Indexes to HUD Sponsored Comprehensive Planning Reports
| Author | : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and Information Division |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 970 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : City planning |
| ISBN | : |
Measures For Implementation Of The Comprehensive Plan Of Development For The Town Of Watertown Connecticut
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Imagine Boston 2030
| Author | : City Of Boston |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2017-09-08 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781389647642 |
Today, Boston is in a uniquely powerful position to make our city more affordable, equitable, connected, and resilient. We will seize this moment to guide our growth to support our dynamic economy, connect more residents to opportunity, create vibrant neighborhoods, and continue our legacy as a thriving waterfront city.Mayor Martin J. Walsh's Imagine Boston 2030 is the first citywide plan in more than 50 years. This vision was shaped by more than 15,000 Boston voices.
Urban Stormwater Management in the United States
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 611 |
| Release | : 2009-03-17 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0309125391 |
The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.
Effects of urban development on stream ecosystems in nine metropolitan study areas across the United States
| Author | : James F. Coles |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Stream ecology |
| ISBN | : |
The United Nations world water development report 2015: water for a sustainable world
| Author | : Connor, Richard |
| Publisher | : UNESCO Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 139 |
| Release | : 2015-03-23 |
| Genre | : Energy development |
| ISBN | : 9231000713 |
The United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) is hosted and led by UNESCO. WWAP brings together the work of 31 UN-Water Members as well as 37 Partners to publish the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) series. Under the theme Water for Sustainable Development, the WWDR 2015 has been prepared as a contribution from UN-Water to the discussions surrounding the post-2015 framework for global sustainable development. Highlighting water's unique and often complex role in achieving various sustainable development objectives, the WWDR 2015 is addressed to policy- and decision-makers inside and outside the water community, as well as to anyone with an interest in freshwater and its many life-giving benefits. The report sets an aspirational yet achievable vision for the future of water towards 2050 by describing how water supports healthy and prosperous human communities, maintains well functioning ecosystems and ecological services, and provides a cornerstone for short and long-term economic development. It provides an overview of the challenges, issues and trends in terms of water resources, their use and water-related services like water supply and sanitation. The report also offers, in a rigorous yet accessible manner, guidance about how to address these challenges and to seize the opportunities that sound water management provides in order to achieve and maintain economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Comprehensive Planning for the 21st Century
| Author | : Melville C. Branch |
| Publisher | : Praeger |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 1998-02-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780275960902 |
Planning by civil governments, businesses, and the military services has been considered separately in both theory and practice. Those concerned with each of these applications have had little contact with those in the others, despite the common concerns and characteristics of their respective practices. A leading figure in the research and education in planning, Branch draws upon his experience in civil, corporate, and military planning to provide a comprehensive guide to the key aspects of planning. This text is invaluable to those engaged in governmental and business planning and to students working toward careers in urban and regional planning, public administration, business management, and other fields concerned with planning.
Pay for Performance in Health Care
| Author | : Jerry Cromwell |
| Publisher | : RTI Press |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2011-02-28 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1934831042 |
This book provides a balanced assessment of pay for performance (P4P), addressing both its promise and its shortcomings. P4P programs have become widespread in health care in just the past decade and have generated a great deal of enthusiasm in health policy circles and among legislators, despite limited evidence of their effectiveness. On a positive note, this movement has developed and tested many new types of health care payment systems and has stimulated much new thinking about how to improve quality of care and reduce the costs of health care. The current interest in P4P echoes earlier enthusiasms in health policy—such as those for capitation and managed care in the 1990s—that failed to live up to their early promise. The fate of P4P is not yet certain, but we can learn a number of lessons from experiences with P4P to date, and ways to improve the designs of P4P programs are becoming apparent. We anticipate that a “second generation” of P4P programs can now be developed that can have greater impact and be better integrated with other interventions to improve the quality of care and reduce costs.
