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Resolving Agile Ambidexterity: Between Ambivalence, Adaptation, and Accommodation

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public bureaucracies address challenging and complex problems by applying agile work practices when standard operating procedures or routines fail. In these situations, public managers need to decide whether to exploit existing bureaucratic routines or explore novel solutions through non‐routine agile work practices.
Ines Mergel
wiley   +1 more source

Water Pollution Assessment and Community Perception of Major Rivers in Ghana. [PDF]

Environ Health Insights
Aboah M, Tei EA, Miyittah M, Gnimadi CJI.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Dynamic Effects of Public Expenditure: The Challenge of Multi‐Level Governance Systems

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The public economy literature shows that dynamic effects of public expenditure vary across programs, giving governments incentives to allocate spending with precision. However, this may be difficult in multi‐level governance, where centrally funded expenditure is implemented locally.
Jens Blom‐Hansen, Kurt Houlberg, Søren Serritzlew   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pesticide and pharmaceutical pollution in South Africa: a review of sources, impacts, and policy gaps. [PDF]

Environ Monit Assess
Amaechi JM, Chow R, Petrik L, Jovanovic N.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Effect of the Budget Cycle on Native American Health Outcomes

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract Indian Health Service provides healthcare for 2.5 million Alaskan Natives and Native Americans. However, health disparities between Native Americans and other groups have been widening. One important factor for this trend is funding. In this paper, I document the effect of funding constraints on mortality outcomes using fixed effects models. I
Patrick Carlin
wiley   +1 more source

Performance optimization design for constructed wetland coupled with microbial fuel cell for rural domestic sewage treatment. [PDF]

PLoS One
Zhang T, Shen S, Xu Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sea‐Level Rise Adaptation and Collaboration in Polycentric Governance: A Comparison of Three Regions

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adaptation to sea‐level rise confronts coastal communities worldwide with a new set of collective action problems that require collaboration. When does collaboration result in concrete action for adaptation? To address this question, we combine the Ecology of Games and Collaborative Governance frameworks using a comparative analysis of three ...
Francesca Vantaggiato, Mark Lubell, Matthew C. Nowlin, Juita‐Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Majid Shafiee‐Jood   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Controlled, before-and-after analysis and pre-post surveys to assess the effects of a community-wide sanitation system on environmental contamination, infection risk and well-being in Alabama's Black Belt: study protocol. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Harmon OA, Lott MEJ, Holcomb DA, McGlohn E, Elliott M, White K, Brown J.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Limited effects of structural restoration on ecosystem functioning in an urban tropical stream

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Hydromorphological restoration through structural interventions is commonly used to mitigate urbanization impacts on lotic freshwater systems, but their effects on ecosystem functioning in urban tropical streams remain unexplored.
João Miguel Merces Bega, Björn Gücker, Davi Gasparini Fernandes Cunha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Primary caregivers' practices and perceptions on antibiotic use and resistance: a one health qualitative study in rural South India. [PDF]

BMJ Open
Charan K, Lakshmi Kandhan V, Rishika RS, Kalimuthu P, Pon Ruban AC, Karthikeyan MB, Sahoo KC, Ponnaiah M, Chethrapilly Purushothaman GK, Diwan V.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source