analysing impacts of foresighton policy making: evidences from irstr project

Fostering Smart Cities through ICT Driven Policy-Making: Expected Outcomes and Impacts of DAREED Project

Making Iranian Schools Smart: From Policy to Practice

Making Iranian Schools Smart: From Policy to Practice E. Talaa’ee, Ph.D. N. Ansaari M. Pahlavaan Z. Abootaalebi To assess both the essence and ways of operationalization of a recently adopted policy by the MOE with the aim of making Iranian schools smart, four such schools were purposefully selected, observed, and questioned. The collected data have been analyzed using th...

Impacts and implications for policy and decision making

Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis Nr. 3, 17. Jg., Dezember 2008 Seite 127 ligen Verfahren gegenüber. Stärken partizipativer TA seien, dass sie eine normative Bewertung von Technik möglich machten, gemeinwohlund nachhaltigkeitsorientiert seien. Schwächen lägen in den verhältnismäßig hohen Verfahrenskosten. Die „partizipative Technikgestaltung“ hingegen sei ergebnisorientierter und da...

From Evidence - Based Policy - Making to Policy

The paper aims at addressing the problem of what makes specific aiding to decide within public policy making problem situations. Under such a perspective it analyses some basic concepts such as “public policy”, “deliberation”, “legitimation”, “accountability” and shows the necessity to expand the concept of rationality which is expected to be behind the acceptability of a public policy. We then...

Evidences of Impacts of Climate Change on Mediterranean Biota

We report here the data set entitled " Impacts of climate change on organisms in the Mediterranean Sea, " which is the basis for the analysis of impacts of climate change on marine organisms presented by Marbà et al. (2015a). (Marbà et al., 2015b). In this data set we compiled evidence of warming on Mediterranean Sea biota derived from published reports. These were derived from a broad literatu...

Pathology of the Elite's Role in Decision Making from a Public Policy Perspective

If, according to Gaetano Mosca, the Italian social thinker, we define elites as individuals and groups, that, as a result of the power they gain, they plan idea and, as a result of that, make decisions that are effective in the community action; thus, at the macro and national levels, the elites and experts of each country are considered as the most important and valuable treasure of the countr...