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Towards a resilient drought management system
No full textDrought is considered an insidious, complex and multidisciplinary phenomenon due to many interacting influences. This paper focusses on the specific situation in Flanders, Belgium. Although in Flanders, the annual precipitation remains stable, drought impacts are becoming more and more severe. This is partly due to increased water demand, changed water use patterns in combination with outdated legislation and reactive policies, not aimed at resilient water management.
This paper identifies contributing elements, relations and interactions in the drought system of Flanders, through the actor relational approach and demonstrates how this approach might be implemented in the Flemish case. An actor relational approach would allow striving for a more resilient drought management system
Resilience and risk multiadaptation: A method and a case study
Get PDFThe term resilience is used in many disciplines due to its adaptability to theories
of complexity, including economics, ecology, political science, cognitive science, new
technologies and land-use planning. Consequently, Zolli and Healey's (2012) definition of
resilience understood as "the ability of a system, company or person to maintain its
fundamental purpose and integrity in the face of radically changed circumstances"
integrates ecology and sociology and offers an overview of the multidisciplinary nature of
the issue.
It is also true that resilient spaces are spaces capable of adapting to change by
contributing to their balance. This must be appropriately planned and managed also with
the use of indicators capable of measuring the performance of cities. Therefore, the
purpose of this study - carried out within the research project PRIN 2020 SUMMA is to
define multiresilience and multiadaptation starting from the concept of resilience and
adaptation and present the synthesis of a case study carried out with an ad hoc method
Four cities, three provinces, two states, one region: Integrated inner-city development concept in a regional context (ISEK⁴)
Get PDFDesigned as a pilot project for the development of a new planning instrument, ISEK4 addressed two spatial spheres that – despite obvious necessity – are rarely considered together in the existing planning toolkit: the inner city and the functional region. Integrated urban development concepts for the four inner cities of Bruneck (South Tyrol), Hermagor-Pressegger See (Upper Carinthia), Lienz (East Tyrol), and Spittal an der Drau (Upper Carinthia) were developed in conjunction with a regional symbiosis of the SOUTH ALPINE SPACE region – demonstrating and using synergies between the inner cities as anchor points of public life in the region. ISEK4 is based on an integrated, interdisciplinary planning approach and was developed together with local steering groups from the cities. Within the project, knowledge and needs were collected, recorded, and located in different workshop formats. The paper will focus on the work process, the lessons learned and the transferability of the project approach, as well as the results
Book of proceedings : 35th AESOP Annual Congress : Integrated planning in a world of turbulence, Łódź, Poland 11-15. 07. 2023
Get PDFIn recent years, the modern world has been facing growing civilization challenges related to the effects of climate change, progressive degradation of the natural environment resources and values, internal and external migrations resulting from economic cr ises and political tensions, as well as shortening product life cycles, automation and autonomization of management processes in business and the public sector. Development processes are going to be difficult to predict, such as the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic in 2019 appearance, for example. Uncertain forecasts for the future force us to expect further development disruptions. Importantly, these phenomena h ave their consequences in the sphere of spatial development patterns and ways of using it by various stakeholders. These consequences are revealed on a local, regional, national and transnational scale, implying the need to develop methods of cooperation b etween various planning entities and planning systems. Space is becoming on the one hand an increasingly valuable resource, and its values and territorial dimension become an important factor of the development and growth processes on the other hand, it requires more and more flexible adaptation of its d evelopment patterns to changing trends and forecasted challenges and problems. This raises the question of the effectiveness and legitimacy of using the existing, more traditional planning approaches based on the methodology of long term strategic planning aimed at building stable foundations for the development of society and in c ontrast to this searching for new approaches corresponding to the indicated planning challenges in conditions of high uncertainty of events, risks and anthropogenic and natural hazards. A particular challenge seems to be the need to use planning tools in international cooperation to reduce the negative externalities related to the side effects of globalization processes. The Congress aimed to create a space to discuss the importance and role of Integrated Planning in a World of Turbulence . With this Book of Proceedings Congress Attendees provided a valuable contribution to this discourse!
Local Organizing Committee AESOP 2023 Annual Congress Lodzpublished versio
Obserwatorium Innowacji jako narzędzie dyfuzji innowacji sektora publicznego
Get PDFInnowacyjność sektora publicznego stała się jednym z najistotniejszych wyzwań
współczesnych czasów. Złożoność procesów zarządzania w sektorze publicznym, ale też
złożoność otoczenia wewnętrznego i zewnętrznego, w którym te procesy zachodzą, skłania
a nierzadko zmusza do poszukiwania nowych, skuteczniejszych i efektywniejszych sposobów
działania organizacji sektora publicznego. Zatem innowacyjność staje się z jednej strony
koniecznością, z drugiej zaś szansą dla organizacji publicznych w kontekście budowania
i rozwijania ich zdolności do sprawnego działania na rzecz społeczeństwa i gospodarki.
Celem niniejszego rozdziału jest zaprezentowanie Obserwatorium Innowacji Sektora
Publicznego OECD oraz wskazanie możliwości wykorzystania tego narzędzia do dyfuzji
wiedzy i umiejętności wzmacniających innowacyjny potencjał organizacji publicznych
Revitalization in favour of socially mixed neighbourhoods – the case of “At Scheibler” lofts in Lodz, Poland
No full textProceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southThe transition process and economic crisis in 90. in Lodz caused by collapsing of textile industry resulted in bankruptcy of most textile factories located in huge neglected postindustrial areas in the central part of the city. The supply of land from one hand delivered very attractive space for new functions such as housing, services or recreation, but from other hand demanded huge investment to adopt the existing estate for new purposes.
At the same time the number of locations devoted to housing functions declined due to intensive economic development of the city. Additional difficulty appeared because of the fact that the structure of demand for housing has changed in last decade. Economic development caused enrichment of society and resulted in increasing demand for high standard apartments. This situation forced intensive search for the solution that would allow to fulfill the demand for housing and at the same time enable to change the function of postindustrial degraded fabric of the city. The most logic action was to introduce the revitalization program. It was expected that revitalization allow to solve housing problems and at the same time to preserve the heritage of industrial history of the city. It was also the tool for developing complex, integrated and long term programs leading to refurbish and regenerate the particular, the most valuable parts of the city. To make it happen city government initiated the search for external sources of finance due to its limited budget.publishedVersio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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