Guidance presents only minimum budgetary information but expresses costs of achieving expressed, desired benefits. Failure to gain the financial resources or staff to control the system can result in small or erratic change in R , the performance measure for the area as a system. The dynamic nature of Guidance , as already described, meets this challenge. Distant horizons are difficult to handle because of people's attitudes toward risk, because of classical financial discounting, and because of the operational uncertainties over such a period. The Scale of Analyses - The area itself is a big enough problem for analysis, but it is rarely isolated.
Guidance includes a reasonable area around the boundary.
A protocol for determining a minimum reasonable area is currently being developed. In a peculiar transition within large-scale public planning, plans tend to become promises. Go to the top of the page . Jr. Last revision January 17, 2000.