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Environmental Statecraft, Fragmented Authoritarianism, and Technocratic Governance: The Structure and Agency of China's Local Environmental Politics

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local environmental politics in China is often said to be dominated by state‐controlled modes of multi‐level governance. However, top‐down governance is embedded within and transformed by local politics, adding complexity to governance practices and environmental outcomes.
Minsi Liu, Kevin Lo
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Does partisan alignment affect the electoral reward of intergovernmental transfers? [PDF]

In this paper we test the hypothesis that intergovernmental grants allocated to co-partisans buy more political support than grants allocated to local governments controlled by opposition parties.
Albert Sole-Olle, Pilar Sorribas-Navarro
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Carbon Markets and Natural Climate Solutions in Brazil: Institutional Coherence Across Biodiversity, Land‐Use and Territorial Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how natural climate solutions (NCS) are institutionalised through carbon market governance in tropical contexts, focusing on Brazil's emerging Emissions Trading System (SBCE). It contributes to debates on the effectiveness, equity and governance of nature‐based climate action by analysing how carbon market instruments ...
Fátima de Souza Freire, Edilson Bezerra da Silva   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

From transfers to tax "co-occupation": the Italian reform of intergovernmental finance [PDF]

The paper provides some insights into the current reform of the system of intergovernmental relations in Italy. A most relevant change is the abolition of transfers from a higher level of government as an ordinary means of finance for sub-central ...
Ernesto Longobardi
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Organization system and mechanism of functioning of intergovernmental relations in the Russian Federation 

Интеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2019
The relevance of the researching is due to the need to develop new solutions in the field of organization of intergovernmental relations as an element of the system of state and municipal finances that is being reformed in the Russian Federation.
L.B. Mokhnatkina
doaj   +1 more source

Carbon dioxide emissions and vulnerability to climate change in Africa: How public goods moderate policy syndromes

Environmental Progress &Sustainable Energy, EarlyView.
Abstract Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and climate vulnerability are major concerns affecting sustainable development in Africa. This study assesses how the provision of public goods moderates the effects of policy syndromes on CO2 emissions and vulnerability to climate change in the continent.
Simplice A. Asongu, Judith C. M. Ngoungou, Thales Pacific Yapatake Kossele   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reform of the intergovernmental transfer system in China [PDF]

In China, most of the service delivery responsibilities are assigned to the subnational governments. Yet for reasons of efficiency in tax collection and administration, the central government collects revenues far in excess of its expenditure needs.
Shah, Anwar, Shen, Chunli
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Pollinator risks and recovery from air pollutant interactions during the fossil‐fuel transition

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
By altering the composition and concentration of floral scents, air pollutants such as ozone (O3) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) disrupt the ability of insect pollinators to locate flowers, threatening biodiversity and crop production. We examine the impact of these pollutants on pollinator performance and evaluate the short‐ and long‐term consequences of ...
James MW Ryalls, Jacob Bishop, Carol Wagstaff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does partisan alignment affect the electoral reward of intergovernmental transfers? [WP ERE] [PDF]

, 2013
[spa] En este trabajo analizamos la hipótesis que las transferencias asignadas a los municipios políticamente alineados generan un mayor apoyo político que las transferencias asignada a los municipios gobernados por la oposición.
Sorribas, Pilar, Solé Ollé, Albert
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Intergovernmental finance in South Africa: Some observations [PDF]

This paper examines the evolution and functioning of fiscal decentralisation process and intergovernmental finance in the Republic of South Africa (RSA). It analyses the system of dividing revenues among the three spheres of government.
M. Govinda Rao
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