Reflections on Alterity in Irish and Scottish Spatial Planning: Fragmentation or Fugue?

The developing theory and practice of spatial planning reflects an altered state from the predominant mode of development planning that has been practiced in the UK and Ireland in the last thirty years. The drivers of change have been located in the spatial representation of difference, reinforcing divergence and local distinctiveness. At the same time, there have been wider pressures for cooperative convergence, within a global economic and European context. This paper reflects on these differing pressures on the approaches to managing the spaces of the nation and discusses whether these are evidence of fragmentation or represent a policy fugue, characterised through repeated themes and patterned variations

Triage Process in Emergency Departments: an Indonesian Study

Background: Triage process has rapidly developed in some countries in the last three decades in order to respond to the demand for emergency services by growing population and emergency health needs. However, this development does not appear to match in Indonesian hospitals. The triage process in Indonesia remains obscure.Purpose: This study aimed to describe triage process in Indonesia from a range of different perspectives.Methods: The research design of this study was descriptive qualitative using semistructured interviews of 12 policy makers or persons responsible from 5 different organizations which informed triage practice in Indonesia. The data were analyzed using a three step content analysis.Results: The result produced 3 themes. First, four steps of triage process ranging from receiving to prioritizing were reported as the triaging procedures in Indonesia which were almost similar to the International literature except for a re-triage step. Second,primary and secondary triage processes were also applied in all emergency departments in Indonesia. Last, no prolonged waiting time in Indonesia could be assumed whether the triage process was effective and efficient or it was only a quick process of sorting to rapidly increase the number of patients in the treatment rooms. Out of the themes, the result also indicated that the involvement of nurses in health policy development inIndonesia needed supportConclusion: Triage process in Indonesia still needs improvements. Patient\u27s re-triage and evaluating secondary triage should be given more frameworks in the future. An effective and efficient triage process in Indonesia will best manage the number of patients in the treatment rooms and therefore further observational researches on patterns and trends are needed. Moreover, including the role of nurses as policy makers in the curriculum of nursing undergraduate and post-graduate degrees would give nurses the evidence to seek out policy making positions in the futur

[Sections of Chapter 2 of PhD Dissertation 'Simulation, Kriging, and Visualization of Circular-Spatial Data']

Portions of a dissertation describing the circular-spatial data of the Space Shuttle Rocket Motor Nozzle is presented

Policy convergence, divergence and communities: The case of spatial planning in post-devolution Britain and Ireland

The implementation of devolution (1999) in the UK was assumed by to lead to fractured relationships with the national centre and a fragmented state as a consequence. However, discourse analysis and policy reviews in spatial planning demonstrate that policies and legislation implemented by central and devolved governments since devolution demonstrate marked similarities in intention and type (albeit with some differences in name and delivery route). Having demonstrated a lack of the expected policy divergence, we explore the role of two civil service forums, the British-Irish Council’s Spatial Planning workstream and the ‘Five Administrations’ meetings of Chief Planners as policy communities

Regions Out—Sub-regions In’—Can Sub-regional Planning Break the Mould? The View from England

A number of fundamental concerns have been raised over the recent abolition of regional economic and planning institutions processes and associated plans and strategies in England. In particular, questions have arisen over the strength and democratic accountability of the new arrangements emerging at a sub-regional scale—namely local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) that as yet have neither legal powers nor any formal planning role. Consequently, this article critically assesses the role, provenance and value of the abolished regional institutions together with the parallel criticisms. It also examines the potential for LEPs as their replacement and to develop into democratically accountable, locally self-determined strategic planning bodies

Early Experiences of Women and Planning Initiatives 1980-1990

This paper discusses gender planning initiatives from the 1980s to the 1990s based on the experiences in London of two practising planners when local authorities began discussing gender-sensitive cities and developed specific actions and planning policies, women’s committees and women’s officers in planning departments. The first experience in the early 1980s introduced women into mainstream discourse particularly through the Town and Country Planning Summer School. The second describes Open Sesame, a project in Haringey. These experiences are contextualised in the GLC promotion of women’s issues through their Women’s Committee. It concludes with a discussion of the current position of women in planning

Improving the Planning and Delivery of 21st Century Garden Communities

This Insights paper from Garden Cities Developments CIC (GCD) - is a call to Government to better use the planning system to enable the Garden Communities it needs and wants. It is intended as a direct contribution to the Government’s consideration of planning reforms referred to by the Prime Minster as ‘A New Deal for Planning’30; - it identifies key principles (or tests) that are needed to enable the consent and delivery of Garden Communities and considers how effectively these tests are met within current planning mechanisms; and - recommends how the planning system can be better optimised to provide a smooth, logical and transparent pathway from vision to delivery