Cooperation and networking in metropolitan areas from community of problems to community of common interests in the Warsaw Metropolitan Area
Inter-community cooperation ; Legislation ; Local government unit ; Network ; Poland ; Urban development ; Urban geography ; Urban planning ; Warsaw
of municipalities bringing problems, that can not be addressed, and solved by one municipality. Polish legislation provides legal basis for cooperation of municipalities. However, experience of the last several years proves that cooperation among municipalities
is not an easy task. It creates problems especially within functional urban areas. In this paper, the issue of cooperation among municipalities from the Warsaw Metropolitan Area (WMA) is addressed using the perspective of networking and formulation of common
Public health, cooperatives, local regulation, and the development of modern milk policy : the Chicago milkshed, 1900-1940
Chicago ; Coopérative ; Coût de transport ; Etats-Unis ; Groupe de pression ; Géographie historique ; Illinois ; Industrie agro-alimentaire ; Politique agricole ; Produit agricole ; Produit laitier
Agribusiness ; Agricultural policy ; Agricultural product ; Chicago ; Cooperative ; Dairy product ; Historical geography ; Illinois ; Lobby ; Transport cost ; United States of America
périssables. Contrôle des pratiques de production et organisation de coopératives. Barrières de réglementation. Confrontation intéressante de groupes d'intérêts locaux et de la politique intérieure avec le Département de l'agriculture.
The AA. examine an instance of international cooperation that exemplifies an alternative approach to international river management. The benefit-sharing principle focuses on allocating the outputs from water use, rather than the water itself
; and was used by the Senegal basin riparians to access key services such as electricity despite a context of poverty, climatic change and intra-basin politics. What emerges is a strong narrative of cooperation sustained, over decades, by the states' willingness
Capital social ; Coopérative ; France ; Industrie ; Industrie agro-alimentaire ; Jura ; Localisation ; Produit laitier ; Qualité du produit ; Stratégie économique ; Système de production
Agribusiness ; Cooperative ; Dairy product ; Economic strategy ; France ; Industry ; Jura ; Location ; Production system ; Quality of product ; Social capital
les coopératives fruitières et les affineurs qui assurent la finition et la commercialisation des fromages. Le système de production est fragilisé par la concentration des coopératives qui se poursuit par dissolution ou par fusion-absorption. Mise en
Agricultural cooperative ; Agriculture ; Network ; Organic farming ; Pennsylvania ; Research technique ; Social change ; Sustainable agriculture ; United States of America ; Woman
Agriculture ; Andes ; Communauté rurale ; Coopérative agricole ; Ecologie politique ; Equateur ; Montagne ; Niveau de vie ; Protection de la nature ; Relation homme-environnement ; Zone protégée
Agricultural cooperative ; Agriculture ; Andes ; Ecuador ; Living standard ; Man-environment relations ; Mountain ; Nature conservation ; Political ecology ; Protected area ; Rural community
. Exemple de trois types d'initiatives dans une ccopérative indigène campesino dans la sierra du centre-sud. Plaidoyer pour une conceptualisation des trajectoires de conservation : celles-ci seraient coproduites à travers les histoires de l'interaction entre
épargné par la crise. Le projet survit cependant. Le territoire de la vallée est métissé et ne manque pas d'ambiguïtés et de contradictions : on enregistre un abandon des périmètres étatiques, de nouveaux espaces de démocratie pour les coopératives, la
China ; Drought ; Ecosystem ; Flood ; International cooperation ; Trans-border area ; Vulnerability ; Water ; Water management ; Water pollution ; Water quality ; Water resources ; Watershed
of emergency response mechanisms; 4) unsound administrative institutions; and 5) shortcomings in the development of regional cooperation based on transboundary waters. They concluded by identifying 4 pathways for reducing vulnerability : 1) encouraging
scientific research cooperation; 2) constructing information-sharing channels; 3) establishing early-warning mechanisms; and 4) promoting further coordination and negotiation.
Africa ; Economic cooperation ; Ideology ; International relations ; Political geography ; Power ; Regionalism ; Sovereignty
The election of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, as the chair of the African Union in February 2009, reopened the debate on continentalism versus regionalism, and also provided grounds for fresh analyses on the prospect for an African Economic
Amur River ; Asian part of Russia ; China ; Chinese ; Economic activity ; Heilongjiang ; International trade ; Oblast ; Regional economy ; Russians ; Trans-border cooperation ; Urban economy
. The stakeholder atrributes (legitimacy, power, and willingness to cooperate) are more important for stakeholder salience than company and product related characteristics.
The articles presents achievements and problems of the regionalised policy of area protection in Andalusia which is caracterised by recent initiatives of labelling and cooperation.