Planning Just-in-Time versus planning Just-in-Case

Alfasi, Nurit; Portugali, Juval

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2003.10.007

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“…Based on Encarnação et al [49] we can interpret urbanization as a development process globally, using their baseline fractal dimensions such that different levels of development emerge ( Figure 5). For our study region then, in an attempt to interpret deforestation as a development process, we propose four levels of development: level I (D ≤ 1), cleared areas are very small and dispersed and do not show any spatial structure, and from this point forward (D > 1) we found areas with linear spatial organization as for example some cleared areas that grow along roads; level II (1< D ≤ 1.70), clearings start to grow, from quite dispersed to clumped, where D = 1.70 is a worldwide average of urban build-up areas [51,54]. Particularly, Chen [55,56] gives additional theoretical support to this average value by employing the wave-spectrum analysis, where the closer the fractal dimension is to 1.70, the better estimated the results will be.…”

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Remote Sensing-Based Fractal Analysis and Scale Dependence Associated with Forest Fragmentation in an Amazon Tri‑National Frontier

Sun

Southworth

2013

Remote Sensing

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Abstract:In the Amazon, the development and paving of roads connects regions and peoples, and over time can form dense and recursive networks, which often serve as nodes for continued development. These developed areas exhibit robust fractal structures that could potentially link their spatial patterns with deforestation processes. Fractal dimension is commonly used to describe the growth trajectory of such fractal structures and their spatial-filling capacities. Focusing on a tri-national frontier region, we applied a box-counting method to calculate the fractal dimension of the developed areas in the Peruvian state of Madre de Dios, Acre in Brazil, and the department of Pando in Bolivia, from 1986 through 2010. The results indicate that development has expanded in all three regions with declining forest cover over time, but with different patterns and rates in each country. Such differences were summarized within a proposed framework to indicate deforestation progress/level, which can be used to understand and regulate deforestation and its evolution in time. In addition, the role and influence of scale was also assessed, and we found local fractal dimensions are not invariant at different spatial scales and thus concluded such scale-dependent features of fragmentation patterns are here mainly shaped by the road paving.

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Section: Fractal Dimensions Of Change In Each Aoimentioning

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Remote Sensing-Based Fractal Analysis and Scale Dependence Associated with Forest Fragmentation in an Amazon Tri‑National Frontier

Sun

Southworth

2013

Remote Sensing

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“…O papel essencial da decisão na teoria do planejamento urbano pode ser observado em correntes de pensamento das mais diversas matizes, desde as abordagens mais tradicionais do planejamento racional até as mais recentes, incluindo o planejamento comunicativo (INNES, 1996) e o just-in-time (ALFASI;PORTUGALI, 2004). O planejamento sistêmico, por exemplo, descreve o processo de planejamento de maneira muito similar ao processo tradicional de decisão, com de inição de objetivos, avaliação de alternativas e seleção da melhor alternativa, e defende explicitamente a realização de escolhas racionais através de critérios derivados dos objetivos de inidos (McLOUGHLIN, 1969).…”

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Fundamentos conceituais para uma teoria do planejamento urbano baseada em decisões

Saboya¹

2013

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ResumoApesar de as decisões serem essenciais ao planejamento, esse conceito não tem recebido a devida atenção na literatura, especialmente se considerarmos os avanços obtidos em outros campos do conhecimento, com especial destaque para as abordagens do apoio à decisão construtivista e da psicologia comportamental. Este artigo faz um breve apanhado de alguns desses avanços e, a partir deles, explora as repercussões de sua incorporação e reenquadramento em uma teoria do planejamento urbano. Para isso, inicialmente de ine o conceito de decisão adotado e propõe uma classi icação das decisões em três tipos: executivas, substantivas e processuais. Em seguida, explora quatro aspectos essenciais do planejamento cujo entendimento pode ser aprofundado sob a ótica da decisão: a) a construção de convicção sobre o problema; b) o caráter dinâmico da formulação do problema; c) a di iculdade e a necessidade de estimar desdobramentos futuros; d) as relações entre meios, ins e os con litos de interesses envolvidos; e e) a necessidade de abrangência e exaustividade. Por im, esses aspectos são utilizados como base para a identi icação de fragilidades nos atuais esforços de elaboração de planos de desenvolvimento urbano e de oportunidades de aperfeiçoamento na direção processos mais justos, democráticos e e icazes. Palavras

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“…It represents the long-term planning of supplies and the active role inventory plays in the process. While JIT is based on a more horizontal hierarchy, which consists of strong cooperation and interaction between workers, and workers' initiative, teamwork and multifunctionality, Just-in-Case may imply a rigid, vertical hierarchical structure, requiring workers to specialise, which has been explored in other sectors by Alfasi and Portugali (2004).…”

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Strategies for sustaining manufacturing competitiveness

Soosay

Nunes

Bennett

et al. 2016

Jnl of Manu Tech Mnagmnt

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This paper reports an investigation of local sustainable production in Australia and Sweden aimed at exploring the factors contributing to survival and competitiveness of manufacturing companies. In Australia, six companies were studied in 2010, with comparisons being made with three of them from earlier projects. In Sweden, eight manufacturing companies were studied on two occasions 30 years apart, in 1980 and 2010. To provide a valid comparative perspective a common format for data collection and analysis was used. There has been a shift in the nature of competition in both Sweden and Australia due to an increasing complexity of the global business environment as well as changes in technology and customer expectations. Despite the differences in country context, the findings suggest that all the manufacturing companies have a good awareness of the elements of the market environment and the relationships with their competitive strategy. However, in general, the Swedish companies have more experience of managing the risks and benefits from operating in the international environment. The results of the research are based on a relatively small sample of case companies in a limited number of industrial sectors. There are methodology implications for future research in the area. The research results have practical implications for the manufacturing industry, especially for companies operating in a competitive international environment. The paper is based on original case research and comparative analysis of data from different geographical contexts. It contributes to both theory and management practice about the strategic resources, decision choices, competitive environments and firm values needed to address external market demands as well as in building internal capabilities.

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Planning Just-in-Time versus planning Just-in-Case

Cited by 57 publications

References 22 publications

Remote Sensing-Based Fractal Analysis and Scale Dependence Associated with Forest Fragmentation in an Amazon Tri‑National Frontier

Remote Sensing-Based Fractal Analysis and Scale Dependence Associated with Forest Fragmentation in an Amazon Tri‑National Frontier

Fundamentos conceituais para uma teoria do planejamento urbano baseada em decisões

Strategies for sustaining manufacturing competitiveness

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