The city blueprint: experiences with the implementation of 24 indicators to assess the sustainability of the urban water cycle

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 769-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelis J. van Leeuwen ◽  
Philipo C. Chandy
Keyword(s):  
Water Cycle ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Development Scenarios ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Sanitation Infrastructure ◽  
The City ◽  
Technological Options ◽  
Dutch Cities ◽  
Selection Of

A set of indicators, i.e. the city blueprint, has been developed to assess the sustainability of the water cycle (SWC). The city blueprint comprises a set of 24 dedicated indicators divided over eight categories, i.e. water security, water quality, drinking water, sanitation, infrastructure, climate robustness, biodiversity and attractiveness and governance including public participation. The city blueprint can be used as a first step or quick-scan to benchmark the SWC in cities and may help: (1) to communicate a city's SWC performance and exchange experiences, (2) to select appropriate water supply and sanitation strategies, (3) to develop technological and non-technological options as future alternatives for the water cycle, where several possible changes in the use of technology, space and socio-economic scenarios can be introduced. This should finally lead to: (4) a selection of measures, including an evaluation of their costs and benefits under different development scenarios, and how to integrate these in long-term planning on urban investments. So far, a city blueprint has been made for the city of Rotterdam. This study reports on three other cities, i.e. two Dutch cities (Maastricht and Venlo) and one city in a developing country (Dar es Salaam in Tanzania). Experiences so far and further plans will be discussed.

scholarly journals Knowledge is power – informal communities assert their right to the city through SDI and community-led enumerations

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheela Patel ◽  
Carrie Baptist ◽  
Celine D’Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
Community Data ◽  
The City ◽  
Rights To The City

This paper provides an introduction to the practice of community-led enumerations as conducted by Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI). It sets out the historical context for enumerations, which came out of a need in India in 1975 to find a more long-term solution to evictions, and charts its subsequent evolution and spread throughout other countries. Enumerations can help to build a community, define a collective identity, facilitate development priority setting and provide a basis for engagement between communities and government on planning and development. This process allows communities of the urban poor to assert their rights to the city, to secure tenure, livelihoods and adequate infrastructure. The paper discusses some of the specific methodological issues, including the challenges of legitimizing community data, and the use of technology by slum( 1 ) or shack dweller federations when appropriate.

scholarly journals Implementation of Family Planning Services for the Long Term Contraception Method (KB MKJP) in Palu City

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-113
Author(s):  
Riyatno Riyatno ◽  
Djayani Nurdin ◽  
Nuraisyah Ambo ◽  
Intam Kurnia
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Contraceptive Methods ◽  
Family Planning Services ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Program Administrators ◽  
Minimum Requirements ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

This study aims to analyze the implementation of the Long Term Contraception Method (KB MKJP) in the City of Palu. The type of research used is descriptive with a qualitative approach by utilizing the post-positivism paradigm to see social phenomena that occur. Researchers determined the criteria for informants, namely program administrators, medical officers, and fertile age couples, including: 2 program administrators (BKKBN), 4 medical officers (Tadulako Hospital), 4 Fertile Age Couples (PUS). The results showed reliability with the aspect of timeliness, where the presence of medical personnel and program administrators was not according to what had been agreed or scheduled. Physical evidence with aspects of the facility, where the operating room is not yet available and does not meet the specified minimum requirements. Empathy with the information aspect, where the delivery of information related to KB MKJP in the form of risks and side effects is not conveyed to the PUS, while information in the form of Long-Term Contraceptive Method (MKJP) type of contraceptive methods, benefits, and benefits have been conveyed completely, clearly and easy to understand Fertile Age Couples (PUS). Empathy is seen from the information aspect that the information related to KB MKJP by program administrators and medical officers has been delivered completely and clearly. Responsiveness is not only seen by service providers, but can also be assessed through service recipients because in the selection of contraceptives there are still PUS who are not able to make appropriate decisions so that they require counseling or information delivery by program administrators.

‘Natural’ No More?

2018 ◽  
pp. 185-209
Author(s):  
Ravi Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Flood Plains ◽  
The Public ◽  
Face Threats ◽  
River Yamuna ◽  
The City ◽  
Indian Cities

Rivers in fast-changing and expanding Indian cities have become contested natural features. Though central to such human settlements for long, which have depended on them for water security, livelihoods, biodiversity and cultural life, more recently they face threats from new urbanization of their flood plains, water pollution, and loss of biodiversity as the city encroaches upon them. Based on a case study of the river Yamuna flowing through the mega city of Delhi, the article brings forth the limited understanding of such natural features in urban planning and the public discourse in general. It explores in detail the changing landscape, its implication on the long-term sustainability and the wider implications of their destruction in urban settings.

scholarly journals Following a Step by Step Development of a Resilience Action Plan

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Adriana Cardoso ◽  
Maria João Telhado ◽  
Maria do Céu Almeida ◽  
Rita Salgado Brito ◽  
Cristina Pereira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Services ◽  
The City ◽  
Water Waste

According to the United Nations, by 2030, 60% of the world’s population will live in cities, and 70% by 2050. Both consolidated and fast urbanizing areas face diverse acute shocks from natural disasters and long-term stresses, such as the effects of climate change. Therefore, there is a need for cities to implement plans for increasing resilience and improving preparedness to cope with both acute shocks and long-term stresses. Development of resilience action plans (RAP) constitutes an important process for the cities to plan their resilience enhancement in the long, medium, and short terms. These are key tools for the city, considering the associated complexity, uncertainties, data scarcity, interdependencies among urban services provided in the city, as well as involved stakeholders. Herein, a framework is presented to support city resilience action planning related to climate change through a multisector approach. The framework was applied step by step to three cities—Barcelona, Bristol, and Lisbon—and their RAPs to climate change provide roadmaps for resilience, having the urban water cycle as the core. In these plans, urban services are included, given their interactions and contributions to city’s resilience. Addressed services are water supply, wastewater, storm water, waste, electric energy, and mobility.

Maximizing Outcomes in Group Treatment of Aphasia: Lessons Learned From a Community-Based Center

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darlene Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Group Treatment ◽  
Treatment Protocol ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Group Program ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Multiple Treatment ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Communication Impairments ◽  
Treatment Settings

Given the potential of long term intervention to positively influence speech/language and psychosocial domains, a treatment protocol was developed at the Stroke Comeback Center which addresses communication impairments arising from chronic aphasia. This article presents the details of this program including the group purposes and principles, the use of technology in groups, and the applicability of a group program across multiple treatment settings.

Impact of the urban construction solutions on the safety population

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-73
Author(s):  
R. D. Oktyabrskiy
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Urban Construction ◽  
Safety Population ◽  
Peace And War ◽  
The City

The article is devoted to the justification of the need to reduce the population density in the residential development of cities. The analysis of vulnerability of the urban population from threats of emergency situations of peace and war time, and also an assessment of provision of the city by a road network is given. Proposals have been formulated to reduce the vulnerability of the urban population in the long term and to eliminate traffic congestion and congestion — jams.

Turkish Muslims in a German city: Entrepreneurial and residential self-determination

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sarah Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
German City ◽  
Post War ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Term Objective

Drawing upon a collection of oral history interviews, this paper offers an insight into entrepreneurial and residential patterns and behaviour amongst Turkish Muslims in the German city of Bremen. The academic literature has traditionally argued that Turkish migrants in Germany have been pushed into self-employment, low-quality housing and segregated neighbourhoods as a result of discrimination, and poor employment and housing opportunities. Yet the interviews reveal the extent to which Bremen’s Turkish Muslims’ performances and experiences have overwhelmingly been the consequences of personal choices and ambitions. For many of the city’s Turkish Muslim entrepreneurs, self-employment had been a long-term objective, and they have succeeded in establishing and running their businesses in the manner they choose with regards to location and clientele, for example. Similarly, interviewees stressed the way in which they were able to shape their housing experiences by opting which districts of the city to live in and by purchasing property. On the whole, they perceive their entrepreneurial and residential practices as both consequences and mediums of success, integration and a loyalty to the city of Bremen. The findings are contextualised within the wider debate regarding the long-term legacy of Germany’s post-war guest-worker system and its position as a “country of immigration”.

Women's Participation in Politics: Ukrainian Case

2014 ◽  
Vol 2013 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Skovikov Alexey
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Democratic Transformation ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThe international practices takes into account the question of women's participation in the political life of modern Ukraine. The selection of the state was due to the dynamic process of democratic transformation - the separation of powers, the formation of multi-party competition among political actors in the electoral process, the activity women in the various institutions of civil society. The position was claimed on the basis of empirical data range of academic institutions and reputable sociological centers, and also interviews with experts who said that the creation of real conditions for self-realization by women's interest in politics is only possible for long term. The process is controversial and caused by political culture, traditions and interests of the ruling class represented mainly by men.

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