ITE JOURNAL / DECEMBER 2005 ONE OF THE MOST FRUSTRATING aspects of being a transportation professional, especially one with an engineering background, is the seeming reluctance of elected officials to readily accept the recommendations of highly qualified technical staffs. This feature is intended to help transportation technical staffs better understand the context within which elected officia...

Tamborine Mountain is a 25 square kilometre plateau located within the urban-rural fringe of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Renowned for its superb climate, spectacular views, lush farmland and subtropical rainforest, Tamborine Mountain offers a wide variety of nature-based tourism activities such as bushwalking, rainforest appreciation and wine tasting. This phenomenon requires the har...

Local jurisdictions’ coastal zone land use plans play an important role in protecting critical coastal resources and ensuring coastal communities’ sustainable development. This study extends the previous national and regional measurement systems to local coastal zone land use planning. This study evaluates 46 California local jurisdictions’ coastal zone land use plans and analyzes the factors i...

Regionalization of agricultural research across countries has received considerable attention in recent years, with the establishment of regional and sub-regional organizations in most regions. Recently, the CGIAR System has called for a regional approach to research involving bottom-up priority-setting and implementation, and integrating this with global priority-setting. This paper explores t...

Economic and social changes in recent decades led to regional imbalance and inordinate concentration of facilities in some parts and bereavement of other parts. We need to district and regional planning which its objective is providing an appropriate model for balanced distribution of services according to population of settlements or spatial balance in the region. The topics of sust...

researches in exploring of driving forces of regional endogenous development, concentrate on subjects which have been so controversial. regional endogenous development (red), together with other core regional development concepts, is usually focused on the sub-national regional development process of the home country. this paper attempts to conceptualize and examine regional endogenous developm...

This section describes existing public services and utilities, presents analysis of potential impacts resulting from Regional Plan Update alternatives, and identifies any mitigation measures for those impacts determined to be significant. In particular, it addresses impacts on water supply, wastewater treatment and disposal, electricity, natural gas, solid waste, schools, fire protection, and l...