Studying the generation of alternatives in public policy making processes

Ferretti, Valentina; Pluchinotta, Irene; Tsoukiàs, Alexis

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2018.07.054

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“…For the social management of environmental resources and components of the territory, the problem is particularly complex as it is linked to an inherently embedded social and environmental complexity. In addition to mainly qualitative methods, e.g., structured in terms of building future scenarios, ontological and relational knowledge management models have evolved in an attempt to preserve such inherent complexity while maintaining a synthesis necessary to allow its management [34][35][36][37][38]. In our paper, the context is characterized by a hybrid methodological approach for which a quantitative knowledge management model accompanies and criticizes a mainly qualitative pre-existing approach.…”

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Knowledge Models for Spatial Planning: Ecosystem Services Awareness in the New Plan of Bari (Italy)

2020

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The concept of ecosystem services (ES) arises as a formal outcome of historical processes of understanding and interpreting settlements as complex ecological systems. Because of a straightforward, bottom-up demand for environment enhancement, this concept increasingly occurs in discourses, in narratives, in the demands of common people, triggering a new urban environmental awareness. This is now often arising spontaneously in the protocols of participatory plan processes, especially when planning for the future of complex environments such as city areas. The present study tries to elicit reflections around the significance of ES issues awareness in the case study of Bari (Italy), which is experiencing an inclusive and participatory process of construction of shared knowledge for the new master plan. Starting from an initial campaign of civic walks (CWs) along the urban neighborhoods and a subsequent semi-structured interview to the community, the paper carries out comparative analyses using problem-structuring methods (PMs), in order to evaluate and reflect on community behaviors and expectations about ES. Then the paper ends by emphasizing the role of structured knowledge-raising approaches, as critical activities to enhance ecosystem awareness in planning settlements as complex ecological systems.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Knowledge Models for Spatial Planning: Ecosystem Services Awareness in the New Plan of Bari (Italy)

2020

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“…Indeed, the design of alternatives is an essential part of decision making that has been less studied in theory and practice compared to alternatives' evaluation. In this sense, there is a need for better investigating the use of formal approaches to support the design of alternatives solutions for complex decision-making processes, making use of more sophisticated methods such as Conjoint Analysis, Choice Experiments and other specific design methods (see for example [53]).…”

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Strategic Assessment and Economic Evaluation: The Case Study of Yanzhou Island (China)

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This paper proposes an interdisciplinary multi-level decision-making procedure for supporting an ongoing process of rural development of Yanzhou Island (China). A multi-methodological evaluation approach based on the combined use of different evaluation tools has been developed in order to take into account the economic, social, environmental and cultural aspects of the planning process. An experts’ panel has been involved in research since the preliminary phases of the evaluation with the aim of helping the structuring of the decision problem and discussing the outcomes of the analysis. The proposed approach allowed to understand the potentials and weaknesses of the area and to design the most suitable solution for the case study selected. The interdisciplinary nature of this process had given the opportunity to co-design and re-define the master plan in line with the expressed priorities. The master plan of the new district encourages landscape enhancement and promotes the economic development, proposing to grow tourism activities and wellness facilities in a natural place.

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“…On the other hand, this might lead to increased fixed and variable Running costs, particularly in those periods characterised by a low turn out (7). The Size of the selected location for installing a lorry parking facility affects both the Building Costs (8) and the Land costs (9), which increase as the size of the location grows. A major analysis factor for the choice of the appropriate location is the extent to which the effects of installing a lorry parking facility in a given location are spread over the relevant geographic area (Nuisances covering), thus enabling a sufficient coverage on those spots interested by the social issues already presented and discussed in Section 2.…”

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“…According to the authors, limitations of the above mentioned approach are mainly related to a not easy inclusion of divergent views during the weight elicitation process. The same case study is considered in [9] for what concerns the design of alternatives, focusing on how to expand the solution space and discover new alternatives for a public policy making problem.…”

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Designing a Web Spatial Decision Support System Based on Analytic Network Process to Locate a Freight Lorry Parking

2019

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The relevant role of freight lorry parking facilities as a tool to reduce nuisances and impact of economic activities in densely populated urban areas is widely recognised in the literature. Nevertheless, the literature currently lacks specific contributions addressing the use of a complex Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) approach for coping with an optimal location of freight lorry parking facilities in the urban context. This paper contributes to filling this gap by analysing a real-world case study motivated by the problem of intense freight vehicles traffic around the city of Bradford, Yorkshire (UK). Since it is necessary to include diverse analysis perspectives, reflecting the different classes of involved stakeholders, this study proposes adopting the Analytic Network Process (ANP) approach as a tool to support the selection and evaluation of alternatives for a freight lorry parking facility, followed by the design of software based on this approach. The proposed web Spatial Decision Support System provides a valuable tool to foster extended discussions with experts and facilitate the decision process in this class of location problems.

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Studying the generation of alternatives in public policy making processes

Cited by 53 publications

References 66 publications

Knowledge Models for Spatial Planning: Ecosystem Services Awareness in the New Plan of Bari (Italy)

Knowledge Models for Spatial Planning: Ecosystem Services Awareness in the New Plan of Bari (Italy)

Strategic Assessment and Economic Evaluation: The Case Study of Yanzhou Island (China)

Designing a Web Spatial Decision Support System Based on Analytic Network Process to Locate a Freight Lorry Parking

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