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Life Cycle Assessment of Existing and Alternative Options for Municipal Solid Waste Management in Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Russia

Recycling, 2022
A waste reform was recently introduced in Russia to divert waste from landfills. To help advance the reform, this paper presents a life cycle assessment of the municipal solid waste management system in Russia’s second largest city—Saint Petersburg—and ...
Anna Zaikova, Natalia Vinitskaia, Ivan Deviatkin, Jouni Havukainen, Mika Horttanainen   +4 more
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Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels, Cord‐Friedrich von Hobe, Miryam Sarah Merk, Thomas Kneib, Oliver Musshoff   +4 more
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The elimination of local public animal protection bodies: the case of the Special Secretary of Animal Rights (SEDA) of the Municipality of Porto Alegre, Brasil

Derecho Animal, 2017
This essay deals with the elimination of the Special Secretary for Animal Rights (SEDA) of Porto Alegre, which occurred in January 2017 through the Administrative Reform Law of this municipality.
Luciano Rocha Santana
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Decentralization Reform in Ukraine: Assessment of the Chosen Transformation Model [PDF]

, 2017
Ukraine has to reform the spatial organization of power, which involves alteration of the administrative-territorial division in very difficult socio-economic and political conditions.
Udovychenko, Volodymyr, Anatoliy Melnychuk, Ostapenko, Pavlo, Pavlo Ostapenko, Volodymyr Udovychenko, Oleksiy Gnatiuk, Gnatiuk, Oleksiy, Melnychuk, Anatoliy   +7 more
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Local responses to state-led municipal reform in the Finnish-Swedish border region: conflicting development discourses, culture and institutions

Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2018
This paper scrutinises the intersections and collisions of different development discourses in the Kemi-Tornio sub-region which lies alongside the Finnish-Swedish border within the political context of municipal reform initiated by the Finnish government
Fredriika Jakola
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The potential and consequences of municipal election reform

, 2017
This paper is part of the IMFG Perspectives series. For a full list of papers, please visit http://bit.ly/2ylAa2DFollowing pressure from some sectors of civil society, the Province of Ontario passed a law in 2016 allowing municipalities to use ranked ...
Moore, Aaron A.
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THE SYSTEM OF COMPETENCES’ DISTRIBUTION IN MUNICIPAL FORMATION AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN MODERN CONDITIONS [PDF]

Экономика региона, 2006
The essence and system of competences’ distribution in municipal formation is considered in the article. The results of administrative reform and reform of local self-management in the sphere of differentiation of powers between federal bodies, state ...
N.A. Potekhin , L.P. Ustinova
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