Adaptive Management in Urban Stream Governance: A Review and an Urban Commoning Scenario-Building Exercise

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-688
Author(s):  
Herlin Chien
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Urban River ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Urban Stream ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Scenario Building ◽  
Solution Approach ◽  
Management Approaches

One environmental solution proposed by scholars since the 1980s is to manage our common natural resources adaptively with emphasis on feedback, the inclusion of multiple stakeholders and the flexibility to change accordingly. By focusing the analysis on the understudied topic of urban river systems in adaptive governance, a systematic literature review and a scenario-building exercise were conducted. Whereas the bibliometric analysis aims to improve our collective knowledge on many aspects of the adaptive management in urban stream governance, the urban commoning scenario-building exercise is to simulate alternatives beyond conventional top-down management approaches and to explore different opportunities of engaging multiple stakeholders throughout the adaptive management cycle. Our investigations recommend that although there is a trend of considering the “human” or “soft” perspective as part of the integrated solution approach, future researches need to ground their studies in more empirical cases in order to identify a few contextual variables such as ICT or public-private collaboration arrangement to leverage the complex inputs of soft power as benefits and added value in the management of urban river as a social-ecological system.

scholarly journals Kentucky bluegrass invaded rangeland: Ecosystem implications and adaptive management approaches

Rangelands ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 106-116
Author(s):  
Caley K. Gasch ◽  
David Toledo ◽  
Katherine Kral-O'Brien ◽  
Carol Baldwin ◽  
Cayla Bendel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Kentucky Bluegrass ◽  
Management Approaches

Adaptive project management for the civil society sector: towards an academic research agenda

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Lena Gutheil
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
Perceived Effects ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Definition Of

In order to react adequately to the complex, fast-changing and politicised environments in which development projects operate, donors have started adopting more adaptive project management approaches. Projects dealing with civil society actors in particular are said to benefit from adaptive management. As adaptive management largely depends on locally led and politically smart programming, it is presented as one avenue for addressing long-standing problems of civil society organisations, such as donor dependency, lack of legitimacy and accountability issues. However, the evidence base concerning the effects of adaptive management is scarce and rather anecdotal and an overarching definition of adaptive management has not been established. In order to work towards an academic research agenda for adaptive management, the article systematically reviews twenty-one case studies to generate insights into what donors and implementers consider as adaptive practices, their perceived effects, obstacles and derived recommendations. The article thus contributes to identifying which actors are driving the adaptive agenda, which practices are considered as adaptive, what we can learn from first pilot interventions and which research gaps can be derived from this analysis.

scholarly journals Beyond the urban stream syndrome: organic matter budget for diagnostics and restoration of an impaired urban river

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 1623-1643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave M. Epstein ◽  
Julia E. Kelso ◽  
Michelle A. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Urban River ◽  
Urban Stream ◽  
Urban Stream Syndrome

scholarly journals Urban Marketing and its Impact over the Touristic Attractiveness of the Cities – A Conceptual Approach

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Alexa
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Natural Response ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
The City

Considering the current issues the urban centers are dealing with, the amplified city competitiveness and the increased demand of qualitative public services, it appears the need to apply new urban management approaches, more oriented toward the market and the current needs of the city. The competitive environment pressure creates the need to pass from an entirely administrative approach to a more managerial one, in all aspects regarding the current problems of the cities. Thus, the urban stakeholders borrow more and more often working methods and techniques specific until now only for the private sector, in order to increase the public service’s performance and to sustainable develop their community. Urban marketing came as a natural response to the cities needs to bring added value to their urban management strategies. The final objective is to increase the cities attractiveness for different target groups: starting with the current and future inhabitants, continuing with tourists and finishing with potential investors, which by relocating their business, could become a part of the faster and more sustainable urban development.

scholarly journals The cost management approaches in trade industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Iryna Kvach
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Cost Management ◽  
Unit Cost ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
The People ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. The current state of financial and economic government institutions negatively affects  Ukrainian budget execution, and the general trend of deterioration in the standard of living of the people, in general leads to low level of functioning of the enterprise and  their competitiveness, especially in such industry as trade. Aims and tasks. In the conditions of an unstable political and economic situation in commodity market and services to overcome disproportions between operating profit  of some commodity groups of trade enterprise and its added value which indicates depreciation of the capital  invested by owners not only doesn't provide compensation of investments, but also leads to losses because of inflationary processes therefore there is a need for the mutual integration of approaches of management of expenses for assessment. Results. The practical value of application of a method of Activity-based costing (ABC) and Economic Value Added (EVA) in management of expenses not only in creation of a system of accounting of expenses, but also and predictions through new approaches for the analysis for identification of unproductive fields of activity in value creation of a product is proved, including positively influences the growth of business activity for trade enterprises. In the field of innovative approaches the balanced system of indexes (BSI) and EVA methods harmoniously are integrated in processes of costs planning, management of them at the level of departments and in general are distributed among operation processes to responsible persons, which has a positive impact on maximizing capital cost of the enterprise. Conclusions. Application of methods of cost management as uniform system provides chance to distribute expenses on commodity groups and to define  goods which create added value gives the chance to settle the impact of minimum change of influence of a factor  on commodity turnover level due to decrease of unit  cost in life cycle of a product through the analysis of a point of profitability for increase in investment attractiveness.

scholarly journals The future of sustainability in the context of COVID-19

AMBIO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna-Mareè Cawthorn ◽  
Alexandra Kennaugh ◽  
Sam M. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Zoonotic Diseases ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Planetary Health ◽  
Wildlife Use ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
And Control

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis emanating both from a virus (SARS-CoV-2) and from the drastic actions to contain it. Here, we reflect on the immediate responses of most world powers amid the pandemic chaos: totalitarian surveillance and nationalist isolation. Drawing on published literature, we consider measures such as wildlife-use bans, lockdowns and travel restrictions, along with their reverberations for people, economies and the planet. Our synthesis highlights significant shortfalls of applying command-and-control tactics in emergencies. For one, heavy-handed bans risk enormous unintended consequences and tend to fail if they lack legitimacy or clash with people’s values. Furthermore, reactive and myopic strategies typically view the pandemic as a stand-alone crisis, rather than unravelling the complex interplay of nature-society interactions through which zoonotic diseases originate. A return to adaptive management approaches that recognise root causes and foster socio-ecological resilience will be essential to improve human and planetary health and mitigate future pandemics.

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