Since the establishment of the Bruce Peninsula National Park in Ontario, Canada various ecosystem planning initiatives have been developed. This paper reviews the twenty year history of these planning efforts within the context of the preparation of an ecosystem conservation plan. This includes research completed by the Heritage Resources Centre at the University of Waterloo which reviewed scie...

Health care reform, whether at the state or national level, will require greater attention to health care data base development. Regardless of the operational specifics of an eventual reform plan, thorough planning will be needed to establish an information system sufficient for the needs of policymakers, consumers, providers and third-party payers alike. The process of system planning and oper...

In 1990, the Dutch Government adopted a national plan to develop integrated and comprehensive policies that would respond on a national, regional, and local level to the need for improved environmental quality for the welfare of current and future generations. The program, called the National Environmental Policy Plan (NEPP), represented a bold effort to develop cooperation and shared responsib...

An operational spatial information infrastructure needs feasible spatial information exchange between different stakeholders. When building spatial information infrastructures at the international level interoperability between the national level and supra-national level data becomes particularly important. The paper presents a study analyzing spatial information interoperability in the field o...