INTRODUCTION In the last few years there has been intense interest in the performance of Australia's planning systems. Partly driven by concerns about housing supply and affordability, and in part by a wider regulatory reform agenda, there have been major challenges to the legitimacy of policy settings for land supply, environmental assessment and infrastructure charging (eg. RDC 2007; COAG Ref...

In 2006, State Health Agencies and its Health Platforms were established in each of Austria?s nine federal states. One of the goals was to improve planning, controlling and financing of the health system by overcoming sectoral boundaries. To achieve this funds may be earmarked ("reform pool") to compensate for shifts in service provision between health care settings (see also survey (7) 2006). ...

Introduction The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) framework for implementation envisaged that District Health Action Plans would be the central hub for decentralised planning, inter-sectoral convergence, implementation and monitoring. These would feed into the annual State Programme Implementation Plans (PIP). Communitisation, including village planning, and locally suited innovations were ...

The health of women impacts on the health of the family and society, and so is critical for national development, and this is certainly so in Ghana. As in other cultures, socio-cultural, economic and biological factors impact on the health of Ghanaian women. Specific health interventions have focused on nutrition, reproductive health and family planning. Multi-sectoral approaches to promoting e...

In the wake of the failures to date of well-publicized multilateral and multi-sectoral mitigation efforts to control greenhouse gases, attention is now increasingly focused on the effectiveness and capacity of national and sub-national level sectoral plans, including forestry, to usher in a new era of adaptation efforts. In Canada, the government of British Columbia spent several years developi...

CONTEXT In rural Bangladesh, family planning services--previously provided through household visits and satellite clinics--were transferred to static community clinics under the government's sectoral program for 1998-2003, but the next sectoral program reversed the change without a formal evaluation. It is important to assess changes in utilization and coverage to inform further development of ...

This paper argues that a hybrid role for urban planners has emerged within the largely neoliberalised spaces of contemporary Australian governance. This new role is one that transcends previously rigid or clearly defined sectoral positions to blend public, private and community responsibilities in novel and complex ways. The first section of the paper briefly sketches the historical shifts that...

Marine spatial planning is increasingly used to manage the demands on marine areas, both spatially and temporally, where several different users may compete for resources or space, to ensure that development is as sustainable as possible. Diminishing sea-ice coverage in the Arctic will allow for potential increases in economic exploitation, and failure to plan for cross-sectoral management coul...

This study aims to demonstrate how the interaction between the planning and political processes, given their different perceptions of spatial equity and efficiency objectives, influences the formulation and implementation of regional policies in the Philippines. It examines a number of past and current policies, with particular emphasis on those related to the regional dispersal of industries, ...

Information society: what does it mean today? We need some meaningarcheological considerations to jump from the early information society definitions to the nowadays information strategies. "Information strategy" (or "Information Society Development Program" or simply "IT-policy") as an emerging entity of Government-level strategic planning combines and integrates the former sectoral policies a...