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Critical questions (and some answers) in debates on shale gas

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2017
Paul Hardcastle   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Policy Capacity Matters Differently Over Time: The Emergence and Persistence of Participatory Budgeting in China

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The persistence of participatory budgeting (PB) in selected Chinese localities challenges the conventional wisdom that deliberative democratic practices can only take root in liberal political environments. Yet, existing literature has not sufficiently elucidated the factors underpinning the rise and sustained operation of PB in this seemingly
Yifei Yan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Context, Culture, and Governance in an Informal Community in Ghana: A Case Study for Community‐Based Adaptation in Public Administration

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In its quest for development, Ghana must address socioeconomic challenges not of its own making, use resources it does not have, and apply externally imposed technocratic knowledge‐based solutions largely incompatible with Ghanaians' lived experience.
Jessica Kritz, Peter F. Haruna
wiley   +1 more source

Intermediation Work for Localization: The Role of a Place‐Based and Multi‐Stakeholder Meta‐Organization

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Localization is the process of adapting and developing international aid to suit local contexts. Thus, localization involves paying attention to the relations between organizations and local actors receiving development aid. One key question that has not, as yet, been satisfactorily answered is how to collectively organize localization to ...
Ingrid Mazzilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Town Planning [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, 1908
openaire   +1 more source

Culture, Community, and Development: Unpacking the ‘Socio‐Cultural Milieu Dynamics’ of Solomon Islands and Their Influence on Australia's Aid Localisation

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using public ethnography anchored in the post‐development theory and interpretivist epistemological paradigm, this study examines what we term the ‘socio‐cultural milieus dynamics’ (SCMD) of the Solomon Islands (SI) and how these shape meaning, discourse, and practice in ways that influence Australia's aid localisation efforts and aid outcomes.
Mark Opoku Amankwa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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