Enabling and disabling policy environments for community-led sustainability transitions
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DOI: 10.1007/s10113-019-01471-1
Abstract: This paper explores the role public policies have or may have in favoring or disfavoring the emergence, development, and diffusion of community-based sustainability initiatives. To this end, it presents evidence collected through a survey of… read more here.
Keywords: community led; policy; community; public policies ... See more keywords
Public policies to enhance regional entrepreneurship: another programme failing to deliver?
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-018-0021-9
Abstract: This paper examines public policies aimed at enhancing entrepreneurship. Drawing upon both theory and prior empirical work, it formulates four tests of policy effectiveness and applies them to evaluate the Wales Entrepreneurship Action Plan (EAP).… read more here.
Keywords: regional entrepreneurship; policies enhance; entrepreneurship another; entrepreneurship ... See more keywords
Public policies for sustainability and water security: The case of Almeria (Spain)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01037
Abstract: Abstract Currently, there are 31,614 ha of greenhouses in the province of Almeria, being the largest concentration of this type of facilities in the world. In fact, this one is visible from space and is usually… read more here.
Keywords: almeria spain; water security; water; sustainability ... See more keywords
Forest regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon: Public policies and economic conditions
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122424
Abstract: Abstract Secondary vegetation is the land use that has increased the most in the Brazilian Amazon in recent years. Approximately 49% of the increase in the total area since the mid-2000s was due to forest… read more here.
Keywords: brazilian amazon; economic conditions; regeneration; forest regeneration ... See more keywords
From the ostensible objectives of public policies to the reality of changes: Local orders of densification in the urban regions of Paris and Rome
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105470
Abstract: Abstract Densification has become a general battlecry of “post-suburban policies”. Yet the reality of densification processes does not necessarily correspond to the objectives of those policies. Through a comparative analysis of Paris (France) and Rome… read more here.
Keywords: objectives public; orders densification; public policies; local orders ... See more keywords
What You See and What You Get: Direct and Indirect Political Dividends of Public Policies
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DOI: 10.1017/s0007123423000017
Abstract: We investigated both the direct and indirect political dividends of public policies by examining Minha Casa, Minha Vida, a housing programme in Brazil that selects its beneficiaries by lottery. We surveyed the lottery participants and… read more here.
Keywords: programme; indirect political; direct indirect; public policies ... See more keywords
Risk of Retrogression in Social Rights and Reduction of Brazilian Public Policies
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DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x19001961
Abstract: Introduction: Brazil has 200 million descendants of African, Portuguese, Indigenous, German, Italian, and other peoples who have built their identities. The Federal Constitution was rewritten in 1988 to include a Social Protection System. Between 2000… read more here.
Keywords: risk retrogression; affirmative actions; brazilian public; public policies ... See more keywords
The 2004 EU Enlargement as an Outcome of Public Policies: The Impact of Intra-EU Mobility on Central and Eastern European Sending Countries
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DOI: 10.1017/s147474642000024x
Abstract: This article analyses the impact of mobility on sending CEE countries after the biggest EU enlargement of 2004 with some reference to the EU enlargement of 2007. It is presented on the fifteenth anniversary of… read more here.
Keywords: mobility; outcome public; sending countries; enlargement outcome ... See more keywords
Perinatal legislative policies and health outcomes.
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DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2017.07.006
Abstract: Perinatal epidemiology examines the variation and determinants of pregnancy outcomes from a maternal and neonatal perspective. However, improving public and population health also requires the translation of this evidence base into substantive public policies. Assessing… read more here.
Keywords: health outcomes; perinatal legislative; policies health; legislative policies ... See more keywords
Public Policies and Institutions Influencing South Africa’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment
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DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2017.1397338
Abstract: ABSTRACT South Africa is among the leading outward foreign direct investor nations from emerging countries in the world. The country’s transnational corporations have investments in all the seven continents. The integration of the country into… read more here.
Keywords: south africa; investment; outward foreign; public policies ... See more keywords
Implementation challenges in public policies towards indigenous peoples: the impact of health policies in urban contexts
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DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2020.1779201
Abstract: How are indigenous public health policies implemented in contexts of diversity? The rural-urban migration processes that indigenous people have experienced since the mid-1990s in Latin American cou... read more here.
Keywords: health policies; implementation challenges; policies towards; challenges public ... See more keywords