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The introduction of mandatory inter-municipal cooperation in small municipalities: preliminary lessons from Italy [PDF]
, 2018 PurposeThis article studies effects of mandatory inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in small Italian municipalities. Data from 280 small Italian municipalities on effects of IMC in terms of higher efficiency, better effectiveness of local public services,
Giacomini, Davide +2 more
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Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2021 The 2030 Agenda and its SDGs call for cross-sectoral collaboration and societal transformation. Translating these indivisible goals to the local level is an important undertaking for municipalities given their wide range of responsibilities.
Venus Krantz, Sara Gustafsson
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Different remote realities: health and the use of territory in Brazilian rural municipalities
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2022 OBJECTIVE To characterize remote rural Brazilian municipalities according to their logic of insertion into socio-spatial dynamics, discussing the implications of these characteristics for health policies.
A. Bousquat +6 more
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Truth or Dare? - How can we Influence the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Municipalities?
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2021 Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an increasingly important factor of everyday life. The progress of AI adoption continues to accelerate with increasing investments in AI techniques and applications worldwide.
Cindy Schaefer +5 more
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Air Pollution Exposure and Covid-19 in Dutch Municipalities
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020 In light of the existing preliminary evidence of a link between Covid-19 and poor air quality, which is largely based upon correlations, we estimate the relationship between long term air pollution exposure and Covid-19 in 355 municipalities in the ...
M. Cole, Ceren Ozgen, E. Strobl
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, 2021 Experimental governance is increasingly being implemented in cities around the world through laboratories, testbeds, platforms, and innovation districts to address a wide range of complex sustainability challenges.
Erica Eneqvist, A. Karvonen
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Professional Development in Education, 2020 This article reports findings from a larger study aimed at identifying the perceptions of teachers across four municipalities in Sweden on continuing professional development.
Martin Karlberg, Christopher Bezzina
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medRxiv, 2020 While COVID-19 was already responsible for more than 500,000 deaths worldwide as of July 3, 2020, very little is known on the socio-economic heterogeneity of its impact on mortality.
Paul Brandily +3 more
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The Journal of environment & development, 2020 Participation of citizens in local energy decisions is increasingly recognized as helpful for a successful decentralized energy transition. In this article, we focus on energy cooperatives in which private individuals jointly develop facilities to ...
Benjamin Schmid +3 more
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Effect of Styrene Butadiene Styrene on Properties of Open-Graded Asphalt Concrete Mixtures
مجلة النهرين للعلوم الهندسية, 2022 Open graded asphalt mixture is becoming more widespread where it is applied for various purposes, e.g. drainage of rainwater effectivity, traffic safety (high skid resistance), and controlling pollution noise.
Mohammed Muslim Namaa +2 more
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