The failure to invest in local services and infrastructure to accommodate influxes of migrants isn’t the EU’s fault; it is caused by the failure of the UK national government to devolve spending power to the local authorities that understand local needs –local authorities in the UK control ...
4.3. Surprisingly limited influences of local policy The role of distinctive policies, reflecting the intervention of government in socio-economic development, cannot be ignored in the process of urbanization. However, the results for the detected q values showed the least influence on the urban popul...
“While individuals have little control over manufacturing processes or electricity generation, where one chooses to live and travel is their most significant environmental decision.” The same goes for communities, and yet trip distances reduction figures into few local government climate action plans. ...
not be allowed at all and the definition of other tools to safeguard the provision of ES that need to be preserved, to avoid the unintended consequence that the flexibility of performance-based planning prevents local government to ban urban development in valuable areas (Frew et al., 2016). ...
Climate Mapping For Resilience and Adaptation- Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (CMRA) integrates information from across the federal government to help people consider their local exposure to climate-related hazards. People working in community organizations or public agencies can use the sit...
Self-government, which is understood as total tax policy devolution and some capacity to act on policy and political devolution, is legitimised both in the Basque Autonomous Community and in the Statutory Community of Navarra. These are the only two regions in Spain with this unique "historic ...
including detailed fieldwork, to ‘semi-structured’ interviews with a wide range of different stakeholders. These qualitative methods complement empirical data gathered from government reports, documents released by developing and/or operating agencies, local newsletters, statistical annals and scholarly lite...
It will run for four years and will involve three postdoctoral researchers working with myself and local collaborators. Together we’ll examine (a) what intensity is from the perspective and lives of residents, especially the urban poor, and (b) what understanding intensity from the position, ...
Mapping local climate action Until the early 2000s, knowledge about climate change was confined to academia and federal government agents involved in international negotiations; very few Brazilian cities were familiar with the issue (Macedo,2017). Their engagement in the climate agenda can be correlate...
For local government in the UK, for example, it appears that the planning policy shift to more permeable street configurations has resulted in confusion, conflict and contradiction (Armitage, 2007), since the crime-prevention advice provided by the police (see www.securedbydesign.com) advocates ...