This paper discusses some of the major problems that have made it difficult to acquire and manage spatial information in the periurban areas of Botswana. The main problems include the separate historic development of urban and peri-urban settlements; contrasts in land tenure; and the acquisition and organization of data, and management of information on peri-urban areas along sectoral lines. In...

Climate change can endanger human health and life – either directly through disasters or by damaging the productivity of critical development resources such as crops and livestock, forest, fisheries and water. To avoid this, we have to consider and anticipate climate change risks when deciding, e.g. where and how to build infrastructure, what crops to plant and when to plant them, what species ...

Heatwaves kill more people than any other natural hazard in Australia. Current literature on managing health risks of heatwaves highlights the importance of implementing urban planning measures, and engaging with vulnerable groups on a local level to better understand perceptions of risk and tailor health protection measures. This paper reviews arrangements to reduce heatwave health risks in So...

In the EU, most large firms use e-business applications, such as enterprise resource planning and online procurement. Based on e-business watch data for EU-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) we find that the actual use of enterprise resource planning and online procurement is positively correlated with labour productivity growth. Furthermore, we find that certain e-business appli...

The sectoral structure of most agricultural enterprises is unbalanced and uncoordinated, which underlies the need in deepened research of its improvement. This paper is dedicated to the formation and evaluation of the sectoral structure with the use of mathematical methods of data processing. Mathematical economic modeling based on optimization and simulation models has been applied for the for...

Abstract Globally about 800 million people live without electricity at home, over two thirds of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. Planning access infrastructure and allocating resources efficiently requires a careful assessment the diverse energy needs across space, time, sectors. Because data scarcity, most country or regional-scale electrification planning studies have however assumed spatio-t...

This paper examines how strategic environmental assessment has been practiced at the national level in China through 2005 and why it has been practiced in the manner observed. Based on literature reviews and interviews carried out in 2005 and 2006, we find that bureaucratic politics between environmental and nonenvironmental ministries has limited the legislation and implementation of strategic...

The impact of climate change and related hazards such as floods, heatwaves, sea level rise on human lives, cities, their hinterlands depends not only the nature hazard, but also urban development, adaptation, other socioeconomic processes that determine vulnerability exposure. Spatial planning can reduce risk just by influencing exposure, addressing social vulnerability. This requires relevant ...

This special issue approaches regional planning as a contested arena of strategic planning. With this view, we transcend the idea that is purely matter scale and approach complexity from three perspectives: interests, institutions relations. The perspective ‘interests’ reveals various underlying motivations connected to ‘institutions’ addresses encounter formal informal rules, norms discourses ...

Working papers are preliminary documents circulated to stimulate discussion and obtain comments The Sectoral Activities Department is part of the Social Dialogue Sector of the ILO. Its objective is to promote social dialogue at the sectoral level and to facilitate the exchange of information among the ILO's constituents on labour and social developments concerning particular economic sectors. O...