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Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Climate‐Friendly Food Production: The Role of Production Method Information and Social Norms

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Trust Through Participatory Budgeting

open access: yes, 2022
This graduate project examines the effectiveness of increasing public trust in local government through participatory budgeting. Public trust towards the government has been decreasing over the years. Increasing transparency can rebuild the bridge in the
Padilla, Veronica
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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory Budgeting and Placemaking: Concepts, Methods, and Practices

open access: yesUrban Planning
Participatory budgeting has arisen as an interesting form of citizen participation in urban development and, thus, as a new way of exercising placemaking and grassroots democracy.
Carlos Smaniotto Costa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Truth-Revealing Participatory Budgeting

open access: yesCoRR
Participatory Budgeting (PB) is commonly studied from an axiomatic perspective, where the aim is to design procedurally fair and economically efficient rules for voters with full information regarding their preferences. In contrast, we take an epistemic perspective and consider a framework where PB projects have different levels of underlying quality ...
Qishen Han   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory Budgeting: The Practice and the Potential

open access: yes, 2016
This paper is part of the IMFG Forum Papers series. For a full list of papers, please visit http://bit.ly/2ylAa2DParticipatory budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.
Friendly, Abigail
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Public service reform and participatory budgeting: How can Scotland learn from international evidence?

open access: yes, 2017
A documentary film exploring how community planning partners from two What Works Scotland case sites learnt about implementing participatory budgeting on a study trip to Paris, a European leader in mainstreaming ...
Pradeau, G.
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Evaluation of Experienced Manipulation Characteristics in Robotic Surgery Using Log Data From the Hinotori Surgical System

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This study analyzed log data from the Japanese hinotori surgical robot to characterize manipulation performed by experienced surgeons in robotic surgery. Compared with less‐experienced surgeons, the experienced group demonstrated shorter task durations, reduced travel distances with the right instrument (Arm3), faster and more dynamically modulated ...
Masaki Saito   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory Governance, Neoliberal Restructuring and Participatory Budgeting in Chicago, IL [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This dissertation examines the relationship between participatory democracy and neoliberal restructuring in cities through an empirical examination of the practice of participatory budgeting in Chicago, IL.
Pin, Laura Grace
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