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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
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/
Capability Approach for well-being Evaluation in Regional Development Planning: Case Study in Magelang Regency. Central java, Indonesia
Full text linkThe thesis uses Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach (1993, 2000) to devise a set of criteria to evaluate the well-being and quality of life of economic groups in a case study of Magelang, a small rural area in Central Java, Indonesia. In applying this method, the researcher examines how the spatial characteristics of a place might present opportunity, freedom and capacities to its people. The fundamental conception of well-being in the capability approach is based on a set of attributes and on the level of ‘freedom to choose between various valuable states of being and doing’. The approach is tested through action research with local stakeholders to define the extent to which their environment offers them adequate capabilities to develop. With the author, participants evaluate the changes in agro-economic opportunities and the supporting asset base. The analysis distinguishes between five types of assets: individual tangible assets, public tangible assets, individual intangible assets, social institutional assets and economic institutional assets. Based on the comprehension of how assets influence capability and observation with regards to how people function with different assets, the thesis proposes to broaden theory in relation to capability. Further exploring theory, this thesis suggests that capability analysis could be used to measure the level of a community’s well-being, particularly as the result of development and to strategically guide planners in setting up priority and to creating greater awareness of the constraints and opportunities available to people. Therefore, the method could be applied to regional development planning and evaluation
Decentralization and Governance for Sustainable Society in Indonesia
Full text linkIndonesia, over the past two decades, has embarked on a process of decentralization as part of a broader process of democratization, which followed earlier periods of centralized governance and authoritarian rule across the archipelago. The purpose of this book is to explore the connections between governance and sustainable society in a wide variety of policy fields in Indonesia,Indonesia and how reforming governance structures may contribute to societal benefits and the creation of a long-term sustainable society. The structures created may be characterized as a variable form of multi-governance, with varying types of relationships between the central government and newly empowered local governments
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