Why is it beneficial for landscape architects in Poland to learn about public participation while designing a public park? Reflections on the theory, education and practice of participative planning

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Anna Staniewska
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Participative Planning

Abstract Securing green infrastructure is crucial to maintaining the quality of life in cities therefore it is necessary to create new public green spaces responding to the needs of city dwellers. This paper provides a qualitative evaluation of the results of teaching the process of public participation to landscape architecture students from Politechnika Krakowska including such activities both preceding and during their work on the design of public parks. In this paper the author describes the rationale behind introducing participative planning into academic education and its theoretical background, as well as comparing the local perspective with examples of successful participative projects in the broader European context and the context of international trends in landscape architecture and urban planning in general. Both the teaching methodology and participation tools used are presented, referring to the methods already in use in practice and highlighting the fact that the teaching goes far beyond the legal minimum foreseen in Polish legislation. Finally, based on a summary of their experiences and case studies, particular fields of impact observed in the practical implementation of their projects are identified. Taking all this into consideration, it may be stated that from the moment when landscape architecture graduates started working for the public authorities in Kraków and making use of their knowledge and skills in public participation, the quality of public involvement has risen and the number of parks realised via this process is growing.

Public Involvement in Environmental Governance: Review of Benin's Experiences

2013 ◽  
Vol 798-799 ◽  
pp. 1162-1165
Author(s):  
Junior Bloh Nignilo Adohinzin ◽  
Ling Xu ◽  
Shu Shen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Good Method ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Integral Procedure ◽  
Republic Of Benin ◽  
Benin Republic

Nowadays public participation is recognized as an integral procedure to achieving sustainable development as well as a good method of environmental governance. This study aimed to improve the quality of public participation in the field of environmental governance. To this end, it used Benin republic as a case study to provide an analytical review of two public participation approaches developed in Republic of Benin for environmental management. Results highlighted some keys limitation of each of those approaches. The study concludes with recommendations to improve the quality of public participation application in Benin.

Study on Optimization Strategy of Urban Residential Quarter Dealing with the Climate Change in Winter Cities

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 2222-2225
Author(s):  
Fei Lv ◽  
Yuan Sheng Guo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Optimization Strategy ◽  
Emergency Response System ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Residential Quarter ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

In recent years, climate change has been getting more serious. How to mitigate and adapt to climate change has caught the concerns of governments and academia. Firstly, this article briefly addresses the causes of climate change and its impacts, and then analyzes the link between climate change and urban settlements and the impacts of climate change to urban settlements in winter city. Finally, according to the Characteristics of winter city, the paper presents some optimization strategies of urban residential quarter in winter city addressing climate change including reducing carbon emissions, ensuring settlements security and guiding residents to public participation. Reducing urban settlements carbon emissions includes improving internal functions, combing the internal transportation system, optimizing the green mode and applying special techniques. Protecting the safety of urban settlements includes improving emergency response system, strengthening the vertical and horizontal connection and optimizing the layout of public space. Guiding residents to public participation includes establishing the information banks of urban settlements addressing to climate change and improving the quality of the residents.

How to improve diversity in patient and public involvement

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Rebecca Golenya ◽  
George D Chloros ◽  
Michalis Panteli ◽  
Peter V Giannoudis ◽  
Anthony Howard
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Patient And Public Involvement ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Barriers To Participation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Barriers ◽  
Quality Of Research

Patient and public involvement involves ascertaining the opinions of and collaborating with patients and members of the public to holistically improve the quality of research. Patient and public involvement provides patients with a platform to use and share their lived experiences. This allows healthcare professionals to gain a deeper appreciation of the patient's perspective, which enables future research to be more patient centred and tailored to patients' requirements. Patient and public involvement aims to broadly encapsulate the opinions of the public, so ensuring diversity is recommended. This article provides a practical framework to increase diversity and engage hard-to-reach demographics in patient and public involvement. It highlights some common barriers to participation and methods for overcoming this, describes sampling frameworks and provides examples of how these have been adopted in practice.

Dynamic evaluation of small urban green areas at local level using GEOBIA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Popa ◽  
Diana Andreea Onose ◽  
Ionut Cosmin Sandric ◽  
Simona Raluca Gradinaru ◽  
Athanasios Alexandru Gavrilidis
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Urbanization Process ◽  
Dynamic Evaluation ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Areas ◽  
Green Areas

<p>Urban green infrastructure has various benefits known as ecosystem services such as regulating, cultural, provisioning and supporting services. Among the provided benefits there are decrease of air temperature, increasing humidity and mitigating urban heat island as regulating services; human-nature relations as cultural services; improving air quality, carbon sequestration as provisioning services and photosynthesis, nutrient and water cycling as supporting services. The high intensity of the urbanization process across the last decades coupled with weak legislative frameworks resulted both in large areas affected by urban sprawl and densification of the existing urban fabric. Both phenomenon generated loss in open spaces, especially green areas. In the context of the sustainable urbanization promoted by HABITAT Agenda, the knowledge related with the distribution, size and quality of urban green areas represents a priority. The study aim is to identify small urban green areas at local level at different time moments for a dynamic evaluation. We focused on small urban green areas since they are scarcely analysed even if their importance for the urban quality of life Is continuously increasing given the urbanization process. We used satellite imagery acquired by Planet Satellite Constellations, with a spatial resolution of 3.7 m and daily coverage, for extracting green areas. The images were processed using Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) techniques implemented in Esri ArcGIS Pro. The spatial analysis we performed generated information about distribution, surfaces, quality (based on NDVI) and dynamic of small urban green areas. The results are connected with the local level development of the urban areas we analysed, but also with the population consumption pattern for leisure services, housing, transport or other public utilities. The analysis can represent a complementary method for extracting green areas at urban level and can support the data collection for calculating urban sustainability indicators.</p>

scholarly journals Model of the omni-channel Interaction in the Web 4.0 environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 00023
Author(s):  
Anna Chernikova ◽  
Sergey Krasnov ◽  
Sergey Sergeyev
Keyword(s):  
Global Markets ◽  
Entire Group ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Channel Interaction ◽  
Complex Topology ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
On Line ◽  
Cloud Servers ◽  
The Web

The practical implementation of the concept “Industry 4.0” entirely depends on the level of coordination between businesses, organizations and the entire group of consumers. The dominating comprehension of such interaction as a net of complex topology where nodes act as objects that have an interface a surface for contacts, results in a neuro-net-concept or the Web 4.0. Within the framework of the Russian national program “National Technological Initiative”, the development of this direction is considered as one of the main priorities. The quality of implementation of the system interaction in this paradigm is greatly influenced by algorithms used in the cloud servers of the nodes included into the structure of the Web 4.0. Besides, operation of businesses in the conditions of global markets will take place in the situation of strict competition and solutions forming the basis of the software have to be based on the scientific approach with the use of the methods of optimization and mathematical models. As the competition in the commercial sphere turned into the contest between the economic efficiency of on-line platforms, this work proposes a particular implementation of the algorithm of omni-channel interaction formed on the basis of a mathematical model.

scholarly journals Enhancing the operational efficiency of quantum random number generators

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Botond L. Márton ◽  
Dóra Istenes ◽  
László Bacsárdi
Keyword(s):  
Random Number ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Random Numbers ◽  
Random Number Generators ◽  
Original Source ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Quantum Phenomena ◽  
The Right

Random numbers are of vital importance in today’s world and used for example in many cryptographical protocols to secure the communication over the internet. The generators producing these numbers are Pseudo Random Number Generators (PRNGs) or True Random Number Generators (TRNGs). A subclass of TRNGs are the Quantum based Random Number Generators (QRNGs) whose generation processes are based on quantum phenomena. However, the achievable quality of the numbers generated from a practical implementation can differ from the theoretically possible. To ease this negative effect post-processing can be used, which contains the use of extractors. They extract as much entropy as possible from the original source and produce a new output with better properties. The quality and the different properties of a given output can be measured with the help of statistical tests. In our work we examined the effect of different extractors on two QRNG outputs and found that witg the right extractor we can improve their quality.

scholarly journals Cybersecurity Policy as if “Ordinary Citizens” Mattered: The Case for Public Participation in Cyber Policy Making

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Shane
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Computer Networks ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
As If ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Given the ubiquity of computer networks and our reliance as a society on their integrity and robustness, the quality of cyber-security is an issue that affects everyone. Yet, cyber-security policy making has remained almost entirely within the purview of lobbyists and technical experts. This article argues for both the plausibility and normative imperative of greater public participation in cyber policy making.

scholarly journals ACCEPTANCE: protocol for a feasibility study of a multicomponent physical activity intervention following treatment for cervical cancer

BMJ Open ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. e048203
Author(s):  
Nessa Millet ◽  
Hilary J McDermott ◽  
Fehmidah Munir ◽  
Charlotte L Edwardson ◽  
Esther L Moss
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Physical Activity Intervention ◽  
Pilot Trial ◽  
University Hospitals ◽  
Evaluation Measures ◽  
Study Results

IntroductionCervical cancer treatment can have life changing sequelae and be associated with poor short-term and long-term quality of life. Physical activity (PA; that is, bodily movement) is known to improve health outcomes and quality of life for cancer survivors, both physically and psychologically. To date, no interventions to increase PA following cervical cancer have been evaluated. This study aims to (1) determine the feasibility of conducting a PA intervention after cervical cancer and (2) to explore the acceptability of the programme and evaluation measures.Methods and analysisThe design is a pre study and post study design. Thirty participants aged between 18 and 60 years from the Midlands region, UK, who have completed primary treatment for cervical cancer at least 6 months previously and do not meet the national PA guidelines will be recruited. Identification of potential participants will take place through the University Hospitals of Leicester National Health Service (NHS) Trust. Participants will receive an intervention focused on increasing PA through the provision of education, action planning, goal setting, problem solving and self-monitoring of PA behaviour, particularly steps per day. Device assessed PA and questionnaires will be completed at baseline, week 6, week 12 and week 24. Feasibility will be assessed in terms of recruitment, retention, attrition, completion of measures and intervention compliance, for which specific feasibility criteria have been established. The process evaluation will explore the experiences and acceptability of the intervention components and evaluation measures.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval has been granted by the West of Scotland Research Ethics Committee 1 for this study. Results will inform intervention refinement for the design of a definitive pilot trial. These results will be disseminated via peer-reviewed publications and international conferences while input from a patient and public involvement (PPI) group will inform effective ways to circulate results among the wider community.Trial registration numberISRCTN16349793, Registered 30 September 2020.

scholarly journals Strategi Evaluasi Program Praktikum Fisika Dasar

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Erwin Erwin ◽  
I Permana ◽  
Muhammad Syaipul Hayat
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Accurate Data ◽  
Input Process ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

Lab work is one of the ways taken not only to clarify the subject that have been taught but also to coached students to apply scientific methods in solving problems. In order to ensure the quality of practical implementation requires accurate data-based information support, a gradual evaluation system is needed to help make the right decisions in every action throughout the program. The evaluation approach used is the CIPP (context, input, process, and product). Data collection is through interviews, questionnaires and direct observation, The data collected at each stage of the evaluation were analyzed qualitatively with the descriptions

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