Making Strategies in Spatial Planning

Making Strategies in Spatial Planning

Author: Maria Cerreta

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-09-11

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 9048131065

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This provocative collection of essays challenges traditional ideas of strategic s- tial planning and opens up new avenues of analysis and research. The diversity of contributions here suggests that we need to rethink spatial planning in several f- reaching ways. Let me suggest several avenues of such rethinking that can have both theoretical and practical consequences. First, we need to overcome simplistic bifurcations or dichotomies of assessing outcomes and processes separately from one another. To lapse into the nostalgia of imagining that outcome analysis can exhaust strategic planners’ work might appeal to academics content to study ‘what should be’, but it will doom itself to further irrelevance, ignorance of politics, and rationalistic, technocratic fantasies. But to lapse into an optimism that ‘good process’ is all that strategic planning requires, similarly, rests upon a ction that no credible planning analyst believes: that enough talk will miraculously transcend con ict and produce agreement. Neither sing- minded approach can work, for both avoid dealing with con ict and power, and both too easily avoid dealing with the messiness and the practicalities of negotiating out con icting interests and values – and doing so in ethically and politically critical ways, far from resting content with mere ‘compromise’. Second, we must rethink the sanctity of expertise. By considering analyses of planning outcomes as inseparable from planning processes, these accounts help us to see expertise and substantive analysis as being ‘on tap’, ready to put into use, rather than being particularly and technocratically ‘on top’.


Southwest Regional Approach to Data Collection on California Coastal Salmonids

Southwest Regional Approach to Data Collection on California Coastal Salmonids

Author: Michael Prager

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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"Numerous California salmonids are listed or proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has management responsibility for those listings and consequently requires quantitative data on abundance and biological characteristics of the fish populations, both for assessing current status and for projecting the future viability of the populations. At present, there is need for coordinated, comprehensive data collection on California coastal salmonids. With this in mind, a workshop was convened in Tiburon, California, by scientists and managers of the NMFS Southwest Regional Office (SWRO) and Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC). Participants discussed what data collection must be done, by whom, and the resources that will be needed. The emphasis of the meeting was on coho salmon and steelhead; participants acknowledged the need for a future meeting to discuss coastal chinook"--Executive summary


The Regional Imperative

The Regional Imperative

Author: Urlan A. Wannop

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 1136037527

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Based on cases and interviews in Britain, Europe and the United States, this book explains the recurrence of regional planning and of initiatives in regional governance, in a wide range of advanced industrial countries. Providing an analysis of the nature of regional planning and governance, the book traces the development of regional planning and the institutions associated with it. It also looks at the way that regions have been changing their form under pressure from economic and political developments and examines how regional planning and governance has responded, comparing experience in the UK, the rest of Europe and the US. In concluding that regionalism is an imperative feature of politics in most countries, associated with almost any of the variety of forms of governance, the author offers a major appraisal of the significance of regional planning in an intemational context


Regional Planning

Regional Planning

Author: John Glasson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-11-21

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1134120222

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Regional Planning provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and theory of regional planning in the UK. Drawing on examples from throughout the UK, it provides students and practitioners with a descriptive and analytical foundation for understanding this rapidly changing area of planning. The book includes four main sections covering: the context and history of regional planning theoretical approaches evolving practice future prospects. New questions and methods of theorizing are explored and new connections made with contemporary debates in geography, political science and planning theory. The elements of critical analysis allow both practitioners and more advanced students to reflect upon their activities in a contemporary context. Regional Planning is the essential, up-to-date text for students interested in all aspects of this increasingly influential subject.


Cross-border provision of public services for Wales

Cross-border provision of public services for Wales

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Welsh Affairs Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2010-03-11

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780215544537

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Working practices between the UK and Welsh Assembly governments in relation to cross-border policies appear much improved since the Committee's earlier reports on this subject. But a number of outstanding issues remain in transport, health and further and higher education. On transport the Committee welcomes the planned electrification of the Great Western Main Line. However, the Department for Transport appears to have washed its hands of any strategic responsibility for cross-border roads. The A483 is the clearest example of a road vital for travel within Wales but which is not important to the English region in which it is located, and as a result loses out on funding. The Committee stresses the need for comparative data on which to build solid research comparing NHS performance in the devolved nations. More needs to be done to raise public awareness of the differences in services people can expect to receive on both sides of the border. Transparency of information is vital. Research proposals in the UK Government's Higher Ambitions strategy for higher education make no reference to nations other than England, despite the UK-wide research remit of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The Committee calls for details about how research funding proposals apply to all four nations.