the exercise of jurisdiction as a feature of sovereignty application of states has passed from traditional rule of territoriality and has included goods outside of state territory. the expansion of jurisdictional rule that has been justified on the basis of state interests and legitimate benefits of private persons imposed enormous costs on litigant parties and forums. the provision of public b...

Lucas Kwok’s Fifth Region is a speculative spatial narrative. Positing new region in the air above Hong Kong 2060, as city below has become too crowded to live in. At time when previously scripted futures of this are currently being hastily re-written, presents an allegorical parable, critique overpopulation, density and government control land, well imaginary vision utopia escaping below. proj...

Food Security and Food Sovereignty are two of the most important issues facing Food Policy. Maintaining productive farmland and sustainable farms as well as providing adequate volumes of foodstuffs have led to measures to protect farmland and farm activities in many countries. These include land use planning with agricultural zones and in some jurisdictions legislation to ‘protect’ agriculture ...

BACKGROUND Overseeing the quality of community-based, home-care services is a subject of concern in most jurisdictions confronted with population aging and the rise of chronic conditions. Although various quality management strategies have been used in different health care settings, continuous quality improvement (CQI) is still in the early stages of development among home-care service provide...

2 A Survey of Online Visualization of Legislation 3 2.1 Before the Information Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Public good publication online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Official sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3.1 Selected Australian Jurisdictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ∗Acknowled...

Since the late 1980s, the number of jurisdictions with competition laws has grown from roughly 20 to nearly 130. At least two basic questions arise from the remarkable modern expansion of a regulatory discipline established in North America in the late 19 Century. First, how successfully have the new adopters implemented their competition laws? Second, what factors account for the relative succ...

We survey and asses the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on countries, on cities in developed countries (the US) and on villages in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political jurisdictions and we highlight several open issues in need of further research.

Approximately 150 million Americans lived in large metropolitan jurisdictions in 2013. About 1 in 7 Americans is served by a member of the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), a group of 20 of the largest local health departments (LHDs) in the United States. In this brief, we describe the organizational characteristics of the country's largest health departments, including those that form the BC...