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Collective action and ecological sensibility for sustainable mangrove governance in Indonesia: challenges and opportunities

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2012
Theorists of Common Pool Resources (CPR) management suggest that distribution and devolution of power can localize consequential decisions over natural resources.
Astrid Meilasari-Sugiana
doaj   +1 more source

The 2016 Scottish Parliament Elections: Unionist Parties and the Constitutional Divide

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017
If voting for the Conservative party had become somewhat of a rarity in Scotland since the Thatcher era, the May 2016 Scottish Parliament election ushered in a new era, as it saw the resurgence of the Scottish Conservatives after they obtained a total of
Fiona Simpkins
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Devolution as process: institutional structures, state personnel and transport policy in the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Devolution has been described as a key ‘global trend’ over recent decades as governments have decentralised power and responsibilities to subordinate regional institutions (Rodriguez-Pose and Gill, 2003).
Docherty, I., MacKinnon, D., Shaw, J.
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Perceptions of medical students towards healthcare devolution: an online cross-sectional study

open access: yesThe Pan African Medical Journal, 2015
BACKGROUND: there have been worries concerning the preparedness and capacity of the counties to take over health care services. As the current medical students are going into this new system, we sought their opinions on the issue of devolution.
Henry Nyongesa   +3 more
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The Conservative Party’s Devolution Dilemma

open access: yesTextes & Contextes, 2008
In the year of the tercentenary of the union between England and Scotland, the claim is made by the Conservative party that only it ‘can make devolution work’.
David Seawright
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L’instrumentalisation de l’Union européenne face à la dévolution

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2006
For supporters of devolution, the European Union is a means of by-passing the nation-state, in a context of ‘multi-level governance’ where political authority is distributed among three levels: the supranational level (EU institutions), the national ...
Agnès Alexandre-Collier
doaj   +1 more source

Reflections on how the implementation of sustainable development goals across the UK and Ireland can influence the mainstreaming of these goals in English planning practice

open access: yesTown and Regional Planning, 2020
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an ambitious and voluntary undertaking by governments to implement sustainable development. Many countries have been pursuing a process of localisation, in which local and regional priorities are rooted in the
P.J. Geraghty
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On the Threshold of Independence? Scotland One Year after the SNP Election Victory [PDF]

open access: yesRomanian Journal of European Affairs, 2008
In 2007, marking both the tercentenary of the Anglo-Scottish Union and the tenth anniversary of the successful Devolution Referendum, the May elections caused a political earthquake, breaking the nearly five decades of hegemony of Scottish Labour at the ...
Eberhard Bort
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Devolution and human resources in primary healthcare in rural Mali

open access: yesHuman Resources for Health, 2011
Devolution, as other types of decentralization (e.g. deconcentration, delegation, privatization), profoundly changes governance relations in the health system.
Dao Dramane, Lodenstein Elsbet
doaj   +1 more source

Sports tourism and perceived socio-economic impact in Kenya: the case of Machakos county [PDF]

open access: yesTourism and Hospitality Management, 2017
Purpose – Smaller events have been favoured by many commentators in sports research because mega events have been criticised for failing to have an aggregate positive advantage to local communities, especially in developing countries.
Joseph Muiruri Njoroge   +2 more
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