Strategic Planning Approach Research Articles

Evaluation of different strategic planning approaches in a forest plantation in the North of Misiones Province, Argentina.

In this paper we evaluate different models and constraints to define strategic planning approaches. In addition, we analyze the best models to meet the expectations generated by the organization. A forest company situated in the province of Misiones, Argentina, provided the data. Hence, forest growth was simulated and, ultimately, optimized planning was used to evaluate different scenarios with 50-year horizon. The best results to stabilize log production were obtained when the harvest is relaxed in ±2 years. Relaxing the clear-cut age leads to a better balance in planting, thinning (1, 2, 3 and 4) and clear felling operations. We found that when maximizing the economic benefit, the NPV is slightly higher, however, this is not significant. In this sense, the planner chooses an economic or volumetric objective function. Furthermore, we demonstrated that model 1 presented better results than model 2 because it manages to stabilize production in the planning horizon. The results allow forest companies to see the implication of choosing the model for strategic planning.

СТРАТЕГІЧНЕ УПРАВЛІННЯ ТА ФОРМУВАННЯ ПОЗИТИВНОГО ІМІДЖУ СУБ’ЄКТІВ ГОСПОДАРЮВАННЯ

This article reviews the approaches of strategic management and planning of activities of economic entities. The necessity of strategic management for achieving economic results of state management entities at all levels from the state to the enterprise and individual strategic units is substantiated. It is seen that for each subject of state management has its own goals and objectives, so the choice of models of strategic planning vary. The basic models are: a model for assessing "strategic gap" and its size; a model for analyzing the impact of market advantages; a model for creating competitive advantages of the product and the company itself; a model for creating a positive image; a model for planning, based on the size of the company. The evaluation indicators of basic models of strategic planning, most of which are: profit, profitability level. It is established that the efficiency of work of the state management subjects depends on the term of activity of the enterprise, and on its production potential. If the enterprise has a small size and term of work, then it uses the model of planning and achieves an increase in the main economic indicators. If the company is larger in size and has a long production experience, a lot of models can be used in strategic planning. Particular attention in conditions of fierce competition is given to the models of creating competitive advantages and positive image. These models of strategic planning are indispensable for maintaining market positions today. The results of their application are adoption of strategic managerial decisions concerning differentiation and diversification of production, steps for creation of positive image, development of social programs, improvement of partner relations with all market operators, branding. The key aspects of the effectiveness of using models of strategic planning and tensions of implementation of strategic management. As a result, it was found that most of the results are aimed at increasing profitability of economic entities, creating new or expanding the existing segments of the market. The importance of creation of competitive advantages as a constituent part of positive image of the enterprise and attraction of investments into business development was substantiated.

Strategic planning approach to the development of contract farming in the Egyptian sugar industry

The strategies required to develop contract farming in the Egyptian sugar industry were examined by applying the Strength-Weakness-OpportunitiesThreats (SWOT) approach in combination with an analytic hierarchy process. Data were collected from sugar beet farmers, extension workers, experts, and employees of the Dakhalia Sugar and Refining Company in Egypt. Market risk has the highest overall priority score among the strengths. Noncommitment of farmers to harvest time received the highest overall priority score among the weaknesses, while valorization of sugar industry wastes had the highest overall priority score among the opportunities, and accumulation of large reserves of sugar at the factory was perceived as the most important threat to the sugar industry. These findings can be used to formulate strategies based on current situation analysis and create suitable conditions for successful contract farming in the sugar sector.
 Keywords: strategies; SWOT-AHP; contract farming; sugar industry; Egypt

Strategic adaptive management planning—Restoring a desert ecosystem by managing introduced species and native herbivores and reintroducing mammals

AbstractArid rangelands are degraded worldwide, suffering vegetation transformation, soil erosion, introductions, and extinctions. Wild deserts is restoring a desert ecosystem in Sturt National Park, New South Wales, Australia (35,000 ha), eradicating or controlling introduced animals, managing native herbivores, and reintroducing regionally extinct mammals. We describe a Strategic Adaptive Management Plan for restoration of this desert ecosystem, including a vision, model of ecosystem processes, stakeholder input, a hierarchy of objectives linked to triggers and their management actions, producing outcomes and outputs. Our management treatments included two “no restoration” areas and three “restoration” areas. The latter include two exclosures (each 2,000 ha), free of introduced animals (foxes, cats, rabbits), with previously abundant kangaroos removed and regionally extinct mammals to be reintroduced. The third management treatment is a Wild Training Zone (10,400 ha), with introduced animals and kangaroos managed at low levels, using innovative methods, improving survivorship and avoidance behavior of reintroduced mammals to introduced predators. These measures will allow populations of threatened animals to establish, initially in the exclosures, then the Wild Training Zone and potentially more widely. Our strategic adaptive management planning approach is generic and implementable for any natural resource management project, providing explicit steps and processes that track and report transparently on outcomes, fostering learning by doing.

Review of frameworks and tools for urban strategic sanitation planning: considering technology innovations and sustainability

Abstract To achieve citywide inclusive sanitation in developing countries, a strategic sanitation planning approach (SSA) needs to provide a variety of technical solutions that respond to different urban realities. Despite the development of various SSA frameworks, sanitation planning still often follows a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach. Structured decision making (SDM) can help by balancing trade-offs among different solutions. But SDM requires a set of appropriate sanitation options to choose from. Because conventional sewer-based sanitation is often inappropriate, many novel technologies and systems have been developed (e.g. container-based sanitation). While these innovations enhance sustainability, they also increase planning complexity. In this review, we look at available frameworks and tools for SSA and discover a lack of systematic tools for the identification of planning options that are able to consider the growing portfolio of available solutions and multiple sustainability criteria. Therefore, we critically compare 15 tools from which we compile eight qualities that could help any future tool address the current sanitation challenge: it should be comprehensive, automated to deal with a large number of options, systematic, flexible towards future innovation and should consider all sustainability dimensions, make a contextualized evaluation, allow for participation, and consider uncertainties to be applicable ex-ante also for novel technologies.

Mapping Landscape Potential for Supporting Green Infrastructure: The Case of a Watershed in Turkey

Green infrastructure (GI) is a strategic planning approach that can contribute to solutions for ecological, social, and environmental problems. GI also aims to conserve natural and semi-natural landscapes and enhance ecological networks. Within the scope of spatial planning, urban and rural landscape units can be integrated through GI planning. In this study, we propose a method to calculate the landscape potential and map GI in the lower Büyük Menderes River Basin, Turkey. We used landscape character assessment (LCA) to identify the landscape typology, which was one of the key steps for determining the landscape potential. Three thematic maps were produced and overlaid in ArcMap 10.7. A map showing the spatial distributions of 71 landscape types was created by means of LCA. Then, the landscape types were assessed according to defined criteria, and finally, GI of the study area was mapped. This study found that high-quality landscape types were located in the middle, northern, and eastern parts of the lower Büyük Menderes River Basin, rather than in the protected areas. Moreover, 68 of the 71 landscape types were present in the GI map. The findings show the necessity of including the landscape potential concept in conservation strategies. Thus, this paper provides a reference guideline for mapping GI as a contributor to nature conservation and spatial planning strategies.

التخطیط الاستراتیجی کمدخل لتطبیق الإدارة المتمرکزة على المدرسة من وجهة نظر مدیری المدارس الثانویة فی مصر

هدفت الدراسة إلى التعرف على واقع التخطيط الاستراتيجي لتطبيق الإدارة المتمرکزة على المدرسة من وجهة نظر مديري المدارس الثانوية العامة في مصر، والکشف عن الفروق بين متوسطات استجابة أفراد العينة حول آرائهم في التخطيط الاستراتيجي لتطبيق مدخل الإدارة المتمرکزة على المدرسة التي تعزي لمتغير (النوع، والمؤهل العلمي، وعدد سنوات الخبرة، والدورات التدريبية)، والتوصل إلى نموذج مقترح لتطبيق الإدارة المتمرکزة على المدرسة بمدارس الثانوية العامة فى مصر على ضوء مدخل التخطيط الإستراتيجى، واعتمدت الدراسة على المنهج الوصفي وتکون مجتمع الدراسة من مديري المدارس الثانوية العامة وبلغ مجتمع الدراسة (1350) مديرا ومديرة فى المحافظات التى شملتها الدراسة (القاهرة ، الجيزة ، الشرقية) وفقا لإحصاءات الجهاز المرکزى للتعبئة العامة والإحصاء عام (2018-2019) وبلغت عينة الدراسة (145) مديرا ومديرة بالمدارس الثانوية بما يوازى11% من مجتمع الدراسة ، وتم اختيار العينة بصورة عشوائية مع مراعاة متغيرات وخصائص المجتمع الأصلى، واعتمدت الباحثة في دراستها على الاستبانة کأداة لجمع المعلومات من أفراد العينة، وتوصلت الدراسة إلى أن من أهم معوقات التخطيط الاستراتيجي لتطبيق مدخل الإدارة المتمرکزة على المدرسة من وجهة نظر مديري المدارس الثانوية في مصر تتمثل في کثرة المسئوليات الادارية تفقد مدير المدرسة قدرته على المشارکة في وضع رؤية ورسالة المدرسة وأهدافها الإستراتجية وتدنى الدعم المالي المقدم للادارة المدرسية لتطبيق الإدارة المتمرکزة على المدرسة وقلة الصلاحيات الإدارية الممنوحة للادراة المدرسية وإتباع المرکزية فى إدارة شؤونها المالية والإدارية، کما توصلت الدراسة إلى عدم وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية بين متوسطات استجابة أفراد العينة حول آرائهم في واقع في التخطيط الاستراتيجي لتطبيق مدخل الإدارة المتمرکزة على المدرسة التي تعزي لمتغير (النوع، والمؤهل العلمي، وعدد سنوات الخبرة، والدورات التدريبية)، وفى ضوء النتائج التى توصلت إليها الدراسة نظريا وميدانيا، قدمت الدراسة الحالية نموذجا مقترحا لتطبيق الإدارة المتمرکزة على المدرسة بمدارس المرحلة الثانوية فى مصر وفقا لمدخل التخطيط الإستراتيجى. The study aimed to identify the reality of strategic planning for the application of school-centered management from the point of view of public high school principals in Egypt, and to reveal the differences between the average respondents of the respondents about their views on strategic planning to apply the approach of centered management to the school that is attributable to the variable (gender, academic qualification) , The number of years of experience, and training courses), and reaching a proposed model for implementing the school-centered administration in public secondary schools in Egypt in light of the strategic planning approach. The study was based on the descriptive approach, and the study population consisted of public high school principals and the study population reached (1350) principals and principal In the governorates covered by the study (Cairo, Giza, and Sharkia) according to the statistics of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (2018-2019) and the sample of the study reached (145) managers and directors in secondary schools, equivalent to 11% of the study population, and the sample was randomly selected, taking into account the variables And the characteristics of the original community, and the researcher relied in her study on the questionnaire as a tool to collect information from the sample members, and the study concluded that from uh The obstacles to strategic planning to implement the school-centered administration approach from the point of view of high school principals in Egypt are represented by the large number of administrative responsibilities that the school director loses his ability to participate in setting the vision and mission of the school and its strategic goals and the low financial support provided to the school administration to implement the school-centered administration and the lack of administrative powers Granted to the school administration and to follow the centralization in managing its financial and administrative affairs, the study also found that there are no statistically significant differences between the averages of the respondents of the sample about their opinions in reality in the strategic planning to apply the approach of the centered administration to the school that is attributed to the variable (gender, academic qualification, and number of years Experience, training courses), and in light of the findings of the study in theory and in the field, the current study presented a proposed model for the application of school-centered administration in secondary schools in Egypt according to the strategic planning approach.

أثر تبني مدخل التخطيط الاستراتيجي على الوضع التنافسي للمؤسسات الإعلامية المصرية :

تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى قياس أثر تبني مدخل التخطيط الاستراتيجي على الوضع التنافسي للمؤسسات الإعلامية المصرية بالتطبيق على مدينة الإنتاج ، ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة صممت استمارة استقصاء ووزعت علي 500 من العاملين بمدينة الإنتاج الاعلامي الحالة التطبيقية فى الدراسة، وتم استرجاع 450 منها صالحة للتحليل والدراسة، حيث تم تحليل البيانات واختبار الفروض باستخدام برنامج SPSS للتحليل الإحصائي وقد توصلت الدراسة إلى وجود أثر معنوي لتبني مدخل التخطيط الاستراتيجي على الوضع التنافسي لمدينة الإنتاج بمصر. حيث تبين وجود علاقة إيجابية ذات دلالة إحصائية بين تبني مدخل التخطيط الاستراتيجي و الوضع التنافسي لمدينة الإنتاج الإعلامي و ذلک لکل بعد من أبعاد المتغير الرئيس وهى: بعد القرارات المستقبلية و بعد العمليات التخطيطية وبعد الفلسفة التخطيطية و بعد النسق التخطيطي علي المتغير التابع الوضع التنافسي وإن کان تأثير الفلسفة التخطيطية أکثر نسبيا من باقي الأبعاد. The Impact of adopting the strategic planning approach on the competitive situation of the Egyptian Institutions (A case study on Egyptian Media Production City(EMPC re the impact of adopting the strategic planning approach on the competitive situation of the Media Production City in Egypt, and to achieve the objectives of the study, a survey questionnaire was designed and distributed to 500 employees of the organizations under study, 450 of which were retrieved suitable for analysis and study, where the data were analyzed and hypotheses tested using the SPSS program For statistical analysis, the study found a significant impact of adopting the strategic planning approach on the competitive situation of the Media Production City in Egypt. Where it was found that there is a positive relationship with statistical significance between adopting the strategic planning approach and the competitive situation of the media production city, for each dimension of the main variable, which is after future decisions, after planning operations, after planning philosophy, and after the planning format on the dependent variable, the competitive situation, even if The influence of planning philosophy is relatively more than in other dimensions.

Enfoque Sueco de EcocomunasAplicado a Chile: Lecciones desde la Provincia de Arauco

This article describes the adaptation of the Swedish Eco-municipalities to the Chilean institutional context and its application in three emerging tourism destinations in the Arauco Province of Arauco. Due to the limited attributions and resources of Chilean municipalities, the Chilean Eco-municipalities need to implement strategies with public and private actors and establish territorial governance. The Swedish approach provides a three-phase implementation strategy that involves learning, planning and actions. In the Arauco Province, field work included a deliberative process that highlighted the importance of reflecting on the distinct interests as well as different cognitive frameworks with respect to development and sustainability. In this way, public and private actors collaboratively identified the principal problems and proposed shared solutions. Our principal conclusion is that the Eco-municipalities approach in strategic planning for local sustainable development in Chile should consider existing institutional mechanisms and be based in territorial governance.

Urban Agglomerations: Approaches to the Allocation and Delimitation

Currently, Russia has declared the need to develop a federal law “On urban agglomerations”; the development of urban agglomerations is declared as a necessary condition for ensuring economic growth and innovative development in the country. However, there are no evident approaches to the allocation and delimitation of urban agglomerations; the definitions given in the Russian spatial development strategy are very general. In this regard, the purpose of this article is to summarize the existing approaches to working with agglomerations in foreign and Russian science and practice. The article shows that in economically developed countries, the main approach to the allocation of agglomerations is functional, in which the area of interaction between the “core” of the agglomeration and its “hinterland” is determined, first of all, by the intensity of pendulum labor migrations; the functional approach is gradually transformed into a network approach, implying the polycentricity of agglomerations. The allocation and delimitation of agglomerations in a country can be based on a unified or individual approach. The article suggests using both options in Russia: a unified approach for improving statistical accounting of changes in the settlement system, which is close to the OECD methodology, and an individual approach for strategic planning and development of inter-municipal cooperation. The advantage of the OECD methodology is that there is no need to rely on the existing territorial boundaries of local self-government, which differ markedly across the subjects of the Russian Federation. It is also proposed to conduct a broad discussion of the approaches to the allocation and delimitation of agglomerations for the law “On urban agglomerations”; to improve the system of statistical accounting for pendulum population migrations, including in population censuses.

Strategic Planning and Management Model for the Regeneration of Historic Urban Landscapes: The Case of Historic Center of Novi Pazar in Serbia

The purpose of this paper is to identify the role of strategic planning as a sustainable tool for regulating both the protection and development of historic urban landscapes, as well as developing an adequate and effective strategic model and management instruments for implementation. The role and importance of strategic planning are examined in the context of global transformative actions in the urban governance of community and private sector engagement and sustainable development on the local level. We argue that a specific—tailor-made—integrated strategic urban planning approach could be a useful model, both for development and urban regeneration and for the preservation of protected valuable historic urban landscapes, thus contributing to a sustainable urban revival of wider surrounding territories including cultural, social and economic development. We stand on the position that the sustainable approach to the protection and revitalization of the historic urban landscapes has to be in line with the acknowledgment of specific local community values, contemporary needs, their involvement, and, eventually, their satisfaction. The case study method was based on the example of a protected historic center of Novi Pazar in Serbia to test the possibilities of applying strategic planning model and management for the implementation tailored to the local context. Eventually, the scenario method was applied to test the possibilities of a simulation of the strategic planning model and management instruments for a protected historic center. We found that the appropriate combination and utilization of regulatory, economic and informational management instruments have to be in place in the specific context. We conclude and draw out theoretical and practical remarks from our research that integrated strategic urban planning model should consider the logic and the functioning of the competitive real estate markets, and the sustainable environmental, economic and social effects, potentials and benefits for the locality where they originate, in order to be utilized as the new generative value both for the protection and for the revival of historic city centers. The paper develops a conceptual strategic planning and management model for the regeneration of historic urban landscapes that capture the physical, environmental, economic, and social effects and indicators of a given space. Based on this input, an adequate initial stage of the conceptual strategy by the authors of the paper was developed for the regeneration of the historic urban city center.

Strategic planning in LAMIC mental health research: A Ghana case study

The need for more mental health research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LAMICs) has been repeatedly acknowledged. Yet there has been limited focus on how this goal can be achieved optimally. This paper makes the case for orienting mental health research efforts in developing countries within a strategic planning approach at a national level that recognizes the practical constraints of low resource environments, as well as methodological constraints created by factors such as low literacy levels, and the use of multiple languages. A case study of Ghana is used to illustrate how such a strategic planning model could be developed. This proposed approach should be of interest to other LAMICS in need of locally generated mental health research to inform clinical practice, mental illness prevention initiatives, and public policy.

Analyzing the Status of Strategic Planning in Enhancing Quality of Life in Saqqez City, Iran

Strategic Urban Planning has become an important tool promoted by local governments for the city’s economic and social development project design. In order to, it was necessary to adopt a strategic planning approach to enhance the quality of life process. The aim of this paper is evaluation the status of Strategic Planning (SP) on enhancing Quality of life (QOF) in Saqqez city. In order to, the applied methodology is based on qualitative and quantitative methods with point on social indicators to adjusting the level of quality of life in the spatial system of the regions and reduction and removal of the existing inequalities among urban districts of Saqqez city by consideration of strategic planning approaches. Results show that from the 100% of statistical society in Saqqez city about 45% had 20- 35 years old with Diploma and higher education (10% diploma, 15% MA and MS and about 20% of them have MS and upper academic education) and almost of Saqqez citizens have under 200$ income per month while poverty line in Iran can be detected with revenues of about $ 500 per month. In the end of this presented some solve ways.

Использование ценностно-ориентированного подхода в стратегическом планировании на примере реализации региональных стратегий развития субъектов Северо-Западного Федерального округа

Использование ценностно-ориентированного подхода в стратегическом планировании на примере реализации региональных стратегий развития субъектов Северо-Западного Федерального округа

Strategic Planning for Sustainable Transportation in Developing Countries: The Role of Vehicles

The transportation sector in developing countries plays an important role in their socio-economic development. However, there are challenges that face the sector, including the increasing traffic congestion due to the high growth rates of vehicle ownership and the resulting impacts. Strategic planning approach is utilized to achieve sustainability in the transportation sector in the developing countries. The aim of this research is to explore the proper measures that would be capable of dealing with the identified key factors, mainly as related to the vehicles negative impacts on the environment, and to formulate a strategic framework for sustainable transportation system in the developing countries. Palestine is taken as the case study, which could be considered as an example of developing countries, representing lower-middle income countries with moderate annual car growth rate. After performing quantitative and qualitative analysis based on field surveys, statistical data, and interviews, SWOT analysis is conducted, considering the internal status and the external environment. Based on such analysis, the proposed framework for strategic planning towards achieving a sustainable transportation system is formulated. The framework has identified the vision, goals and objectives, and strategies and actions. The output of this study would lay the foundation to debate and adopt the framework in partnership with other stakeholders. Key strategies are defined considering the Shift-Avoid-Improve approach, along with the supportive administrative and legal tools. Such strategies include actions related to the application of energy efficient technologies, promotion of adopting cars with hybrid and electric engines, and support using new fuel alternatives.

Coyote Optimization Algorithm-Based Approach for Strategic Planning of Photovoltaic Distributed Generation

The optimal planning for distributed generations (DGs) associated with photovoltaics (PVs) in the utility-owned distribution system is crucial for increasing high penetration of renewables while against practical system operation constraints. Such PV-DG planning is categorized as a complicated mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem and is extremely difficult to solve by using conventional methods. In recent years, several bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithms have been proposed to tackle various complicated real-parameter optimization problems. This paper proposes a two-stage approach including a new bio-inspired algorithm, Coyote Optimization Algorithm (COA), to solve the large-scale MINLP PV-DG sizing problem considering different load levels. The objective function terms under consideration include the total system power loss and voltage regulator tap changes at different load levels while against limits of rms bus voltages, tap changes, and PV-DG constraints at each candidate bus. The proposed method is tested using the IEEE 123-bus unbalanced benchmark system and an actual utility distribution network. Results obtained are then compared with those obtained by a classic MINLP solver-based and four other bio-inspired methods. Moreover, results also show that the proposed method leads to lower loss, a minimum number of regulator tap changes, and higher PV penetration capacity among the compared methods and is suitable for solving the large-scale PV-DG planning problem in distribution systems.

A novel approach in strategic planning of power networks against physical attacks

The reported work points at developing a practical approach for power transmission planners to secure power networks from potential deliberate attacks. We study the interaction between a system planner (defender) and a rational attacker who threatens the operation of power grid. In addition to the commonly used hardening strategy for protecting the network, a new sort of resource is introduced under the deception concept. Feint and deception are acknowledged as effective tools for misleading the attacker in strategic planning. To this end, the defender deception is mathematically formulated by releasing misinformation about his plan in the shared cognition-based model. To reduce the risk of damage in case of deception failure, preemptive-goal programming is utilized to prioritize the hardening strategy for the vital components. Furthermore, the “value of posturing” is introduced which is the benefits that the deception brings to the system. The problems are formulated as tri-level mixed-integer linear programming and solved by constraint-and-column generation method. Comprehensive simulation studies performed on WSCC 9-bus and IEEE 118-bus systems indicate how the defender will save significant cost from protecting his network with posturing rather than hardening and the proposed approach is a promising development to ensure the secure operation of power networks.

A green infrastructure spatial planning model for evaluating ecosystem service tradeoffs and synergies across three coastal megacities

A growing number of cities are investing in green infrastructure to foster urban resilience and sustainability. While these nature-based solutions are often promoted on the basis of their multifunctionality, in practice, most studies and plans focus on a single benefit, such as stormwater management. This represents a missed opportunity to strategically site green infrastructure to leverage social and ecological co-benefits. To address this gap, this paper builds on existing modeling approaches for green infrastructure planning to create a more generalizable tool for comparing spatial tradeoffs and synergistic ‘hotspots’ for multiple desired benefits. I apply the model to three diverse coastal megacities: New York City, Los Angeles (United States), and Manila (Philippines), enabling cross-city comparisons for the first time. Spatial multi-criteria evaluation is used to examine how strategic areas for green infrastructure development across the cities change depending on which benefit is prioritized. GIS layers corresponding to six planning priorities (managing stormwater, reducing social vulnerability, increasing access to green space, improving air quality, reducing the urban heat island effect, and increasing landscape connectivity) are mapped and spatial tradeoffs assessed. Criteria are also weighted to reflect local stakeholders’ desired outcomes as determined through surveys and stakeholder meetings and combined to identify high priority areas for green infrastructure development. To extend the model’s utility as a decision-support tool, an interactive web-based application is developed that allows any user to change the criteria weights and visualize the resulting hotspots in real time. The model empirically illustrates the complexities of planning green infrastructure in different urban contexts, while also demonstrating a flexible approach for more participatory, strategic, and multifunctional planning of green infrastructure in cities around the world.

An integrated strategic-performative planning methodology towards enhancing the sustainable decisional regeneration of fragile territories

The paper outlines in depth an integrated strategic and performance-based planning approach based on the multi-scalar dimensions of different decision-making levels; action programs; governance and social involvement, applied to a fragile territory. The methodological framework proposed is based on different methodological evaluation tools in order to support an adaptive and inclusive decisional process. The aim of this study is to highlight how a flexible, dynamic, adaptive, context-aware and site-specific decision support system can contribute to the definition of alternative scenarios and lead public authorities to opt for the most performing one in terms of environmental, social and economic sustainability. The tool implemented was tested for the case study of the regeneration of a naturalist site on the island of Pantelleria in the south of Italy.

Framework of sustainable development planning in Indonesia

Indonesia is a country that has a great concern over achievement of SDGs 2030 global agendas. As a big country in terms of population and area, but unfortunately has the most population of lower-middle income, it would be very interesting to examine the process and substance of sustainable development planning in Indonesia. This study uses two methods, i.e., content analysis towards medium-term planning and interview with the planners. Result of Mid-Term Development Plan (RJPMN) 2010-2014, RPJMN 2015-2019 and Action Plan for SDGs Achievement review show that Indonesia applies strategic planning approach as its framework planning of sustainable development which started with the formulation of sustainable development strategic issues, a mission statement, strategies, programs, action plans, targets, and indicators of achievement. This approach has not been reliable yet to address the challenges of interrelated sustainable development. Although the result of interview informs that Indonesian government strives to keep improving the planning process through the increasing involvement and participation of development stakeholders, a paradigm shift is still required to answer all challenges of sustainable development by performing more intensive education.