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Clarifying Public Policy for Stronger Public Administration in Development

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public policy is ubiquitous, yet its meaning is often unclear. This ambiguity is not just conceptual. Because policy work is a large part of what public administrations do, how we define policy shapes how we structure and organize our administrative mechanisms.
Matt Andrews
wiley   +1 more source

Reach and representativeness within a rural randomized controlled trial designed to improve community health through civic engagement for built environment change in Texas and New York. [PDF]

Wellbeing Space Soc
Seguin-Fowler RA, Graham ML, Marshall GA, Hanson KL, Eldridge GD, Villarreal DL, Lewis EC, Folta SC, Maddock J.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Transforming a Poaching Hotspot: Embedded NGO Governance Between State and Community in Southern China

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Engaging people in educational processes that foster environmentally valuable outcomes: A synthesis of key findings across eight systematic reviews

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Alongside the rise of the evidence‐based conservation movement over the past 20 years, environmental education (EE) has emerged as a worthwhile strategy to achieve conservation goals. EE can help develop the societal attitudes, knowledge, skills, behaviours and norms that address conservation and environmental challenges and build deeper ...
Nicole M. Ardoin, Alan Reid, Alison W. Bowers, Heidi Ballard, Martha C. Monroe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital fire technologies and community networks: Cultivating just sociotechnical practices for living with planetary change

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Fires are expanding in frequency and intensity worldwide due to climate change and land‐use transformations. At the same time, fire often plays a regenerative role in ecosystems. Traditional and cultural practices incorporate fire use for landscape management and landscape renewal. In this complex matrix of fire ecologies, digital technologies
Jennifer Gabrys, Paula Tiara Torres, Pablo González Rivas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of youth extracurricular activities and political intentions in later political participation and civic engagement. [PDF]

J Adolesc
Lundberg E, Abdelzadeh A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Public perceptions of anthropogenic and natural sounds: Disparities in soundscapes and corresponding sense of place

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Noise pollution is an environmental stressor negatively affecting humans and biodiversity. Noise pollution is often measured and regulated according to loudness, but in this study, we assessed noise pollution based on human perceptions of soundscapes.
Caren B. Cooper, Jin Bai, Deja Perkins, Lincoln R. Larson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intellectual humility and the learning sciences: can self-reports and behavioral measures coexist to understand civic engagement? [PDF]

Front Psychol
Lira M, McElroy-Heltzel S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Social cohesion in restoration landscapes: The case of Rwanda

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecosystem restoration is recognized as a strategy for addressing landscape degradation. In contexts where ecological degradation overlaps with the deterioration of social cohesion, restoration must also contribute to rebuilding social ties alongside restoring ecosystems.
Valery Ndagijimana, Michael Weinhardt, Stefan Sieber, Katharina Löhr   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forging environmentalism: The influence of childhood nature experiences on people's pro‐biodiversity value orientations and attitudes

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract With the rapid expansion of transnational biodiversity policy instruments promoting large‐scale landscape transformations that depend on public support for their success and feasibility, understanding the mechanisms underlying pro‐biodiversity attitudes has become important.
Oriol Garcia‐Antúnez, Christopher M. Raymond, Thomas Beery, Anton Stahl Olafsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source