scholarly journals Adaptation of Rating System for Sustainable Housing and Settlements in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syarif Hidayatullah Santius
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Rating System ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Environmental Load ◽  
Delphi Consensus ◽  
Citizen Satisfaction ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Quality Category ◽  
Weight Coefficients

This paper describes the process of identification, weighting, and validation of assessment criteria for the sustainable housing and settlements rating system. The assessment criteria in this rating system divided into two categories, i.e., the environmental quality and load. The rating system criteria were selected using the Delphi Method, and their weight coefficients were obtained using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). There are 37 criteria resulted from Delphi Consensus and grouped into the environmental quality and load category. The weight coefficients for three main criteria in the environmental quality category consist of (1) microclimate control and ecosystem conservation (0.439), (2) improvement of service function (0.384) and (3) improvement of citizen’s welfare (0.177). The weight coefficients for three main criteria in the environmental load category consist of (1) reduction of the environmental load to other areas (0.432), (2) reduction of infrastructure load (0.381), and (3) environmental management (0.187). These criteria and their weight coefficients were then validated to obtain a correlation coefficient between rating values and citizen satisfaction. The validation result shows a positive and strong correlation. The rating system can be used by local governments to identify the sustainability level and to determine suitable development policies.

scholarly journals Citizen Awareness and Satisfaction Survey: The Case of Tumauini, Isabela Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 5478-5487
Author(s):  
Renejoy M. Bulos
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Citizen Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction Index ◽  
The People ◽  
Multi Stage

Local governments in the Philippines are the nearest service units to its citizens. They are expected to deliver quality services to their constituents. As recipients of the different services, citizens are deemed in better position to assess whether quality services are delivered by the different municipalities in the country. In order to address the need to gather citizens’ feedback on the service delivery performance of the local government units (LGU), the Department of Interior and Local Government developed the Citizen Satisfaction Index System (CSIS). The municipality of Tumauini in the province of Isabela is one of the selected LGUs to implement the CSIS project in the country to measure its performance in service delivery for 2018. This study assessed the awareness and satisfaction of the people in Tumauini, Isabela on the services for Public Works and Infrastructure delivered by the LGU. There were 150 respondents selected using the multi-stage probability sampling method. In gathering the data needed, face to face interview was used with the aid of survey questionnaire. Overall, results revealed that citizens of Tumauini are aware and satisfied with the different service indicators of the Public Works and Infrastructure programs. Results of the study may help local government officials in crafting policies and making management decisions to improve the performance of the local government of Tumauini in the provision and delivery of Public Works and Infrastructure services to its constituents.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of E-Service Quality and User Satisfaction of Public Service Centers in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenghan Ming ◽  
Tao Chen ◽  
Qi Ai
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Public Service ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
Citizen Satisfaction ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact

This article describes how as part of the reform of the administrative system of China, most local governments have set up public service centers; meanwhile, ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has been commonly applied to make e-services more convenient, efficient and transparent. However, the existing studies in the Chinese context are mostly qualitative and the relationship between service quality and citizen satisfaction has not been tested. This article adopted the D&M model to develop an e-service quality model and tested the impact of service quality on citizen satisfaction. A survey was conducted and 364 valid questionnaires were analyzed. The results showed that the data fit the model well. Most of the hypotheses formulated in this article was proven. Additionally, an important finding was that the impact of service quality on specific satisfaction is stronger than that of information quality and system quality, which indicates that face-to-face services cannot simply be substituted by electronic systems. Both the theoretical and practical implications of the findings were discussed.

Local Sustainability: Balancing Quality and Equality?

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Agyeman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Sustainable Community ◽  
Local Sustainability ◽  
Human Equality

AbstractThis paper attempts to link four themes which are interrelated, but not often discussed together in local sustainability discourses. They are: the tension between achieving both environmental quality and human equality; the possibilities offered by Local Agenda 21 (LA21); what a sustainable community or society might look like and some good practice guidelines for local governments in their pivotal role as key facilitators of local sustainability.Environmentalists and environmental educators are good on notions of what they perceive as ‘environmental quality’, but are poor, or very poor on notions of ‘human equality’. Human equality has always been an implicit agreement as opposed to an explicit goal, safely tucked away in the notion of ‘quality of life’.One of the guiding principles of LA21 is that people normally excluded from the decision making process (women, indigenous people and young people) need to be integrally involved in decision making within a framework which stresses the importance of public participation. The reason for this inclusive form of participation is that these groups are seen as having had little impact on the production of local environments, although they are sometimes disproportionately affected by them, by virtue of their social role.Using a set of 13 themes that were developed by community consultations In Britain that would feature in a sustainable community or society, the paper looks at the potential for integrating quality and equality concerns. The paper finishes by looking at some good practice guidelines or ways that local governments, as decision makers nearest local peoples, could be integrating quality and equality concerns into emerging local sustainability strategies.

scholarly journals RATING SYSTEM FOR THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS CONTROL AND ITS REALIZATION IN THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT “MOODLE”

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. V. Arzhanik ◽  
N. V. Vorobyeva ◽  
O. I. Ostrikova ◽  
S. I. Karas
Keyword(s):  
Rating System ◽  
Adaptation Level ◽  
Rating Score ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Method Of Calculation ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
System Adaptation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Weight Coefficients

Rating control of students knowledge and skills is the part of Bologna declaration of European Universitites. Optimal realization of rating system brings together the objectivity and the individual approach to student’s evaluation. Analysis of rating control possibilities in medical University and peculiarities of individual rating adaptation in the LMS Moodle are the objectives of this paper.LMS Moodle contains enough elements quantity for evaluation and allows sum up of learning course results. First level of rating system adaptation is various intervals for different course elements. Weight coefficients for learning tasks mean second one. Third rating adaptation level is the method of calculation of final rating score for a student. There is example of rating system in medical informatics course for medical and pediatric students in the paper. Organizational, technological and financial aspects of rating introducing in the medical education are discussed.

scholarly journals ANALISIS TINGKAT CEMARAN LOGAM TEMBAGA DAN TINGKAT PENDAPATAN USAHATANI SAYURAN DI KEBUN KARTAMA DAN KEBUN KOMPPOS – EM KOTA PEKANBARU

1930 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 115-121
Author(s):  
Shally Yanova ◽  
Zulkarnaini ◽  
Sofia Anita
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Quality Standard ◽  
Director General ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Agricultural Income ◽  
Quality Category ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The study was done in August to September 2015 and located in the Kartama Garden (PSN) on Kartama street Marpoyan Damai district area and KOMPPOS – EM garden (PSO) at the University of Riau, Pekanbaru. The purpose of this research is determining metal Cu (copper) in vegetable (mustard, convolvulus and lettuce) and soil, determining the rate of pollution metal Cu, analyzing the use of fertilizer and pesticide synthetic levels of metal Cu in a sample and analyzing the impact of agricultural income activity for farmers. Based on the research, levels of metal Cu in vegetables and soil PSN had passed of quality standard Director General POM RI namely 5,0 mg/kg and categorized polluted metal Cu. While sample vegetable KOMPPOS - EM garden (PSO) is still under environmental quality category and including contaminated. Using fertilizer and pesticide synthetic and continuing to exceed doses constantly affects levels of metal Cu in a sample of vegetables and soil significantly. Economically, PSN and PSO farming is agricultural activity that can give advantages for farmers.

Urbanization, economic growth, and environmental pollution

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Sun ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Tao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Spatial Correlation ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeGiven the recent rapid economic development, the processes of industrialization and urbanization are accelerating. At the same time, the contradiction between environmental quality and economic development has become increasingly prominent and is likely to restrict the normal pace of China’s economic development and environmental protection. As such, the purpose of this paper is to incorporate the urbanization factor into an analytic framework to discuss the relationship among urbanization, economic development, and environmental pollution.Design/methodology/approachA panel data of 31 Chinese provinces from 2004 to 2015 is selected for this research. A spatial correlation test is first conducted on the environmental pollution status, then the spatial Durbin model is used to carry out spatial econometric testing of the relationship among the above three factors.FindingsInterprovincial environmental pollution in China has significant positive spatial correlation, environmental pollution discharge in most provinces is significantly stable, discharge of environmental pollutants is transitioning from coastal to inland provinces, and urbanization and economic growth can both aggravate environmental pollution, but economic growth can relieve environmental pollution in neighboring provinces.Originality/valueThe relationship between economic growth, urbanization, and environmental quality has always been an important issue for sustainable development. As such, China’s urbanization leads to economic development, while rapid economic growth and environmental pollution are coordinated. This paper focuses on the specific relationship between them. To this end, local governments make concerted efforts to formulate sound environmental regulation policies based on local environmental conditions, where economic development is an effective means of alleviating the contradictory relationship between economic development and environmental protection.

Framing the Role of and Defining Criteria for Usefulness of Citizen Satisfaction Surveys in Local Urban Environmental Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-229
Author(s):  
Elirozz Carlie Labaria ◽  
Charlotte Kendra Gotangco ◽  
Mary Jean Caleda
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Performance Measures ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Quezon City ◽  
Citizen Satisfaction ◽  
Urban Environmental Management ◽  
Satisfaction Surveys

The delivery of urban environmental services is among the functions devolved to local governments. As public services, they are routinely evaluated typically using ‘hard’ performance measures. The current trend of local governance incorporates citizens’ perspectives in assessing service performance. In this study, the importance and ‘usefulness’ of citizen satisfaction surveys in local urban environmental management are explored using the case of the local government of unit (LGU) of Quezon City, Philippines and its experience with the Citizen Satisfaction Index System (CSIS). For Quezon City, citizen satisfaction ratings are an important indication of city performance. For the Environmental Protection and Waste Management Department (EPWMD), data and information is considered ‘useful’ if it is (1) able to help craft the future directions of the Department, (2) able to help identify the services that can be removed, (3) able to reflect actionable community feedback, (4) presented in the form of disaggregated data and evidence and (5) easy to interpret by the users. In applying the criteria to evaluate the data and information generated from the CSIS 2014 and 2016, the study demonstrates the merits of using ‘soft’ performance measures in appraising and improving local urban environmental services.

scholarly journals Land Misallocation and Urban Air Quality in China 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianjiang Liu ◽  
Zhuqing Jiang ◽  
Weitao Chen
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Urban Air Quality ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Construction Land ◽  
Urban Construction

Abstract In China, local government's "land for development" strategy has led to a large number of urban construction land allocated to the industrial field, which has promoted the rapid development of industry and economy in the short term, but also brought serious environmental quality losses. This paper systematically sets out how land misallocation works on urban air quality and employs the spatial Durbin model (SDM) to conduct an empirical analysis on the panel data of 283 China's cities at or above the prefecture level. The result shows that, stimulated by financial maximization and political promotion, in order to obtain more fiscal revenue and growth performance, local governments prefer to allocate a large number of urban construction land to industry and related fields, which leads to the underestimation of industrial land price and the misallocation of land resources. Land misallocation has exerted significant inhibiting effects on the air quality of local and their surrounding cities through inhibiting the upgrading of industrial structure. Further analysis reveals that the bigger the city, the less the inhibition effects of land misallocation on upgrading of industrial structure and urban air quality, and vice versa. The conclusions of this paper can provide useful reference for local governments to optimize land allocation, promote economic restructuring and environmental quality upgrading. JEL Classification: R52; E62; P28

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