LOCAL GOVERNMENT FAILING TO PREPARE FOR DISRUPTION

Many local government organisations admit they are failing to prepare for disruption, despite recording a dramatic increase in the level of upheaval caused by extreme weather conditions and high levels of people and skills loss. According to a report from the Chartered Management Institute, organisations in the local government sector are ‘blowing hot and cold’ when it comes to business continuity – they pay lip service to the importance of planning for disaster, but fail to make business resilience a reality.

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PLANNING IS ABOUT MORE THAN ECONOMICS

A report from the Campaign to Protect Rural England claims that Kate Barker’s controversial review of land use planning published last year is deeply flawed. The CPRE argues that the narrow focus of the Barker Review on making the planning system faster and better for business, completely misses the point that planning is about getting the right development in the right place at the right time.

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By Peter Knoepfel, Corinne Larrue, Frederic Varone and Michael HillThis book is an English version of a successful text on public policy analysis originally written for policy practitioners in Switzerland and France. It presents a model for the analysis of public policy and includes examples of its application in everyday political-administrative situations. This English version introduces supplementary illustrations and examples from the United Kingdom.

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