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Conceptualizing the Street‐Level Bureaucrat Construct

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Differences among street‐level bureaucrats—across professions, institutional settings, regions, and countries—are largely overlooked in research. We propose conceptualizing the street‐level bureaucrat construct as a general variable that varies across institutional settings, professions, cultures, times, and locations. We analyze variations in
Faisal S. Cheema, Euipyo Lee, Rajneesh Gupta, James L. Perry   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nordic hip fracture registries: comparisons toward a minimal common and standardized Nordic Hip Fracture Dataset (Nordic-HFD). [PDF]

Acta Orthop
Schmidt CR, Palm H, Viberg B, Hedström M, Wolf O, Rogmark C, Gjertsen JE, Dybvik E, Pedersen AB.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Co‐Production as State‐Building: Relational Capacity and the Prevention of Violent Extremism in the Global South

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances a theory of co‐production as a relational state‐building strategy for countering youth radicalisation in fragile states. Grounded in fieldwork in northern Togo, affected by jihadist incursions from the Sahel and home to a predominantly young population, we argue that co‐production extends state presence into ‘brown areas’
Bakoa Nathan Madjoulba, Diego A. Salazar Morales   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Portfolio Options for Encouraging Deployment of Negative Emissions Technologies in the Electricity System. [PDF]

Environ Sci Technol
Arwa EO, Abdulla A, Schell KR.
europepmc   +1 more source

Care through cultivation: Indigenous Swidden agriculture as forest care

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues that the agricultural practices of Bunong swidden cultivators in northeastern Cambodia constitute relational care for forests that is fundamentally misunderstood, misrecognized, and marginalized by dominant state policies, conservation, and development paradigms. Bringing together care theory, long‐term ethnographic research,
Esther Leemann
wiley   +1 more source

Tenuous (in)stability? Mixed policy feedback and its effects on climate policy in Australia and Canada. [PDF]

Policy Sci
Logg-Scarvell J, Patterson J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Action plan for controlling Amaranthus palmeri in maize fields of Aragón (Spain): An economic assessment under uncertainty

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Invasive weeds pose a global challenge to sustainable agriculture, threatening productivity while increasing the costs and uncertainty of crop management. Using 6 years of experimental evidence, we developed and evaluated three 10‐year action plans for controlling Amaranthus palmeri in maize crops in Aragón, Spain, accounting for biological and control‐
Gabriel Pardo, Ana I. Marí, Inmaculada Villanúa, Alicia Cirujeda, Yolanda Martínez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ride the green: How does the national carbon market affect corporate breakthrough green innovation? [PDF]

Carbon Balance Manag
Zhang L, Song Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing Eco‐Efficiency and the Cost of Carbon Abatement in Wastewater Treatment: Evidence From Spain

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play a critical role in protecting public health and the environment but are also contributors to carbon emissions. Improving the eco‐efficiency of WWTPs is essential for advancing sustainability in the sector.
Alexandros Maziotis, Maria Molinos‐Senante   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operationalizing the Metaverse for Urban Sustainability: Evidence From an Expert Panel and the Seoul Metaverse City Case Study

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga, Ayyoob Sharifi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source