THE METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH DEVELOPED FOR THE EUROPEAN TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION PROJECT “CHERISH - CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE: A SUSTAINABLE TOURISM VET INTEGRATED APPROACH”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piero Ciccioli ◽  
Pietro Ragni
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Transnational Education ◽  
Education Project ◽  
Natural Heritage

scholarly journals Environmental effects of tourism and its seasonality on Mediterranean islands: the contribution of the Interreg MED BLUEISLANDS project to build up an approach towards sustainable tourism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Andolina ◽  
Geraldina Signa ◽  
Agostino Tomasello ◽  
Antonio Mazzola ◽  
Salvatrice Vizzini
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Mediterranean Islands ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Seawater Quality ◽  
Great Burden

Abstract The Mediterranean basin is amongst the world’s main tourist destination, and its islands are a major attraction, being sites of historical, cultural and naturalistic importance. This is beneficial for the local economies, but it may also represent a great burden on the coastal environment, where other human pressures are concentrated. The awareness of detrimental side effects of tourism together with the importance to take into account social and economic facets has led to the concept of sustainable tourism, which, however, represents a goal far from being attained. A good opportunity to promote sustainable tourism was provided by the Interreg MED BLUEISLANDS project, whose main aim was to identify, address and mitigate the effects of the seasonal variation of waste generated by tourism on Mediterranean islands. Here, we present the methodological framework of the project aimed at biomonitoring coastal seawater in highly touristic sites using macroalgae as valuable bioindicators of seawater quality and improving its status through the implementation and assessment of mitigation measures that included also the involvement of stakeholders. Outcomes of the project highlighted the effectiveness of such an integrated approach, confirming the importance of choosing proper indicators and tools that can support the development of management plans aiming to mitigate environmental impact and foster sustainable tourism.

scholarly journals Urban Ensembles: An integrated approach to design in steep, urban landscapes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Myren Burnett
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Urban Site ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Urban Terrain

<p>Urban Ensembles explores the way in which landscape and architecture can be employed together within the design of a steep, urban site. Lyttelton is a small port town on the border of Christchurch, settled in the foothills of a harbour formed by a major volcanic eruption. This rugged setting, with steeply sloping urban terrain, presents an interesting challenge when designing an urban development. The site was badly damaged in a series of earthquakes in 2010-2011, and many of the town’s oldest buildings, heritage structures dating back to the colonial settlement era, were destroyed. This has left a void in the heart of Lyttelton, and caused the loss of much of the tourism business that the town relies upon for its income. This thesis takes a methodological approach to the design of landscape architecture on such a challenging site. A range of techniques are explored, drawing from both landscape and architecture to explore the roles that each discipline plays in the design of urban spaces. The frequent imbalance between disciplines is addressed both through the literature review and design method, as this landscape architecture thesis draws on architectural design as a tool for generating spaces which fall somewhere in between the two ideals of interior and exterior. The final design proposal is an alternative rebuild plan for the central business area to the south of London St, and also addresses the relationships between that site and the surrounding context, both urban and environmental. The aim of this design is to create a series of interconnected spaces which have a strong relationship to the surrounding harbour setting, and also to facilitate development of the pedestrian spaces throughout the block and encouraging the development of activity at the street level, through the interface between buildings and landscape.</p>

scholarly journals Past, Present And Possible: Toward An Integrated Approach For Natural Heritage Conservation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily-Ann D'Souza
Keyword(s):  
Third Sector ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Natural Landscapes

The Greenway Initiative, proposed by Ontario Nature, endeavours to reconnect the province’s fragmented natural landscapes through a system of cores and corridors. Non-governmental organizations like Ontario Nature are leading the effort to conserve the province’s natural heritage through public-private incentive-based tools including conservation easements and stewardship agreements. The rationale to incent conservation through public-private partnerships is to overcome the politically- and financially- unfavourable consequences that limit the effectiveness of regulatory approaches to achieve conservation objectives at the local scale. However, public-private incentive-based conservation tools also generate trade-offs that maintain the need for traditional regulatory approaches. This paper argues that in addition to established public instruments, incentive-based conservation tools to promote stewardship on private land are necessary to achieve broader conservation objectives. With a combination of public, private and third sector approaches, an integrated set of strategies is recommended, in which planning choices and trade-offs are made clear.

MODEL OF ASSORTMENT OPTIMIZATION AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT IN ENTERPRISE

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Ibrokhim Xabibullayev ◽  
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Ruslana Zhovnovach ◽  
Mariia Petrova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Inventory Management ◽  
Coefficient Of Variation ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Optimization Criterion ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Individual Product ◽  
Assortment Optimization

The actual problems of work in the sphere of organization of supply and sale are considered, the existing developments in the sphere of modeling and optimization of commercial activity of the wholesale trading enterprises are analyzed. The necessity of a comprehensive approach to improving the commercial activities of wholesalers is substantiated. The composition of the solutions included in the integrated approach is determined by the sole purpose, practical possibilities of its implementation and implementation at the wholesale enterprises and is based on the analysis of actual problems of the industry as a whole, interdependence in the work of departments, development of a single optimization criterion. The effectiveness of the integrated approach is based on the fact that for the sake of maximum result it is important not to isolate the development of individual operations, but to improve the entire purchasing system of the wholesale enterprise as a whole. The scientific and methodological approach of carrying out the integrated ABC-XYZ analysis of a range of a trading enterprise by its combination with R/S analysis, which acts as a criterion for the effectiveness of the XYZ analysis and an indicator of the possibility of forecasting the dynamics of sales of individual product groups, has been improved. XYZ analysis, based on the calculation of the coefficient of variation, when there are deterministic factors such as seasonality, cyclicality or trend in a series of determinants, shows erroneous results. Therefore, it is suggested to use R/S analysis to evaluate the quality of the XYZ analysis and to pre-process the data. This will allow us to draw more adequate conclusions about the possibility of forecasting the dynamics of sales of certain product groups in the future.

National and Regional Tourism Planning: Methodologies and Case Studies (Russian version)

1994 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Tourism Planning ◽  
Russian Version ◽  
Regional Tourism ◽  
Its Regions ◽  
Development Plans

This publication lays the foundation for tourism development of a country and its regions. It establishes the principal guidelines for preparing tourism development plans at the national and regional levels with emphasis on the integrated approach, balancing economic, environmental, and socio-cultural factors achieving sustainable tourism. Illustrated by 25 case studies.

scholarly journals The Evaluation of Green Investments in Urban Areas: A Proposal of an eco-social-green Model of the City

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Sturiale ◽  
Alessandro Scuderi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Green Model ◽  
Green Investments

The new and more conscious sensibility towards the environmental sphere supports the idea of “green city”, promotes initiatives of structural integration of the green with the built environment and involves a considerable number of disciplines in a cultural and social debate. The literature reports different experiences of collaborative governance, between administrations and citizens, which tend to enhance the interaction between the different social actors involved in the investments of Green Infrastructures, to share objectives and management methods and to assess the extent of ecosystem services. The objective of this article is to propose a methodological approach to assessing green investments in the urban area, which is able to internalize the social perception of citizens regarding this important component for the urban landscape, with a view to guiding the city’s government towards a new urban eco-social-green planning and evaluation model. It presents a concise framework of the scientific debate on climate change and on the effects of urban planning issues; some relevant experiences of Green Infrastructures; and the proposed methodology, applied to the reality of the “urban green system” of Catania, based on an integrated approach between participatory planning and the method NAIADE (Novel Approach to Imprecise Assessment and Decision Environments).

An integrated approach to the Surat Basin stratigraphy

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 940
Author(s):  
Mark Reilly ◽  
Suzanne Hurter ◽  
Zsolt Hamerli ◽  
Claudio L. de Andrade Vieira Filho ◽  
Andrew LaCroix ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Flow ◽  
Coal Seam ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Field Scale ◽  
Coal Seam Gas ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Flow Models ◽  
Lithostratigraphic Units

The stratigraphy of the Surat Basin, Queensland, has historically been sub-divided by formation and unit nomenclature with a few attempts by other authors to apply sequence stratigraphy to existing formation boundaries. At a local- to field-scale, lithostratigraphy may be able to represent stratigraphy well, but at regional-scale, lithostratigraphic units are likely to be diachronous. To date, this lithology-driven framework does not accurately reflect time relationships in the sub-surface. An entirely new integrated methodological approach, involving well tied seismic data and sequence stratigraphic well-to-well correlations compared with published zircon age dates, has been applied to hundreds of deep wells and shallower coal seam gas wells. This method sub-divides the Surat Basin stratigraphy into defendable 2nd order to 3rd order sequence stratigraphic cycles and has required the use of an alpha-numeric sequence stratigraphic nomenclature to adequately and systematically label potential time equivalent surfaces basin-wide. Correlation of wells is the first step in building models of aquifers and coal seam gas fields for numerical simulation of fluid flow, which is necessary for responsible resource management. Lithostratigraphic correlations will overestimate the extent and hydraulic connectedness of the strata of interest. The result may be fluid flow models that do not represent a realistic pressure footprint of the flow. The present sequence stratigraphic method more accurately reflects the disconnectedness of sub-surface coals and sandstones (aquifers) on a field-to-field scale, adjacent field-scale, and basin-wide scale. It forms the basis for improved and more representative modelling of the sub-surface.

Understanding museum visitors’ experience: a comparative study

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Gabriel Brida ◽  
Marta Meleddu ◽  
Manuela Pulina
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Quality Of Services ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Cultural Sites ◽  
Museum Marketing

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine museum visitors’ experience. The objective of the research is to explore preferences, behaviour, overall. This study experience and the determinants on repeated visits to two heritage sites. In particular, a more comprehensive regression approach is introduced and employed to compare results at two regional museums. Design/methodology/approach – First, a factor analysis identifies a set of orthogonal factors related to visitors’ perceptions on their positive and negative experiences at two different museums. Second, a two-step cluster analysis is implemented to identify specific demand segments. Third, a regression analysis reveals the key determinants that influence visitors’ perceptions on the quality of services provided at the cultural sites. The empirical data were collected at two archaeological museums located in Sardinia and Trentino Alto Adige (Italy). Findings – On the whole, some homogeneous findings have been obtained for the two cultural sites, regardless of the different levels of attractiveness exerted by these two museums. Moreover, the outcomes highlight that the two museums need to be reinterpreted and reorganised with the provision of supplementary services, able to satisfy a broader audience, and enriching their traditional mission that is to collect, preserve and exhibit the archaeological heritage. Practical implications – The methodological approach presented in this paper is for practitioners and curators to deepen their understanding of their consumers and to improve the overall quantity and quality of services offered. Originality/value – This paper presents a novel and integrated approach to investigate customers’ experience and their needs with the aim of improving the overall quality of the services provided at the museum. The proposed methodology is used to analyse multidimensional aspects of the visit to a cultural site. Within the literature on museum marketing and management, this methodological framework can be regarded as an alternative approach to analyse visitors’ experience, characteristics, behaviour, preferences and to elicit specific characteristics of different segments of demand.

scholarly journals Urban Waste as Resource for Sustainable Environment

2013 ◽  
Vol 394 ◽  
pp. 304-308
Author(s):  
Angelo Milone ◽  
Daniele Milone ◽  
Francesco Claudio Campione ◽  
Salvatore Pitruzzella
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Waste Treatment ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Thermal Recovery ◽  
Waste To Energy ◽  
Economic Point

The emerging model of waste disposal, develops an integrated approach based on waste reduction, selection, recycling, energy recovery and residual use of landfill. Here we discuss the fundamentals of a proper planning of waste disposal system, specially the thermal recovery, the integration and the methodological approach, either from the environmental and economic point of view. The growing demand for energy, the resulting environmental problems due to satisfy the demand for energy and the complex-economic system, necessitate the study of new technologies such as energy from municipal solid waste (MSW) obtaining as a result of decrease huge mass of solid waste to sanitary landifill and emissions of landifill gas as (CH4 and CO2 ). Therefore, we propose to validate a technical, economical and environmental analysis of waste-treatment systems with enphasis on generation of energy. The recovery of heat from a waste-to-energy plant, can make a useful contribution to the city energy needs. Whilst we have been slow to exploit fully this resource in Sicily, economically in urban areas.

scholarly journals Theoretical fundamentals of the concept of enterprise sustainable development management

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 175-184
Author(s):  
T. Lazorenko ◽  
I. Sholom
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Management Activity ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Management ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Management Concept

The paper deals with the study and investigation of various theoretical approaches to the interpretation of “management” and “sustainable development” concepts, as well as the features of the sustainable development formation concept. It deals with the diversity of views concerning the sustainable development concept in terms of commercial enterprise. The importance of concept implementation is explained by the possibility of balancing the sustainability of all activity components, which provides the growth of socio-economic indicators while preserving the environment and natural resources. The purpose of the investigation is the theoretical substantiation of rationale of the meaning of enterprise sustainable development management concept and the principles of its provision. In the investigation process the following complex methodological approach are applied: theoretical generalization, synergetic, abstract-logical and graphical methods for more synthesized image of the investigated object. The main approaches for determining the enterprise sustainable development are studied and clarified. Emphasis is placed on the expediency of the integrated approach for ensuring the concept of sustainable development management as that one which takes into account the features of all components development and provides an overall assessment of the enterprise sustainability subsystems. The characteristics of the group of stability indicators are defined in this paper. Their definition makes it possible to carry out the detail analysis of activity aspects. Directions for the improvement of the organization conditions due to the implementation of sustainable development management concept are formulated. The importance of the chosen problem is caused by permanent search for effective management mechanisms focusing the management activity on current problems and factors of changing environment negatively affecting the enterprise sustainability. This means that the shifts in enterprise sustainable management provide the opportunity to implement an integrated management policy by required changes resulting in the optimization of business processes, the increase of the level of transparency in operation and the compliance with the principles of sustainable development while preserving the environment.

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