The TCPA’s Reuniting Health with Planning project has generated both detailed guidance for planners and public health specialists2 and an analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing the two professions at a time when the opportunity for closer working is greater, at least in unitary authorities, but budgets are under pressure.3 A recurrent theme in the TCPA’s work has been the challenge...

The Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources (CEWRC-IWR) is part of the Water Resources Support Center in Alexandria, VA. It was created in 1969 to analyze and anticipate changing water resources management conditions, and to develop planning methods and analytical tools to address economic, social, institutional and environmental needs in water resources planning and policy. Since its ...

This paper explores the issue of planning in two-person games using approximately learned knowledge which is in the form of macros. A planning technique called Knowledge Enabled Planning, which consists of generating new plans by instantiating and composing the macros and testing them against the opponent's counter-plans, is introduced using a program called LEBL that learns and plans in two-pe...

Global climate change is felt disproportionately in the world's most economically disadvantaged countries. As adaption to an evolving climate becomes increasingly salient on national and global scales, it is important to assess how people at the local-level are already coping with changes. Understanding local responses to climate change is essential for helping countries to construct strategies...

Nordic cooperation is one of the world's most extensive forms of regional and Nordregio have developed and shared knowledge about sustainable urban development, planning and green growth. Working in close collaboration with representatives from ministries and national authorities, policymakers and municipal and regional planners within larger Nordic city-regions, we have identified a number of ...

Health practitioners, researchers, and donors are stumped about Jordan's stalled fertility rate, which has stagnated between 3.7 and 3.5 children per woman from 2002 to 2012, above the national replacement level of 2.1. This stall paralleled United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding investments in family planning in Jordan, triggering an assessment of USAID family plann...

succession planning is one the most important survival strategies for effective operation in today turbulent world. apart from the importance of this strategy, in any organization, a diverse set of facilitating and preventing factors emerge in successor planning process which create a challenging force field pro or con to it. in this research, while facilitating and preventing methods in execut...

The purpose of this study is theoretical and methodological substantiation, deepening of conceptual provisions and development of scientific and practical recommendations for the formation of an integrated sector of national security and defense based on the principles of national resilience. The relevance of this study is due to the need to build national resilience to address the main problem...

Climate change is a major challenge facing public health. National governments play a key role in public health adaptation to climate change, but there are competing views on what responsibilities and obligations this will-or should-include in different nations. This study aims to: (1) examine how national-level public health adaptation is occurring in Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...

To limit global temperature increases to ‘well below 2 ºC’, it is necessary that current national commitments reduce emissions are increased, and these implemented. The identification of local development benefits from climate change mitigation a possible motivating factor achieve this. However, there lack practical examples how priorities can be integrated in planning processes, particularly l...