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Beyond Figures and Numbers Participatory Budgeting as a Leverage for Citizen Identity and Attachment to Place

International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2019
The purpose of the paper is to examine the potential of participatory budgeting (PB) for the formation of citizen identity and attachment to the place in terms of individual, territorial and thematic focus.
Justyna Anders-Morawska, Marta Hereźniak   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
wiley   +1 more source

Os Orçamentos Participativos em Itália: Uma ‘ponte’ para a construção do Novo Município

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2007
The geography of Participatory Budget (PB) experiences in Italy is a rapidly mutating one, against a backdrop which is beginning to find a “hard nucleus” of political innovation in the current treatment of economic-financial themes.
Giovanni Allegretti, Massimo Allulli
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory Budgeting [PDF]

, 2004
Participatory budgeting, an innovatory form of direct participation by the people in formulating and implementing budget policies in the city Porto Alegre, Brazil, brought democracy to decisions on how the city's public resources were used. This brochure explains how Participative Budgeting is an effective participatory tool to demand government ...
openaire   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional Analysis Model for Examining Direct Democracy Phenomena: a Case Study of Participatory Budgeting

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2019
Direct democracy, the tradition of which dates back to ancient Athens, is now widely practised in many countries around the world. In this paper, a case study of participatory budgeting is given as an illustration of how residents can decide directly ...
Zofia Łapniewska
doaj   +1 more source

PUBLIC FINANCE AND POLICY EFFECTIVENESS A REVIEW OF PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN LOCAL GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS

Journal of Sustainable Development and Policy
This systematic review explores the role of participatory budgeting (PB) in enhancing public finance systems and improving policy effectiveness within local governance contexts.
Sazzad Islam
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the value of participatory science data for conservation decision‐making

Journal of Applied Ecology
Monitoring biodiversity can be critical for informing effective conservation strategies, but can also deplete the resources available for management actions if the time and money available for both activities are limited.
A. Binley, J. O. Hanson, O. Robinson, G. Golet, J. Bennett   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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