scholarly journals Mind the Gap: Why the Landscape Planning System in Sardinia Does Not Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7300
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Colavitti ◽  
Alessio Floris ◽  
Sergio Serra
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
The Common ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
Landscape Protection

In Italy, after the introduction of the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape in 2004, the Regional Landscape Plan (RLP) has acquired a coordination role in the urban planning system, for the implementation of policies for landscape protection and valorisation. The case study of the RLP of Sardinia is a paradigmatic application to the coastal area of the island, which is considered most vulnerable and subject to settlement pressure. The objectives of preservation and valorisation of the territorial resources should be transferred into local planning instruments by adopting strategies aimed at the preservation of the consolidated urban fabric, at the requalification and completion of the existing built-up areas according to the principles of land take limitation and increase in urban quality. The paper investigates the state of implementation and the level of integration of landscape contents in the local plans that have been adapted to the RLP, using a qualitative comparative method. In addition, the results of the plan coherence checks, elaborated by the regional monitoring bodies after the adaptation process, have been analysed to identify the common criticalities and weaknesses. The results highlight the lack of effectiveness of the RLP, after more than a decade since its approval, considering the limited number of adequate local plans and the poor quality of their analytical and regulative contents in terms of landscape protection and valorisation. Conclusions suggest some possible ways to revise the RLP, focusing on the participation of local communities and the development of a new landscape culture.

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 Kontribusi Muhasabah dalam Mengembangkan Resiliensi Pada Orang Tua Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-262
Author(s):  
Fatma Laili Khoirun Nida
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Children With Special Needs ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Resilience Factors ◽  
Depth Interviews

The phenomenon of the poor quality of parental care for children with disabilities makes resilience one of the psychological capital that contributes to improving the quality of care. This study describes how through a muhasabah intervention in Blimbingrejo Village, Nalumsari District, Jepara Regency. The purpose of this study was to provide information for parents of children with special needs about muhasabah interventions in developing the resilience abilities of parents when carrying out their care. The urgency of this research is to reduce parenting stress experienced by parents because of the developmental barriers of their children. This research is qualitative with a case study approach through in-depth interviews and observation techniques. The study results explain that the condition of children with special needs is often a stressor for their parents. However, parents can live with complete steadfastness as a form of their resilience. The pattern of resilience formed is supported mainly by thinking about what they are trying to do. There are indications of the meaning of resilience factors in the practice of muhasabah in the form of the ability to regulate emotions, develop optimism and empathy, control impulses and causal analysis, good self-efficacy and take wisdom as an indication of aspects of the reaching out process. The results of this study are helpful information in developing the concept and practice of caring for children with special needs.

Planted Roofs Over Buildings

2022 ◽  
pp. 338-349
Author(s):  
Theodoros Galanis ◽  
Ploutarhos Kerpelis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
School Building ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Financial Benefits

Humans in addition with other factors have increased the environmental pollution of the planet. Many highly populated cities like Athens have problems with air quality due to the poor quality of construction, high temperatures in summer, noise, no existence of city plans, etc. The scope of this study is the investigation of urban towns' benefits using planted roofs. All types of planted roofs have many environmental, constructional, social, and financial benefits. The research suggests a method from the design, the study until the construction, using decision making, informing the citizens, and taking into account their opinion. The original design of buildings must have adopted an integrated energy strategy such as the solution of planted roofs so as to maximize the benefits to the environment and human beings. The research is specialized using a case study about a planted roof of an existing school building in Athens. The advantages and disadvantages of the usage are shown focusing on environmental, social, and construction aspects.

scholarly journals Restaurant’s Multidimensional Evaluation Concerning Food Quality, Service, and Sustainable Practices: A Cross-National Case Study of Poland and Lithuania

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Trafialek ◽  
Ewa Czarniecka-Skubina ◽  
Jurgita Kulaitiené ◽  
Nijolė Vaitkevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Multidimensional Evaluation ◽  
Meal Quality ◽  
Food Losses ◽  
The Common ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Cross National

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze consumer choices and evaluate the restaurant service quality, including quality of meals and services, and sustainability practices in restaurants in Warsaw and Kaunas. Our research was conducted using a sample of 1200 adult Poles and Lithuanians. Polish and Lithuanian consumers used catering services with varying frequencies. Different elements influenced their choice of restaurant. However, the common feature was the quality of meals, which in Lithuania was compared only with the price of meals, and with other elements in Poland. In the context of restaurant’s sustainable practices, it has been revealed that surveyed consumers had only partially fit into the contemporary consumption trends. In both countries, consumers have appreciated the use of reusable cutlery and crockery, as well as local and seasonal ingredients, while they did not pay attention to sustainable restaurant practices, such as the use of alternative sources of protein, environmentally friendly forms of energy, and reducing waste and minimization of food losses. The use of cluster analysis and principal component analysis (PCA) allowed a comprehensive assessment of consumer opinions on restaurants in terms of meal quality and service as well as sustainable practices. Restaurateurs should monitor the satisfaction of their customers and recognize the changing needs and habits of consumers.

DECONSTRUCTING THE ARGUMENT FOR FREE TRADE: A CASE STUDY OF THE ROLE OF ECONOMISTS IN POLICY DEBATES

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Driskill
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Standard Argument ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The World ◽  
Value Judgements

This paper argues that, in light of the apparent settled nature of economists’ judgement on the issue of trade liberalization, the profession has stopped thinking critically about the question and, as a consequence, makes poor-quality arguments justifying their consensus. To develop support for this claim, the paper first recounts what economic analysis can say about trade liberalization. Then it analyses the quality of the arguments that economists make in support of free trade. The paper argues that the standard argument made by economists in favour of free trade is either incoherent or implicitly imposes philosophical value judgements about what is good for a nation or society, or it makes leaps of empirical faith about how the world works. The paper concludes with suggestions for better arguments.

The Significance, Assessment, and Management of Nonrestorative Sleep in Fibromyalgia Syndrome

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (S5) ◽  
pp. 22-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Moldofsky
Keyword(s):  
Fibromyalgia Syndrome ◽  
Causative Factor ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Common Symptom ◽  
Quality Of Sleep ◽  
Nonrestorative Sleep ◽  
Unrefreshing Sleep ◽  
The Common

AbstractPeople with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) experi-ence unrefreshing sleep, aches, hypersensitivity, and cognitive and emotional difficulties. Although no specific causative factor or biological agent is known to account for all of the features of FMS and these related diagnoses, the generalized hypersensitivity of the body is considered to be affected by disturbances in cen-tral nervous system (CNS) functions. Such CNS dis-turbances are intrinsic to the sleeping-waking brain, where the common symptom elements in all these illnesses are poor quality of sleep, nonspecific pain, fatigue, and psychological distress in the absence of known disease pathology.

“The Last Laugh?” A Multimodal Analysis of Captions in Photojournalism

Pólemos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Logaldo
Keyword(s):  
Poor Quality ◽  
Pop Art ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
Verbal Discourse ◽  
Selective Process

Abstract It is generally agreed that in photojournalism pictures come first. However, also the short verbal texts that accompany them play a crucial role, as they lead readers among the different signifieds of the image. A multimodal discourse analysis of captions will aptly consider both the linguistic elements that appear within the verbal discourse and the image-text relation. The interconnectedness of captions and pictures has lately been defined as a “loop,” a view which blurs the traditional distinction between anchoring and relaying processes theorized by Barthes. The association of the relaying function with comics, however, seems to establish an interesting point of contact between photojournalism and pop art. Captions actually show the tension between “high” and “low” culture, the former being traditionally identified with the word and the latter with the image. While in the heyday of photojournalism captions were made necessary by the poor quality of the photographs, they soon began to provide an abstractive summary of the story told by the picture. This selective process involves interpretation. For this reason, captions can be ethically misleading and even legally controversial forms of discourse, for instance when they are used instrumentally to convey a specific point of view. In photojournalism dealing with crime cases, in particular, captions may display a sensationalist and populist view of justice, thus articulating the thoughts of public opinion supported by the newspaper’s stand. My case study focuses on the caption that accompanied the photo portraying Perry Smith and Richard Hickock while leaving the courtroom on March 29, 1960. The two murderers – who have become famous after the publication of the documentary novel

scholarly journals Regional Landscape Planning and Local Planning. Insights from the Italian Context

2021 ◽  
Vol SI (7) ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Anna Maria COLAVITTI ◽  
Sergio SERRA
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
Institutional Conflict ◽  
Territorial Government ◽  
Italian Context

Landscape has acquired great importance in the urban and territorial policies of European countries after the European Landscape Convention. Italy has a long tradition in the protection of landscape and cultural heritage, characterised by a particular attention to the history and the identity culture of the communities. The main rule in this field, the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape of 2004 (Urbani Code), refers to a mix of environmental, cultural, and social factors belonging to different types of natural and urban landscapes that Regional Landscape Plans have to identify, sharing with local communities. The most important innovation concerns the attempt to overcome the binding and regulatory approach, only focused on protection constraints, in order to generate high awareness about the identity value of landscape and to encourage a more democratic community participation in the landscape policies. The ineffectiveness of landscape policies is often due to the lack of sharing of the landscape vision and planning approaches established at regional level, with local authorities and settled communities. This paper reflects on the topic of inter-institutional collaboration between national, regional, and local authorities, by focusing on the process of adaptation of urban local plans to the regional landscape plans and comparing different regional contexts. The article highlights a strong delay in the approval of regional landscape plans and a relevant inter-institutional conflict in the co-planning phase with the national authority, leading to the ineffectiveness of landscape plans in the transfer of regional landscape planning guidelines to the local landscape scale, with relevant consequences on territorial government, between conservative measures and transformation drivers.

scholarly journals Post-BPPV Syndrome: Our Experience in a Specialized Neurotology Clinic in Kolkata

2019 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 01-09
Author(s):  
Anirban Biswas ◽  
Nilotpal Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo ◽  
Vestibular Function ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Positional Vertigo ◽  
The Common ◽  
Vestibular Deficit ◽  
Repositioning Maneuver ◽  
Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Abstract Introduction The common cause of approximately 25 to 30% of all patients presenting to the neurotologist with the complaint of head-spinning is benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) that is the commonest cause for which a patient attends a vertigo clinic. Though BPPV is very effectively treated with the canalith repositioning maneuver (CRM), a considerable percent of these patients (34–61% as per different studies)7 8 9 10 is not completely symptom-free even after a very successful maneuver (s) and complain of a new set of symptoms of light-headedness, unsteadiness, or dizziness or a combination of them termed as post-BPPV syndrome or as residual dizziness (RD) after successful correction of BPPV. Post-BPPV syndrome induces a very poor quality of life and is very incapacitating to most patients who suffer from it. Materials and Methods In Vertigo and Deafness Clinic, Kolkata, a total number of 200 patients were diagnosed with geotropic variety of BPPV in a period of 1 year from April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019. Out of these 200 patients, the study was conducted on 178 patients who came for follow-up and also underwent all the necessary vestibular function tests. The remaining 22 patients who did not turn up for follow-up or did not undergo the tests either due to financial constraints or lack of time were excluded from the study group. The study was limited only to patients who had geotropic nystagmus and in patients with ageotropic nystagmus who were excluded from the study. One hundred seventy-eight patients of BPPV who were included in the study were managed by a protocol elaborated below devised by the first author. Results Following this protocol of BPPV management, only 23 (13%) patients after successful CRM presented with post-BPPV syndrome that is much less than the international figures of 34 to 61%. Analysis of data also showed that there was a huge psychic component in post-BPPV syndrome and that there was practically no organic vestibular deficit in post-BPPV syndrome. Conclusion Following our protocol of management of BPPV patients, which does not involve any new maneuver, only 13% of the patients complained of RD after the successful repositioning maneuvers. This is far lesser than the published international figures and this protocol may hence be tried and followed by other neurotology centers too. This protocol drastically reduces the morbidity of patients after the BPPV has been corrected by the requisite maneuvers. In our group of 23 patients who had post-BPPV syndrome out of 178 patients who had BPPV, the symptoms subsided spontaneously without medication within 3 weeks in more than 70% of patients. Only in three (13%) patients of post-BPPV syndrome, the RD persisted up to 12 weeks where drugs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, benzodiazepines) and professional psychological counseling were required. None of these patients required any vestibular sedatives or the so called antivertigo drugs for amelioration of symptoms. It may hence be concluded that management of BPPV by this protocol reduces the incidence of post-BPPV syndrome and that antivertigo drugs have no role in the management of post-BPPV syndrome.

CORNEA CASE STUDY: LESSONS FORTHE FUTURE

2000 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.M. Ingram ◽  
S. Eaton ◽  
J.M.M. Regtien
Keyword(s):  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Reservoir Engineering ◽  
Hydrocarbon Migration ◽  
Field Assessment ◽  
Exploration Drilling ◽  
Oil Rim ◽  
Learning Points

The Cornea Field was discovered in January 1997. The Cornea structure represents a relatively simple trap configuration comprising a large, elongated, four-way dip closure, formed by the drape of Albian age sediments over a northeast to southwest trending positive basement feature. It is located on an active hydrocarbon migration fairway with proven charge and is capped by a regionally extensive Albian seal. An associated Direct Hydrocarbon Indicator extends over an area of 50 km2 and this feature coincides with gas-fluid contacts throughout the field.Subsequent to the initial Cornea discovery wells in permit WA–241-P, further exploration drilling took place within WA–241-P, and also within two, newly-acquired, adjacent permits, WA–265-P and WA–266-P, during 1998 and 1999. Detailed field assessment during and subsequent to these wells, involving geological, geophysical and reservoir engineering disciplines, indicated that the field consisted of an extensive gas cap over a thin, laterally discontinuous oil rim. The poor quality of the Lower Cretaceous marine reservoir succession and the extremely low expected oil recovery indicated that recoverable volumes would be low.This paper contains a review of the data and studies that led to a full understanding of the field. Key learning points from the case study are introduced here and may help future exploration campaigns in other areas.

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