States and localities across the country are continuously seeking answers and solutions to the problems facing our most vulnerable children and families. Traditional state and local government responses have historically resulted in cumbersome, bureaucratic systems, lacking in their ability to respond in a flexible and timely manner to the immediate and real needs of families. Children living i...

BACKGROUND This study examines the effectiveness of animal management from a critical theory perspective, establishing a framework to describe the animal management activities of local government. In creating sustainable cities, local government must critically engage with the management of other species which live alongside humans. Despite around 40 % of Australian households owning a dog, the...

The reason for conducting an institutional analysis in the context of a rural development programme is to use the outputs of that analysis to design action for change that will result in improved institutional support for poor people. These changes can take many forms, ranging from more appropriate and accessible goods and services, delivered more efficiently to poor people, to better represent...

The research presented in this article employed a deliberate intervention to mobilize social capital and then studied the dynamics of the way in which it influenced community development. Whether or not social capital is able to facilitate development depends on the specific context in which it occurs. Although the general context of this study was that of small rural towns in Australia's outba...

In this briefing, we explore the extent to which local government officials (LGOs) in Indiana support a collaborative relationship between local government and nonprofits as opposed to one where government controls nonprofits. We also examine possible explanations for why LGOs may support collaboration, including whether their personal involvement with nonprofits plays a role and how important ...

The dosage regimen for artemether-lumefantrine which is the standard of care for malaria in most of Sub-Saharan countries requires use of treatment guidelines and instructions to enhance caregivers' performance in the treatment of malaria. As part of a larger study evaluating its effectiveness in a rural local government area in southwestern Nigeria, 552 caregivers whose children had fever two ...

This paper reviews the background, rationale, and prospects for India's recent reforms in the structures of local government. It begins by commenting on some dimensions of governance, and why it is useful to focus on decentralization, especially in the current Indian context. Then some of the theoretical arguments on federalism as an important mechanism for decentralization, as well as India's ...

Forty-three states in the United States have legal limits on local property taxation. These limits constrain increases in local government revenues, increases in property values, and the level of tax rates. A large literature cites the desire of taxpaying voters to constrain wasteful local government expenditures as the primary motivation for these limitations. The ability of tax limitations to...

Spatio-temporal integrated assessment of land-use change impacts on carbon storage services is a new and important research field in land science and landscape ecology. The objective of this paper is to use an integrated SD-CLUE-S and InVEST model to simulate and predict land-use changes impacts during 2000-2018 on carbon storage at pixel and regional scales in the Zhangye oasis, Northwest Chin...