Leonard Ortolano
Biographic Data
| ID | 1372396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonard Ortolano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonard |
| FAMILY NAME | Ortolano |
| SIGNATURE | ORTOLANO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 201 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Colonial dynamics limit climate adaptation in Oceania
West Virginia has not directed sufficient resources to treat acid mine drainage effectively
Urban Growth in China
What role do professional planners play in a rapidly urbanizing China? Previous studies have looked in general at planning in China, but specific examples of planners’ work have been limited. We highlight three examples of planning-in-action that reveal the range of roles planners play in relation to local governments. In particular, we identify three ways Chinese planners provide input into the development process: negotiating for a middle groun…
The role of chemical policy in improving supply chain knowledge and product safety
Although the US government has made important improvements in chemical management since the 1970s, these advances have not kept pace with scientific knowledge about chemical hazards. While US federal chemical policy reform is being debated for the first time since 1976, some US businesses have voluntarily sought to improve their knowledge of chemical hazards in their supply chains, and several US states, the European Union, China, and other count…
Effect of company size on potential for Reach compliance and selection of safer chemicals
A Behavioral Model of “Muddling Through” in the Chinese Bureaucracy
How do we characterize and explain the behavioral patterns of the Chinese bureaucracy amid China’s great transformation over the past three decades? The prevailing “tournament competition” model presented in the literature emphasizes the role of incentive design to explain bureaucratic behaviors. We develop an alternative model of “muddling through”—characterized by a reactive response to multiple pressures, constant readjustments and a focus on …
Chester Rapkin Award for Best Planning Paper in Volume 30
Motivations for slum dweller social movement participation in urban Africa
This paper examines what motivates the participation of African slum ( 1 ) dwellers in urban social movement activities. This issue is analyzed through a case study of grassroots mobilization around evictions in Kurasini ward, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The paper uses an analytic narrative approach to account for patterns in participatory behaviour, drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data gathered through interviews with 81 slum dwellers.…
Confronting Urban Displacement
This article investigates whether urban social movement participation influences post-eviction resettlement success. Pre- and post-eviction interviews were conducted with sixty-four slum dwellers from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, including members of the Tanzania Federation of the Urban Poor (TFUP). The majority of interviewees reported improved post-eviction housing but adverse employment impacts. TFUP membership was negatively associated with emplo…
Creating safer consumer products
Judicial Review of Environmental Administrative Decisions
A Tale of Two Sitings
The siting of large industrial facilities represents a difficult planning problem. Despite decades of experience and research on siting, many of the same patterns of conflict persist. We focus on four factors drawn largely from the study of social movements—threat, political opportunity, resources and appropriation, and loss of trust—to explain the mobilization efforts of project opponents in two cases of attempts to site liquefied natural gas te…
Development of Citizen-Organized Environmental NGOs in China
Social movement theories provide a framework for explaining the post-1990 rise in China’s citizen-organized environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs), which consisted of at least 128 organizations as of 2004. We use a political process model, which is based on favorable political opportunities, cognitive liberation, and indigenous organizational strength, to explain the sharp growth in citizen organized ENGOs. In addition, we employ a w…
Community Participation in Urban Sanitation
This article explores how well community participation explains variations in the performance of sanitation projects in Brazilian cities. Case studies of condominial sewers in Recife and Natal, Brazil, reveal a variety of activities that we categorize into four forms of participation: mobilizing, decision making, construction, and maintenance. Mobilizing and decision making were associated with performance in the cases we examined. Our results su…
Benefits and Costs of Shanghai's Environmental Citizen Complaints System
The Shanghai Municipal Government's environmental complaints system allows citizens to report environmental problems to local authorities and provides timely feedback regarding how the complaint was resolved. Using both statistical data and case studies, we conduct a qualitative analysis of the system's costs and benefits as of early 2002. The analysis shows that the complaints system is an important, yet somewhat unreliable source of information…
Implementing Cleaner Production Programmes in Changzhou and Nantong, Jiangsu Province
Cleaner Production (CP) has been advocated worldwide as a strategy for companies to obtain environmental and economic benefits simultaneously. This analysis of how city-level CP programmes were implemented in Changzhou and Nantong (Jiangsu Province, China) finds that both cities failed to meet the Province's targets to implement CP at all large- and medium-sized companies by the end of 2000. Ineffective vertical control, weak inter-agency co-ordi…
Effects of Economic and Environmental Reform on the Diffusion of Cleaner Coal Technology in China
Despite the urgent need to address severe air pollution problems caused by China's coal consumption, diffusion of cleaner coal technologies (CCTs) has been slow. This contribution utilizes the fragmented authoritarianism model to explain this slow diffusion by examining the structure of bureaucratic decision making and changes in incentives that have accompanied fiscal decentralization and enterprise deregulation. Case studies on the diffusion of…
Learning Processes in Development Planning a Theoretical Overview and Case Study
Planners work with various kinds of organizations, sometimes to provide technical expertise and other times to facilitate communication between different organizations and interest groups. Planners are also important players in “organizational learning.” In this article, the authors describe how organizational practices change through learning. Drawing from the sociological literature on organizational behavior, the authors develop a conceptual m…
Organizational learning and environmental impact assessment at Colombia's Cauca Valley Corporation
Cleaner production in china
Pollution prevention incentives and responses in chinese firms
Implementing the montreal protocol in china
Organizational change and environmental impact assessment at the electricity generating authority of Thailand
Strategic environmental assessment for sustainable urban development
Strategies for managing uncertainties imposed by environmental impact assessment analysis of a Kenyan river development authority
Colonial dynamics limit climate adaptation in Oceania
A Behavioral Model of “Muddling Through” in the Chinese Bureaucracy
How do we characterize and explain the behavioral patterns of the Chinese bureaucracy amid China’s great transformation over the past three decades? The prevailing “tournament competition” model presented in the literature emphasizes the role of incentive design to explain bureaucratic behaviors. We develop an alternative model of “muddling through”—characterized by a reactive response to multiple pressures, constant readjustments and a focus on …
Development of Citizen-Organized Environmental NGOs in China
Social movement theories provide a framework for explaining the post-1990 rise in China’s citizen-organized environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs), which consisted of at least 128 organizations as of 2004. We use a political process model, which is based on favorable political opportunities, cognitive liberation, and indigenous organizational strength, to explain the sharp growth in citizen organized ENGOs. In addition, we employ a w…
Speculations on when and why EIA is effective
A Tale of Two Sitings
The siting of large industrial facilities represents a difficult planning problem. Despite decades of experience and research on siting, many of the same patterns of conflict persist. We focus on four factors drawn largely from the study of social movements—threat, political opportunity, resources and appropriation, and loss of trust—to explain the mobilization efforts of project opponents in two cases of attempts to site liquefied natural gas te…
Strategic environmental assessment for sustainable urban development
Community Participation in Urban Sanitation
This article explores how well community participation explains variations in the performance of sanitation projects in Brazilian cities. Case studies of condominial sewers in Recife and Natal, Brazil, reveal a variety of activities that we categorize into four forms of participation: mobilizing, decision making, construction, and maintenance. Mobilizing and decision making were associated with performance in the cases we examined. Our results su…
Benefits and Costs of Shanghai's Environmental Citizen Complaints System
The Shanghai Municipal Government's environmental complaints system allows citizens to report environmental problems to local authorities and provides timely feedback regarding how the complaint was resolved. Using both statistical data and case studies, we conduct a qualitative analysis of the system's costs and benefits as of early 2002. The analysis shows that the complaints system is an important, yet somewhat unreliable source of information…
Motivations for slum dweller social movement participation in urban Africa
This paper examines what motivates the participation of African slum ( 1 ) dwellers in urban social movement activities. This issue is analyzed through a case study of grassroots mobilization around evictions in Kurasini ward, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The paper uses an analytic narrative approach to account for patterns in participatory behaviour, drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data gathered through interviews with 81 slum dwellers.…
Creating safer consumer products
Urban Growth in China
What role do professional planners play in a rapidly urbanizing China? Previous studies have looked in general at planning in China, but specific examples of planners’ work have been limited. We highlight three examples of planning-in-action that reveal the range of roles planners play in relation to local governments. In particular, we identify three ways Chinese planners provide input into the development process: negotiating for a middle groun…
Confronting Urban Displacement
This article investigates whether urban social movement participation influences post-eviction resettlement success. Pre- and post-eviction interviews were conducted with sixty-four slum dwellers from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, including members of the Tanzania Federation of the Urban Poor (TFUP). The majority of interviewees reported improved post-eviction housing but adverse employment impacts. TFUP membership was negatively associated with emplo…
Organizational learning and environmental impact assessment at Colombia's Cauca Valley Corporation
Environmental impact assessment in the Philippines
The role of chemical policy in improving supply chain knowledge and product safety
Although the US government has made important improvements in chemical management since the 1970s, these advances have not kept pace with scientific knowledge about chemical hazards. While US federal chemical policy reform is being debated for the first time since 1976, some US businesses have voluntarily sought to improve their knowledge of chemical hazards in their supply chains, and several US states, the European Union, China, and other count…
Strategies for managing uncertainties imposed by environmental impact assessment analysis of a Kenyan river development authority
Judicial Review of Environmental Administrative Decisions
Learning Processes in Development Planning a Theoretical Overview and Case Study
Planners work with various kinds of organizations, sometimes to provide technical expertise and other times to facilitate communication between different organizations and interest groups. Planners are also important players in “organizational learning.” In this article, the authors describe how organizational practices change through learning. Drawing from the sociological literature on organizational behavior, the authors develop a conceptual m…
Implementing the montreal protocol in china
Implementing Cleaner Production Programmes in Changzhou and Nantong, Jiangsu Province
Cleaner Production (CP) has been advocated worldwide as a strategy for companies to obtain environmental and economic benefits simultaneously. This analysis of how city-level CP programmes were implemented in Changzhou and Nantong (Jiangsu Province, China) finds that both cities failed to meet the Province's targets to implement CP at all large- and medium-sized companies by the end of 2000. Ineffective vertical control, weak inter-agency co-ordi…
Effects of Economic and Environmental Reform on the Diffusion of Cleaner Coal Technology in China
Despite the urgent need to address severe air pollution problems caused by China's coal consumption, diffusion of cleaner coal technologies (CCTs) has been slow. This contribution utilizes the fragmented authoritarianism model to explain this slow diffusion by examining the structure of bureaucratic decision making and changes in incentives that have accompanied fiscal decentralization and enterprise deregulation. Case studies on the diffusion of…
Pollution prevention incentives and responses in chinese firms
Organizational change and environmental impact assessment at the electricity generating authority of Thailand
Cost of Thermal Effluent Standards for Power Plants
This paper summarizes results from a study to explore thermal pollution abatement possibilities for proposed steam electric generating units, and to develop methods for deriving approximate estimates of associated abatement costs. A procedure for developing functional relations between minimum abatement costs and degrees of effluent control, defined in terms of effluent flow rate and temperature, is presented. This procedure yields estimates of t…
Estimating air quality impacts
Speculations on when and why EIA is effective
Environmental impact assessment in the Philippines
Strategies for managing uncertainties imposed by environmental impact assessment analysis of a Kenyan river development authority
Strategic environmental assessment for sustainable urban development
Organizational change and environmental impact assessment at the electricity generating authority of Thailand
Cleaner production in china
Pollution prevention incentives and responses in chinese firms
Implementing the montreal protocol in china
Learning Processes in Development Planning a Theoretical Overview and Case Study
Planners work with various kinds of organizations, sometimes to provide technical expertise and other times to facilitate communication between different organizations and interest groups. Planners are also important players in “organizational learning.” In this article, the authors describe how organizational practices change through learning. Drawing from the sociological literature on organizational behavior, the authors develop a conceptual m…
Organizational learning and environmental impact assessment at Colombia's Cauca Valley Corporation
Implementing Cleaner Production Programmes in Changzhou and Nantong, Jiangsu Province
Cleaner Production (CP) has been advocated worldwide as a strategy for companies to obtain environmental and economic benefits simultaneously. This analysis of how city-level CP programmes were implemented in Changzhou and Nantong (Jiangsu Province, China) finds that both cities failed to meet the Province's targets to implement CP at all large- and medium-sized companies by the end of 2000. Ineffective vertical control, weak inter-agency co-ordi…
Effects of Economic and Environmental Reform on the Diffusion of Cleaner Coal Technology in China
Despite the urgent need to address severe air pollution problems caused by China's coal consumption, diffusion of cleaner coal technologies (CCTs) has been slow. This contribution utilizes the fragmented authoritarianism model to explain this slow diffusion by examining the structure of bureaucratic decision making and changes in incentives that have accompanied fiscal decentralization and enterprise deregulation. Case studies on the diffusion of…
Community Participation in Urban Sanitation
This article explores how well community participation explains variations in the performance of sanitation projects in Brazilian cities. Case studies of condominial sewers in Recife and Natal, Brazil, reveal a variety of activities that we categorize into four forms of participation: mobilizing, decision making, construction, and maintenance. Mobilizing and decision making were associated with performance in the cases we examined. Our results su…
Benefits and Costs of Shanghai's Environmental Citizen Complaints System
The Shanghai Municipal Government's environmental complaints system allows citizens to report environmental problems to local authorities and provides timely feedback regarding how the complaint was resolved. Using both statistical data and case studies, we conduct a qualitative analysis of the system's costs and benefits as of early 2002. The analysis shows that the complaints system is an important, yet somewhat unreliable source of information…
Development of Citizen-Organized Environmental NGOs in China
Social movement theories provide a framework for explaining the post-1990 rise in China’s citizen-organized environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs), which consisted of at least 128 organizations as of 2004. We use a political process model, which is based on favorable political opportunities, cognitive liberation, and indigenous organizational strength, to explain the sharp growth in citizen organized ENGOs. In addition, we employ a w…
Judicial Review of Environmental Administrative Decisions
A Tale of Two Sitings
The siting of large industrial facilities represents a difficult planning problem. Despite decades of experience and research on siting, many of the same patterns of conflict persist. We focus on four factors drawn largely from the study of social movements—threat, political opportunity, resources and appropriation, and loss of trust—to explain the mobilization efforts of project opponents in two cases of attempts to site liquefied natural gas te…
Creating safer consumer products
Motivations for slum dweller social movement participation in urban Africa
This paper examines what motivates the participation of African slum ( 1 ) dwellers in urban social movement activities. This issue is analyzed through a case study of grassroots mobilization around evictions in Kurasini ward, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The paper uses an analytic narrative approach to account for patterns in participatory behaviour, drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data gathered through interviews with 81 slum dwellers.…
Confronting Urban Displacement
This article investigates whether urban social movement participation influences post-eviction resettlement success. Pre- and post-eviction interviews were conducted with sixty-four slum dwellers from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, including members of the Tanzania Federation of the Urban Poor (TFUP). The majority of interviewees reported improved post-eviction housing but adverse employment impacts. TFUP membership was negatively associated with emplo…
A Behavioral Model of “Muddling Through” in the Chinese Bureaucracy
How do we characterize and explain the behavioral patterns of the Chinese bureaucracy amid China’s great transformation over the past three decades? The prevailing “tournament competition” model presented in the literature emphasizes the role of incentive design to explain bureaucratic behaviors. We develop an alternative model of “muddling through”—characterized by a reactive response to multiple pressures, constant readjustments and a focus on …
Chester Rapkin Award for Best Planning Paper in Volume 30
The role of chemical policy in improving supply chain knowledge and product safety
Although the US government has made important improvements in chemical management since the 1970s, these advances have not kept pace with scientific knowledge about chemical hazards. While US federal chemical policy reform is being debated for the first time since 1976, some US businesses have voluntarily sought to improve their knowledge of chemical hazards in their supply chains, and several US states, the European Union, China, and other count…
Political science (22 works) · Business (21 works) · Engineering (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Environmental planning (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works)