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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Local Officials"”.
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Change-makers in Chuck Taylors: How Youth Can Impact the Environmental Attitudes of their Local Officials via Intergenerational Learning.
North Carolina State University Theses Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management.
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Cal-Adapt and the usability of climate adaptation tools
… called Cal-Adapt. Based on interviews with local officials and climate professionals across California, I find that climate tools like Cal-Adapt do provide value. They deliver information needed by local officials to think through future conditions and lobby for the resources they need. …
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Developing A Multi-Purpose Trail System At Pomme De Terre Lake
… Corps of Engineers as well as state, county, local officials, and user groups. A public meeting was conducted during the course of this study. This study confirmed the need and projected economic feasibility for the development of a multi-purpose trail system and the economic development …
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MAKING LEGIBILITY WORK: THE BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS OF STATE KNOWLEDGE
… who operate under irregular and under-resourced local governments, exacerbating oversight problems and multiple principal challenges. The dissertation addresses how the state renders poverty legible under this context. It examines the local implementation of Peru’s social registry system. Since …
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Interlocal cooperation in public service delivery: the case of Virginia
Local governments during the past few years have been increasingly hard-pressed to make ends meet. Fiscally conservative times are now a political reality with which all of government must learn to cope. Many local officials have responded to this problem by introducing some new and innovative …
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Binational Water Management: Perspectives of Local Texas Officials in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
… is to assess the attitudes and opinions of local Texas government officials that manage water resources in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Previous research on binational water management in Texas has not included the attitudes and opinions of local Texas officials in the border area. …
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Relationship of selected factors to the facilitation of interagency teamwork within the Roanoke Valley Council of Community Services
… the role of non-elected community leaders and local elected officials in an interagency mechanism? This was a study of the Roanoke Valley Council of Community Services, a voluntary regional interagency mechanism. The respondents studied were forty of the eighty-three agency heads, twenty board …
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Media coverage, industrial policy, and safety : explaining shifting state and Private ownership in China's coal-mining industry
… policies that damage the interests of local political and business elites difficult. Decisions-making and implementation usually require extensive bargaining, and stasis often prevails. Yet occasionally dramatic change does occur. One particularly puzzling case is coal mining. Since the …
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Institutions and development: Evidence from Vietnam
… rate. The third paper, "Identifying Corruption: Local Officials and the Distribution of Disaster Relief in Vietnam," establishes an evidence of corruption of Vietnamese commune officials. The dataset is also compiled from VLSS 1998. The paper exploits unintended household information of the …
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Participatory autocracy : private entrepreneurs, legislatures, and property protection in China
… to advance their interests. By holding seats in local legislatures, entrepreneurs signal to local bureaucrats that they have access to higher-level government officials to report illicit predatory behavior. This signal, in turn, deters local officials from demanding bribes, ad hoc taxes, and …
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Future Flood Mitigation in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
… in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, beginning with their locally created future conditions flood risk maps, and followed by complementary risk reduction strategies informed by these maps. Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s future conditions maps, known locally as Community Maps, were created in 2000, because after …
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The Operation was Successful but the Patient Died: The Politics of Crisis and Homelessness in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… that activists, service providers, and local officials faced in light of two intersecting and overlapping contexts. The first context is the immediate crisis of the levee failures after Hurricane Katrina, and the second is the longer-term national political-economic context of …
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Investigating the capacity of the cities to manage urban flooding disasters: a case study of Sumbe, Angola
… methods, involving 16 key stakeholders, 2 local officials and 7 community members from Assaca and Kibaúla. Findings revealed shortcomings in infrastructure, legal frameworks, early warning systems, preparedness, response, and recovery efforts in Sumbe. While both communities, Assaca and …
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Shaping the Future Amid Decline: Integrative Strategies for Aging Koreans and Migrant Workers in South Korea’s Shrinking Regions
… interviews and surveys with 81 stakeholders—from local officials to migrants and elderly residents—the research uncovers complex relationships and systemic barriers that impact community cohesion and demographic stability. The findings provide a nuanced perspective on how strategic urban design …
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School consolidation and community cohesion in one rural Kansas community: Mount Hope
… closure. Personal interviews were conducted with local officials, school employees, group leaders, parents, and community members of Mount Hope. This study is relevant to planners, school administrators, and educators alike, as local communities across the state debate the value of district …
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Essays in Housing Markets
… land use and specific industries to increase local officials’ promotion probabilities. For the US mortgage market, I leverage a unique dataset from Freddie Mac’s national mortgage lender survey to examine the effect of quantitative easing on mortgage-backed securities pricing and primary …
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Managing stormwater in Watertown, MA : overcoming obstacles to change
… the impacts of stormwater runoff on local water systems and aquatic life are more and more deleterious. Stormwater runoff carries pollutants into nearby water bodies, alters stream banks, reduces stream base flows and bypasses infiltration processes that both clean and recharge …
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Extending environmental governance: China's environmental state and civil society
… governance reform in China: attempts to make local officials pay greater attention to environmental issues, formal public participation legislation and mechanisms, information disclosure, and ‘private interest’ activism. This thesis identifies interactions between the environmental state and …
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The Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923--1926
… prosperous business with the tacit consent of local officials. However, the vigilantes went too far. They took the law into their own hands and committed a variety of crimes during the raids. Their violent vigilantism provoked retaliation of the bootleggers and their official allies. During the …
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Surrogate Analysis and Calibration of Safety-Related Driver Behavior Modeling in Microscopic Traffic Simulation and Driving Simulator for Aggressive Driving
… and safety. Researchers, consultants, and local officials are all attempting to solve these problems with different methods. However, it is apparent that understanding the driving behaviors on the roadway network and implementing roadway configurations accordingly is one of the great …
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