Ecological factors have tremendous impacts on administrative machinery. It is understood that public administration at any level of government is in a causal relationship with its ecology.Investigating the ecology of public administration is a useful way to understand policy process and the...

The research aims at spatial and socio-economic analysis of landscape patterns in Baltic coastal area of Estonia. The process of active suburbanization, which is analysed in the current work, is caused by complex socio-economical factors which arise from sociopolitical changes since the end of...

While state-level environmental policies are relatively well known and researched as complements to and gap-fillers for federal environmental policy in the U.S., a level of government below that — cities — remains less well-charted territory. Considering the prominence of urbanization in...

The pace of urbanisation, the intensity of energy consumption, and the quality of environmental regulation level pose a severe threat to environmental sustainability in Africa. Hence, we examine the role of regulatory quality on environmental pollution through urbanisation and energy consumption...

A sustainable energy policy needs to balance between the reduction of carbon emissions and protection of vulnerable households and avoid a widening of the existing "energy gap" among the consumers. This study investigates energy spending for different consumer groups, in particular focussing on...