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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Policy governance"”.
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An Analysis of the European Union Climate Policy: Governance, Domestic Politics and Policy Outcomes
… Results show that the EU enforces its climate policy against powerful member states and member states with convergent interests, suggesting that the EU is autonomous in the climate area. Chapter 2 examines the effects of the government’s ideology on the stringency envi-ronmental legislation …
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Governance of Alberta's Climate Leadership Plan
… social, political, and economic factors impacted governance of climate policy in Alberta from 2015 until the change in government in 2019. Analysing 344 press releases and 12 interviews with public servants and other stakeholders, this research uses Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan as a case …
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An assessment of the impact of land acquisitions for biofuels on local livelihoods' in Zambia.
… impacts. The study found that a lack of strong policy governance and appropriate support for the industry in Zambia is a challenge facing the development of a successful biofuels sector. For rural communities who are dependent on land held under community tenure, the conversion of communal land …
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Decentralizing urbanization : harnessing the potential of small cities in India
… political mindsets which have translated into policy, governance, investment and concomitantly, urbanization strategies. An important physical manifestation is the spawning of large scale regional and national infrastructure projects-ambitious mega highways, waterways, special investment zones …
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Public service delivery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo : a case study approach
… that exist between public administration, public policy, governance, leadership, organizational theory and strategic planning in the provision of public services. The management of a public organization ultimately involves achieving success in the following areas: determining how to fulfill the …
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Exploring adaptive policy management and evaluation for improved water resources management in the face of uncertainty and complexity in South Africa
Evidence-based water resources policy management is bedevilled by the challenge of uncertainty, with increased risk of policy failure and/or unintended or negative policy outcomes. Moreover, there is increased policy management complexity emerging from related systems' interdependencies …
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Levelling Up and Territorial Cohesion: The Places that Now Matter? French and British Regional Policy and Institutions since 2017
… lagging areas has become a major challenge for policy-makers, increasingly interested in territorialised, or regional, policies. This is particularly true of France and the United Kingdom in the late 2010s, where political changes challenged prevalent understandings of the problem of regional …
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Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA): policies, regulations, laws and institutions required for development
… and (where necessary) reforming the trade governance processes in the state parties. It is against this background that this study probes into the implementation of the AfCFTA in the context of select case studies; Nigeria, Kenya and Ethiopia. The study combined doctrinal research with …
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Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA): policies, regulations, laws and institutions required for development
… and (where necessary) reforming the trade governance processes in the state parties. It is against this background that this study probes into the implementation of the AfCFTA in the context of select case studies; Nigeria, Kenya and Ethiopia. The study combined doctrinal research with …
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The management of antipsychotic-induced weight gain
… within psychosis management and the impact of policy, governance, and system factors. These five programme theories outlined relationships between (i) leadership and governance, (ii) workforce development and (iii) service delivery contexts and their impact on reducing prescriber engagement …
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Public Policy Development and Implementation in the United Arab Emirates. A study of organizational learning during policy development and implementation in the Abu Dhabi Police and the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Interior
This reflective analysis of the Emirati public policy process (PPP) cycle and implications of uneven application of new public management (NPM) paradigms in the UAE offers insight into the way that public administrations develop, learn, evolve, and cope with new challenges during the policy …
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Locating Barriers To and Opportunities For Implementing Low Impact Development Within a Governance and Policy Framework in Southern Ontario
… the next step in stormwater management. Policy and governance play a strong role in the adoption of LID. There has been progress in implementing LID in the Greater Toronto Area but less progress in Southern Ontario in general. This research identifies barriers and opportunities to …
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Understanding Network Governance: A Case Study Exploration of Active Canada 20/20
Consistent with the governance shift towards network forms of governance, a number of new social movements have formed in response to the declining levels of physical activity in the Western world. One such movement is Active Canada 20/20: A Physical Activity Strategy and Change Agenda for Canada. …
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Neoliberal bodies: ideology and obesity
… characterized. Further, I argue that neoliberal policy and governance have contributed to increased levels of obesity. Through discourse analysis (Foucault, 1972) and institutional ethnography (Smith, 2005), I consider the ways in which neoliberalism and the social organization of scientific …
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An Examination Of Urban School Governance Reform In Detroit Public Schools, 1999-2014
… district leaders under three different school governance models. </p> <p>This qualitative historical case study developed an understanding of the overall impact of school governance reform on the institutional progress in DPS from 1999-2014. Institutional Progress examines the overall …