Inter-Municipal Cooperation in France: Incentives, Instrumentality and Empty Shells The Prefect became henceforth the departmental executive, who either chose or nominated the mayor and deputy mayor from within the municipal council depending on the size of the municipality (Schmidt 1990). The notion ...
biggest petrochemical complexes and a major port, both located near a large metropolitan center. Despite the fact that local government's role in regulating air toxics is typically quite limited, from 2004-2009, the City of Houston implemented a novel municipality-based air toxics reduction strategy...
En conclusión, una mayor cobertura de la vegetación mejora las condiciones ambientales en términos de humedad relativa y regularización de los extremos de temperatura durante la temporada cálida. Abstract Alteration of climatic conditions and the urban heat island effect (UHI) are consequences ...
Thus, the post-war world, notably after 1990, saw a dramatic increase in trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in goods and services, accompanied by equally dramatic increases in trade and investment agreements and promotion agencies. However, the nature of globalization is changing. First, ...
The municipality had a RPP, which was approved by the Préfet in 2007, but strongly opposed by local stakeholders and the municipality itself. However, risk zonation and risk prevention planning can contribute to reduce future damages—if accepted and enforced (Pigeon 2012b). The issue now is ...
Chongqing has advanced the construction of the New Western Land-Sea Trade Corridor, with an emphasis on improving the collection and distribution system of the international logistics channel, said a top official of the municipality in Southwest China. ...
There’s also implementation of the asset management plan and bylaws to work on including getting an updated zoning bylaw in place. While he’s been working on those matters as a member of council, Irvin said as the town’s mayor he expects to work more closely with Watson Lake chief adm...
To address these gaps, we study the case of adaptation to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area. We build a social-ecological network of social actors and shoreline segments using original survey data and simulated scenarios of tidal and traffic interdependencies between shoreline segments....
For each municipality in our sample, we used the public directory information associated with each municipality’s website to compile email addresses of individuals who might be involved with SLR adaptation planning. Generally, these individuals included employees within the Planning or Public Works depa...
The main goal of Seniors Councils is to serve older persons by representing their interests within the municipality - they offer older citizens a platform to represent their interests and needs and influence local decision making - and by strengthening their integration as a group and their ...