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<br />water shortage. the blackout. the flood. or whatever disaster fate has <br />decreed. The major objections that society is raising to this approach <br />are that projections are not choice independent. They are therefore <br />,subject to policy determination and changes in public attitudes. In <br />short. projections are not without value judgements. The fault in the <br />utility concept is that it can induce its own effects and thus fulfill <br />its own prophecies. The concept also generally ignores. though less so <br />as each day passes. the existence of alternatives other than hardware and <br />that policy and public values can be changed in the face of a wide choice <br />of strategies. <br /> <br />Resources Management Concept <br />The same paper (8) describes an alternative strategy as follows: <br /> <br />A societal situation in the future would be postulated not <br />as the austensibly inevitable projections of trends but <br />rather by a process of conscious choice. The planners <br />model of the future would not be the awful eventuality <br />(although that pos$ibility must be contemplated) it would <br />be the desirable objective. <br /> <br />Resources management would be viewed as a range of alter- <br />native opportunities to induce or facilitate the achieve- <br />ment of the accepted model. <br /> <br />Specific project proposals ~lo'Jld be selected. designed. <br />and justified in relation to their effectiveness in <br />advancing the generill resources management strategy." <br /> <br />This concept of resources planning seems quite appropriate under the <br /> <br />"(a) <br /> <br />"(b) <br /> <br />"(e) <br /> <br />social and institutional factors that are involved in planning major storm <br />drainage works in today's urban setting. <br />This concept of planning has its roots in a comment made by Mr, Moe. <br />director of the Department of Public Works in California. in a recent <br />speech in which he said: <br /> <br />15 <br />