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Anuson Walter Vella
No full textCremation volume for Vella, Walter F. (Walter Francis), 1924-1980, American author on Thailand; comprises condolences and papers on Thailand by both crematee and others
Australian Urban and Regional Planning in the Twenty First Century
No full textIn 1914, George Taylor wrote Town Planning for Australia: this was Australia’s first book on urban planning. Written for a new, and highly urbanized Australia, it proposed a case for planning to achieve the ideal city: a more beautiful environment, improved living conditions, a safer city, a better class of individual, and more co-operative and cohesive communities (Taylor, 2015). The diverse interests it raised led into the first university level planning qualification, at Sydney University from 1949 (Freestone, 2015).\ud
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One hundred years later, planning in Australia has grown substantially and matured as a profession. Australia now has 24 accredited educational programs in place, a steadily increasing number of planning academics, and a growing body of planning research (J. Byrne, Chapter 26). Student enrolments continue to grow and between 2000 and 2013 the number of employed planners had more than doubled across Australia (Mayere and Grantt-Smith, Chapter 25). Planners today work in diverse urban and regional contexts and across fields of planning and the scholarship of urban and regional planning has evolved since its early beginnings with this broadening base (Freestone, Chapter 8 ).\ud
It is timely to ask, where is planning today in Australia? What would a snapshot of critical essays on urban planning reveal about the practice of planning and the key challenges it confronts? What would it reveal about the state of planning policy and extent of planning action in urban and regional Australia
The Future of Australian Urban & Regional Planning
No full textThe closing chapter of the Handbook is divided into three parts. First, as a way of summarising the preceding 26 chapters, we examine three themes that emerged and cut across ranges of chapters. Second, to provide some context to the Handbook, particularly for those international readers or others not familiar with Australian planning, we return to an issue raised in the introduction—how Australian planning theories, practices and education compares internationally. In the third and final section, we provide some insight on future directions for Australian planning and its role in the Asia Pacific region
Conservation and Research Status of Mediterranean Delphinus delphis Aquaic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems Volume 31, Issue S1 Pages: 1-166 April 2021 Issue Edited by: Daniela S. Pace, Barbara Mussi, Joseph G. Vella, Adriana Vella
No full textCreating spaces for action: Lessons from front line planners in the Great Barrier Reef
No full textWe know that planning is complex and difficult and that many planners struggle professionally and personally under the weight of pressures and divergent expectations of their role. In urban development for example, planners routinely face criticism both from the development sector for failing to approve development fast enough and from interest groups for allowing culturally and environmentally insensitive development. In this context of planning, which is invariably contested, planners respond in different ways. Some leave the profession. Others emotionally check-out or find ways to make a contribution through advocacy, mentoring, teaching and research. Some planners rise to the challenge of planning in high conflict situations and take leadership in the pursuit of fair, just and sustainable outcomes.\ud
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We are interested in exploring experiences from this latter group. Considering the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia’s most internationally recognized example of resource conflict and social contestation, we examine lessons from experienced planners on planning’s front line. We draw on oral histories with experienced planners who provided critical leadership to negotiate policy outcomes in the GBR, and explore how they created opportunities to take action. \ud
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First we describe resource conflicts in the GBR and review key planning policy introduced to manage conflict since the 1980s. Then we describe the oral history method and present the results describing the obstacles planners faced in resolving conflict and strategies they used to overcome these obstacles. We conclude by reflecting on how experienced planners use discerning practical judgment to address conflicts, negotiate agreements, and improve plan and policy efficacy. Planners in the GBR take leadership through collaborative processes, by building partnerships and decision systems and by bringing people along. This helps planners overcome obstacles to reef policy; we suggest it improves their capacity to act responsibly in the future as new demands arise
Introduction to Valletta2018 Cultural Mapping: Debating space and place
No full textIn 2018, Valletta will be the European Capital of Culture. A series of four international conferences has been organized along the path to the ECoC year, dealing with some of its key topics, one for each year from 2014 to 2017. This special issue presents a small selection of papers from the 2015 conference on cultural mapping and its relation with culture-led development
Solvency II: Reasons Behind a Handbook
No full textThis brief introduction describes the role insurance regulation played in the 2007 financial crisis and provides a framework for the following chapters
On the bubbling dynamics of binary mixtures of powders in 2D gas-solid fluidized beds
No full textThe bubbling behavior of fluidized beds has been thoroughly investigated in the last decades by means of several
techniques (e.g. X-ray, Inductance, Resistance and Impedance based techniques). In recent years, Digital
Image Analysis Techniques have shown their potential for accurate and cost effective measurements.
Most of the works related to the experimental analysis of bubble behavior in the field of gas-solid fluidization
actually deal with monodispersed particles although almost all industrial equipments operate with mixtures
of particles. Among the works available in literature dealing with mixtures of particles having different diameters
and/or densities, most of them aim at the assessment of minimum fluidization conditions and mixing/
segregation phenomena. A lack of knowledge exists in the experimental analysis of bubble properties measurements
of polydispersed systems.
In this work, a Digital Image Analysis procedure has been applied to the case of binary mixtures of particles in
bubbling fluidized beds, in order to measure bubble fundamental characteristics such as bubble diameter,
bubble number and bubble rise velocity, i.e. data actually unavailable in the literature. The experiments
have been carried out at steady state conditions with binary mixtures of corundum particles and glass particles,
at various inlet gas velocities. A preliminary statistical analysis has been performed to describe bubbling
dynamics, which may well be a starting point for future development of predictive correlations
Analysis, by RELAP5 code, of Boron Dilution Phenomena in a Small Break LOCA Transient, Performed in PKL III E2.2 Test
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