With that expansion has come a growing tendency for courts to defer to state and local government interpretations of the Fifth Amendment's public use requirement. A considerable body of criticism has developed around the trend. We argue that governments need heightened judicial scrutiny to avoid ...
Climate emergency local government citizen engagement 1. Introduction Local authorities (LA) in the United Kingdom (UK) have had a role in climate change for over twenty-five years. In that time, many have employed public declarations as a way of showing their intention to tackle climate change...
Use of science in planning Expert knowledge Climate change 1. Introduction A great deal of scientific scrutiny has been devoted in recent years to measuring the current effects and modeling the anticipated effects of anthropogenic climate change-induced sea level rise (SLR), which threatens coastal ...
NGOs are a category of organizations that do not belong to any government and are typically independent of national governments. Non-governmental organizations are generally non-profit organizations, and their funding comes at least in par...
bring budget planning and implementation under public scrutiny,and help restrain bureaucrats from increasing TPE budget in the next year. Sucha role of the media is realized through: (1) publishing and/or quoting officialbudget and final account statistics; (2) conducting cross-departmental andcross...
The public’s response to police brutality and its impact on police-community relations particularly influence police agencies in large metropolitan areas7, where events of police misconduct are most prevalent and police actions are subjected to greater scrutiny8,9,10. As evidence, Weitzer11 found th...
The public’s response to police brutality and its impact on police-community relations particularly influence police agencies in large metropolitan areas7, where events of police misconduct are most prevalent and police actions are subjected to greater scrutiny8,9,10. As evidence, Weitzer11found that...
The power of the individual to create and transmit content over social networking sites empowers the ordinary citizen. The growing voice of the marginalized sections having access to Internet through these sites has led to governments asking for greater control and scr...
The extreme nature of the crisis also increases the saliency of the behavioral traits under scrutiny. Handling extreme events indeed requires pondering risks, comparing outcomes over time, and infringing upon individual behaviors to protect the collective interest. At the same time, the crisis’s ...
“Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism” (NRC 2004 Report), which provided seven recommendations (Table 13.1) that together were designed and intended to minimize impediments to fundamental research, while identifying the research with the greatest potential for misuse for additional scrutiny. ...