By James Parkin
"This booklet serves to introduce engineers to the rules and strategies important for infrastructure making plans in speedily constructing areas. It covers the technical tools required in making plans for infrastructure provision from base-line reports and challenge definition via to the specification for a collection of tasks. The e-book additionally discusses the political elements that have an effect on the decision-making procedure, and it �Read more...
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They also caution that 'It is possible that with current types of technology and production systems, the global economy has already exceeded the sustainable limits of the global ecosystem and that manifold expansion of anything remotely resembling the present global economy would not alter the current trajectory towards unsustainability and collapse' (p. 318). A sobering thought for the infrastructure planner. Even though growth is very necessary in the Third World, we must, nevertheless, plan with sustainability objectives in mind.
1 summarizes the reasons for the steps and shows the numbers of the chapters that discuss them. We will now explore the steps in a little more detail. 1 Steps in rational planning Step Why? Problem diagnosis To define the problem and gather the baseline data. Goal articulation To agree the goals and constraints of the planning study. Plans will be tested against the list of goals. Forecasting Using the baseline data and trends, to forecast the planning requirements at some future date. Design of alternatives To create plan alternatives (scenarios) to satisfy the forecast requirements and the goals.
The client must sign off on the goals and objectives early in the planning process and, in turn, the planner must demonstrate that they have been faithfully used to design and evaluate alternative solutions. The process of planning may require the alteration of some of the goals or objectives. Perhaps it is not feasible to achieve some more ambitious goals, or some objects may be in conflict with each others. In this case, they should be negotiated and agreed anew. Forecasting The problem diagnosis phase may have required a degree of forecasting to predict the impacts of the natural development of the status quo.
