The results show that local power structures mainly consist of government executives (mayors, aldermen), entrepreneurs and directors of third sector organisations; local councillors and local civil servants are virtually absent on the lists of influential persons. Comparative analyses demonstrate that the...
In 1961, as Nigeriens watched the high rainfall periods of the 1950s fall in a downward spiral of rainfall deficit years, the fledgling Nigerian government established Law N°61–05, which effectively divided the country into two sections. Supporting the burgeoning southern populations with new lan...
For example, a manager with above-average ability may evaluate the quality of governance to be high in order to please the government, while at the same time being good at circumventing the law (low compliance). On the other hand, the manager may also be more willing to comply with the...
As a result, these groups are often driven to turn to the most expensive segment of the market—the private rental sector (PRS)—supporting the suggestion of Fahey and Norris (2021) that the existence of a social democratic government with a large social housing segment and an extensive ...
Genome-scale metabolic networks (GSMs) are fundamental systems biology representations of a cell’s entire set of stoichiometrically balanced reactions. However, such static GSMs do not incorporate the functional organization of metabolic genes and their
ii) Urban design: The LCZs framework serves as a valuable tool for identifying climate risks within urban areas. Urban planners, government decision-makers, and stakeholders can leverage this framework to formulate plans for climate-sensitive urban development, thereby promoting the creation of sustaina...
movements belong to a wide collection of stakeholders involved in various alternative approaches to urban food governance (Haysom2015; Morgan2015), sometimes also referred to as pluralistic governance (Koc and Bas2012in Haysom2015). Food movements and government involvement/cooperation in this case ...
To some extent, the “vivir bien y no mejor” discourse of the Bolivian government could be considered as referring to the concept of degrowth (Martínez-Alier, 2012). Poverty does not only depend on access to a quantity of material goods or services but on the quality of goods and ...
structures rather thanacrossstructures. That is, we analyzed how different R&D teams’ behaviors led to different outcomes, despite similar structural configurations of problem search (i.e., interacting with certain types of customers) and solution search (i.e., interacting with certain types of ...
State and local governments can no longer assume the federal government will cover the costs of disasters it deems caused by deferred maintenance after California’s request for $306 million to repair the Oroville Dam was denied, Moody’s Investors Service said this week in a report. Heavy ...