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Evaluation for Participation and Sustainability in Planning
No full text‘Evaluation for Participation and Sustainability in Planning’ is the title of a new book edited by Johan Woltjer and his colleagues Angela Hull, Ernest Alexander, and Abdul Khakee. The book addresses the evaluation of planning interventions from several perspectives (social, economic, environmental). Specifically, the attention is focused on:
- how evaluation is used in planning practice, including the choice of indicators or the criteria to evaluate participation;
- the introduction of new kinds of information, such as measuring the cumulative effects or bringing criteria on capability and well-being into play;
- alternative ways of collecting and presenting information, through using GIS or focusing on strategic environmental awareness and ‘hotspots’; and
- understanding how strategic planning objectives are implemented in local practice
Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia
No full textI. Theoretical Reflections on Decentralization and Governance for Sustainable Society1. Decentralization and Governance for Sustainable Society in IndonesiaRonald Holzhacker, Rafael Wittek and Johan Woltjer2. Good Governance Contested: Exploring Human Rights and Sustainability as Normative GoalsJilles L. J. HazenbergII. Decentralization and Policy Making3. Decentralization and Primary Health Care Innovations in IndonesiaSuwatin Miharti, Ronald Holzhacker, and Rafael Wittek 4. The Impact of Decentralization on Educational Attainment in IndonesiaTatang Muttaqin, Marijtje van Duijn , Liesbet Heyse and Rafael Wittek5. Decentralization, Foreign Direct Investment and Development in IndonesiaK. Kuswanto, Herman Hoen, and Ronald Holzhacker6. The Inclusive Growth Concept: Strengths, Weaknesses and a Research Agenda for IndonesiaP.N.L. Kusumawati, J.Paul Elhorst, and Jakob de HaanIII. Challenges of Decentralization for Cities to Create Sustainable Futures7. Metropolitan Governance and Institutional Design: Transportation in the Jakarta Metropolitan Region Taufiq Hidayat Putra, Wendy Guan Zhen Tan, and Johan Woltjer 8. Environmental Governance with Transnational Municipal Networks: The Case of Indonesian CitiesAnnisa Paramita Wiharani, Ronald Holzhacker and Jaap de WildeIV. Governance to Limit Opportunities for Corruption in Decentralized Environment9. Institutional Change and Corruption of Public Leaders: A Social Capital Perspective on IndonesiaMala Sondang Silitonga, Gabriel Anthonio, Liesbet Heyse and Rafael Wittek10. Corporate Governance and Corruption: A Comparative Study of South-East AsiaNureni Wijayati, Niels Hermes, Ronald Holzhacker<br/
Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia
No full textI. Theoretical Reflections on Decentralization and Governance for Sustainable Society1. Decentralization and Governance for Sustainable Society in IndonesiaRonald Holzhacker, Rafael Wittek and Johan Woltjer2. Good Governance Contested: Exploring Human Rights and Sustainability as Normative GoalsJilles L. J. HazenbergII. Decentralization and Policy Making3. Decentralization and Primary Health Care Innovations in IndonesiaSuwatin Miharti, Ronald Holzhacker, and Rafael Wittek 4. The Impact of Decentralization on Educational Attainment in IndonesiaTatang Muttaqin, Marijtje van Duijn , Liesbet Heyse and Rafael Wittek5. Decentralization, Foreign Direct Investment and Development in IndonesiaK. Kuswanto, Herman Hoen, and Ronald Holzhacker6. The Inclusive Growth Concept: Strengths, Weaknesses and a Research Agenda for IndonesiaP.N.L. Kusumawati, J.Paul Elhorst, and Jakob de HaanIII. Challenges of Decentralization for Cities to Create Sustainable Futures7. Metropolitan Governance and Institutional Design: Transportation in the Jakarta Metropolitan Region Taufiq Hidayat Putra, Wendy Guan Zhen Tan, and Johan Woltjer 8. Environmental Governance with Transnational Municipal Networks: The Case of Indonesian CitiesAnnisa Paramita Wiharani, Ronald Holzhacker and Jaap de WildeIV. Governance to Limit Opportunities for Corruption in Decentralized Environment9. Institutional Change and Corruption of Public Leaders: A Social Capital Perspective on IndonesiaMala Sondang Silitonga, Gabriel Anthonio, Liesbet Heyse and Rafael Wittek10. Corporate Governance and Corruption: A Comparative Study of South-East AsiaNureni Wijayati, Niels Hermes, Ronald Holzhacker<br/
Place-Based Evaluation for Infrastructure and Spatial Projects:An Introduction
No full textIn recent years, there have been some major changes in the management of planning projects and infrastructure development, such as roads, rail and waterways. The emphasis is increasingly on local and regional integration of these projects. These changes have a profound influence on questions of evaluation: the qualities legitimate project proposals should have, the benefits and costs related to development initiatives, the complexity and effectiveness of integrated land-use management practice. This chapter brings together contributions from experts in the fields of spatial planning, regional science and infrastructure management to tackle an emerging agenda of spatially-oriented integrated evaluation. It sets out to clarify the nature and roles of evaluation in the wider context of current planning and policy practices, presenting current academic thinking and concepts, case studies, methods, and policy and practice review to examine and assess integrated land-use management.<br/
A capability approach in planning evaluation and regional development
No full textA recurring shortcoming in regional development planning is that development planning efforts have failed to adequately include issues related to the actual qualities of life and well-being of people. Indicators such as the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) or indices on income growth by definition are limited and generally fall short of articulating quality of life. Studies done in Central Java, for example, show that while GDP data suggest economic progress in terms of local productivity and production volume, at the same time the area is experiencing a systematic decrease of rural prosperity (Breman and Wiradi, 2004). There is a continuing need for approaches able to express development progress and planning success adequately, beyond merely looking at utility or commodities, and beyond only using economic indices. This chapter reports on an effort to understand the extent to which land use, public facilities, infrastructure and amenities are contributing to quality of life and opportunities. It tries to raise consciousness among planners and policy-makers of some way to express, particularly in planning evaluation, how the spatial characteristics of a place might offer opportunity, freedom and capacities to its people. Accordingly, this chapter outlines and operationalises an approach towards planning evaluation based on notions of well-being and quality of life. More specifically, it takes the so-called capability approach by Amartya Sen (1993, 2000) as a basis for analysis. A literature review is included in the chapter to argue the relevance ofthe capability approach for regional development planning and evaluation. Subsequently, survey and interview findings from Magelang, an agroeconomic region close to the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, are employed for illustrating the capability approach (CA) in planning and developmentpractice. The Magelang case represents some pertinent problems to regional development planning, including social inequality and a lack of economic stability and prospect. The key question this chapter addresses is: what way could there be tounderstand and evaluate well-being, quality of life and standards of regional development in developing regions, in terms of opportunities and capabilities available to people? Based on a literature review and a case study, the paper offers a framework for planning evaluation featuring evaluative indicators such as tangible (e.g. land, physical infrastructure) and intangible (e.g. knowledge, market relations) assets, and the significance of these assets to individual freedom and opportunity. The suggestions are intended to show a way to reveal the resilience or, perhaps, the “spirit” of a specific area, and contribute to the quality of planning work based on issues of capability and well-being, and, specifically, to planning evaluation in regions similar to the case presented
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