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‘Manure gets into your veins’: Navigating plural valuation among rural landowners upstream from a Tribe‐led restoration project

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological restoration projects with diverse interest groups face the continual challenge of engaging values, goals and cultures that may vary greatly among partners. As part of an eco‐cultural, riparian restoration project led by the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, our research examines the instrumental, relational and intrinsic ...
Sarah Woodbury   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intergovernmental grants and successful tax limitation referenda [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Choice, 1988
Analyses of fiscal limitation referenda have typically ignored the role of institutional structure in referenda outcomes. This article demonstrates the importance of such structure through the investigation of intergovernmental grants in a model of federal tax rate determination.
openaire   +1 more source

Visioning ecologically diverse and harmonious futures of Korea in Good Anthropocene

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a buffer between North and South Korea, holds profound historical, cultural and ecological significance, as well as exceptional potential for conservation and transformation. This study explores ecologically diverse and peaceful futures for the Korean Peninsula by envisioning the DMZ as a landscape for ...
HyeJin Kim   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

CONTEMPORARY U.S. FEDERALISM: COERCIVE CHANGE WITH COOPERATIVE CONTINUITY [PDF]

open access: yesRevista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals, 2008
Contemporary U.S. federalism is a complex mixture of coercive, cooperative,and dual elements. Constitutionally and politically, the federal system hasbecome coercive because there has been a vast expansion of federal-governmentpower over the states since
John Kincaid
doaj  

Using a discontinuous grant rule to identify the effect of grants on local taxes and spending [PDF]

open access: yes
When investigating the effects of federal grants on the behavior of lower-level governments, it is hard to defend the handling of grants as an exogenous factor affecting local governments; federal governments often set grants based on characteristics and
Eva Mörk   +3 more
core  

Voters as a hard budget constraint: on the determination of intergovernmental grants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Recent empirical literature has shown that the determination of intergovernmental grants is highly influenced by the political bargaining power of the recipient states.
Feld, Lars P., Schaltegger, Christoph A.
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Digitising biological collections to advance National Species Inventories: A case study from the flora of Chile

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
In response to Chile's public policy to establish a national biodiversity inventory and monitoring system, we launched the HerbarioDigital.cl portal. We have digitised over 120,000 specimens representing more than 3,900 species from two Chilean herbaria, integrating them through a curated local taxonomic index.
Ricardo A. Segovia   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

LEGITIMACY, DEMOCRACY, CONTESTATION: INTRODUCING THE BRAZILIAN FORMULA FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2015
In this paper, the process of international legitimation is assessed from an International Relations standpoint, namely from the perspective adopted by international institutionalism, taking intergovernmental bodies as venues where political ...
Dawisson Belém LOPES
doaj  

Using a Discontinuous Grant to Identify the Effect of Grants on Local Taxes and Spending [PDF]

open access: yes
When investigating the effects of federal grants on the behavior of lower-level governments, it is hard to defend the handling of grants as an exogenous factor affecting local governments; federal governments often set grants based on characteristics and
Eva Mörk   +3 more
core  

Digitisation of herbarium specimens to the benefit of research: An African perspective focusing on South Africa and Western Indian Ocean Island states

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical exploration, discovery and conservation rely heavily on access to herbarium collections. Recently, digital access to label information, including georeferenced locality data, and images of herbarium specimens available online have greatly increased usage of herbarium specimen data.
Ronell R. Klopper   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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