Thomas Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2146-5531 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Monstrous Hybrids in Our Midst. Jane Jacobs and the Dark Age Ahead
Cybercrime and Cyber Investigations
Specialist hybrid models with asymmetric training for malaria prevalence prediction
Malaria is a common and serious disease that primarily affects developing countries and its spread is influenced by a variety of environmental and human behavioral factors; therefore, accurate prevalence prediction has been identified as a critical component of the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria from 2016 to 2030. While traditional differential equation models can perform basic forecasting, supervised machine learning algorithms provide mo…
Remote care communities
The connection between housing and health is well documented; nowhere, this link clearer than with the chronically homeless. To improve population health and reduce costs, healthcare systems have a great incentive to house their chronically homeless patients. However, current healthcare payment models coupled with the high cost of building and maintaining affordable supportive housing prohibit the provision of this type of care. We propose the cr…
Geodesign
Geodesign uses geographical information systems (GIS) to enable designers to make more informed decisions as they shape the built environment. This entry covers the definition and evolution of geodesign, its historical development and current practitioners, its theory and methods, its forms of practice and its educational venues, its applications and limitations, and its future directions as a field.
Challenging the White-Savior Industrial Complex
Social-impact design challenges many of the assumptions that guide architectural practice such as: What should we design? What program should we design to? What site should we design on? Who should be involved in the design? And what else needs designing beyond what we have been commissioned to do? In raising these questions, social-impact design essentially inverts the expertise model that has guided both architectural education and practice and…
Public Value and the Integrative Mind
Creating the public realm in an era of constrained resources demands a level of cooperation among multiple sectors rarely seen before and a recognition that the boundaries between what we have considered “public” and “private” have become porous and blurred. A number of recent projects on either side of the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis show what this means in terms of delivering public value much greater than any one sector could p…
Designing To Avoid Disaster
Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing prices, all stem from what author Thomas Fisher calls fracture-critical design. This is design in which structures and systems have so little redu…
A cultural assessment of family dispute resolution
The cultural appropriateness of human service processes is a major factor in determining the effectiveness of their delivery. Sensitivity to issues of culture is particularly critical in dealing with family disputes, which are generally highly emotive and require difficult decisions to be made regarding children, material assets and ongoing relationships. In this article we draw on findings from an evaluation of the Family Relationship Centre at …
A Cultural Assessment of Family Dispute Resolution
The cultural appropriateness of human service processes is a major factor in determining the effectiveness of their delivery. Sensitivity to issues of culture is particularly critical in dealing with family disputes, which are generally highly emotive and require difficult decisions to be made regarding children, material assets and ongoing relationships. In this article we draw on findings from an evaluation of the Family Relationship Centre at …
A Cultural Assessment of Family Dispute Resolution
Acting disaster
A cultural assessment of family dispute resolution
The cultural appropriateness of human service processes is a major factor in determining the effectiveness of their delivery. Sensitivity to issues of culture is particularly critical in dealing with family disputes, which are generally highly emotive and require difficult decisions to be made regarding children, material assets and ongoing relationships. In this article we draw on findings from an evaluation of the Family Relationship Centre at …
The effectiveness of NGO campaigning
This article looks at the lessons learned in reviewing two long-running international campaigns, one to promote breast-feeding in Ghana, and the other against the use of child labor in the carpet industry in India. In particular, it focuses on understanding the nature of campaigns and what makes them effective. It asserts that campaigns are not linear or mechanistic, but need to be understood as passing through various stages and requiring differ…
Institutional development in practice
There is growing interest in organisational and institutional development, or capacity-building, but little understanding of what these involve in practice. This article provides a case-study of a successful long-term programme of institutional development, which built the capacities of the Tibetan refugee community in development planning. The primary focus is on key features for adaptation by development practitioners. The authors also clarify …
To Acquire Wisdom. The Way of Wang Yang-ming
Autocracy at Work
Allied Military Government in Italy
Union Policies and Industrial Management
Spring Dance in North Africa
A cultural assessment of family dispute resolution
The cultural appropriateness of human service processes is a major factor in determining the effectiveness of their delivery. Sensitivity to issues of culture is particularly critical in dealing with family disputes, which are generally highly emotive and require difficult decisions to be made regarding children, material assets and ongoing relationships. In this article we draw on findings from an evaluation of the Family Relationship Centre at …
The effectiveness of NGO campaigning
This article looks at the lessons learned in reviewing two long-running international campaigns, one to promote breast-feeding in Ghana, and the other against the use of child labor in the carpet industry in India. In particular, it focuses on understanding the nature of campaigns and what makes them effective. It asserts that campaigns are not linear or mechanistic, but need to be understood as passing through various stages and requiring differ…
Allied Military Government in Italy
Spring Dance in North Africa
Union Policies and Industrial Management
Allied Military Government in Italy
Autocracy at Work
To Acquire Wisdom. The Way of Wang Yang-ming
Institutional development in practice
There is growing interest in organisational and institutional development, or capacity-building, but little understanding of what these involve in practice. This article provides a case-study of a successful long-term programme of institutional development, which built the capacities of the Tibetan refugee community in development planning. The primary focus is on key features for adaptation by development practitioners. The authors also clarify …
The effectiveness of NGO campaigning
This article looks at the lessons learned in reviewing two long-running international campaigns, one to promote breast-feeding in Ghana, and the other against the use of child labor in the carpet industry in India. In particular, it focuses on understanding the nature of campaigns and what makes them effective. It asserts that campaigns are not linear or mechanistic, but need to be understood as passing through various stages and requiring differ…
A cultural assessment of family dispute resolution
The cultural appropriateness of human service processes is a major factor in determining the effectiveness of their delivery. Sensitivity to issues of culture is particularly critical in dealing with family disputes, which are generally highly emotive and require difficult decisions to be made regarding children, material assets and ongoing relationships. In this article we draw on findings from an evaluation of the Family Relationship Centre at …
Designing To Avoid Disaster
Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing prices, all stem from what author Thomas Fisher calls fracture-critical design. This is design in which structures and systems have so little redu…
A cultural assessment of family dispute resolution
The cultural appropriateness of human service processes is a major factor in determining the effectiveness of their delivery. Sensitivity to issues of culture is particularly critical in dealing with family disputes, which are generally highly emotive and require difficult decisions to be made regarding children, material assets and ongoing relationships. In this article we draw on findings from an evaluation of the Family Relationship Centre at …
A Cultural Assessment of Family Dispute Resolution
The cultural appropriateness of human service processes is a major factor in determining the effectiveness of their delivery. Sensitivity to issues of culture is particularly critical in dealing with family disputes, which are generally highly emotive and require difficult decisions to be made regarding children, material assets and ongoing relationships. In this article we draw on findings from an evaluation of the Family Relationship Centre at …
A Cultural Assessment of Family Dispute Resolution
Acting disaster
Public Value and the Integrative Mind
Creating the public realm in an era of constrained resources demands a level of cooperation among multiple sectors rarely seen before and a recognition that the boundaries between what we have considered “public” and “private” have become porous and blurred. A number of recent projects on either side of the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis show what this means in terms of delivering public value much greater than any one sector could p…
Geodesign
Geodesign uses geographical information systems (GIS) to enable designers to make more informed decisions as they shape the built environment. This entry covers the definition and evolution of geodesign, its historical development and current practitioners, its theory and methods, its forms of practice and its educational venues, its applications and limitations, and its future directions as a field.
Challenging the White-Savior Industrial Complex
Social-impact design challenges many of the assumptions that guide architectural practice such as: What should we design? What program should we design to? What site should we design on? Who should be involved in the design? And what else needs designing beyond what we have been commissioned to do? In raising these questions, social-impact design essentially inverts the expertise model that has guided both architectural education and practice and…
Remote care communities
The connection between housing and health is well documented; nowhere, this link clearer than with the chronically homeless. To improve population health and reduce costs, healthcare systems have a great incentive to house their chronically homeless patients. However, current healthcare payment models coupled with the high cost of building and maintaining affordable supportive housing prohibit the provision of this type of care. We propose the cr…
Specialist hybrid models with asymmetric training for malaria prevalence prediction
Malaria is a common and serious disease that primarily affects developing countries and its spread is influenced by a variety of environmental and human behavioral factors; therefore, accurate prevalence prediction has been identified as a critical component of the Global Technical Strategy for Malaria from 2016 to 2030. While traditional differential equation models can perform basic forecasting, supervised machine learning algorithms provide mo…
The Monstrous Hybrids in Our Midst. Jane Jacobs and the Dark Age Ahead
Cybercrime and Cyber Investigations
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