Environmental mainstreaming (EM) is a policy instrument to integrate environmental risks and opportunities into planning and implementation. A body of knowledge exists on identifying barriers for EM at the national level. This paper identifies contributions of regional institutions for improving capacities for EM at the national level, using the Caribbean region as a case study. The methodology...

More than 20 years after the first International Conference on Nutrition (ICN), the second ICN (ICN2) cannot use a “business as usual” approach. The world has profoundly changed and nutrition has profoundly changed, as nutrition is now recognized as being multi-sectoral, multi-level, multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary. There is demand from countries for practical tools, guidelines, and sh...

The US Global Change Research Program has initiated a National Assessment of potential impacts from climate change. This paper summarizes the National Assessment process, and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Assessment (MARA) as an example of how the process is being implemented. At the national level, 5 sectoral working groups are assessing impacts on agriculture, forests, freshwater resources, coast...

Medium Density Housing (MDH) is advocated for sustainable urban growth while retaining the amenity and liveability of lower-density forms. Despite these advantages, affordable diverse MDH proves challenging to implement in suburbs with access employment services. While scholars do explore barriers solutions implementing Australia, regional city contexts are less understood. Stakeholder perspect...

Clinically the presence of nerve fibre bundle defects in glaucoma and non-glaucomatous lesions, and altitudinal or vertical hemianopias in pre-chiasmal lesions has been known for a long time. These suggest a sectoral lesion in the optic nerve or retina. In the majority of such cases, no retinal lesion is seen to account for these visual field defects. It has been presumed that the lesion lies i...

Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, when huge worker reallocation caused by changes in the international division of labour occurred....

This paper applies current theory concerning the impact of irreversibility of investment, in order to test for the impact of uncertainty on investment expenditure for a middle income country. The contribution of the paper is unique in two respects. First, it employs dynamic heterogeneous panel estimation techniques not previously applied to investment functions. Second, it explicitly tests for ...

The goal of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements is to help identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy architecture for global climate change. It draws upon leading thinkers from academia, private industry, government, and non-governmental organizations from around the world to constr...

In the rapidly progressing world where different sectors become more interconnected, cross-sectoral cooperation in health promotion lacks a specific set of instruments, navigating partners through process project implementation. Cross-sectoral is an everyday practice business and has integral part promoting wellbeing comprehensively sustainably. this paper, we propose developed Model for cooper...