scholarly journals The Usefulness of Interactive Governance for Underground Planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehsan Nouzari ◽  
Thomas Hartmann ◽  
Tejo Spit
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Process Management ◽  
National Government ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Statistical Testing ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Stakeholder Satisfaction ◽  
Interactive Governance ◽  
The Many

The underground provides many spatial planning opportunities as it offers space for structures, but also functions as a resource for energy. To guide developments and use the capabilities the underground provides, the Dutch national government started a policy process for the Structuurvisie Ondergrond (a master plan). Stakeholders are involved in the policy process because of the many interests linked to underground functions. However, past policy processes related to the underground dealt with lack of stakeholder satisfaction. This article explores a quantitative approach by focusing on (a) statistical testing of four criteria of interactive governance and (b) using said criteria to evaluate the satisfaction of stakeholders in a policy process. This article highlights the usefulness of a more quantitative approach and provides new insights into the relation between interactive governance and the procedural satisfaction of stakeholders. It also provides insights that help to improve interactive governance in terms of process management to achieve greater procedural satisfaction.

scholarly journals Determinants of SEA effectiveness: an empirical investigation over municipal spatial planning in Sardinia

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2s) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea De Montis ◽  
Antonio Ledda ◽  
Amedeo Ganciu ◽  
Mario Barra ◽  
Simone Caschili
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Planning Tool ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
First Results ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
Municipal Level

The late formal tradition of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) European Directive into the Italian planning system has so far induced a variety of behaviour of administrative bodies and planning agencies involved. In Italy and Sardinia, a new approach to landscape planning is characterizing spatial planning practice from the regional to the municipal level. Currently municipalities are adjusting their master plan to the prescriptions of the regional landscape planning instrument (in Italian, Piano Paesaggistico Regionale, PPR), according to processes that have to be integrated with a proper SEA development. With respect to this background, the aim of this paper is to assess the level of SEA implementation on the master plans of Sardinia six years after the approval of the PPR. The first results show that many municipalities are not provided with a master plan (in Italian, Piano Urbanistico Comunale, PUC) and they have in force just an old planning tool. Moreover, just some municipalities have adapted the PUC to the PPR carrying out a SEA process.

scholarly journals Translating disaster resilience into spatial planning practice in South Africa: Challenges and champions

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Willemien Van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Disaster Reduction ◽  
Development Path ◽  
Extreme Climatic Events ◽  
Disaster Losses ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

It is highly likely that hazards and extreme climatic events will occur more frequently in the future and will become more severe – increasing the vulnerability and risk of millions of poor urbanites in developing countries. Disaster resilience aims to reduce disaster losses by equipping cities to withstand, absorb, adapt to or recover from external shocks. This paper questions whether disaster resilience is likely to be taken up in spatial planning practices in South Africa, given its immediate developmental priorities and challenges. In South Africa, issues of development take precedence over issues of sustainability, environmental management and disaster reduction. This is illustrated by the priority given to ‘servicing’ settlements compared to the opportunities offered by ‘transforming’ spaces through post-apartheid spatial planning. The City of Durban’s quest in adapting to climate change demonstrates hypothetically that if disaster resilience were to be presented as an issue distinct from what urban planners are already doing, then planners would see it as insignificant as compared to addressing the many developmental backlogs and challenges. If, however, it is regarded as a means to secure a city’s development path whilst simultaneously addressing sustainability, then disaster resilience is more likely to be translated into spatial planning practices in South Africa.

The “Smart” Transformation of Cities in Turkey

2021 ◽  
pp. 484-505
Author(s):  
Hicran Hamza Çelikyay
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
National Information Infrastructure ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
National Information

Smart city policies represent a process of comprehensive and multi-actor effort. Smart cities is undoubtedly a policy process that has reached maturity as Turkey has revealed a series of action plans and policy documents for many years. It can be accepted that Turkey's basic policy documents for the information society, published in 1999, starts with Turkey's National Information Infrastructure Master Plan (TUENA). The Information Society Strategy Action Plan (2015-2018), the Eleventh Development Plan (2019-2023), and the National Smart Cities Strategy Action Plan (2020-2023) are some of the recent documents. In this study, Turkey's roadmap of smart city that began with information society is analysed via policy documents. In the analysis, the concept of smart city, its components, vision, and goals were determined as the main topics. In this way, an overview of the policies followed between 1999 and 2023 will be made and the aspects that are intensely processed, incomplete or not mentioned will be tried to be revealed.

II Constitutional Jurisprudence, 6 Regionalism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barsotti Vittoria ◽  
Carozza Paolo G ◽  
Cartabia Marta ◽  
Simoncini Andrea
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
National Government ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
National Unity ◽  
The World ◽  
Constitutional System ◽  
The Many ◽  
Constitutional Jurisprudence

Italy has a unitary rather than a federal state, and thus the constitutional system has evolved toward an increasingly complex and dynamic set of interactions between the national government and the several regions of Italy. The Court’s case law dramatically reflects that shift where disputes regarding the allocation of authority between regional and national states account for a sharply increasing proportion of the Constitutional Court’s work. This chapter presents that body of jurisprudence and thereby offers helpful points of reference and comparison for the many other constitutional systems around the world grappling with the challenges of drawing a healthy balance between local autonomy and national unity.

Media and public policy

2018 ◽  
pp. 351-368
Author(s):  
Andrea Lawlor
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

Mass media has taken on an increasingly influential role with respect to the design, implementation and critical evaluation of public policy. This chapter explores the many ways in which media “matters” to the policy process, by highlighting media’s traditionally limited role in the scholarly literature on public policy, then moving on to a wider discussion of the direct and indirect capacity of media to influence the policy process. Media effects on policy such as framing and agenda setting are reviewed, as are concepts such as the institutional factors that guide political media production and the relationship between policymakers, public opinion and the media. The chapter concludes with a reflection on some of the contemporary challenges for the media-policy relationship in a rapidly evolving digital media environment.

Planet Earth and Humanity

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 688-697
Author(s):  
Herman Verstappen
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Club Of Rome ◽  
The Many ◽  
Mother Earth ◽  
Common Future

The earth, a futility in space, is the only home for all humans and, at present, the theatre of the globalization of our society. Humanity has always been wondering about the origin of our blue planet. This is rather irrelevant for everyday life however. What really matters is that all of us can live in harmony and diversity on ‘Mother Earth’ and preserve our environment for future generations. Our planet is inhabited by an amazing variety of living creatures, among which at present are 7 billion humans. This number has risen at an alarming rate for more than a century and will reach the 10 billion mark around the year 2100. But whether the earth resources can cope with the growing demands is most uncertain. What will be our common future? This global issue has been the focus of the Reports of the so-called Club of Rome,1 the Brundtland Report,2 etc, but the responses of society are as yet inadequate. Science and technology can now unravel the many subtle interrelations between geosphere, atmosphere and biosphere and monitor the worldwide growing impact of human activities on the environment.3 Earth observation from aerospace and geo-information systems have opened new vistas in this field. It is evident that there are limits to growth and that the present ‘rape of the earth’ should be stopped and a master plan for global sustainability be made. This plan should not be imposed top-down but be rooted in our free will and thus have a polycentric structure. The political agenda for globalization should not be a flywheel for economic growth but be oriented to the tripartite: sustainability–social balance–economic requirements. Can we make this happen?

scholarly journals Ecotourism Site Suitability Using GIS and AHP: A Case Study of Ngargoyoso District in Karanganyar Regency

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martein Adigana ◽  
Jawoto Sih Setyono
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Regional Tourism ◽  
The Many ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Selection Of

The purpose of the Karanganyar Regency Regional Tourism Development Master Plan (RIPP) is to implement Sustainable Tourism Development (STD). Of the many concepts that are appropriate for achieving this goal, the concept of ecotourism is one of them. The growth of tourism activities in the Ngargoyoso district has accelerated. Local governments need to have instruments to help achieve STD goals in their areas. Studies related to the selection of suitable areas using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) based on ecotourism activities have been widely studied and applied in various regions of the world. This study aims to identify areas suitable for ecotourism as a basis for decision making for regional tourism development. The research approach is carried out by assessing expert opinion on the basis for determining policy using the AHP method. Then integrated with GIS techniques to be able to present the results of the assessment in the form of a map of the suitability of the location for ecotourism. The suitability classes in this study are divided into S1 (Very Suitable), S2 (Fairly Sufficient), S3 (Slightly Suited), and N (Not Sufficient) for the suitability of general ecotourism and S1 (Very Sufficient), S2 (Partially Sufficient) and N (Not suitable) for special ecotourism suitability. Also, this study conducted a clustering of special ecotourism (locally), namely Hiking, Tubing, and Camping. Cluster analysis is used to get a complete picture of the condition of the region to support making preliminary policy appropriately and quickly.

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