Female leadership and sexual health policy in Argentina
Argentina ; Feminism ; Health ; Health policy ; Legislation ; Political geography ; Reform ; Sexuality ; Woman
change only when specific leaders build momentum for reform through issue networks and diverse coalitions. Second, that leaders must mobilize ressources within civil society and across government branches to ensure that successful policies are enacted
This paper analyses the National Cooperation Programme on Air Quality Program and its responses to conflicts between transport and environmental policies in the Netherlands. The research shows that it proves to be prone to two identified risks
Biofuel ; Economy ; Energy ; Energy policy ; Europe ; Governance ; India ; Land use ; South Africa ; Sustainable development ; United Kingdom
Dans cette partie consacrée à l'avenir des bio-carburants, on trouvera les articles suivants : 1-UK biofuel policy: envisaging sustainable biofuels, shaping institutions and futures ; 2-Burning desires: untangling and interpreting ‘pro-poor’ biofuel
policy processes in India and South Africa ; 3-Science in carbon economies: debating what counts in US biofuel governance ; 4-Biofuels and the politics of land-use change: tracing the interactions of discourse and place in European policy making ; 5
Measuring micro- and macro-impacts of regional development policies : the case of the Northeast Regional fund (FNE) industrial loans in Brazil, 2000–2006
Brazil ; Impact ; Industry ; Job creation ; Manpower ; North East ; Productivity ; Regional development ; Regional policy
This paper examines the micro- and macro-impacts of regional development policies in Brazil. To do so, it measures the impact of the Northeast regional fund (FNE) industrial loans on employment and labour productivity growth at the micro- (firm
Alcoholism ; Cape Town ; Government policy ; Health ; Regulation ; Shebeen ; South Africa ; Urban policy ; Western Cape
outlets, which have been the target of regulation attempts in past decade, resulting in incoherent policy-making and policies. More flexible regulations that can be negotiated at the local scale are required, recognising the social, cultural and economic
This paper looks at cities as socio-technical systems consisting of patterns of interaction between actors, rules and artefacts. The issue of urban food security emerges as a key policy goal. This goal can be achieved through the coordination
of a series of policies including territorial planning, commerce regulation, public procurement, health prevention and waste management. This paper discusses an example of how new narratives linking consumption to the environment—namely quality turn
and sufficiency narratives—can help achieve more sustainable landscapes when implemented into food policies. Through the proposed approach, education, information and communication are seen as keys to change. The new approach may have important effects
Australia ; Climate ; Climate policy ; Climatic change ; Energy ; Energy policy ; New South Wales ; Urban policy
This review traces the changing nexus of Australia’s climate policy, energy policy and energy efficiency imperatives and its reposi-tioning of urban local governments. Focusing on New South Wales, it characterizes the ways urban local governments
Regional monetary policy : an Australian perspective
Australia ; Economic activity ; Economic growth ; Finance ; Gross domestic product ; Monetary policy ; Monetary union ; Queensland ; Regional economy ; Western Australia
A structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model for Australia is utilized to identify the domestic impacts of common monetary policy shocks on national and state business cycles and to consider the role of state diversification disparities
for observed differences in responses to monetary policy innovations. Western Australia and Queensland differ to other states in their response to common shocks and evidence suggests this may be due to differences in their economic geographies. Overall
Cartographies policières : la dimension vernaculaire du contrôle territorial. Une enquête dans la gendarmerie française
Les pratiques policières de cartographie relèvent d’une culture professionnelle particulière distincte de l’expertise des cartographes professionnels : on met en évidence la dimension vernaculaire du travail cartographique policier et on montre en
quoi les multiples cartographies policières sont au service d’un projet territorial de contrôle. Grâce à une enquête sur la cartographie dans la gendarmerie nationale française, on contribue à une approche géographique de la police ancrée dans la
Austria ; Baden-Württemberg ; Cape Town ; Climate policy ; Energy ; Energy policy ; Fribourg ; Germany ; Hanover ; Jordan ; Saxony ; South Africa ; Stockholm ; Styria ; Sweden ; Urban area ; Urban climate ; Urbanization ; Western Cape
, Sweden) ; 2-Urban energy policies and the governance of multilevel issues in Cape Town ; 3-The interplay of urban energy policy and socio-technical transitions : the eco-cities of Graz and Freiburg in retrospect ; 4-Socio-technical change and the politics
of urban infrastructure : managing energy in Berlin between dictatorship and democracy ; 5-The vicissitudes of energy and climate policy in Stockholm : politics, materiality and transition ; 6-Low-carbon transitions and the reconfiguration of urban
An anatomy of symbolic power : Israeli road-sign policy and the Palestinian minority
, and modes of transcript. Embracing Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of ‘symbolic power’, our detailed analysis exposes the very anatomy of a bipartite rhetorical policy on the part of Israeli governmental agencies: on the one hand is spatial exclusion
Urban crop production and poverty alleviation in Eldoret, Kenya : implications for policy and gender planning
national UA policy responses in Kenya for urban development and household livelihoods, and for equitable distribution of UA’s benefits for men and women.
Illegality ; Immigrants ; Immigration policy ; International migration ; Justice ; Labour migration ; Legislation ; Local administration ; Maryland ; Political geography ; Security ; United States of America
This article analyzes the role of local jurisdictions in regulating United States immigration, focusing on local policy responses to unauthorized migration in Montgomery County, Maryland. The findings indicate that perceptions of public safety
are decisive. This analysis indicates that bureaucratic practice can precede formal policy-making. Yet, this dynamic is not inherently inclusive, and can instead lead to exclusionary measures in order to protect against perceived threats to public safety.
Balance of payments ; Economic crisis ; Economic policy ; Geopolitics ; India ; International relations ; Neo liberalism ; Political geography ; Political party ; Role of the State
This paper examines the national and global causes and context of India's economic crisis and adoption of neoliberal policies. It analyses how the earlier-established relationship between revenue generation and expenditure ran into trouble; what
of the ‘world market’; and the rise of the United States as the only global superpower. It concludes that India's economic crisis of 1990–91, and the neoliberal policies that followed, are products of contingent historical and geographical conditions.
Funding innovation at regional level : an analysis of a public policy intervention in the Piedmont region
Financing ; Firm ; Grant ; Innovation ; Italy ; Piemonte ; Profitability ; Public policy ; Regional economy ; Research and development ; Small and medium-sized firms
that are observed in cities today but also has many wider and deeper impacts on urban outcomes. It has important policy implications so a critique of current policy stances derived from creative city ideas is also provided.
the attitudes of individual mothers to parenting classes, and the success of neoliberal policy implementation in diverse socioeconomic neighbourhoods. It concludes by emphasising the importance of geographical research into newly emerging forms of education
; the value of engaging with the subjects of neoliberal education policy because their attitudes influence its implementation in practice; and the need to set educational provision in its wider geographical context, as this can shape the success of policies
Seeing power in international development cooperation : environmental policy integration and the World Bank
This article analyses power in international development cooperation through environmental policy integration and the World Bank in Dhaka, Banglasdesh. It proposes an alternative account that reveals a will to power among the international