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- Local governance, Research Paper, Fiscal Equalization
- by Andrew Coulson
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- Economics, Governance, Local Economic Development, Economic Development
- by Deborah Cummins
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- History, Cultural History, East Timor, Timor-Leste
- by Lerato Nare
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- Geology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Community Development

Engagement between Iwi Maori and local government operates within a complex environment of involving multiple expectations within multiple statutory frameworks. Not surprisingly different models of engagement have developed, some of which are more successful than others at achieving meaningful relationships and acknowledging the unique status of indigenous organisations.

- by Dr Mike Reid
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- Local Government and Local Development, Local governance, Maori, Coperate Governance

The European Union (EU) has closely correlated different aspects of the peace process in Bosnia with progress towards European accession. The ‘power of attraction’ of EU membership would presumably induce the Bosnian authorities to accept the adaptation costs of political and economic transformation. However, the Europeanisation approach has not produced the expected results. The track record of the EU’s policies towards Bosnia represents a paradigmatic case of what would happen if almost nothing works as efficiently as in the case of the countries that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007. The article investigates the causes of EU policy failure in Bosnia and claims that the EU has not effectively responded to three challenges: 1) adjust the process to the needs of an ethnically divided post-war state; 2) preserve the credibility of accession conditionality, and 3) convey the proper messages on how to comply with EU rules. Therefore, the article argues for a more cohesive and consistent EU approach towards Bosnia.

- by Carol Colfer and +1
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- Decision Making, Conflict Management, Local governance, Natural Resource
- by Carol Colfer
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- Decision Making, Conflict Management, Local governance, Natural Resource

In Brazil’s large cities, more than half a million people survive by collecting and selling solid waste. Most face very poor working conditions and have very low incomes as the intermediaries to whom they sell pay low prices. Their activities are even considered illegal in some nations. But the waste pickers save city governments money, contribute to cleaner cities and reduce the volume of waste that has to be dumped (by up to 20 per cent). After describing the waste pickers and the city and national associations they have created, this paper describes the recycling industry and gives some examples of better methods of recycling. These include waste picker cooperatives that can sell the materials they collect direct to industries and that have partnerships with city governments who provide access to wastes, better prices and facilities to improve working conditions (including transferring the recycling from dumps to recycling centres).

- by Sonia Dias
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- Economics, Waste Management, Urban And Regional Planning, Environment and Urbanization

The purpose of this article is to stimulate and inform discussion about the community role in sustainable development and to broaden our understanding of the opportunities for sustainable community development activity. It begins with an overview of sustainable development, question-ing its focus on poverty as a major source of environmental degradation, and suggesting instead that both poverty and environmental degradation result largely from wealth. It next examines the concepts of natural capital and social capital, whether (and if so, how) they are linked, and explores their implications for sustainable development at the community level. Chapter 3 examines planning theory and sustainable development, finds that while planning theory is, or should be, relevant to sustainable development, planners concerned with key aspects of sustainable development will have to look to “greener ” pastures for relevant theoretical guidance. Chapter 4 considers the implications for achieving sust...

- by Mark Roseland
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- Economics, Decision Making, Community Development, Sustainable Development
- by Paul Carrara
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- Human Geography, Remote Sensing, Land management, Snow and Avalanche Research

For centuries, land degradation triggered by deforestation has occurred in Ethiopia, in particular in the northern regional state Tigray, the area under study. In order to change this situation, the local government started to establish enclosures. In these sites, grazing is no longer permitted so that forest can naturally regenerate. In order to develop sustainable yield planning for forest rehabilitation

- by Christoph Kleinn
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- Case Study, Local governance, Natural Regeneration, Prediction Model
- by Joel Byrnes and +1
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- Political Science, Local governance, Public Administration and Policy, Australian Political History

Podstawowym celem artykułu jest analiza udziału kobiet w samorządzie lokalnym i wiejskim na przykładzie funkcji radnej gminy i sołtyski. Autorka poszukuje odpowiedzi na pytania o skalę tego zaangażowania, jego zmian w czasie oraz przestrzennych zróżnicowań. W pierwszej części artykułu została opisana dynamika zmian udziału kobiet w samorządzie lokalnym i wiejskim przed i po 1989 r. Następnie zostaną omówione zróżnicowania zaangażowania kobiet w strukturach samorządowych w poszczególnych regionach kraju. Ogólny trend wzrostu odsetka kobiet wśród radnych i sołtysów jest kształtowany przez: uwarunkowania instytucjonalne i polityczne, charakter samych funkcji, poziom kapitału kulturowego oraz zasoby biograficzne samych kobiet wiejskich, proces redefinicji ról społecznych kobiet i mężczyzn oraz czynniki kontekstowe. Treść artykułu opiera się na wybranej literaturze przedmiotu, dostępnych statystykach publicznych oraz wynikach jakościowego badania własnego.

- by Ilona Matysiak
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- Rural Sociology, Gender Studies, Regional and Local Governance, Local Government

The Authors would like to thank the World Bank and Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) each for partial funding of the project ‘Improving Fiscal Health of Indian Cities’, which initiated the research on estimation of fiscal capacity and needs in Indian cities. We thank the research team of this project, particularly Kala Sridhar for her sincere efforts and Satadru Sikdar for his excellent research assistance in the initial drafts of the six reports submitted to the World Bank. We would also like to thank Om Prakash Mathur for his help and interest at different stages of the work. We are grateful to Andrew Reschovsky, Anwar Shah, Howard Chernick, Jorge Martinez, Melville Mcmillan for their comments and suggestions on an

- by Simanti Bandyopadhyay
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- Business, Financial management, Public sector, Local governance
- by Keitha Dunstan
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- Information Needs, Text, Local governance, Annual Report

Social housing in Malaysia is provided through the public and private sectors. Recently, the Selangor Zakat Board (SZB) has started to provide social housing in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. Up to 2007, a total of 906 units have been delivered under its different programmes. This paper evaluates these programmes by adopting the housing satisfaction model which is currently used as a customer satisfaction tool for public/private housing in many local governments in the UK and USA. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the types of housing programmes adopted by SZB and examine beneficiaries’ housing satisfaction in each programme on a comparative plane. In order to examine housing satisfaction, five objective components of satisfaction—housing unit features, housing unit support services, the social environment, public facilities and neighbourhood facilities—were analysed through beneficiaries’ levels of satisfaction which were measured by applying a Likert scale. The findings of the paper indicate that SZB has been successful in providing a moderate level of satisfaction with the housing unit. However, the existence of variable levels of satisfaction with other components implies that there is still scope to enhance residents’ satisfaction with those components.

- by Alex Scott-Samuel
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- Public Health, Fiscal policy, Mortality, Income Distribution

The accounting rules from each country evolve in time in order to respond the social, cultural and economical environment needs. After some communist countries (as Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, s.o.) joined the European Union an important number of local companies became to apply accounting regulation according with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). This paper surveys

- by Ovidiu MEGAN
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- Research Methodology, European Union, Czech Republic, Financial Reporting

Background: Local government as the sphere of government that directly impacts the lives of communities must create a milieu of interacting with communities in terms of planning, execution and the monitoring and evaluation of the success or failure of its programmes. Local government has a moral and a legislative duty to involve communities thereby extending and deepening democratic and accountable government processes.Aim: This study aimed to analyse how democratic and accountable governance can assist in creating sustainable processes of involvement of its communities. Local government is government’s main contributor to the socio-economic growth and development, not only of a country but more so, its people. The article emphasises improvement in the current processes of community involvement in strategic planning and the execution of such plans in general and at the city of Ekurhuleni (COE) in particular. It further aims to indicate to the city that its processes are not taking i...

The internet has become one of the most important means of communication in all areas of our life. In the paper we focused on central and local government bodies and their attitude towards information and communication technology. By analysing web pages, inquiring public servants and testing the responses on citizens' questions we tried to discover influences of Internet on better informing of citizens, their participation in making decisions of public interest and communication between citizens and central and local government bodies.

- by Zoran Milosevic
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- Business, Interoperability, Complex System, Legislation
- by tommy firman
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- Human Geography, Urban And Regional Planning, Urban Development, Cities
- by Abdelillah Hamdouch
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- World War II, Local governance

Der Beitrag vergleicht die empirische Teiluntersuchung der agglomerationsfernen Regionen Wartburgkreis und Dithmarschen. Ziel ist es die Bedingungen der Bestimmung von Entwicklungsoptionen durch regionalen Akteure im Rahmen des Regionalregimes aufzudecken. Diese Veröffentlichung entstand im Zuge des vom BMBF geförderten Projekts „Horizonte Erweitern – Perspektiven Ändern“ (FKZ: 01IO1706).

- by René John
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- Regional Planning/Development, Local governance

This paper discusses the findings of a study undertaken by a team from the University of Birmingham's Institute for Local Government Studies (INLOGOV), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The research explores the implications for democratic practice of collaborative working through partnership arrangements in the public sector. Through a study of multi-organisational partnerships in two local authority areas, the research identifies a problem for policy makers to address: partnerships are flexible management tools, but exhibit a democratic deficit in terms of the rules and procedures of public governance when measured against a benchmark of elected local government. Partnerships are in, but not of, the community.

- by Navdeep Mathur
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- Corporate Governance, Public sector, Civil Society, Local governance
- by D'Arcy Davis-Case
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- Public Participation, Forest Management, Local governance, Community Forestry
- by Mark Boyer and +1
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- Political Science, Local governance
- by Jieren Hu
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- Local governance, Social Movements and Contentious Politics
- by Wim Moesen
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- Applied Economics, Causal Inference, Income inequality, Local governance
- by Pranab Bardhan
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- Public Economics, Applied Economics, Developing Country, Local governance

Chandra, S., Chhetri, P. and J. Corcoran (2009).Spatial patterns of urban compactness in Melbourne: an urban myth or a reality. In: Ostendorf B., Baldock, P., Bruce, D., Burdett, M. and P. Corcoran (eds.), Proceedings of the Surveying &... more

- by Prem Chhetri
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- Urban Planning, Urban form, Local governance, Count data

SECTION O3. SCOPE AND COVERAGE. This Ordinance applies to all officials and personnel employed by or contracted by the LGU Boac, its agencies or offices, regardless of their appointment or employment status and including its trainees.
This Ordinance covers the proper usage, maintenance, management and security of the ICT facilities and resources of the LGU, which include, among others, all ICT equipment, software, data in all formats, accessories, networking facilities or services whether central or remote.

Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) modelling may be applied in rural extension in situations where program outputs are influenced by variables which are sequentially influenced by other variables. For a recently completed agroforestry extension program in Leyte the Philippines, BBN modelling of site factors, establishment practices and risk, predicted widely different program outputs for different levels of extension assistance and farmer inputs. In a situation where very little was known about how farmers would respond to offers of extension assistance, monitoring of the program over a period of three years revealed that extended extension assistance was crucial in determining the likely survival and growth of trees. Extended extension assistance was also important for the elimination of unsuitable sites and the use of appropriate establishment procedures. Where extension support was not available, farmers displayed a poor knowledge of the principles of tree growth, planting trees under...

- by Jack Baynes
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- Engineering, Systems Thinking, Land tenure, Applied Economics
- by Christina Murray
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- Multidisciplinary, Decentralization, Multi Level Governance, South Africa

In urban communities, infrastructures that support living are indispensable. There is increased interest in alternative ways of providing such support systems, including semi-autonomous infrastructures resulting from the self-organization of local actors. In this study, we analyze the emergence and management of such infrastructures in light of the theory of complex adaptive systems, within which they are called ‘inverse infrastructures’. Empirical evidence is drawn from the case of water cooperatives in the town of Ikaalinen, Finland. Our analysis shows that, with favorable preconditions in place, inverse infrastructures may contribute significantly to local infrastructure services and so also to the functioning of society.

- by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko
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- Water, Self-Organization, Infrastructure Planning, Urban Planning
- by tommy firman
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- Human Geography, Climate Change, Disaster Management, Urban And Regional Planning
- by Odigwe Nwaokocha
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- Genetics, Human Ecology, Economic policy, Economic System
- by ANTONIO AZUELA
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- Environmental policy, Social Problems, Rule of Law, Law Enforcement
- by Ivan Zwart
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- Economics, Local governance
- by Rachel Ashworth
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- Local governance

Abstract: This article is concerned with the hypothesis that devolution, understood as entrusting local government with significant domains of autonomous discretionary power, will lead to the equitable and efficient management of natural... more

- by Jens Lund and +1
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- Natural Resource Management, Case Study, Local governance, For
- by Pranab Bardhan
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- Economics, Developing Country, Local governance, Public Service

Introduction Colonialism caused fundamental damage to the role of chiefs. It disturbed the pre-existing redistributive lineage system, undermined the foundation for the existence of chiefs and limited their tradition-based and... more

- by Fred Hendricks
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- Political Science, South Africa, Local governance
- by Deborah Mindry
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- Multidisciplinary, Sexual Orientation, Everyday Life, South Africa
- by Govinda Rao
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- Political Economy, Convergence, Local governance, Economic Reform
- by Agnieszka Sobol
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- Decision Making, Sustainable Development, Local Development, Multidisciplinary