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A unique three phase model of public consultation and enquiry was undertaken by the Government of British Columbia in co-operation with the religious communities with the purpose of identifying those forces in society which enrich family life and those that are pulling the family apart. This article contains a short description of the public enquiry together with some of the findings and recommendations that relate to counselling in such areas as counselling in the schools, preparation for marriage, interpersonal relationship training, selection of helping professionals, accountability of helping professionals, parent-counsellor-teacher partnership, values clarification, family studies, preventative and information services, and the establishment of the B.C. Council on the Family. ; Le gouvernement de la Colombie Britannique de concert avec des communautés religieuses a mis sur pied un modèle unique de consultation et d'enquête ayant trois étapes. Ce modèle veut identifier les forces dans la société qui enrichissent la vie de famille de même que celles qui contribuent à semer le désaccord. Cet article contient une brève description de l'enquête publique. Il présente les découvertes et les recommandations qui ont rapport à la consultation dans les domaines suivants: l'orientation scolaire, la préparation pour le mariage, l'acquisition de rapports interpersonnels, le choix du personnel auxiliaire, l'identification du travail compétent accompli par les conseillers, la collaboration parent-conseiller-professeur, la clarification des valeurs, les études de famille, les services de prévention et d'information et l'établissement du B.C.Council on the Family.

Water distribution networks are the backbone of any municipal water supply. Their task is to supply the population regardless of the respective demand. High resilience of these infrastructures is of great importance and has brought these infrastructures into the focus of science and politics. At the same time, the data collected is highly sensitive and often openly unavailable. Therefore, researchers have to rely on models that represent the topology of these infrastructures. In this work, a model is developed that allows the topology of an urban water infrastructure to be mapped using the example of Cologne, Germany by combining freely available data. On the one hand, spatial data on land use (local climate zones) are used to disaggregate the water demand within the city under consideration. On the other hand, the parallelism of water and urban transportation infrastructures is used to identify the topology of a network by applying optimization methods. These networks can be analyzed to identify vulnerable areas within urban structures.

Dissipative structures known from non-equilibrium thermodynamics can form patterns. Cities are regarded as open, dissipative structures due to their self-organisation and thus in theory are also capable of pattern formation. In a first step to understand similarities between nonlinear pattern formation and inter-urban systems, we investigate how inter-urban structures are arranged. We use data from the Global Urban Footprint to identify spatial regularities in seven regions (Argentina, China, Egypt, France, India, Ghana and USA) and to quantitatively describe settlement patterns by number of objects and density. We find that small areas of the examined data sets show a regular arrangement, the density and number of settlements differ widely between the different regions and the portion of regular areas within this regions strongly correlates with these two parameters. The results can be used to develop mathematical models that describe inter-urban pattern formation on the one hand and to investigate to what extent the respective settlement patterns are related to infrastructural, economic or political boundary conditions on the other.