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Showing 1 to 20 of 765 for “"local level"”.
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Utilization of abortion services: a local level analysis
Utilization rates of an abortion provider located in Roanoke, Virginia were compared with the national abortion rates. This study also examined the barriers that women must overcome in order to obtain abortion services. Green's PRECEDE model of health care behavior was used as a framework for the …
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Spatial planning to integrate climate change adaptation at local level
… is unclear how international, national and even local governments develop response actions to climate concerns and integrate them into different spatial scales. Developing and mainstreaming effective response actions to climate change into numerous sectors, cross-sectoral policies is a complex …
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Energy resilience on a local level : inclusive planning for disaster
The nature of today's energy and technology relationship means that there is a vulnerable relationship between energy delivery systems and the range of social, medical, and fiscal systems they currently support. In the past decade, the fragility of aging electric power grids with inadequate …
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Characteristics and practices of exemplary local level interagency transition teams
… study was to identify those factors which make local-level interagency transition teams effective in facilitating the transition from the secondary school setting to successful adult opportunities for youths with disabilities. The objective was accomplished using a naturalistic qualitative …
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A Local Level Response to Reducing Childhood Hunger and Advancing SDG#2
… objective of this research was to investigate a local-level approach as a potential solution to reducing hunger and improving nutrition for vulnerable children (aged one to fourteen) in the Region of Waterloo (ROW) through a case study of Food4Kids Waterloo Region (F4K-WR). Additionally, the …
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Modelling the Demand for Long-term Care to Optimise Local Level Planning
… studies have attempted to model demand at the local level for the purposes of informing local service delivery and organisation. Many developing countries with mature and developed systems of LTC in place are under pressure to reduce health care spend, whilst delivering greater value for money. …
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Localisation and Resilience at the local level: the case of Transition Town Totnes
… Transition approach, resilience and economic relocalisation, with the aim of analysing whether and how they can be implemented in a locality based on the Transition approach, and assessing what socio-economic and community-related structures would be necessary to implement such a process. The …
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A model for assessing the risk of human trafficking on a local level
… profiles the risk of human trafficking at the local level through causative factors. Businesses, indicated by the literature, were weighted based on the presence of characteristics that increase the likelihood of trafficking in persons. The mean risk was calculated by census tract to reveal the …
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Changing Places, Creating Spaces: Santali Women in Local Level Politics in Rural India
… analyses the impact that a 33% women’s quota in local level politics has had on a tribal population in India. It is based on ethnographic research in a majority Santali village in northern Odisha, India. Using Marxist and Foucauldian categories, I assess the manner in which state imposed systems …
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Crafting a livelihood: local-level trade in mats and baskets in Pondoland, South Africa
This study explored the dynamics of local-level trade in plant-based mats and baskets in Khanyayo village, Eastern Cape. These dynamics include social aspects of harvesting, resource tenure and trade. It also includes institutional issues such as legislation that enhances or restricts the degree to …
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Organising for security : collaboration between multiple stakeholders at the local level in South Africa
… within the state, suggest that at the local level the state is no longer a referent object of security but rather one stakeholder among many. My thesis challenges the assumption of a fixed hierarchy between stakeholders in the security landscape at the local level. By exploring …
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Local-level institutions and common property resource management in the Khorixas regional constituency, Namibia
… supply in rural areas. By establishing these local-level water management institutions, policy makers in Namibia assume that water resources in the rural areas will be managed sustainably. This dissertation seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of local-level institutions in the management of …
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Local-level policies for small firm sector development in Russia and Hungary: a comparative analysis.
… by the lack of deep restructuring at the microlevel. In this context, the development of new small firms assumes critical importance as they are viewed as key agents in the process of structural change in the transition economies. However, the development of small firms continues to be stymied …
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A new institutionalist analysis of local level food policy in England between 2012 and 2014
… to render the food environment within their local areas more sustainable and resilient. The main question it addresses is how institutional norms, values and practices affect food policy groups’ capacity to pursue their aims. The research is informed by earlier literature identifying factors …
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Thinking globally, acting locally : investigating local-level capacity in the United States to pursue sustainability
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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The distributive intent of the state and the politics of implementation at the local level
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
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How progressives took advantage of moderate discontent: political opportunity, framing and mobilization at the local level
This paper asks why a progressive social movement formed in a conservative place. The People for a Progressive University City (PPUC) formed as a Political Action Committee (PAC) in a mid-sized community in order to influence the city commission and school board election of 2005. Resource …
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Integrating Romani communities in the Czech Republic: an analysis of policy implementation at the local level
… and employment is being implemented at the local level. By discussing the integration strategy with the people responsible for its implementation, it was possible to look at the policy from a new perspective. These people are experts in dealing with the realities of social exclusion in …
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An Exploratory Study Of Socially Responsibleprocurement Activitiesin The Expenditure Of Public Fundsat The State And Local Level
… annual expenditures of federal, state and local governments, in concert with universities and school districts represents incredible purchasing power and requires great prowess in its expenditure. Over the course of centuries, procurement has been used as a policy tool to improve society. …
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