scholarly journals Achieving Sustainable Nitrogen Management in Mixed Farming Landscapes Based on Collaborative Planning

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2140
Author(s):  
Andreas Aa. Christensen ◽  
Peter S. Andersen ◽  
Chris Kjeldsen ◽  
Morten Graversgaard ◽  
Erling Andersen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Collaborative Planning ◽  
Nitrogen Emissions ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Farming Landscapes ◽  
Sustainable Futures

Regulation of nitrogen (N) loss from the agri-environment is a global challenge with dire consequences for food production and environmental management. This is also the case in Denmark where regulation largely relies on general measures for reducing N inputs. These measures have significantly reduced nitrogen emissions, but further reduction is needed to achieve sustainable low levels of N transport to freshwater and marine ecosystems in compliance with standards set by the EU Water Framework Directive. As an alternative to general regulation, we tested a watershed-based, collaborative planning approach, engaging stakeholders in solution identification. Six watersheds with substantial agricultural production were used as test areas. A collaborative planning process of two stakeholder workshops embedded within a scenario formulation process was executed. Stakeholder inputs about possible, desirable and sustainable futures were used to formulate scenarios, for which N reduction effects were calculated. Upon conclusion of this process, results were assessed using a structured evaluation method. Results indicate that the process we tested was successful in terms of (1) engaging relevant stakeholders, (2) providing relevant data, (3) achieving processual flexibility, (4) including local knowledge and (5) facilitating a creative and explorative process. On this basis, suggestions for improving collaborative planning processes are provided.

scholarly journals BIM tool development enhancing collaborative scheduling for pre-construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 374-397
Author(s):  
Mikael Viklund Tallgren ◽  
Mattias Roupé ◽  
Mikael Johansson ◽  
Petra Bosch-Sijtsema
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Design Science ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Collaborative Planning ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Integrated Planning ◽  
Construction Planning ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Planning Processes

Construction projects often suffer from backlashes in relation to poor plans and schedules. Especially pre-construction planning has been challenging due to a high complexity, an extensive amount of information, and a lack of site managers time to make the schedule. To solve these issues for pre-construction planning; new planning processes, methods and tools have been developed over the last decade. However, due to a disregard of the current planning processes these tools have been difficult to adopt in practice. In addition, these developed tools and methods are seldom developed from the user’s point of view. A promising development is the introduction of integrated planning as a concept in construction companies. It involves the use of BIM models in concert with a planning approach where the subcontractors engage in the planning. However, currently available tools are more geared towards experienced users such as expert planners and does not allow for a fully collaborative and integrated planning approach. While many current tools would tick many of the requirements identified, they still fail to address the base requirements from the collaborative work environment literature. This paper contributes with a user-centric design and development of a collaborative planning application showing the integration of the existing collaborative planning process. By adopting a socio-technical approach, the paper focuses on combining technology and processes supporting the users and their way of working in order to enable adoption of the solution. A design science research approach has been used to gather requirements and develop and evaluate the Visual Project Planner (VPP) application. The VPP application applies a collaborative, visual approach supporting interdisciplinary knowledge sharing between all parties involved where the subcontractors actively can contribute to schedule. The VPP application has potential to reduce time for pre-construction planning regardless of the planning approach used.

scholarly journals Bridging sanitation engineering and planning: theory and practice in Burkina Faso

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer McConville ◽  
Jaan-Henrik Kain ◽  
Elisabeth Kvarnström ◽  
Gunno Renman
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Procedural Planning

The global challenge of providing sanitation services to the un-served underlines a need to change the way in which sanitation planning and service provision is approached. This paper offers a framework for categorizing sanitation projects planning processes based on planning steps and procedural planning theory to help engineers and sanitation planners gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of these processes. The analysis identifies and discusses trends in both guidelines and actual sanitation programs. The results show that contemporary sanitation planning guidelines and field projects utilize patchwork processes of different planning modes, although the step of designing options is dominated by an expert-driven, rational-comprehensive approach. The use of planning theory can help engineers to ask critical questions about the objectives of the planning process and to develop context-appropriate planning processes that will make a difference for improving sanitation service provision.

scholarly journals Changing the Focus: Viewing Design-Led Events within Collaborative Planning

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Husam AlWaer ◽  
Ian Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Collaborative Planning ◽  
Collaborative Decision Making ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Empirical Base ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Collaborative Decision

Design-led planning events typically seek to involve stakeholders in collaborative decision-making about their built environment. In the literature, such events are often treated as one-off or standalone. In this paper, which draws on a survey of the experience of stakeholders involved in them, design-led events are seen in the context of, and in relation to, the collaborative planning process as a whole. Such events are portrayed as being critically affected by how they are instigated; how they are framed; how they are conducted; and, just as importantly, how they are implemented. Three separable strands of activity in collaborative planning processes are identified—design, stakeholder management, and event facilitation—along with the roles played in each of those by those responsible for initiating and then maintaining the engagement and enrolment of participating stakeholder groups in collaborative decision-making. Based on the captured experience of those who have participated in them, the value of design-led events is portrayed not as standing alone but as being crucially dependent on (a) prior decisions made long before any participants gather to engage in them and (b) subsequent decisions made long after the participants have departed. The originality of this paper lies in a desire to begin to construct an empirical base that can be employed for discussing and recommending improvements to collaborative planning processes. The three strands of activity identified by event participants—design, stakeholder management, and facilitation—may individually be relatively weak. But their contributions to collaborative planning can be strengthened by being bound tightly together into a more integrated and coherent whole.

How can multi-criteria analysis support deliberative spatial planning? A critical review of methods and participatory frameworks

Evaluation ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135638902110203
Author(s):  
Geert te Boveldt ◽  
Imre Keseru ◽  
Cathy Macharis
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Multi Criteria Analysis

In spatial planning, the paradigm has shifted from positivist to deliberative approaches. Still, cost–benefit analysis remains the dominant evaluation method. Multi-criteria analysis is arguably more appropriate, as it allows for stakeholder participation. While there are dozens of ever more sophisticated multi-criteria analysis methods, their practicality as real-world learning tools has received little attention. The goal of this article is to assess the suitability of different multi-criteria analysis methods for deliberative planning. It presents a critical review of the logical-mathematical cores of the principal methods but also of the different participatory frameworks within which they can be applied. While mathematically sophisticated methods are valuable in well-defined problems with precise data available, we conclude that in the participatory and politically sensitive stages of the planning process, user-friendly and transparent methods are more appropriate and recommend the development of a method that supports the incremental improvement of design options rather than ranking alternatives.

Fabrik-Integration in das Building Information Modeling (BIM)/Factory integration into building information modeling

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (04) ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
P. Näser ◽  
N. Wickenhagen
Keyword(s):  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Factory Planning ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Planning And Operation

Die Anforderungen an den Planungsprozess, insbesondere hinsichtlich der Planungsqualität, nehmen bei steigendem Kostendruck immer mehr zu. Gleichzeitig verlaufen der Planungs- sowie der begleitende Kommunikationsprozess zwischen den unterschiedlichen beteiligten Gewerken zunehmend digital. Der Planungsansatz des Building Information Modeling (BIM) verfolgt eben diese Ziele, im Wesentlichen aber bei der Planung und dem Betrieb von Gebäuden. Im Beitrag wird untersucht, wie sich der BIM-Ansatz auf die Fabrikplanung übertragen lässt.   The requirements of the planning process, in particular with regard to the planning quality, rise more and more with increasing cost pressure. At the same time, the planning process and the accompanying communication process between the different work areas involved are increasingly digital. The planning approach of Building Information Modeling (BIM) pursues precisely these goals, but essentially in the planning and operation of buildings. The article examines how the BIM approach can be transferred to factory planning.

Optimization of adaptive network economic and mathematical modeling of business planning process control

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Andrey Shorikov
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Adaptive Control ◽  
Execution Time ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Numerical Algorithms ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
New Method ◽  
Function Evaluation ◽  
Business Planning ◽  
Planning Processes

The article is devoted to the application of economic and mathematical models of business planning management based on the use of the feedback principle. As the objective function (evaluation toolkit) of the task, the value of the execution time of the entire business project, which must be minimized, is considered. To solve this problem, it is proposed to form a class of admissible strategies for optimal adaptive control of the implementation process; as well as a specific business project using network economic and mathematical modeling is worked out. Within the limits of these strategies, the method of achieving optimal self-adjusting control of business planning processes is determined, the optimal execution time and the optimal timetable for the implementation of the project are determined. The main feature of the proposed new method is the ability to take into account the real conditions for the implementation works of the concrete project, which makes it possible to timely adjust the process of management of business planning and prevent disruptions in its implementation. This method also serves as the basis for constructing numerical algorithms for the development and creating the automated systems for realization of optimal adaptive control of business planning processes. The results obtained are illustrated on a specific business project for opening a public catering enterprise and show a high degree of efficiency in using the new method.

Enhanced UAS Surveillance Using a Video Utility Metric

2013 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 277-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Niedfeldt ◽  
Brandon T. Carroll ◽  
Joel A. Howard ◽  
Randal W. Beard ◽  
Bryan S. Morse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Optimal Path ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Flight Test ◽  
Video Stream ◽  
Flight Path ◽  
Optimal Path Planning ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Human Operators ◽  
Imaging Sensors

A successful mission for an Unmanned Air System (UAS) often depends on the ability of human operators to utilize data collected from onboard imaging sensors. Many hours are spent preparing and executing flight objectives, putting a tremendous burden on human operators both before and during the flight. We seek to automate the planning process to reduce the workload for UAS operators while also optimizing the quality of the collected video stream. We first propose a metric based on an existing image utility metric to estimate the utility of video captured by onboard cameras. We then use this metric to not only plan the UAS flight path, but also the path of the camera's optical axis projected along the terrain and the zoom level. Since computing an optimal solution is NP-hard and therefore infeasible, we subsequently describe a staged sub-optimal path planning approach to autonomously plan the UAS flight path and sensor schedule. We apply these algorithms to precompute UAS and sensor paths for a surveillance mission over a specified region. Simulated and actual flight test results are included.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Testbed Planning: Urban Planning in the Intersection between Experimental and Public Sector Logics

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Berglund-Snodgrass ◽  
Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Experimental Logic

Urban planning is, in many countries, increasingly becoming intertwined with local climate ambitions, investments in urban attractiveness and “smart city” innovation measures. In the intersection between these trends, urban experimentation has developed as a process where actors are granted action space to test innovations in a collaborative setting. One arena for urban experimentation is urban testbeds. Testbeds are sites of urban development, in which experimentation constitutes an integral part of planning and developing the area. This article introduces the notion of testbed planning as a way to conceptualize planning processes in delimited sites where planning is combined with processes of urban experimentation. We define testbed planning as a multi-actor, collaborative planning process in a delimited area, with the ambition to generate and disseminate learning while simultaneously developing the site. The aim of this article is to explore processes of testbed planning with regard to the role of urban planners. Using an institutional logics perspective we conceptualize planners as navigating between a public sector—and an experimental logic. The public sector logic constitutes the formal structure of “traditional” urban planning, and the experimental logic a collaborative and testing governance structure. Using examples from three Nordic municipalities, this article explores planning roles in experiments with autonomous buses in testbeds. The analysis shows that planners negotiate these logics in three different ways, combining and merging them, separating and moving between them or acting within a conflictual process where the public sector logic dominates.

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