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Groundwater governance in the Rio Grande: Co-evolution of local and intergovernmental management
Water Alternatives, 2018 The physical interconnection of ground and surface waters is rarely acknowledged in inter-state and international agreements over surface water. This is especially true in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo basin, where groundwater pumping is at the heart of ...
Lucia De Stefano +3 more
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From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson +4 more
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Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size in Latin America [PDF]
This paper explores the link between fiscal decentralization and government size in Latin America. While most related work attempts to test Brennan and Buchanan's "Liviathan" hypothesis, here the emphasis is placed on a different channel: the potential ...
Ernesto Stein
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
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Conference‐Based Method: Interviewing Elites at Intergovernmental Conferences
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract Conferences have increasingly featured within geographical research as sites of knowledge production, performance and contestation. However, this article explores how intergovernmental conferences can be productive sites for geographical fieldwork through elite interviews on research topics such as climate geopolitics and disaster risk ...
Liam Saddington, Katie Peters
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China's reform of intergovernmental fiscal relations in the light of European experiences [PDF]
The paper looks a China's institutional reforms in public finances against the background of European experiences. Particular attention is given to Switzerland and Germany where there is a high degree of consensus forming mechanisms.
Spahn, Paul Bernd
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The Biodiversity Moonshot: A Spark for a Transformative Change or a New Business‐Case Facade?
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity has recently gained increased attention in sustainability management research. It sustains the ecosystems on which organizations depend, while simultaneously being threatened by organizational activities. By highlighting this dynamic of impact and dependence, the integration of biodiversity into management discourse offers an ...
Francesco Testa +17 more
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Medicaid Expenditures and State Budgets: Past, Present, and Future [PDF]
Rapid spending growth has made Medicaid a major element in state budgets; financial support from Federal matching grants is now a main component of state government revenues and of intergovernmental fiscal relations.
David Wildasin, James Marton
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