Policytransfer : consultants and the geographies of governance
Decision making process ; Diffusion ; Expertise ; Governance ; Network ; Policy ; Political geography ; Transnationalism
The emergence of transnational geographies of governance presents a challenge to geographers. Geographical work on policytransfer has much to offer conceptions of emerging geographies of governance, when linked to the production of governance
structures, such as global policy networks. The paper argues that increased use of ethnographic methods in policytransfer studies enables a focus on how global policy networks are produced through the actors driving the transfers. This is illustrated through
Determining the impact of economic factors on local government growth policy: using time-series analysis and transfer function models
There is a significant relationship between economic/financial factors and local government growth policy as measured by building activity. It is analysed through the use of times-series methodology. Monthly data (1983-92 period) for input variables
are related to output variables. Through the use of transfer functions, residential permit decisions, commercial and industrial permit activity and total permits are related to levels of unemployment and the prime interest rate.
Housing and the Scottish new towns: a case study of policy termination and quasi-markets
Housing ; New town ; Scotland ; United Kingdom ; Urban construction ; Urban development ; Urban planning ; Urban policy
The origins and development of the new towns are outlined, and the parts played by the main actors in the wind-up are considered. The transfer of a large proportion of the rented housing to local authorities was not government policy
and this is explained by reference to models of policy termination and succession, and to developments in the creation of quasi-markets, which created expectations of consumer choice.
Global environmental policy: the role for economic instruments
Biodiversity ; Environment ; Environmental conservation ; Environmental management ; Global change ; Government policy ; Greenhouse effect ; International agreement ; Pollution ; Taxation system ; Technology transfer
This paper discusses global environmental problems such a climate change and biodiversity conservation, and reviews policies to address them. Two broad groups of instruments are analyzed: taxes and marketable permits. The paper concludes
with an overview of the available set of policy instruments indicating their potential role in reaching efficient and equitable international environmental agreements.
Transferability of regional policy concepts to the new Federal States
Germany ; Investment ; Labour market ; Regional development ; Regional economy ; Regional policy ; Transport
, special measures in the area of company sales support and greater harmonisation of regional policy with transport and labour market policy. - (L'A.).
Concept ; Cultural geography ; Cultural studies ; Technology transfer ; Urban geography
New cultural geography causes controversy about transfer. It refuses the transferability of themes and examples with gaze on high tech clusters and underlines the thesis that each of these clusters is unique. However, more exact analysis proves
that this position cannot be accepted. Transfer is possible and necessary in this case, too. To avoid the risks of falsifying and misunderstanding, transfer has to follow the frame of a specific path of development. This construction protects and conserves
The paper deals with the following subjects : 1. The transition agenda in agriculture 2. Ownership and transferability of land 3. Farm organisation and farming structure 4. Reforms, policy environment and agricultural performance. - (MT)
Policies to control urban sprawl : planning regulations or changes in the rules of the game ?
The paper emphasizes two mechanisms that determine the rules of game of local development and public regulation of urban sprawl : local government finance and the transfer of land from rural to urban local authorities. Sharing local taxes paid
Common agricultural policy ; European integration ; Income ; Poland ; Rural population
In the period of transformation significant changes in the structure of income sources of population in Poland have been observed. The most important ones are a fall in the share of salaries and an increased role of social transfers as a main source
of incomes, especially visible in rural areas. Accession of Poland to the EU creates through Common Agricultural Policy and regional new possibilities for overcoming income problems troubling rural population, but authors argue that during the first years
Regional policy and university knowledge transfer : perspectives from devolved regions in the UK
Decentralization ; Economic development ; Education ; Innovation ; Knowledge transfer ; Regional development ; Regional economy ; Research and development ; Scotland ; United Kingdom ; University ; Venture capital ; Wales
The impact of conditional cash transfers on educational inequality of opportunity
in terms of access to education and that these in-terventions help level the playing field. They do not eliminate inequality of opportunity but are certainly a useful complement to equity-enhancing policies.