1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966334703321

Titolo

International handbook of practice-based performance management / / edited by Patria de Lancer Julnes ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, : SAGE, c2008

ISBN

9781412982719 (ebook) :

9781782689980

1782689982

9781452261768

1452261768

9781412982719

1412982715

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 534 p.) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

JulnesPatria de Lancer

Disciplina

352.3/75

Soggetti

Government productivity

Administrative agencies - Management

Administrative agencies - Auditing

Nonprofit organizations - Management

Organizational effectiveness

Total quality management

Performance - Measurement

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; PART I: State of the Art; 1 - Emerging Developments in Performance Measurement; 2 - Assessing Performance in Nonprofit Service Agencies; 3 Performance; PART II: Using Performance Information to Improve Program Performance and Accountability; 4 - Can Performance Measurement Support Program Performance Improvement and Accountability?; 5 - Using Performance Measurement and Competition to Make Administrations Accountable; 6 Recognizing Credible Performance Reports; 7 - Advancing Performance Measurement and Management for Accountability



8 - Analyzing Performance DataPART III: Informing and Involving Citizens and Other Stakeholders; 9 - Making Performance Measurement Relevant: Informing and Involving Stakeholders in Performance Measurement; 10 - Citizen-Involved Performance Measurement; 11  - Performance Measurement and Educational Accountability; 12 - Experience With Trained Observers in Transition and Developing Countries; 13 - Helping Government Measure Up; PART IV: Performance Budgeting; 14 - Performance Budgeting Internationally; 15 - Performance-Based Budgeting in Latin and South America

16 - Performance-Based Budgeting in Florida17 - Performance Management and Budgeting in Australia and New Zealand; 18 - Performance-Based Budgeting; PART V: Quality and Performance in Public and Nonprofit Organizations; 19 - The Integration of Quality and Performance; 20 - Quality and Performance Management; 21 - Performance Information of High Quality; 22 - Applying the Common Assessment Framework in Europe; PART VI: Pulling it All Together; 23 - Creating and Sustaining a Results-Oriented Performance Management Framework; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

A combination of conceptual and practical applications with an emphasis on cutting-edge practices in the US and abroad, this text represents the most notable examples of performance measurement in Canada, Latin America and Eastern Europe, and supports the integration of theory and practice, with linked chapters.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911002547903321

Titolo

Urban-Rural Dialogue in Green City Design : Advancing Urban Social-ecological Systems / / edited by Alessandra Battisti, Michael U. Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

3-031-88318-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 187 p. 88 illus., 81 illus. in color.)

Collana

Designing Environments, , 2730-6534

Disciplina

577.56

Soggetti

Urban ecology (Biology)

Sustainability

Agriculture

Sustainable architecture

Urban Ecology

Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction to Urban-Rural Dialogue in Green City Design -- Chapter 2. Rural-Urban Dialogue as Experience: The Role of Urban Hiking Trails and Architecture and Landscape Architecture Hybrid Typologies -- Chapter 3. Strategies, Actions, and Methodology for the Development of Inner Urban Areas -- Chapter 4. The Decarbonization of Urban Districts by 2025 in the Mediterranean Area: Green and Grey Solutions -- Chapter 5. Ecological and Landscape Networks as Strategic and Structural Components of Intermunicipal Planning -- Chapter 6. Cultivating Public Space – Method and Procedures for Inclusive Urban Reappropriation Practices -- Chapter 7. Urban Regeneration with Nature-Based Solutions: Human and Nature Perspectives -- Chapter 8. Regenerative Foodscapes as a Holistic and Integrated Approach for Ecological Transition in the Alpine Territories -- Chapter 9. Growing Urban Health – Questioning the Role of Urban Gardening in Distressed Urban Areas -- Chapter 10. Cultivating Cities: Urban Gardening’s Impacts and Challenges -- Chapter 11. Constructed Wetlands as Green Infrastructure to Improve Quality of Life.



Sommario/riassunto

Urbanization and construction are primary drivers of land cover and land use change, climate change and environmental degradation. Sustainable development seeks to counteract the negative impact of cities and urbanization. Shifting away from the still prevailing human-nature dialectic, social-ecological systems view humans as part of nature, thereby linking biophysical and social factors into a coherent system across spatial, temporal and functional scales. This approach and related complex and adaptive approaches and systems enable a new take on sustainable urban development and in particular green cities. The proposed book will focus on different aspects of advancing urban social-ecological systems with particular emphasis on the Urban-Rural Dialogue in Green City Design. The chapters will outline novel approaches to thinking and designing green cities, urban form as urban landform, integration of architectures and their settings, novel hybrid land use and related hybrid architectural typologies, multi-stakeholder and multi-species approaches. This will include a range of topics including green urban land use, urban ecosystem development and support, urban agriculture and food production, urban farming and gardening, and human health and well-being. Given the existing strong movement and research in this field in Italy, the book will concentrate on ground-breaking approaches and research from this region. A list of recognized authors will present approaches and discussions centering around the above-listed thematic foci concerning green cities planning, design, governance and ultimately aspects of living in green cities. The presented themes and approaches are also of more general fundamental relevance for urban contexts in other regions with comparable climate and environmental conditions. Therefore, we anticipate that the book will become a course book for many courses taught at universities worldwide, as well as a book for researchers and practitioners that wish to inform and prepare themselves for what is to come in terms of novel green city design.