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Egan Wheel of Sustainable Communities (Egan Review, 2004) However, meeting the key features or characteristics of sustainable communities can be challenging due to its complex and interrelated features such as socio-economic requirement, environmental and physical requirements, which are all correlated to each other.
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Regeneration is deemed as the enabler to transform for societies from industrial age to knowledge. Knowledge intensive regeneration is one of the latest urban regeneration models, called " Ideopolises " , to make progress and achieve the transformation towards knowledge societies and economies. Unleashing the concealed or internal economic potentia...
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The number of ecovillages – intentional sustainable communities – is showing signs of growth all over the world. These self-organized groups can be seen as agents of change that may contribute to the transition to a more sustainable environmental, social, economic and political paradigm. This article seeks to reflect on the ‘transitional potential’...
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... In the context of sustainable neighbourhood development, adaptation to climate change is, to an extent, already promoted through the widespread adoption of Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment tools (NSAs). Of the range of built environment sustainability assessment tools, NSAs can be seen as the latest generation in their evolution (Sharifi & Murayama, 2013, 2014; with their central aim "to evaluate the performance of neighbourhood development or regeneration according to a specific group of standards" (Naji, 2019;Reith & Orova, 2015;Sharifi & Murayama, 2013). They seek to evaluate a neighbourhoods' design against particular sustainability indicators or targets (Sharifi & Murayama, 2013); in particular, in the context of resource management (Parry et al., 2007), as well as through their embedded and positive influence on promoting sustainable decision-making, particularly relating to strategies for climate change mitigation (Bond & Pope, 2012). ...
... These scholars have asserted that a gap in understanding remains between the capacity of existing sustainability assessment tools, and their constituent indicators, to enable the delivery of both sustainability and climate change adaptive capacity in both their designs, in theory; their built outcomes, in practice and in occupation. In order to achieve both community level sustainability in practice as well as appropriate responsive climate change adaptation across the world, widespread adoption of NSAs could have significant influence, especially as such tools are already seeing widespread application (Naji, 2019;Sharifi & Murayama, 2013, 2014. However, for other researchers, (Weaver & Rotmans, 2006), the widespread application of such tools across development sectors raises concern as to their capacity to promote adaptation given the complexity of sustainable development processes. ...
... Located in Salford city, Manchester, at the head of the Manchester Ship Canal, the oldest central part of Manchester Docks, Pier 9 and at Trafford Wharf ( Fig. 1) (Binder and Knowles 2013), it comprises 81 ha of land, with the headquarters of media institutions at its centre (Medi-aCity Planning Guidance, 2007). Embedded in the project's seven stages, were expectations to incorporate sound natural practices in planning, development and operation, promotion of local economic growth and sustainable living as well as adaptability for future growth (Arayici, 2014). The MediaCity project also required compliance with BREEAM sustainability criteria at the building scale (offices, studios, car parks, retail, residential, hotels, education, health), so as to promote carbon reduction and environmentally friendly strategies (https:// www. ...
BREEAM Communities (BC) is a neighbourhood sustainability assessment method that has been implemented across the world and has been widely recognised to be a successful tool in supporting the delivery of urban sustainability. The research presented here aimed to contribute to the current literature in sustainability and adaptation through identifying and evaluating the potential that BC has in supporting and promoting climate change adaptation in terms of theoretical and practical governance. Media City, Salford, UK, provided the context for this study having been identified as an exemplar case study and the site of practical implementation of a breadth of community sustainability strategies. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the relationship between established characteristics of adaptive governance (AG) in relation to relevant BC indicators; alongside an evaluation of the perceptions of key actors’ as to the adaptive capacity promoted by the application of this tool in practice. This research was informed by interviews with key actors and wider stakeholders in the design, construction and management of the development as well as focus groups with occupants, workers and students in the case study location. Consequently, the need for enhancement of the tool’s indicators was identified, and suggestions for their improvement were proposed. Accordingly, BC was found to be a significant tool that holds potential to positively influence community response to climate change adaptation needs. In conclusion, in order to enable effective neighbourhood scale adaptation to climate change, the following themes were identified for further enhancement in the tool: adaptive behaviour and learning, communication, community awareness, knowledge and management.
... Basically, competitive ability is essential for every economic activity and increasingly dominates the competitive advantages (Cariša et al., 2014;Milan et al., 2014). However, the challenges that follow forming, protecting, and developing competitive abilities on the global market are much greater than the past, they arises mostly from the field of knowledge economy, where knowledge is the main driving force of permanent productivity growth in the modern organizations (Arayici, 2014;Mehmed et al., 2014;Majumder, 2012). This change not only poses some challenges, but also offers opportunities for both private and public sectors as well (Jain and Jeppesen, 2013;Cong and Pandya, 2003). ...
... In such an environment, information and knowledge are hardly shared or even developed (Cong and Pandya, 2003). However, with the emergence of the knowledge society, establishing an effective KM systems in the public sector is essential (Arayici, 2014;Traunmüller, 2012). ...
This paper focuses on bridging the theoretical and empirical approaches of knowledge management (KM) key enablers in the Palestinian public sector, which are essential to facilitate and ensure a successful implementation of KM; these key enablers are: Organizational culture, leadership, personnel, information technology. For this purpose, a questionnaire was personally distributed to all (46) technical, administrative, and supervisory employees working at the Presidency of the Palestinian Government. Total of (44) fully answered questionnaires were received. The results showed a significant positive relationship between KM key enablers and the level of performance in the Palestinian Ministers’ Council by 0.829. It also indicated that 70% of the variation in the performance level has been significantly explained and influenced by KM key enablers. The recommendations proposed by this paper will provide a strategic direction for the Palestinian public administration to act more effectively with KM practices, and pay a focused attention to its key enablers.
... Establishing the knowledge society appears to be one of the essential pillars for creating competitive and modern society (Žarkovic et al., 2014). Knowledge society, as stated by Arayici (2014), refers to a society where knowledge is the main resource of production instead of other financial and raw resources, while human activities and development become dependent on a huge and unique capacity of knowledge. In the meanwhile, Gherardi (2008) pointed out that knowing is something that people and groups do together in eve ry activity, by negotiating the meanings of words, actions situations and material artifacts. ...
This research tries to highlight on how knowledge management (KM) will act as a good tool to connect all the university’s Stakeholders such as: Students, teachers, researchers, business and external entities, with work processes and technologies. Today, the quality of higher education in developing countries has become more complex as they have to keep pace and compete with the international higher educational institutions (HEIs) standards. The purpose of this research is to provide empirical evidence that increases an understanding of KM practices in HEIs within the context of instable environments, focusing on the unique geopolitical situation of the occupied Palestine. A primary focus of this paper is to investigate the social phenomenon without explicit expectations or early assumptions, asking a deep qualitative questions of “why” people of Palestine look for knowledge, “how” they use this knowledge, and “how” they face the instability of the complicated situation in order to develop a knowledge society.
