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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Sustainable policy"”.
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The balancing test: Is fairtrade cotton a sustainable policy for improving the livelihoods of Indian cotton producers?
<p>This thesis determines if Fairtrade cotton can improve the livelihoods of cotton farmers in India. Interviews with Fairtrade cotton farmers and local staff members of a Fairtrade cotton organization provide insightful data on Fairtrade cotton. Results reveal that Fairtrade cotton contributes to …
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International early childhood education and care professionals practices to engage family members of young children with special education needs: a comparative study of professional practices in China and the United States
… indicators, and teacher qualifications and sustainable policy in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). This study explores strategies ECEC professionals in China and the United States implement to engage family members of young children with special education needs. In-depth interviews …
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A sustainable journey to school: global issues, local places, children's lives
… of childhood, social and environmental policy and urban transport studies. It adds to geographical thinking about children’s choices in their everyday mobilities. My thesis makes an original contribution by filling in large gaps in knowledge about the journey to school experiences of the …
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Analysis and determinants of sustainability policy choice of local councils in Australia : a test of stakeholder theory
… Agenda 21, a blueprint for action to achieve sustainable development. Global sustainability is currently a major focus for policies in both the public and private sectors. Local government in Australia is currently undergoing historic changes as a result of a major thrust to restructure …
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Marketing Institutions of Afforestation Generated Carbon Offsets in Canada: Political Sustainability, Ideology and the New Institutional Economics
… Their performance in fulfilling various policy objectives is evaluated. The results indicate that the primary variation between scenarios is the distribution of benefits. This focus on the distribution of benefits continues through demonstrating how subtle variations in modeling …
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Essays in Macro-Finance
… approaches to estimating the effects of monetary policy shocks. We find that state-of-the-art estimates using both approaches are biased: high-frequency estimates due to nonlinear predictability and narrative estimates due to regularization. To correct for the bias in these approaches, we propose …
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Policy learning : new challenges for smart value capture in Colombia
… can inform a strategy to make PLVI a politically sustainable policy instrument. This study explores how local political economy has shaped and influenced the development of these two instruments, highlighting that despite their common conceptual origins, SA and PLVI are significantly different. …
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Re-conceptualising strategic environmental assessment: theoretical overview and case study from Chile
… organisations to pursue the complex goal of sustainable development. Academic literature and practitioners have devoted increasing attention to this instrument since the late 1980s, and the mid- 1990s have witnessed a surge in legislation and methodological guidance throughout both developed …
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The Role of Energy in an Energy Constrained Economy
… These results suggest that energy subsidies as a policy for transfer payments, especially in middle income and energy deficit countries, has no upward pressure on electricity consumption; rather, it acts as an impetus for economic development thereby endorsing the growth hypothesis in energy …
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Upwardly mobile: private transport, regeneration and environment in the Thames Gateway
… it investigates two key contemporary transport policy issues. The first is the burgeoning debate surrounding the nature and extent of the relationship between transport investment and economic activity. Secondly, it explores the ways and means of encouraging more environmentally sustainable and …
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Water Governance: The Politics of the Emergence of Reflexive-Discursive Water Policy in California, Australia and Israel
… augmentation towards a new era of reallocative policy. It identifies and critiques multiple policy instruments and the aims and considerations that inform and shape water resource policies. It analyses the nature of the shifts in policy emphasis, the role and mechanisms of institutional reform, …
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The politics of sustainability in New Zealand: A critical evaluation of environmental policy, practice and prospects through a case study of the dairy industry
… in New Zealand, contemporary environmental policy and its implementation, dairy industry responses to the challenge of sustainability, and a lakes restoration initiative. Informed by a critical discourse analysis approach, the thesis developed a discourse analytic framework to identify …
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Plan de acción para la transición hacia la sostenibilidad del Grupo Sierra Alta S.A.S
El proyecto de investigación propone una propuesta de plan de acción para la transición hacia la sostenibilidad de la empresa Grupo Sierra Alta S.A.S, busca integrar los principios de sostenibilidad ambiental, social y económica a partir de la filosofía y las estrategias determinadas por la …