As a result, it is not possible to investigate descriptive, explanatory, predictive or prescriptive models of agriculture and natural resource systems without accounting for the formation and impact of public policy.
Wells [ 14] described how the lack of prescriptive guidelines and under-resourcing at a local level, combined with a professional imperative to demonstrate the meeting of users' needs, was countered by the actions of individual practitioners reshaping users' perceptions of their needs to match available resources.
This increased schools' power over resource allocation but introduced a prescriptive and detailed national curriculum and regular pupil assessment, with Ofsted and league tables emerging four years later.
Findings from this research can guide decision-makers in the construction industry to obtain an optimized preliminary design by properly allocating resources and investments under a prescriptive evaluation approach starting from the early planning stage.
"We must give teachers freedom over what and how to teach - so pupils can access up-to-date and relevant ICT and computer science resources, rather than an invalid and prescriptive curriculum".
The GHE framework is not intended to be prescriptive and can be adapted flexibly to local resources or contexts if used to conceptualise courses in practice.
The programme guidelines are illustrative not prescriptive in that they do not mandate which resources should be used nor how and where the information should be accessed (computer hard drive, CD-ROM or direct link to the Internet).
The site is meant to be a resource people can explore, not something that's "prescriptive," Aronson told HuffPost.
Logistically, the shift away from prescriptive standards development to verifying and comparing metrics will also free resources within the USGBC to award and notify LEED projects on an annual basis.
As the acronym ROMEO suggests, group care requires reallocation of tasks, roles, and resources and a change in providers' attitudes from the traditional prescriptive approach to a more empathic role of facilitator.
