The Environment Canterbury Act with the CWMS embed in ‘law’ a hierarchy of collaborative and more formal institutional arrangements in the form of regional and zone committees. Through these committees we increasingly see a fine tuning of the specificity of the targets around land use and...

Severe shortages of capital impose severe restraints on the implementation of cost-effective efficient lighting technologies in Eastern Europe. The article examines whether third-party finance provided by energy-service companies can help improve energy efficiency in lighting by providing the...

A central theme of health policy has concerned the public's participation in primary health care services, both as individual consumers and collectively as communities. In the U.K. primary care increasingly centres on general practice. This paper reports an exploratory study undertaken with...