Urban Planning And Real Estate Development
Urban Planning And Real Estate Development

Author: John Ratcliffe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 732

ISBN-13: 113536317X

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This text brings together urban planning and real-estate development. It should be useful to students of real-estate studies, estate management, land management, land economy, and general practice surveying.

An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls

Author: Cedric Cullingford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1134986092

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The UK government's education policy is based on the setting of targets, yet the fear and loathing that an Ofsted inspection can generate is widely known. This text critically assesses the role, impact and effect of the inspection body and dissects its usefulness.

Comparative Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Making
Comparative Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Making

Author: Igor Linkov

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-03-02

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1402022433

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Decision making in environmental projects is typically a complex and confusing process characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, environmental, and economic impacts. Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) is a methodology applied to facilitate decision making when various activities compete for limited resources. CRA has become an increasingly accepted research tool and has helped to characterize environmental profiles and priorities on the regional and national level. CRA may be considered as part of the more general but as yet quite academic field of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). Considerable research in the area of MCDA has made available methods for applying scientific decision theoretical approaches to multi-criteria problems, but its applications, especially in environmental areas, are still limited. The papers show that the use of comparative risk assessment can provide the scientific basis for environmentally sound and cost-efficient policies, strategies, and solutions to our environmental challenges.

Complex Policy Planning
Complex Policy Planning

Author: Philip Haynes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-13

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0429867239

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First published in 1999, this book examines recent developments in the application of chaos and complexity theory to the applied social sciences and the implications for the government planning of social care services. The study argues that there are fundamental limitations to traditional government political and managerial planning structures. Chaos and complexity theory shows that the effects of time and space are critical aspects for planners to consider. Small changes in isolated social or individual factors can have larger scale effects on the future validity of a policy programme. In particular, rigid linear statistical calculations like the Government Standard Spending Assessment can undermine the ability of local authorities to make realistic plans. It is proposed that government political strategies and managerial methods of analysis need to better understand the complexity of information available to them. New political and institutional typologies are required if planning activity is to evolve to be of optimal social value.

1999 European Wind Energy Conference
1999 European Wind Energy Conference

Author: E.L. Petersen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 1281

ISBN-13: 1134273584

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The 1999 European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition was organized to review progress, and present and discuss the wind energy business, technology and science for the future. The Proceedings contain a selection of over 300 papers from the conference. They represent a significant update to the understanding of this increasingly important field of energy generation and cover a full range of topics.