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Jac A. M. Vennix - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Group Model-Building to Support Public Policy: Addressing a Conflicted Situation in a Problem Neighbourhood
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2014Co-Authors: Etiënne A. J. A. Rouwette, Inge Bleijenbergh, Jac A. M. VennixAbstract:This paper evaluates a group model-building project concerning safety in a city neighbourhood. Stakeholders such as inhabitants, Housing Association managers, and police were directly involved in constructing a system dynamics model of their situation and defining actions to improve safety. Evaluation studies of group model-building typically assume that participants in modelling sessions share their insights, and in turn, the information exchanged changes their opinions. The modelling project addressed in this paper concerns a messy problem in a public multi-organizational setting, a situation characterized by ambiguity and conflict. We show that modelling in an ambiguous and conflicted situation helps participants to exchange information and change their opinions on the issue, even when not all conflicts are openly discussed. Group model-building positively impacts the quality of conclusions reached. The paper ends with a discussion of limitations and areas for future research.
Etiënne A. J. A. Rouwette - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Group Model-Building to Support Public Policy: Addressing a Conflicted Situation in a Problem Neighbourhood
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2014Co-Authors: Etiënne A. J. A. Rouwette, Inge Bleijenbergh, Jac A. M. VennixAbstract:This paper evaluates a group model-building project concerning safety in a city neighbourhood. Stakeholders such as inhabitants, Housing Association managers, and police were directly involved in constructing a system dynamics model of their situation and defining actions to improve safety. Evaluation studies of group model-building typically assume that participants in modelling sessions share their insights, and in turn, the information exchanged changes their opinions. The modelling project addressed in this paper concerns a messy problem in a public multi-organizational setting, a situation characterized by ambiguity and conflict. We show that modelling in an ambiguous and conflicted situation helps participants to exchange information and change their opinions on the issue, even when not all conflicts are openly discussed. Group model-building positively impacts the quality of conclusions reached. The paper ends with a discussion of limitations and areas for future research.
Nicky Morrison - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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risk commercialism and social purpose repositioning the english Housing Association sector
Urban Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Tony Manzi, Nicky MorrisonAbstract:Originally seen as the ‘third arm’ of UK Housing policy, the independent, not-for-profit Housing Association sector had long been seen as effective in ‘filling the gap’ where the state or market were unable to provide for households in need. Since the 1980s in particular, successive governments had viewed Housing Associations in favourable terms as efficient, semi-autonomous social businesses, capable of leveraging significant private funding. By 2015 in contrast, central government had come to perceive the sector as inefficient, bureaucratic and wasteful of public subsidy. Making use of institutional theory, this paper considers this paradigm shift and examines the organisational responses to an increasingly challenging operating environment. By focusing, in particular, on large London Housing Associations, the paper analyses their strategic decision-making to address the opportunities and threats presented. The paper argues that in facing an era of minimal subsidy, low security and high risk, the 2015 reforms represent a critical juncture for the sector. Housing organisations face a stark dilemma about whether to continue a strategy of ‘profit for purpose’ or to embrace an unambiguously commercial ethos. The article contends that the trajectory of decision-making (although not unidirectional) leads ultimately towards an increased exposure to risk and vulnerability to changes in the Housing market. More fundamentally, the attempt to reconcile social and commercial logics is likely to have wider consequences for the legitimacy of the sector.
Inge Bleijenbergh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Group Model-Building to Support Public Policy: Addressing a Conflicted Situation in a Problem Neighbourhood
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2014Co-Authors: Etiënne A. J. A. Rouwette, Inge Bleijenbergh, Jac A. M. VennixAbstract:This paper evaluates a group model-building project concerning safety in a city neighbourhood. Stakeholders such as inhabitants, Housing Association managers, and police were directly involved in constructing a system dynamics model of their situation and defining actions to improve safety. Evaluation studies of group model-building typically assume that participants in modelling sessions share their insights, and in turn, the information exchanged changes their opinions. The modelling project addressed in this paper concerns a messy problem in a public multi-organizational setting, a situation characterized by ambiguity and conflict. We show that modelling in an ambiguous and conflicted situation helps participants to exchange information and change their opinions on the issue, even when not all conflicts are openly discussed. Group model-building positively impacts the quality of conclusions reached. The paper ends with a discussion of limitations and areas for future research.
Soteris A Kalogirou - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the impact of the implementation of the european energy performance of buildings directive on the european building stock the case of the cyprus land development corporation
Energy Policy, 2017Co-Authors: Paris A Fokaides, Kyriacos Polycarpou, Soteris A KalogirouAbstract:The building sector constitutes one of the three major energy consumers. To this end it comes as no surprise the fact that initiatives and policies in the field of energy saving focus on this sector in order to improve the energy performance of societies. The reduction of the energy consumption of dwellings becomes more important when social Housing buildings are discussed, not only due to the fact that they constitute a major part of the European building stock, but also because the main concept of these buildings is that they are used by low income or vulnerable social classes. The main aim of this study is to discuss the impact of the implementation of the energy performance of the EU buildings Directive on the energy performance of the Cyprus Land Development Corporation buildings, which is the main social Housing Association of Cyprus. For this purpose the building stock of the corporation was studied, and detailed analysis of the actual performance and of the structural and thermal features of the considered dwellings was performed. This study produced well justified conclusions concerning the decrease of the energy consumption of Cyprus social Housing corporation buildings, as well as important findings concerning the appropriate indicators which should be used in the case of the analysis of buildings energy performance. Further findings of this study include the considerations of the end-energy use for the reliable comparison between the energy habits and the lifestyle of social Housing occupants, and the importance of exploiting social Housing buildings both for proving the effectiveness of building related energy policies, as well as to introduce novel future relevant policies.