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urban planning projects. As an initial step towards this framework, the authors aim to devise sustainable energy indicators … indicators need be designed to reflect the broad range of data sources that reflect the three pillars of sustainability, namely …: environmental; economic; and social elements. The indicators have been developed specifically for the European urban environment and …
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Current planning practices in Europe are affected by new regulations aiming at environmental protection and risk reduction, however, planning professionals often face difficulties in properly implementing the principles given by the norms. This paper discusses the influence of the introduction...
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Applying Performance Management Systems (PMS) in an enterprise often is a cumbersome endeavor. Reasons are missing software structures and the lack of an intuitive visualization of important information. The theory of Visibility of Performance defines the goodness of use of a given PMS and can...
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This article aims to highlight what macroeconomics hides beyond the statistical data in respect to food and nutrition security in Romania, in the attempt to answer the question whether both food security and nutrition security have been achieved. The need of pursuing such an issue has emerged...
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attaining sustainable and durable peace. Conflict and post-conflict situations have a different impact on women, men, boys and … to household relations and poverty. There have been concerted efforts to identify and address the impact of conflict on …
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This article reports on an exploratory study of the causes and effects of conflict within the open source software … project, Debian. Conflict arose when the project leader decided to introduce payment for select volunteers within an all … understanding disputes. The results of the survey of Debian developers show that the conditions for conflict were complex and were …
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landscape characterized with this disagreement. With an insight provided into understanding this conflict, a criterion on what …
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their ongoing research on the problem of “too many markers.” They will present an empirical evaluation and comparison of …
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share their experiences online. The imperative of the evaluation in measuring the effectiveness of Online CoPs fulfills its … factors that impact the Online CoPs success and acceptance. Presently, establishing an evaluation framework has become … the area of evaluation. The study concludes by proposing a conceptual framework to measure the success of online CoPs in …
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The distribution of public participation in Western political environments has become an important topic in recent years. Low participation rates combined with low levels of trust toward government officials has resulted in low efficiency of public participation projects. Whereas prior research...
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