective labour. In this article, we build on the tradition of feminist geographies, especially feminist and critical Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to examine how the labour done by gendered, raced and often classed members of a local community is alienated by Google (i.e. Alphabet, Inc.) to produce commodified spatial data/media in the Local Guides platform. We analyse how Google’s presentation of the platform hails women as care labourers—sharing their thoughts, feelings and knowledge of place for free in the name of supporting and caring for a community, however vaguely it may be constituted. At the same time, we argue that digital labour that produces the Local Guides platform draws from and reproduces specific gendering of spaces. We draw on a case study of a commercial corridor in the US city of Worcester, Massachusetts to show how the dialectic between affective digital labour and urban space has material effects on the production of raced, classed and gendered spaces and places. The article concludes with a call to maintain critical, feminist engagements with these types of platforms in order to further develop forms of digital praxis towards more just cities.

The District Magistrate Profession in the Early Republican Period: Occupational Recruitment, Training and Mobility

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odoric Y. K. Wou
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Government ◽  
Republican Period ◽  
The People ◽  
Republican Era ◽  
Administrative Leaders ◽  
Administrative Unit ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Early Republican ◽  
Local Levels ◽  
Direct Implementation

The subject of magistrates, the local administrative leaders in the hsien, districts, is central to the study of Chinese government and society. The district has always been and still remains the basic administrative unit in China. Magistrates, the ‘offcials close to the people’, in the districts, are the chief administrators, who have always been singly responsible for the direct implementation of governmental policies at the local levels. Although several studies have been published on local administrators of the Ch'ing dynasty and the Communist period, district magistrates of the Republican era have been little studied.

scholarly journals Jak z pewnego miasteczka szatan wyrzucił szatana. Girardowskie mechanizmy w "My z Jedwabnego" Anny Bikont

Adeptus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoni Źrebiec
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Subject

How Satan Cast Satan out of a Small Town: Girardian Mechanisms in The Crime and the Silence by Anna BikontThis article identifies the categories of René Girard’s anthropology in the content of The Crime and the Silence (My z Jedwabnego), a non-fiction book by Anna Bikont. The article stresses the mechanisms of mimetic violence and the scapegoat apparent in the events she describes. Bikont presents not only the results of her investigation into the events of 1941, but also the collective memory of the local community and its attitude to the public debate on the subject. Jak z pewnego miasteczka szatan wyrzucił szatana. Girardowskie mechanizmy w My z Jedwabnego Anny BikontCelem artykułu jest odniesienie kategorii antropologicznych wypracowanych przez René Girarda do treści reportażu Anny Bikont pod tytułem My z Jedwabnego. Artykuł podkreśla obecność mechanizmów mimetycznej przemocy i kozła ofiarnego w prezentowanych przez autorkę wydarzeniach. Analizę umożliwia szeroki zakres zebranego przez reportażystkę materiału, w którym Bikont prezentuje nie tylko wyniki badań mających odtworzyć przebieg wydarzeń z 1941 roku, ale również trwającą pośród mieszkańców miasteczka pamięć zbrodni i ich stosunek do narosłej dookoła sprawy debaty publicznej.

scholarly journals Urban spatial policy and its impact on open areas – Płock case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (36) ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Feltynowski
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
European Environmental Agency ◽  
Spatial Policy ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Environmental Agency

Abstract Spatial planning has to be carried out in accordance with the sustainable development principle. When compiling every document indicated in the Spatial Planning and Development Act, local authorities have to take into account the conditions that are valid in a gmina. They should rely on available materials which are a support for the decisions that are made. An element that constitutes support for local authorities is spatial data available in international sources, e.g. the European Environmental Agency or individual sources, e.g. vector versions of the documents in the scope of spatial planning. The purpose of the article is to present which materials used by local governments can allow for an appropriate assessment of the need for new areas of housing development and the limitation of decisions concerning the liquidation of open areas in cities. The article presents tools and data which constitute a basis for an evidence-based spatial planning policy and have to be used by local authorities. The procedure presented in the article can be a tool supporting the spatial policy and an element of evaluation whether the decisions made by local authorities are correct.

Emerging Rural Centers, Territorial Projects, Regional Development Players and Prospects. The Case of the Province of Zagora (Morocco)

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-183
Author(s):  
Abdelaaziz El-Araby ◽  
Ali Faleh
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Rural Exodus ◽  
Local Levels

AbstractThe articulation between the national, regional and local levels is one of the main thrusts that decision-makers and stakeholders are increasingly involved in when designing and implementing development visions and strategies. Indeed, the descending approach gives way gradually to the ascending approach; the revision of legislation relating to the management of public affairs (municipal charter, law on the region...), the creation of a number of support institutions (development agencies) and the project of “advanced regionalization”, are aspects of these evolutions. On the other hand, if these efforts are aimed at reducing dysfunctions between regional and intra-regional areas, the reality is that the national territory still suffers from an imbalance between the favored and other disadvantaged regions. In addition, rural exodus and urban growth have profoundly modified territorial relations: social inequalities are widening and imbalances between the rural and the urban are increasing. The present communication seeks to raise some avenues that will ensure a good structuring of the territory of a fragile zone such as the province of Zagora. This is a case study of the role of the Emerging Rural Centers, as intermediate spaces, in the articulation, revitalization and territorial development of the Drâa Tafilalet region. In fact, this new less studied terminology has been the subject of a theoretical framing concerning its definition as well as an outline of criteria for the identification and ranking of the Emerging Rural Centers applicable to the other territories. The roles of the actors in rural development and the place assigned to the CRE for the articulation of the territory of the province of Zagora.

scholarly journals Improvement Path for Resource-Constrained Cities Identified Using an Environmental Co-Governance Assessment Framework Based on BWM-mV Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4969
Author(s):  
Jian Wang ◽  
Jin-Chun Huang ◽  
Shan-Lin Huang ◽  
Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng ◽  
Ting Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
City Government ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
High Quality Information ◽  
The Subject

Global warming and extreme weather have increased most people’s awareness of the problem of environmental destruction. In the domain of sustainable development, environmental governance has received considerable scholarly attention. However, protecting and improving the environment requires not only substantial capital investment but also cooperation among stakeholders. Therefore, based on the network structure of stakeholders, the best–worst method (BWM) and modified Vlsekriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje method were combined to form an environmental co-governance assessment framework that can be used to evaluate the effects of various policies and identify strategies for further improvement through data analysis (henceforth the BWM-mV model). This mechanism is not only useful for evaluating the effectiveness of environmental governance policies but also for generating suggestions to enhance these policies. Hence, the BWM-mV model is particularly suitable for local governments with limited resources in time, money, or labor. Pingxiang City Government is currently subject to such limitations and was therefore selected as the subject of an empirical case study. The results of this study revealed that the aspects (i.e., criteria) the Pingxiang City Government should urgently improve on pertain to a high-quality information communication platform (C13) and smooth joint decision-making by stakeholders (C24).

scholarly journals Strategy of the management of natural resources

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (No. 2) ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
I. Herová
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Local Participation ◽  
Local Levels ◽  
State Regional

Management of natural resources in the context of sustainable development can be defined as the economic management of natural resources to allow their perpetual and undiminished supply. At the same time, use of the local natural resources should contribute to the economic and social development of the local community. It is vitally important to emphasize the role of local participation and knowledge. Experience, understanding, and expertise need to be assessed to help to determine the most effective roles for local individuals within the sustainable natural resource project. This assessment and its implications for the economy, community and protection of natural resources at the state, regional and local levels are a subject for case study.

SWOT analysis of indigenous and foreign contractors in a developing economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1289-1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke ◽  
Douglas Aghimien ◽  
Abiola Adedoyin
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Construction Firms ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Management Staff ◽  
Research Show

Purpose The call for more engagement of local contractors has been gaining support by construction stakeholders especially as a result of the recent economy recession in Nigeria. However, due to the increasing complexity of the construction industry and technological advancement, the influx and engagement of foreign contractors has been on the increase and their contribution is also germane to the economy development of the country. In view of this, the purpose of this paper is to examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of indigenous and foreign contractors in the country with a view to understanding their differences in the quest of improving their service delivery. Design/methodology/approach A case study research was carried out through the use of interview and questionnaire administered on management staff and professionals in selected construction firms, respectively. In order to obtain a balance view of the subject, professionals from construction consultancy firms selected through Delphi method were also included in the study and sampled accordingly. Appropriate statistical tools were employed in analysing the data gathered and result was presented with the aid of a SWOT template. Findings Findings of the research show that foreign contractors have better strengths than their indigenous counterparts, and this has made them gain better expertise. Also, they enjoyed more opportunities than the threats they are faced with, but the reverse is the case for indigenous contractors. Originality/value There is a need for the two categories of contractors to identify their SWOT as indicated in this study and leverage their strengths, correct their weaknesses, capitalise on golden opportunities and avoid potentially devastating threats to enhance their effectiveness and success in the industry.

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