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A Planner's Encounter with Complexity

A Planner's Encounter with Complexity

Gert de Roo; Elisabete A. Silva

Ashgate Publishing Limited
2010
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Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment. In A Planner's Encounter with Complexity we present various understandings of complexity and how the environment is considered accordingly. One of these considerations is the environment as subject to processes of continuous change, being either progressive or destructive, evolving non-linearly and alternating between stable and dynamic periods. If the environment that is subject to change is adaptive, self-organizing, robust and flexible in relation to this change, a process of evolution and co-evolution can be expected. This understanding of an evolving environment is not mainstream to every planner. However, in A Planner's Encounter with Complexity, we argue that environments confronted with discontinuous, non-linear evolving processes might be more real than the idea that an environment is simply a planner's creation. Above all, we argue that recognizing the 'complexity' of our environment offers an entirely new perspective on our world and our environment, on planning theory and practice, and on the raison d'être of the planners that we are. A Planner's Encounter with Complexity is organized into 17 chapters. It begins with the interplay of planning and complexity from the perspective of contemporary planning theory. It continues by critically assessing planning theory and practice in the light of the interdisciplinary debate regarding complexity thinking. As the book progresses, it positions itself ever closer to the perspective of complexity thinking, looking at the planning discipline 'from the outside in', clarifying the facets of complexity and its importance in planning. Finally, conceptual and theoretical developments towards more applied examples are identified in order to see the interplay of planning and complexity in practice. This book emphasizes the importance of complexity in planning, clarifies many of the concepts and theories, presents examples on planning and complexity, and proposes new ideas and methods for planning.
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Complexity and Planning

Complexity and Planning

Gert de Roo; Jean Hillier

Ashgate Publishing Limited
2012
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Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the vagaries of the real world when putting together proposals for future development, they question how complexity, complex systems and complexity theories might prove useful with regard to spatial planning and the physical environment. This book provides a readable overview, presenting and relating a range of understandings and characteristics of complexity and complex systems as they are relevant to planning. It recognizes multiple, relational approaches of dynamic complexity which enhance understandings of, and facilitate working with, contingencies of place, time and the various participants' behaviours. In doing so, it should contribute to a better understanding of processes with regard to our physical and social worlds.
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Smart Methods for Environmental Externalities

Smart Methods for Environmental Externalities

Gert de Roo; Jelger Visser

Ashgate Publishing Limited
2011
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In recent years, Dutch environmental policy has undergone some pivotal changes, the most significant of which have been decentralization and deregulation, encouraging local communities to develop and deliver policies which are tailor-made to their particular situation. These changes have led to the development of some innovative practical instruments for aiding sustainable environmental spatial policy. This book discusses these new 'methods for environmental externalities' and their significance in the development and delivery of Dutch environmental policies, particularly how they ensure that issues such as health and hygiene are introduced in the early stages of spatial planning processes. This book highlights the most prominent and relevant of these innovative 'methods for environmental externalities' as well as comparing them with some of the classic methods, and analysing strengths and weaknesses. It argues that having such a broad and varied choice of methods is the key to ensuring the impressive and groundbreaking Dutch creativity in environmental management. In conclusion, the book extrapolates current trends in environmental policy, expresses likely and possible developments in 'methods for environmental externalities' and shows how such methods can contribute in our ongoing attempts to develop and deliver liveable, pleasant and sustainable towns and cities.
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Trust

Trust

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

Johns Hopkins University Press
2025
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A brief but engaging look at the importance of trust.Gert Tinggaard Svendsen explores how to cultivate this elusive feeling—and why developing trust is so important for maintaining a happy, stable, and economically sound society. Without it, societies become more corrupt and legal systems cannot guarantee justice. Why do Nordic countries like Denmark score so highly in trust and happiness levels and so low in levels of corruption—and how can other countries replicate these stats for the good of their people? Higher levels of trust often translate to more cooperation and social responsibility, advantages in economic growth and social stability, and happier workplaces. Tinggard Svendsen's research on trust emphasizes that if we want to build trust, we must minimize control. The fewer resources we expend on surveillance and monitoring, the more resources we can use to improve competition, advance research, and nurture innovation. In Reflections, a series copublished with Denmark's Aarhus University Press, scholars deliver 60-page reflections on key concepts. These books present unique insights on a wide range of topics that entertain and enlighten readers with exciting discoveries and new perspectives.
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The Voice of Misery

The Voice of Misery

Gert-Jan der Heiden

State University of New York Press
2021
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A systematic study of testimony rooted in contemporary continental philosophy and drawing on literary case studies.From analytic epistemology to gender theory, testimony is a major topic in philosophy today. Yet, one distinctive approach to testimony has not been fully appreciated: the recent history of contemporary continental philosophy offers a rich source for another approach to testimony. In this book, Gert-Jan van der Heiden argues that a continental philosophy of testimony can be developed that is guided by those forms of bearing witness that attest to limit experiences of human existence, in which the human is rendered mute, speechless, or robbed of a common understanding. In the first part, Van der Heiden explores this sense of testimony in a reading of several literary texts, ranging from Plato's literary inventions to those of Kierkegaard, Melville, Soucy, and Mortier. In the second part, based on the orientation offered by the literary experiments, Van der Heiden offers a more systematic account of testimony in which he distinguishes and analyzes four basic elements of testimony. In the third part, he shows what this analysis implies for the question of the truth and the truthfulness of testimony. In his discussion with philosophers such as Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, Agamben, Foucault, Ricoeur, and Badiou, Van der Heiden also provides an overview of how the problem of testimony emerges in a number of thinkers pivotal to twentieth- and twenty-first-century thought.
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Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition

Conflicts Between Generalization, Rigor, and Intuition

Gert Schubring

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2010
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This volume is, as may be readily apparent, the fruit of many years’ labor in archives and libraries, unearthing rare books, researching Nachlässe, and above all, systematic comparative analysis of fecund sources. The work not only demanded much time in preparation, but was also interrupted by other duties, such as time spent as a guest professor at universities abroad, which of course provided welcome opportunities to present and discuss the work, and in particular, the organizing of the 1994 International Graßmann Conference and the subsequent editing of its proceedings. If it is not possible to be precise about the amount of time spent on this work, it is possible to be precise about the date of its inception. In 1984, during research in the archive of the École polytechnique, my attention was drawn to the way in which the massive rupture that took place in 1811—precipitating the change back to the synthetic method and replacing the limit method by the method of the quantités infiniment petites—significantly altered the teaching of analysis at this first modern institution of higher education, an institution originally founded as a citadel of the analytic method.
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Integrated Smart Sensors

Integrated Smart Sensors

Gert Van Der Horn; Johan Huijsing

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2010
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1 1. 1 Introduction The (signal processing and storage) capacity ofthe human brain enables us to become powerful autonomous beings, but only if our brains operate in conjunction with (at least some of) our senses and muscles. Using these organs, we can interact with our environment, learn to adapt, and improve important aspects of our life. Similarly, the signal processing capabilities of modern electronics (computers) could be combined with electronic sensors and actuators to enable interaction with, and adaptation to, the (non-electrical) environment. This willlead to smarter and more powerful automated tools and machines. To facilitate and stimulate such a development, easy-to-use low-cost sensors are needed. The combination of electronic interface functions and a sensor in an integrated smart sensor, that provides a standard, digital, and bus-compatible output, would simplify the connection of sensors to standard electronic signal processors (microcontrollers, computers, etc. ). Currently, the calibration procedure, required for standardization of the sensor output signal level, contributes largely to the production costs of accurate sensors. To enable automation of the calibration procedure, and hence reduce the sensor fabrication costs, a digital calibrationjunction should be included in the smart sensor. INTEGRATED SMART SENSORS: Design and Calibration Introduction 1. 2 Sensors and actuators In industry many processes are electronically controlled. As depicted in Fig.
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De revolutie van de Vijftigers

De revolutie van de Vijftigers

Gert de Jager

Lulu Press Inc
2023
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Tussen 1949 en 1954 voltrok zich een heuse revolutie in de Nederlandse po zie. Hoe kun je zo'n machtsgreep van ambitieuze jongemannen het beste begrijpen? Wat gebeurt er als het literaire wereldje in een crisis lijkt te verkeren? Om die vragen te beantwoorden bespreekt Gert de Jager aspecten van de kunstsociologie van Bourdieu, theorie n over beeldvorming en meer traditionele theorie n die uitgaan van een dieperliggende po ticale continu teit. In een recente lezing deed Alfred Schaffer verslag van een eigentijdse crisis in de po zie. Er blijken verrassende parallellen te bestaan.
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Analysis Now

Analysis Now

Gert K. Pedersen

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2012
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Graduate students in mathematics, who want to travel light, will find this book invaluable; impatient young researchers in other fields will enjoy it as an instant reference to the highlights of modern analysis. Starting with general topology, it moves on to normed and seminormed linear spaces. From there it gives an introduction to the general theory of operators on Hilbert space, followed by a detailed exposition of the various forms the spectral theorem may take; from Gelfand theory, via spectral measures, to maximal commutative von Neumann algebras. The book concludes with two supplementary chapters: a concise account of unbounded operators and their spectral theory, and a complete course in measure and integration theory from an advanced point of view.
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Naakt en bewogen

Naakt en bewogen

Gert de Jager

Lulu.com
2022
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In de zesde bundel van Gert de Jager staat meer op het spel dan ooit tevoren. Het titelgedicht trekt conclusies over de menselijke existentie - in ieder geval die van de dichter. Daarna lijkt in herhalingen iets bezworen te moeten worden. Wat kan een individu? Een wereld wordt aanschouwd, grenzen worden overschreden, maar er lijken grenzen te bestaan die zich van mens en wereld niets aantrekken. De tweede afdeling van de bundel, 'Mijn houten vingers', bevat kortere gedichten met vaak laconieke waarnemingen. 'Bestemming bereikt' luidt de titel van een gedicht en dat zou zomaar eens het geval kunnen zijn. Gert de Jager (1957) debuteerde in 2009 met de bundel Sterk zeil die werd genomineerd voor de C. Buddingh'- prijs. Over de bundel Dieren op schaal (2019) schreef Alfred Schaffer: 'een voortreffelijke verzameling gedichten die ervoor zorgt dat ik na lezing aan zee wil staan, blik op de bergen, om te luisteren naar het lawaai van de golven.' Ook in Naakt en bewogen ziet het individu zich geconfronteerd met zee, bergen en golven - en nog veel meer.
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Yo!

Yo!

Gert de Jager

Lulu.com
2022
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Aan het eind van zijn leven stampte een Japanse zenboeddhistische monnik met zijn stok op de grond en reciteerde hij een doodsgedicht dat hij soms al jaren tevoren had geschreven - een traditie vanaf de dertiende eeuw. In natuurbeelden werd een alomvattende scepsis onder woorden gebracht die in de westerse po zie pas halverwege de twintigste eeuw is te vinden. Op het ultieme moment lijken inzicht en ervaring in elkaar over te gaan. De gedichten werden geschreven in een vorm van kunstmatig Chinees en hebben lang weinig aandacht gekregen, ook in Japan. Dat veranderde door vertalingen in het Engels. Ze vormden het uitgangspunten voor de vertalingen van Gert de Jager en hij leidt de gedichten ook uitvoerig in. Daarnaast stelt hij de vraag wat er overblijft van po zie met strakke vormkenmerken die het Nederlands vreemd zijn. De notie van een adequate vertaling moet volgens hem worden opgegeven: elke vertaler schrijft zijn eigen Chinese gedicht. Gert de Jager (1957) is dichter en essayist. Hij publiceerde sinds 2009 zes dichtbundels, waarvan vier als Gaia Chapbook, en in 2021 'Abakadabra; over Boerentijger van Tonnus Oosterhoff'.
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Wie ein Engel des Lichts - Esoterik und die christliche Gemeinde

Wie ein Engel des Lichts - Esoterik und die christliche Gemeinde

Gert Hoinle

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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Glaubst du an den Christus der Bibel?Oder ist der Christus f r dich eine Mischung aus Jesus, Buddha, Krischna, dem Mahdi und dem Weltgeist?Suchst du Hilfe und Heilung in* Anthrosophie* Ayurveda* Mantra und Meditation* Edelsteinen* Feng Schui* Hom opathie* "Hexen" und Geistheilern* dem Mond* Reiki* Qigong* Traditioneller Chinesischer Medizin* Yoga?Dann ist dieses Buch f r dich In unseren Tagen gibt es viele Heils- und Wellness-Anbieter, die als "Engel des Lichts" auftreten. Doch sie schaffen oft mehr Probleme als sie l sen.Jesus sagt, "Ich bin der Weg, die Wahrheit und das Leben. Niemand kommt zum Vater als nur durch mich." (Johannes 14, 6).Wie geht es weiter? Informiere dich hierGert Hoinle ist Pastor des Christlichen Glaubenszentrums, einer evangelisch-freikirchlichen Gemeinde in Geldersheim, Bayern. Im Internet werden seine Predigten tausendfach geh rt.
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Simson - Biographie eines begabten Versagers

Simson - Biographie eines begabten Versagers

Gert Hoinle

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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Simson Biographie eines begabten Versagers Wenn wir an ihn denken, dann denken wir an m chtige Muskeln, an gewaltige K rperkraft. Und an sinnliche Frauen... Simson ist einzigartig. Doch trotz seiner bemerkenswerten Gabenausstattung ist er letzten Endes gescheitert und starb als relativ junger Mann. Zeit seines Lebens ist er nie ber niedrige Beweggr nde f r seine Taten hinausgekommen. Simson ist ein zwiesp ltiger Charakter. So treibt ihn einerseits der Geist Gottes, ist er absolut furchtlos und mutig. Andererseits wird sein Denken und Handeln fast ausschlie lich von Lust, Rache und Egoismus bestimmt. ber diesen einzigartigen Versager zu reden lohnt sich. Das Buch der Richter widmet ihm vier spannende Kapitel. Um die geht es in diesem Buch. Gert Hoinle ist Pastor des Christlichen Glaubenszentrums in Geldersheim, Bayern. Im Internet werden seine Predigten tausendfach geh rt.
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"Keuses" Bring dikwels Trane!: Hulp Handleiding vir Tieners

"Keuses" Bring dikwels Trane!: Hulp Handleiding vir Tieners

Gert Marais

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Die hele lewe bestaan uit keuses. As jy gebore word moet iemand vir jou 'n naam kies. As jy skool toe gaan moet die regte skool gekies word. Later moet jy vakke kies, en nog later moet jy 'n loopbaan kies. Jy moet kies watter klere jy na verskillende geleenthede gaan aantrek Jy moet kies van watter ou of meisie hou jy om mee uit te gaan. Jy moet kies om saam met die groepsdruk te gaan of om jou eie lewe te ly. Wat jy nooit mag vergeet nie is dat die keuses wat jy vandag maak, 'n invloed sal h vir die res van jou lewe.
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Geometric Regional Novel

Geometric Regional Novel

Gert Jonke

Dalkey Archive Press
2000
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An innovative satire on the process by which bureaucracy and official regimentation insidiously pervade society. In a deadpan, pseudo-scientific tone, the nameless narrator takes us on a tour of a bizarre village whose inhabitants lead such habitual, regulated lives that they resemble elements in a mathematical equation.
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