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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Local autonomy"”.
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Local Autonomy and Central Control in Zambian Urban Authorities
This dissertation studies the nature of local government in Commonwealth Africa as reflected in Zambian urban authorities. In particular, it examines central control and local authority functions; sources of revenue and central control;and control over manpower. These are some of the main issues …
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Supporting Local Autonomy in a Distributed Object-Oriented Database
Local autonomy of the individual databases in a distributed system is important as administrators of the individual databases often need to have complete control over how their data are structured, used and managed. Classical distributed databases support distribution transparency, replication …
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The tensions between state control and local autonomy: can collaborative planning practice align local with regional strategic planning outcomes?
… explores the factors that facilitate or impede local strategic planning outcomes making their way up to, and having influence on, regional strategic plans. In particular the research investigates how collaborative planning practice can contribute to reaching agreements about alignment of local …
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Coordinated Regional and City Planning Using a Genetic Algorithm
… regional goals without infringing upon the local autonomy of city planners?</p> <p>2.Is it possible to objectively analyze the thousands, even millions, of land use and transportation plans to find the best design?</p> <p>Metropolitan regions across the country have made great efforts to …
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Trade relations between Southern U.S. cities and Latin America: A study of how the port cities New Orleans, Houston, and Miami fare against one another amid increasing competition for trade with Latin America
… standard of living among other contributors to local economies. The effects of globalization at the local level are manifested in three Southern U.S. cities with business-generating ports linked to Latin American and world markets: New Orleans, Houston, and Miami. This comparative case study …
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War, reform and state -building in Brazil and in the United States: Slavery, emancipation and decision -making processes in the Paraguayan and civil wars (1861--1870)
… normally leads to a temporary invasion of local prerogatives through recruitment and mobilization. The remarkable political centralization established during these processes frequently resulted in a reduction of local autonomy. Many of these problems were similar in both countries although …
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Seeding Trust, Sustaining Equity: Funding and Financing Relationships in the Greater Boston Community Land Trust Network
… as one tool for stable, affordable housing and local autonomy over urban planning processes is growing rapidly—particularly in the past decade, in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis and the destruction of wealth and housing security that foreclosure waves wreaked across the United States. …
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Ecosystem Management and its Application at the Local Level: APNEP, CAMA and Local Land Use Planning in North Carolina
… to infuse regional environmental concerns into local land use planning. Similarly, collaborative ecosystem planning efforts have attempted to encourage local communities to participate in regional planning efforts, and to adopt regional environmental goals and objectives into local land use …
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Organizing and conducting sporting events online : a study of the 2011 CrossFit Games
… on cohesion, inclusion, and competition; strong local autonomy and control; and a willingness on the part of members to promote the sport for the perceived wellbeing of others as necessary to a strong, effective online component in facilitating global competition online.
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Public institutions, private networks, and medical careers in Bordeaux, c.1690-1790
… The surgeons, for example, sacrificed both local autonomy to professionalise and their internal cohesion to a hierarchy, while the physicians masked traditional tendencies with an outwardly meritocratic stance. Secondly, that profound alterations within France, such as an increasing …
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Wicked problems and the welfare state: Segregation in Finnish urban planning policy
… is often not translated into explicit actions in local policies. Segregation is mostly targeted with housing and land use policies, cornerstones of the local autonomy. This model works poorly in a situation where segregation is a regional issue. Governance capacity is also lacking on the state …
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Law, Autonomy, and Local Government: A Legal History of Municipal Corporations in Canada West/Ontario, 1850-1880
The historiography of local government in mid-nineteenth century Canada West/Ontario is divided on the question of municipal autonomy. The more dominant thesis asserts that the Municipal Corporations (Baldwin) Act of 1849 ushered in a period of freedom for municipalities. The second depicts the Act …
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THE ROLE OF LOCAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AGROPASTORAL AND PASTORAL SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY OF MKATA PLAINS, KILOSA DISTRICT AND NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA, NGORONGORO DISTRICT, TANZANIA
… Area in order to determine the role of local institutions in the management of common grazing lands. Specifically the study aimed at determining trends in land-use and resource tenure; establish strength of local institutions; determine factors determining resource-use conflicts in the …
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Impossible Heroes: Heroism and Political Experience in Early Modern England
… culture had traditionally combined monarchy with local autonomy, office-holding, and a republican ethos that understood politics in terms of dynamic individual action and potentiality. In the Renaissance, however, this plural and personalized political paradigm was increasingly at odds with the …
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The effects of the structure of local government on crime
… role of municipal government in Cape Town as a local planner - and as such as an agency entrusted with the welfare of its inhabitants - in terms of the general governing processes existent in South Africa. That is to say, in terms of the position it occupies in the infrastructure of government …
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An Historical Analysis of the Development of Charter School Legislation in Virginia
… These themes are 1) Partisan Politics, 2) Local Autonomy, 3) Accountability, 4) Choice, 5) Funding, and 6) Opposition. Charter school legislation is unique to each state. Also, one delegate individually championed charter school legislation in Virginia. There were some external influences …
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Municipal regulation of food and waste pickers on landfill sites in South Africa: What should municipalities (dis)allow?
The unemployment rate in South Africa is alarmingly high. In the year 2018, the unemployment rate was recorded at 27.2%. Many people are forced to do desperate, and even dangerous things in order to sustain themselves. This includes people going into landfills to collect recyclable materials to …
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Education Administration and Policy Making in the Rhondda 1840 to 1974
… innovate and an almost irrepressible urge for local autonomy and self-government.<br/><br/>For each period the dissertation focuses on case examples of attitudes of stubborn determination and independence in education administration and policy making. Where possible brief evidence is also …
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Cooperative management: an alternative approach to multijurisdictional management of environmental resources
… responsibility, involving federal, state, and local agencies. Agencies formulate and direct programs towards the fulfillment of an assortment of objectives, based on their independent missions. These programs frequently are not integrated or coordinated across jurisdictional divisions. …
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Social agency in alpine communal forests : local actors' interactions with communal forests and participation in communal forestry in the French and Swiss Alps
… policy discourse claiming that participation of local communities is a condition for sustainable forest management, this research aims at understanding how local actors actually perceive - and interact with - their communally owned forests. <br> <br>Without predetermining whether there will be …
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