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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-1999
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-10-2018
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 06-2019
DOI: 10.1017/QRE.2019.8
Abstract: The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games presented the host city with a number of opportunities to improve its infrastructure and sporting facilities in line with its long-term strategic vision to transition to being a more mature and sustainable Australian city. However, major events such as the Commonwealth Games have a chequered history of bestowing lasting benefits and a positive legacy on the host city. This article examines the ways in which infrastructure planning for the 2018 Games was used to underpin the success experienced by the Gold Coast in harnessing the event to achieve broader city building objectives. It also reflects critically on how major event-led development can be used to support existing strategic city plans.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-02-2022
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 03-2016
DOI: 10.1142/S1464333216500071
Abstract: Within the gamut of the neo-liberal economic ideology, private sector participation in urban service delivery is visualised as the ultimate solution to efficient and sustainable provision of the same. While private sector participation is being pushed vigorously in municipal solid waste management in Indian cities, there is a critical gap of literature related to its performance from a holistic dimension of sustainability. A robust study can only be conducted if the sustainability assessment criteria and indicators are expansively framed to enable critical studies to take place. Based upon a detailed analysis of existing literature on private sector participation in both generic and specific contexts of municipal solid waste, this paper elaborates on a comprehensive sustainability assessment framework for ex-post evaluation of private sector participation in municipal solid waste (MSW) management in the context of Indian cities but which is also possible to replicate or remodel as per contextual requirement in other developing countries.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-06-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-03-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2008
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-10-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2018
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 10-1997
DOI: 10.1332/030557397782453192
Abstract: The article looks back over the last 22 years of urban policy development in the UK to consider three linked themes: the extent of progress in meeting the goals of urban policy the degree of policy learning that has taken place within and beyond government and the changing nature of the relationship between the state, the academy and civil society. These themes are further explored in an analysis of one of the key characteristics of urban policy - the continuing attempt to manage urban processes which result in racial discrimination and disadvantage. The paper concludes by posing a series of questions which might stimulate fresh debate on the purpose and scope of urban policy as we move into the next millennium.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-10-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-11-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-07-2014
Abstract: The City of Gold Coast in Australia has grown rapidly over the last half century to become the sixth largest city in the country and the second largest local government by population. It is seen by many to have become the epitome of neoliberal local government in Australia. This paper critically reviews this assumption of neoliberalisation through an analysis of the changing nature of governance in the city which draws on Saunders’ dual state thesis. This uses three dimensions: institutional structures, forms of politics, and ideological underpinnings, and considers a number of exemplary policies. It concludes that, apart from a brief period in which a set of Keynesian principles of intervention flourished, the city has indeed proceeded along a broadly neoliberal path but will face growing pressures in the future to develop programmes of social as well as economic intervention.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-03-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-07-2016
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-12-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-11-2023
DOI: 10.1080/17549507.2022.2138544
Abstract: In this commentary article, we explore the needs of people with communication disability in relation to sustainable and inclusive communities. More green and public spaces is one strategy identified by the United Nations in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for creating sustainable and inclusive communities. We argue that through thoughtful design, these spaces could address the needs of people with communication disability and foster greater social interaction thereby supporting mental well-being. We present a model related to planning and design of green and public spaces that may provide a useful framework for considering the communication needs of people with a communication disability. Creative and practical approaches to planning green and public spaces, in consultation with local community members with lived experience of communication disability, helps to ensure inclusive meeting spaces that encourage connection over isolation. Well-designed green and public spaces provide opportunities for natural communication for people with communication disability and may decrease their sense of isolation, thereby reducing the risk of concomitant mental health problems. Future research is needed to explore how stakeholder consultation could enhance planning processes and address the specific needs of people with communication disability. This commentary focuses on sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) and also addresses good health and well-being (SDG 3) and partnerships for the goals (SDG 17).
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-2001
DOI: 10.1108/14608790200100013
Abstract: The fundamental role of housing in community care has long been acknowledged. However, progress in achieving any real integration of housing and social care has been slow. This article reports the findings from the Crossing the Housing and Care Divide programme, which was jointly sponsored by the Housing Corporation and Anchor Trust. The programme aimed to stimulate developments in services for older people that would enable housing to become part of community care, lead to greater inter‐agency working, enhance the involvement of users in the planning, monitoring and delivery of services and deliver a high quality of service more cost‐effectively. The programme offers many practical lessons for the effectiveness of services.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-01-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2006
Abstract: In 2002 the UK Home Office commissioned a review of research on community involvement in area-based initiatives. This found comparatively few studies that set out to measure the impact rather than the extent and nature of involvement and hence few answers to the question of what works. This article takes that finding as its starting point and sets out to develop a more robust framework for evaluating the impact of community involvement. It notes the difficulties inherent in using a classic experimental design to evaluate processes as complex as community involvement and proposes a theory-based approach. To this end, it critically reviews the underlying theoretical claims of both community involvement and of area-based initiatives. An evaluation framework is then developed in which the potential benefits of greater involvement are considered for each stage of the process of developing an area-based initiative and positive and negative contextual factors are identified.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-08-2020
Abstract: This article introduces the concept of ‘Sea Cities’ to emphasize a range of tactics to acknowledge the relationship between the sea and cities. This concept is critical for the possibility of integrating future aquatic-based urbanism to address climate change, and in particular, the issue of rising sea levels, which is currently faced by the majority of coastal cities. We compare and assess the tactics of four sea cities (i.e., to fortify, accommodate, release, and floating) against the case study of Jakarta. Jakarta is deemed to be among the metropolitan cities most vulnerable to sea level rise, owing to overpopulation alongside the fact that its land is sinking rapidly due to massive urban development. In order to understand the prospects and pitfalls of each tactic for Jakarta, we analyse scholarly literature on the subject, official government reports and documents, as well as policy briefs released by governments at the national level. This study finds that massive hard structural solutions are not only insufficient but also ineffective towards solving the challenges of climate change in Jakarta, especially the rising sea level. At the same time, it also identifies that while the combination of accommodating and floating tactics has never been considered as future a planning option, this could enable more resilient and adaptive solutions for the future development trajectory of Jakarta. In doing so, it could also provide important transferrable lessons for other coastal cities, especially those within developing countries.
Publisher: Maad Rayan Publishing Company
Date: 2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-05-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-02-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-06-2009
Abstract: Among parliamentary democracies there is a widespread belief that above and beyond the occasional opportunity to vote, citizens should be allowed to participate in decisions that affect them. Governments at all levels are now going further and supporting more active forms of citizenship in which various decision processes are open to more public participation. While this principle may be widely accepted, the practice has remained remarkably free from empirical scrutiny. For something that is held to deliver a myriad of benefits, we still know little of the extent to which these are in fact delivered. This article addresses this gap by developing a framework for conducting more robust empirical scrutiny of participatory exercises. It does so at three levels: first by proposing a conceptual clarification of the perceived benefits of greater participation, second by considering some of the methodological challenges in designing more robust evaluative studies and finally by reviewing measures that might be used in practice to quantify benefits.
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 04-2014
Publisher: Alexandrine Press
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 27-09-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-05-2016
Publisher: Alexandrine Press
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 20-12-2018
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-02-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: Alexandrine Press
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2005
DOI: 10.1068/C45M
Abstract: Community involvement is seen both as means and as ends in contemporary urban policy, and although increasingly popular with policymakers it is not universally welcomed. Incredulous opponents assert that it does not improve the position of poor people and that it distracts attention from structural inequalities, whereas sceptical believers hold that it boosts social cohesion, and improves the position of powerless groups. The authors provide a framework for understanding these conflicting accounts of the processes and impact of community involvement in area-based initiatives (ABIs). They draw on a review of the relevant literature commissioned by the Home Office. The work is grounded in theories of democracy that claim both developmental and instrumental benefits for participants. A third rationale is found in ‘due process' claims for involvement as a fundamental right. This framework suggests that answering questions about what works in community involvement in ABIs requires an empirical focus on aims, processes, and effects. The evidence shows that believers are justified in being sceptical but optimistic, and that opponents will remain incredulous in the light of weaknesses in the practice and outcomes of community involvement in ABIs. The authors conclude by discussing the implications for policy and future research.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-03-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-09-2017
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 28-03-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-04-2016
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 31-12-2003
Abstract: Abstract. The feasibility of an earthquake early warning Shield in Greece is being explored as a European demonstration project. This will be the first early warning system in Europe. The island of Revithoussa is a liquid natural gas storage facility near Athens from which a pipeline runs to a gas distribution centre in Athens. The Shield is being centred on these facilities. The purpose here is to analyze seismicity and seismic hazard in relation to the Shield centre and the remote sensor sites in the Shield network, eventually to help characterize the hazard levels, seismic signals and ground vibration levels that might be observed or create an alert situation at a station. Thus this paper mainly gives estimation of local seismic hazard in the regional working area of Revithoussa by studying extreme peak ground acceleration (PGA) and magnitudes. Within the Shield region, the most important zone to be detected is WNW from the Shield centre and is at a relatively short distance (50 km or less), the Gulf of Corinth (active normal faults) region. This is the critical zone for early warning of strong ground shaking. A second key region of seismicity is at an intermediate distance (100 km or more) from the centre, the Hellenic seismic zone south or southeast from Peloponnisos. A third region to be detected would be the northeastern region from the centre and is at a relatively long distance (about 150 km), Lemnos Island and neighboring region. Several parameters are estimated to characterize the seismicity and hazard. These include: the 50-year PGA with 90% probability of not being exceeded (pnbe) using Theodulidis & Papazachos strong motion attenuation for Greece, PGANTP the 50-year magnitude and also at the 90% pnbe, M50 and MP50, respectively. There are also estimates of the earthquake that is most likely to be felt at a damaging intensity level, these are the most perceptible earthquakes at intensities VI, VII and VIII with magnitudes MVI, MVII and MVIII. Ex le results (from many) include the corresponding parameters describing the hazard for Revithoussa as follows: PGANTP: 203 cm s- 2 , M50: 6.5, Mp50: 6.9, MVI: 5.8, MVII: 6.1 and MVIII: 6.4. These data are also useful in selecting expected alert-signals i.e. ex les of strong ground vibration histories that might be expected at a Shield station in the alert situation.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2003
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-10-2021
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 25-11-2017
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Date: 04-2001
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.WASMAN.2016.10.012
Abstract: The informal waste recycling sector has been an indispensable but ironically invisible part of the waste management systems in developing countries as India, often completely disregarded and overlooked by decision makers and policy frameworks. The turn towards liberalization of economy since 1991 in India opened the doors for privatization of urban services and the waste sector found favor with private companies facilitated by the local governments. In joining the privatization bandwagon, the local governments aim to create an image of a progressive city demonstrated most visibly through apt management of municipal solid waste. Resultantly, the long important stakeholder, the informal sector has been sidelined and left to face the adverse impacts of privatization. There is hardly any recognition of its contributions or any attempt to integrate it within the formal waste management systems. The study investigates the impacts of privatization on the waste pickers in waste recycling operations. Highlighting the other dimension of waste collection and management in urban India the study focuses on the waste pickers and small time informal scrap dealers and this is done by taking the case study of Amritsar city, which is an important historic centre and a metropolitan city in the state of Punjab, India. The paper develops an analytical framework, drawing from literature review to analyze the impacts. In conclusion, it supports the case for involving informal waste sector towards achieving sustainable waste management in the city.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 11-09-2013
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6106-6.CH013
Abstract: This chapter provides a case study of local developments in e-democracy in the city of Bristol, UK. Although some of these developments relate to periodic local elections, most are concerned with supporting new forms of engagement between local citizens and local government institutions and processes in the times between these. Starting with the coordination of its own consultation activities, then encouraging greater participation in council-run activities, and finally supporting grass roots engagement activities, Bristol City Council embarked on a local program of e-democracy activities from 2000 onwards. This grew into a national pilot scheme that enabled a number of valuable comparative evaluations of e-democracy in practice. The chapter draws on the results of a number of evaluations of these local and national developments and highlights the more widespread and enduring challenges of trying to broaden the scope and the effectiveness of local democracy and improve the practices of social inclusion.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2019
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-04-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-1986
Publisher: Maad Rayan Publishing Company
Date: 26-10-2014
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 10-2015
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2020
End Date: 2023
Funder: Australian Research Council
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