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The paper explores new forms of urban governance through a study of the role of the state, neighbourhoods, communities and citizens in UK crime and anti-social behaviour policies, outlining the increasing role of visible state intervention, alongside attempts to devolve power and responsibility...
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This study examines possible positive spillovers and negative consumption externalities of the average income in a geographic area (locality income) on individuals’ life satisfaction, focusing on two issues. The first is whether the effect of locality income on life satisfaction is sensitive...
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arguing in favor of a TR methodology suggest that the large number of noncompleters in community-based evaluations will make … it impossible to detect treatment effects. A further issue with evaluation of community-based offender behavior programs …
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community. Based on these definitions, a conceptual framework for analyzing and measuring social capital and its indicators is … of three prototype communities–a small rural community, a modern city suburb, and a community located in the core of a … central city are outlined. For each prototype community, social capital formation strategies and indicators suggesting …
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returned to the community before March 2010. The report's findings indicate that reinstitutionalizations were most likely to … occur in the first few months after transition, and that participants were more likely to remain in the community but tended …
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Co-management of natural resources, i.e., management shared between multiple actors, has received increasing attention as it is seen to enhance sustainability of resource governance. However, there is little empirical research to date that examines the dynamics of the interplay between actors...
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According to the Committee on culture of the world association of United Cities and local Governments and its document “Agenda 21 for culture” (2004), culture should be considered as one of the four pillars of sustainable development on an equal footing with the others. This paper will focus...
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В статье уточняется общность африканских стран с точки зрения экономических характеристик; рассматриваются основные этапы развития национальных...
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This is a new version of a series of color slides on social capital as presented at a conference on rural development presented in Tampa, Florida in 2004, and sponsored by the Southern Rural Development Center.
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also because of the local community. Not only the touristic projects, but the different kind of community programs has an … important role also in the present, as much as in the future. The successful local community building projects need a very … show the community-forming effect of the LEADER program. …
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