Constructing practice-oriented futures for sustainable urban food policy in Bangkok

EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE Health impact assessment for the sustainable futures of Salford

Background: The Salford Health Investment for Tomorrow and the Local Improvement Finance Trust proposals for the comprehensive redevelopment of Salford Royal Hospital and the provision of four integrated primary health and social centres in the City of Salford are a response to the challenge of the NHS Plan to modernise delivery and service provision. The scale of the proposed developments will...

‘Best Practice’ Partnership for Sustainable Urban Tourism

UK biofuel policy: envisaging sustainable biofuels, shaping institutions and futures

Technoscientific innovation has played a central role in UK biofuel policy. When the government was proposing mandatory targets in 2007–08, public controversy over ‘unsustainable biofuels’ was channelled into prospects for future biofuels to avoid environmental harm and land-use conflicts. This vision serves as an imaginary—a feasible, desirable future. Societal benefits have been envisaged acc...

Urban nutrient balance for Bangkok

To explore the options for recycling of nutrients from mega-cities to agricultural land, a nutrient balance model was developed. The balancing was done for Bangkok Province and considered nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). To estimate the food supply, the most decisive nutrient flow, an online database (FAOSTAT) was employed; its country level data are disaggregated to the urban level. A simple a...

Constructing Futures in New Attractors

The paper develops the argument that certain concepts central to chaos theory enable the organisational change agent to have a richer understanding of the process by which she sets out to construct an alternative future. The broad organisational outcomes of her actions may be predictable in general terms, but the path by which the organisation reaches those outcomes, and the detailed stages thr...