Cluster themes Source Reference Key Points
Land https://www.elsevier Provides accessible
.com/books/land- information about the
restoration/chabay/ science behind land
978-0-12-801231-4 degradation and
restoration for those who
do not directly engage
with the science allowing
full access to the issue at
hand.
Includes practical on-the-
ground examples
garnered from diverse
areas, such as the
Sahel, Southeast Asia,
and the U.S.A.
Provides practical tools
for designing and
implementing
restoration/re-greening
processes.
https://www.elsevier. -Land Needs in
com/books/land- Urbanization
policy-and-urban- -Land-Use and
Urbanization Patterns
growth/darin- -Land Needs for Urban
drabkin/978-0-08-020401- Growth
7 -The Land Factor in
Urban Development
-The Development of
Land Prices in the
Industrialized Countries
-The Impact of the Land
Factor on Urban Growth
in the Developing
Countries
-International Land-
Price-Level Comparisons
Price Formation in the
Copenhagen Region,
1956-69
- Doctrines and Models
in the Sphere of Urban
Land
-The Peculiar Nature of
the Land Market
-Land Policies for Urban
Growth
-Criteria for Evaluating
Land Policies
Researcher’s Standpoint
Land Restoration: Reclaiming
Landscapes for a Sustainable
Future provides a holistic
overview of land degradation and
restoration in that it addresses
the issue of land restoration from
the scientific and practical
development points of view.
Furthermore, the breadth of
chapter topics and contributors
cover the topic and a wealth of
connected issues, such as
security, development, and
environmental issues. The use of
graphics and extensive
references to case studies also
make the work accessible and
encourage it to be used for
reference, but also in active field-
work planning.
Land Policy and Urban Growth
explores the relationships
between urban growth patterns,
land prices, and land policies in
countries with market
economies. The effects of the
peculiar character of the private
land market on land prices are
discussed, along with the link
between market mechanisms
and government intervention in
the urban-growth process.
Comprised of 18 chapters, this
book begins with a brief survey
of patterns of urban growth, with
emphasis on the high rate of
urban expansion and what future
land needs might be in urban
areas. The next section is
concerned with urban land prices
in industrialized and developing
countries and highlights the
dramatic increases in urban land
prices arising from urban
development. Various theories of
urban land-price formation are
examined, together with public
 policies on urban land and their
-Land-Use Planning impact not only on the land
Controls market but also on land supply
-Taxation on Land and allocation. Finally, some
-Patterns of Land- alternative urban land policies
Acquisition Policy are outlined.
-Land Acquisition in
Sweden and the
Experience of Stockholm
-Advance Land-
Acquisition Policy in The
Netherlands: the
Amsterdam Experience
-Urban Land Policy in
France
-Land Policies in a
Market Economy
-Towards Land Policies
for Future Urban
Development
-Land Needs for the
Future
-Towards a New
Concept of Land
Ownership
https://www.elsevier.com Regional Variations in Land Reform in Mexico: 1910–
/books/land-reform-in- Prerevolutionary 1980 presents the workings of
mexico-1910-1980/walsh- Mexican Society the Mexican government by
sanderson/978-0-12- analyzing actual policies, their
618020-6 The Changing Pattern of implementation, and their
Land Reform Legislation outcomes in a significant and
central sector of the Mexican
The Politics of Land economy, agriculture. This book
Reform in Mexico: Local, discusses the pattern of Mexican
State, and National redistribution policy in agriculture
Linkages over an extensive period of time,
with emphasis on the causes
Spatial and Temporal and effects of these policy shifts.
Dimensions of Mexican
Land Reform Organized into eight chapters,
this book begins with an
Peasants and Public overview of the agricultural policy
Policy: Agricultural and modernization strategy of
Credit and Productivity Mexico. This text then relates
regional variations in the rural
Migration, Economic social structure of the late 19th
Opportunity, and Land century to the history of Mexico's
Redistribution in Mexico unique agricultural policy. Other
chapters consider the policy
shifts reflected in agrarian
legislation by presidential period.
This book discusses as well the
politics of land reform and its
linkages to local, state, and
national administrations. The
final chapter deals with the

Budget https://www.elsevier.com
/books/the-impact-of-local-
government-
modernisation-policies-on-
local-budgeting-cima-
research-report/seal/978-
0-7506-8981-6
https://www.elsevier.com
/books/fiscal-health-for-
local-
governments/honadle/978-
0-12-354751-4
status of agricultural policy in
Mexico during the 1980s
A pioneering study This CIMA research report
evaluating individual focuses on post-1997 policy
service areas as innovations for the public sector
opposed to ranking of and their impact on traditional
overall corporate budgeting practices. In light of
performance and offering recent failures to reform local
a pragmatic solution to budgeting post 1997, it seeks to
local government distinguish between original
modernization intentions of reform and their
consequences offering
The first comprehensive alternatives to local government
investigation of two modernization, appropriate
vastly different changes in strategic
geographical locations of partnerships, and new
UK organizational structures.
Aids understanding by The key question for the report is
analyzing and producing the extent to which it is possible
a detailed comparison of or useful to reform traditional
two local authorities practices, paying particular
emphasis to the nature of
modernization in the
governmental post 1997 period.
How-to approach will Fiscal Health for Local
appeal to readers who Governments offers a how-to
lack sophisticated approach to identifying and
knowledge solving financial problems. Its
principal selling point lies in its
Contains discussion assumptions: instead of using
questions and the vocabulary and research
anonymous case studies agendas of economist, finance
of actual cities and scholars, and political scientists,
municipalities it will appeal to readers who lack
sophisticated knowledge in these
areas and nevertheless need
Presents practical
methods for identifying practical advice.
and solving common
fiscal problems The book stems from the Fiscal
Health Education Program, an
applied economics program at
the University of Minnesota. It
uses three measures of fiscal
health — financial condition,
trend analysis, and financial
trend monitoring system — as
the basis for advocating
particular fiscal strategies.
 https://www.elsevier.com
/books/practical-financial-
modelling/swan/978-0-
7506-6356-4
Unity https://www.
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Practical financial This book is for all financial
modeling- all the professionals whose work, to a
essentials in one book greater or lesser degree,
involves complex spreadsheets
How-to approach, with and financial models. This
numerous worked includes investment bankers,
examples commercial banks, accountancy
firms, property firms, public
Explains the techniques sector including local
and functions of Excel government and healthcare,
PFI/PPP enterprises, financial
most use in financial
managers and financially literate
modeling and budgeting
general managers. Junior/middle
management, where the focus
would be on cash flow
forecasting and budgeting tasks,
will also find this book of value.
For the vast majority of people
involved in this subject, financial
modeling is an activity, a task
requiring skills. Once people
have the ability to structure the
model, they have a better
starting point from which to
address the financial problems.
This new book proposal intends
to offer that starting point.
Technology When do governments
Energy policy implement technology policies
Political economy that allow society to solve social
Government problems at a lower cost?
Energy intensity Focusing on the case of energy,
Public policy we argue that in industrialized
democracies, severe social
problems provoke an effective
technology policy response when
the government is unified. A
unified government can easily
strike the bargains required to
secure political support for new
technology programs. We test
this theory against data on public
energy research and
development (R&D) in 22 OECD
countries, 1980–2006. We find
that as government
fractionalization increases in a
country, the sensitivity of public
energy R&D to wasteful energy
use, which presents economic
and environmental difficulties to
the society, declines. The
 analysis reveals a new reason
for ineffective technology policies
and contributes to the broad
literature on political market
failure.
https://www. Mehmet Akif From the cradle of the humanity,
sciencedirect.com/ Muslims unity and sympathy played vital
science/article/pii/ peace role in keeping peace between
S1877042814013482 unity nations. “Divide and conquer”
politics widely practiced in
Europe and Russia, made its
great influence on the Ottoman
Empire of XIX and XX ages.
Mehmet Akif Ersoy believed that
one and only way to keep the
country in prosperity was unity.
This idea was the essence of his
life and all of his works. He
strongly believed that nothing
can lead to disturbances in
country, if everyone in it is trying
to establish it. Author of national
anthem wasn’t only focused on
writing poems and articles; but
also he preached the need in
uniting on a single religion for the
better future of the country. Unity
of Muslims led to the
establishment of great cultures.
Disunion of which resulted in a
loss of their lands and people.
For the whole life Mehmet Akif
followed these ideas, relying on
Turkic-Islamic history and main
principles of Islam religion,
including Koran, which played
significant role in the
establishment of his personality
https://www. Tensions between This article examines the ways in
sciencedirect.com/ assimilationist and which education policy and
science/article/ multiculturalist practice in Botswana negotiate
pii/S0738059317304509 approaches to ethnic tensions between assimilationist
diversity in education. and multiculturalist approaches
to ethnic diversity. We find that
In Botswana, curriculum the curriculum, as written and as
– written and taught – is taught, is preoccupied with unity
preoccupied with unity and the avoidance of armed
and avoidance of armed conflict, goals that have
conflict. perpetuated an assimilationist
approach, normed around the
Education perpetuates culture and language of the
assimilationist approach, Tswana ethnic majority. We
normed around culture argue that a multicultural
and language of approach could foster conditions
the ethnic majority. of positive peace, including
• recognition and equality of
 Multiculturalist approach opportunity across ethnic groups,
could foster positive which is more urgent today given
peace, the sustained absence of armed
including recognition and conflict. We offer strategies for
equality of opportunity how practitioners and policy
across ethnic groups. makers might move forward in
transforming existing
Positive peace is more multicultural policy discourse into
urgent today than multicultural school practices..
negative peace given
the sustained absence
of armed conflict.

Good Governance https://www. 22 Governance The shift towards capacity

sciencedirect.com/ frameworks are studied building and deteriorating
science/article/ to understand the governance, may lead to poor
pii/S2226585618301328 components of good- service delivery which is a prime
governance. challenge for governing
agencies. Different countries
13 criteria and 74 sub- follow their own sets of
criteria are framed to governance parameters and
establish the good- often assess the outcome of
governance framework. policies based on them. In order
to compose a uniform good
Quantification of governance framework, we have
framework is explored conducted a comparative
along with its measuring analysis among 22 existing
indicator and weightage governance frameworks across
distribution as per the globe and shortlisted 13
experts’ opinion. major criteria along with 74 sub-
criteria. We explored the method
The case of Mumbai city to measure these governance
is demonstrated with components with the help of
one example of various indicators and took
measuring indicator from expert opinion to distribute
each criteria. weight among these indicators.
Finally, the case of
Mumbai city is discussed with the
examples of direct indicators,
which may be used to measure a
sub-criteria of any specific
criteria.
The quantificationprocess is also
demonstrated with three
specific representative indicators.
For example- the contribution
towards good-governance has
been increased from 0.001218 in
2016 to 0.004466 in 2017, for the
indicator “conviction percentage
of corruption cases” of sub-
criterion “active anti-corruption
commission” of criterion
“accountability”. Researchers as
well as policymakers will be
benefitted with the method
 demonstrated here, which can
help in assessing governance of
any public service towards
further policy amendments.
https://www. Participatory forestry Participatory forestry programs in
sciencedirect.com/ Good governance Bangladesh have been
science/article/ Sal forests implemented since 1980’s to
pii/S1389934117305105 Tree farming fund (TFF) ensure forest conservation along
Bangladesh with empowerment of local
people, who depend on forest
resources. Despite the
establishment of legal and
institutional frameworks for
devolving a meaningful authority
to local people, participatory
forestry in Bangladesh has been
facing many governance
challenges. Therefore local
people involvement in forest
governance needs to be
evaluated. A quantitative and
qualitative research method has
been applied to investigate a
forest governance framework for
evaluating the efficacy of
participatory forestry in
Bangladesh. Field data were
collected by semi-structured
interview of 120 local forest
participants using scoring of
qualitative data on a point scale
(1–5).The study was based on
the proposed modified
framework for evaluation of good
governance in terms of
participation, transparency and
efficiency. Analysis of data
revealed that participation in
benefit sharing received the
highest score (3.90), while the
lowest in the management
committee meeting (2.12).
Transparency in decision-making
process received the lowest
score (2.42). Similarly efficiency
in handling tree farming fund
(TFF) has the lowest score
(2.35). In overall governance
level, participation received the
highest score (3.12), while
transparency received the lowest
(2.72). Findings indicate that
poor governance still exists in
participatory forestry program
because of low level of
participation and lack of
 transparency in handling tree
farming fund (TFF). Therefore
pragmatic approaches like
strengthening monitoring
mechanism, providing incentives
for rule compliances need to be
adopted to harness the benefit of
good governance of a
participatory forestry program.
The findings of this study would
be useful to forest policy-makers,
development official and local
forest practitioners in formulating
effective policies for participatory
forest management programs in
Bangladesh and other
developing countries. Our finding
has also an implication on forest
governance discourse in
participatory forest management
regimes.
https://www. Good governance In democratic governments,
sciencedirect.com/ Citizen trust administrative ethical practices
science/article/ Unethical actions have always been recognized as
pii/S0740624X15000738 Transparency a critical tool for determining the
Rule of law good governance and a crucial
Pakistan element to be incorporated in
building citizen trust. In this
context, the purpose of this
research is to assess how
unethical actions affect the Good
Governance practices in
developing citizens' trust. Field
survey was conducted by
sending questionnaires to 1000
Pakistani citizens who were
above the age of 20, having
minimum education of high
school diploma. The response
rate was 53.3%. The results
confirmed the causal relationship
between good governance and
citizen trust and a negative
moderating effect of unethical
actions. The findings may be
practically useful for both
research and policy making,
since it investigated the citizens'
perspective of good governance,
citizen trust and unethical
behavior. The findings
emphasize addressing the
ethical modeling and re shaping
of the behavior of public sector
specifically in Pakistan, hence, it
opens the way for future studies
 on the reflection of ethics and
culture on good governance and
citizen trust.
Follows Mantra https://www. Mentoring student Mentoring has become an
sciencedirect.com/ teaching important part of teacher
science/article/pii/ Reflection and control education, as an element in both
S0742051X06000679 Discourses the enhancement of reflective
Views on learning and practice and the professional
teaching development of schools. Yet the
concept remains confused.
Problematic issues such as the
elements of power and control,
and the danger of dependence
and intimacy are seldom heard
when mentoring is considered
and new plans for teaching and
education are presented. This
article discusses the concept of
mentoring, especially as a
feature of the professional
development and training of
student teachers in Norway. A
Ph.D.-study (Sundli, 2001)
shows how mentoring may turn
out to be an obstacle to reflection
rather than an enhancement. It
argues for new ways of
regarding mentoring as part of
the student's process of
becoming a professional teacher.
https://www. Infrastructure projects In design phases of large and
sciencedirect.com Coordination complex infrastructure projects, a
/science/article/abs/ Heuristics main challenge is to coordinate
pii/S0263786316304835 Decision-making numerous technical specialists.
Megaprojects Heuristics, or cognitive rules of
Design thumb, is one factor that may
influence the development of
organisational structures and
routines, especially if project
management discretion is high.
A longitudinal case study,
comprising non-participant
observation over three years,
was carried out of the early
design phase of a
major railway tunnel project.
Availability and familiarity
heuristics were found important,
as well as coordination neglect
— a general tendency to focus
more on partitioning tasks than
on coordination needs.
Satisficing, meaning that the first
acceptable organising solution is
selected and retained, was found
to be strong in temporary,
 transitory contexts. Shared
heuristics were manifest as short
catchphrases, or mantras.
Clients should develop meta-
routines and meta-functions to
support adaptation within, and
learning between, projects..
https://www. Compassion The United Kingdom introduced
sciencedirect.com/ Caring the Six C′s strategy to help
science/article/ Six Cs address deficits in approaching
pii/S0260691717301739 Narratives nursing care in a compassionate
Discourse analysis and caring manner.
Nursing education This is to identify the book,
article, poem, film or play that
most influenced nurse educators'
understanding of care and
compassion and to articulate a
clearer understanding of
compassionate caring.
Vision https://www. E-government This paper analyze that the
sciencedirect.com Highly-advanced social paradigm shift caused by
/science/article/abs/pii/ information society the new IT has brought the
S0308596117302884 Smart city current highly-
E-government maturity advanced information
model society following the industrial
and information societies, and
proposes a new e-
government development
model called as “E-Government
Maturity Model based on Socio-
political Development” that
incorporates the level of social
maturity based on e-democracy
and the maturity level of civic
society with statistic model. The
new model classifies e-
Government development into
four stages: “Bureaucratic
model”, “Information
management model”,
“Participatory model”, and
“Governance model”.
https://www. District heating District heating (DH) has an
sciencedirect.com/ Local government important role to play in enabling
]science/article/ Strategic energy cities to transition to low-carbon
pii/S0301421516304281 planning heating. Although schemes are
Heat policy commonplace in some countries,
Heat networks in ‘learning countries’ where
Cities building-level technologies make
up the majority of heating
systems there are numerous
barriers to introducing DH. Local
governments are seen as key
actors in helping to create a
‘shared vision’ for DH amongst
 stakeholders.

This study uses interviews with

stakeholders from a range of
sectors in the UK (an example of
a learning country) to examine
the visions of local actors for
developing DH and the types of
national policy that would
support local implementation of
these visions.

The analysis shows that in

engaging with DH development
local governments seek multiple
types of value. Realising this
value will most likely happen by
taking a long-term, planned
approach to development. In
contrast, national government
policy is geared towards techno-
economic criteria and may lead
to only a minority of potential
sites being developed, without
realisation of wider social or
environmental benefits aligned to
local visions.

.
https://www . Future sustainable cities Making cities more sustainable
sciencedirect.com/ Vision making is high on the agenda in many
science/article/pii/ Trading zones countries, but a major challenge
S001632871730040X National governments is the identification of which
Local governments actors should contribute, and
Actor-network theory how. This paper departs from an
assumption that visions may
guide urban development work,
and examines and compares
national and local governments’
visions of future sustainable
cities in Norway. The case study
is the urban multilevel
governance program ‘Cities of
the Future’. Previous literature
on urban sustainability and
multilevel governance stresses
the importance of shared visions
and goals between stakeholders.
However, the paper finds that, in
the context under investigation,
visions were partially dis-aligned
between national and local
stakeholders.
Cluster themes Source Reference Key Points Researcher’s Standpoint
Economic https:// www.science Corporate environmental In international scientific
direct. com/ responsibility literature, it is argued from
science/ article Economic freedom institutional theory that economic
/pii/ S095965261 930335X Freedom from freedom stimulates corporate
government regulation environmental responsibility.
Small government However, economic freedom
comprises several different
dimensions, such as government
size, rule of law, open markets,
and (freedom from) government
regulation. Whereas previous
literature has shown that rule of
law and open markets stimulate
corporate environmental
responsibility, the impact of
government size and
government regulation on
corporate environmental
responsibility of companies
located in different countries has
yet not been explored. This
paper contributes to scientific
literature by researching the
effects of these two dimensions
of economic freedom on
corporate environmental
responsibility. We hypothesize
that small government stimulates
corporate environmental
responsibility and that freedom
from government regulation
discourages it. Using panel data
from ASSET4 for the corporate
environmental responsibility of
5023 companies, and data of
government size and
government regulation from
Fraser Institute and Heritage
Foundation for 41 countries, the
authors perform panel analysis
for the period 2005–2014 to test
the hypotheses. The estimation
results show that both small size
of government and freedom from
government regulation decrease
corporate environmental
responsibility. The test results
are robust for the type of
economic freedom data (Fraser
Institute or Heritage Foundation)
used.
https://www. Introduces China’s China's economic growth has
elsevier.com/books/ regional economies, been more robust in some
understanding-the- often overlooked in US regions than others. In a country
chinese- and European texts as large as China, examinations
economies/guo/ within larger contexts of of regional differences can
978-0-12-397826-4 social and geopolitical provide a viable way to learn
concerns about the economy as a
whole. Rongxing Guo provides
Explains the reform a systematic introduction to the
process since 1978 in a economies of China by
comprehensive, non- describing their external and
technical, and internal drivers and by placing
accessible manner them within geopolitical and
even socio-cultural
Features case studies in boundaries. His pairings of case
each chapter studies and empirical techniques
reveal a rich, deep
appreciation of the growth
process and of interactions
between key factors. This book
delves more deeply into issues
surrounding the economy than
other books, offering a unique
and important perspective that
many will find useful. Covering
history and administrative
structures, unique economic
features, some domestic
economic issues, and
international economic
engagement, it describes an ofte
n inaccessible perspective with
nuances all students of China
will find valuable
https:// The interactive impact of This paper investigates the
www.sciencedirect. government size and impact of government
com/science/article/ quality of institutions on size on economic growth across
economic growth- 23 states in India between 2005
pii/S240584401838976X evidence from the states and 2014 for varying degrees of
of India quality of institutions. Using
pooled OLS, panel random
effects estimation, as well as
system-GMM estimation
techniques, we find that in
general, akin to findings in the
literature, a bigger government is
detrimental for state-level
economic growth. However, the
extent of the negative growth
impact depends on the quality of
institutions of the states,
measured by a newly available
index. States that have better
quality of institutions register a
lower negative impact on
economic growth compared to
 their less progressive
counterparts for similar increase
in government size. Also,
reduction in non-development
government expenditure has a
better growth impact compared
to reduction in development
government expenditure,
especially for higher levels of
institutional quality. Our results,
that are robust to various
specifications of government
size, quality of institutions and
estimation techniques, lead us to
conclude that state
governments should emphasize
on quality of institutions to
enhance state-level economic
growth.

Cluster themes Source Reference Key Points Researcher’s Standpoint

Agriculture https://www. Agricultural insurance Agricultural insurance is
sciencedirect.com/ risk management normally undertaken as a
science/article/ government intervention market-based activity by
subsidy private or state sector
pii/S2210784310000033 reinsurance insurance companies, often
linkages. with support measures from
government. There is
increased interest in risk
management and insurance to
promote agricultural
investment and access to
credit, and to provide financial
stability to farmers and other
actors in the agri value chain.
The various types of
intervention which are made
by governments to facilitate
agricultural insurance are
reviewed, based on the results
of a recent international survey
conducted by World Bank.
Whilst premium subsidy is the
most common intervention,
other enabling measures are
important, such as the legal
and regulatory framework,
reinsurance, technical and
administrative assistance, and
linkages to government
extension services in
agriculture, animal health or
meteorology. The main
constraints and opportunities
 for crop and livestock
insurance in developing
countries are considered, such
as insurance product types,
hazards, vulnerability, and
rural institutions which can
support organisation and
distribution. Developing
appropriate distribution
channels, and linking
insurance to measures which
can increase agricultural
productivity, such as credit,
farm inputs and services,
provide an opportunity where
insurance can add benefit to
farmers. Insurance in isolation
may attract little demand and
may not be seen as a value
proposition. Agricultural
insurance is normally only
affordable for exceptional
events, and should not crowd
out traditional risk coping at
household or community
levels, and can complement
formal savings to manage
frequent risk events.
Agricultural insurance is
complex from technical,
organisational and financial
standpoints, leading to many
challenges for the insurance
market and to decisions by
government for appropriate
intervention. This paper will
consider international
experiences in developing
agricultural insurance, the
governments’ interventions
and relate these to the rapid
expansion of the Chinese
agricultural insurance market.

https:// Municipal Wastewater In Municipal Wastewater in

www.elsevier.com/ Agriculture Agriculture covers the
proceedings of the 1980
books/municipal-
International Conference on
wastewater- the Status of Knowledge,
in-agriculture/ Critical Research Needs, and
ditri/978-0-12-214880-4 Potential Research Facilities
Relating to the Cooperative
Research Needs for
Renovation and Reuse of
Municipal Wastewater in
 Agriculture, held in Cocoyoc,
Morelos, Mexico. Primary
participated by Mexico and
United States, both have large
area with water shortages, the
conference focuses on
renovation and reuse of
wastewater by agricultural
irrigation, along with
construction designs,
operational guidelines, and
data for these systems.
Organized into six parts
encompassing 20 chapters,
the book covers the nature,
distribution, and fate of
viruses, bacteria, and
pathogenic organisms, as well
as organic and inorganic
contamination of municipal
water systems. Parts I and II
tackle the administrative and
legal aspects of wastewater
renovation and reuse and
reuse alternatives for
municipal wastewater. Parts III
and V discuss the efforts of
Mexico and United States in
land treatment and in water
quality system, along with
design and cost criteria for
land treatment systems. Part
IV examines pathogen and
heavy metal contaminants in
municipal wastewater. Finally,
research needs related to
municipal wastewater
renovation and reuse in arid
and semiarid areas and in
domestic wastewater are
discussed in the concluding
section.
The book aims to assist in the
assessment of land treatment
system capacity for
wastewater renovation for
various types of reuse.
https://www. Mobile government Mobile government (or
sciencedirect.com/ Portal mGovernment) is a subset of
science/article/pii/ Agriculture electronic government
comprising an alternative
S0740624X07000597 provisioning channel of
governmental information and
services. Governments are
increasingly making efforts to
provide more access to
 information and services for
citizens, businesses, and civil
servants through wireless
devices. One of the future
challenges for the
implementation of
mGovernment is the creation
of effective business cases
(e.g. tourism, health,
agriculture). Within this
context, the scope of this
paper is to study the
deployment of mGovernment
services in the agricultural
sector, taking into account its
peculiarities, priorities, and
needs. The objective of this
paper is twofold: first, to
present a framework for
identifying appropriate and
cost-effective mGovernment
services for the agricultural
sector and, second, to
illustrate the application of the
proposed framework,
describing a case study for a
particular agribusiness sector.

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Infrastructure https://www. Environmental governance This paper argues that
sciencedirect.com/ Regulation government leadership both at
science/article/ Green infrastructure the federal and local levels
pii/S146290111730583X Stormwater remains central to
Policy process implementing green
Adaptive governance infrastructure for stormwater
management. We conducted
interviews with more than forty
city, federal, and regional staff
on how and why they work to
implement green
infrastructure, and interpreted
the material using literature
from environmental
governance and water
management. We found that
government and non-
governmental actors tend to
act in different ways to support
green infrastructure.
Government actors at federal
and local levels often take the
lead role in driving green
infrastructure via policy and
political support, and
 coordinating measurement of
green infrastructure practices,
while non-governmental actors
lead in information sharing.
We also found that
government and non-
governmental actors work
together to build local capacity
by providing resources to
support local collaboration and
partnerships. We conclude by
highlighting key areas of
collaboration between
government and non-
governmental actors to
enhance the implementation of
green infrastructure.
https:// Government investment This paper proposes a novel
www.sciencedirect.com/ Fiscal financing financing scheme, reserve
science/article/pii/ Infrastructure financing, for
S016189381300080X Open economy government infrastructure
investment in China. A two-
sector open economy model
explores the consequences
and policy implications of
a surge in infrastructure
investment financed
by international reserves. The
results show that reserve
financing, coupled with a
managed float exchange rate
system, can maintain the
country's fast growth rate while
mitigating fiscal pressure
on local governments.
Productive infrastructure
capital stimulates domestic
demand, reducing the
country's dependence on
exports. To promote growth
and maintain price stability,
three factors are critical: return
on infrastructure, swift fiscal
adjustment, and
rapid infrastructure financing.
https:// Transport infrastructure In this article we analyze the
www.sciencedirect.com/ Efficiency efficiency of total transport
science/article/abs/ Data envelopment analysis investment in a sample of 34
Panel data countries over the period 1996
pii/S0967070X1830372X Government quality to 2010. We do so by way of
Data Envelopment Analysis
that evaluates countries
according to their ability to
achieve the maximum
attainable infrastructure
quantity and usage for a given
 investment volume. We find
that the Central European
countries, New Zealand and
Japan are the most efficient
when investing in transport
infrastructure while the
Eastern European countries,
Russia, Turkey and Mexico
are the least so. We moreover
consider the role played by
government quality when
explaining cross-country
differences in investment
efficiency, based on truncated
panel (and bootstrapped)
regressions. We confirm the
positive impact of government
quality on efficiency even after
controlling for a range of
potentially confounding
variables. Our analysis
generates important policy
implications for those
concerned with the efficiency
of transport infrastructure.

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Tourism https:// Sustainable Sustainable development is
www.sciencedirect.com/ development increasingly becoming a priority
science/article/pii/ Tourism issue in tourism development in
S2210670717314725 Local government the modern world. The basic
Municipality goal is to educate local
Poland communities in the principles of
this new approach. The purpose
of the study was to diagnose
programs produced by local
governments in the area of
sustainable tourism
development, identify problem
areas, and propose solutions.
The study was based on surveys
in paper form. Most local
governments in Poland (62%)
state that sustainable
development is considered in
their planning and
implementation of tourism-
related programs. More than
three out of four local
government officials state that
the opinions of local residents
are also considered in the
process. At the same time, more
than 60% of survey participants
 state that their local municipality
does not facilitate the exchange
of knowledge and experiences in
the area of sustainable
development via the
organization of relevant
conferences, meetings, and
workshops. In addition, local
government officials note the
existence of conflicts associated
with collaboration in the tourism
sector, mostly manifested by
differences of opinion in terms of
environmental protection versus
tourism development. However,
research has shown that the
number of conflicts is smaller
when the quality (i.e. higher
mark) of the collaboration is
higher.
https://www. Local governments This study investigated the
sciencedirect.com/ Smart tourism utilization of Facebook by local
science/article/ Facebook Korean governments for the
pii/S0268401216303450 Ecosystem purposes of tourism
Network analysis development. The results
indicate that most local Korean
governments actively manage
online tools such as Facebook,
to communicate with the public
and offer a wide range of
information to promote tourism.
A notable finding is that the level
of local governmental could
affect the level of social
networking site use for tourism.
It is claimed that the varying
level of social networking site
use is because the scale of the
tourism industry and the level of
information and communication
technology innovation could vary
with different types of
municipalities. Through network
analyses, the study also shows
that Korean local governments’
Facebook pages are co-related
in the Facebook system as part
of a smart tourism ecosystem,
and that the smart tourism
ecosystem facilitated by
Facebook offerings is associated
with governmental utilization of
Facebook for activating local
tourism.
 https://www. Tourism While the Philippines aspires to
sciencedirect.com/ Air transport safety be one of the top tourist
science/article/abs/ US FAA downgrade destinations in Southeast Asia,
pii/S0967070X15000724 EU ban self-inflicted wounds like the
failure of the government to
comply with international
aviation safety standards may
derail the country from achieving
its goals. This article estimates
the short- and long-term impact
of the US FAA downgrade of the
Philippine civil aviation system in
2008 and the EU ban of
Philippine carriers in 2010 on
tourist expenditures, arrivals,
and length of stay using monthly
time series data. The
econometric model, consisting of
three equations due to the
endogeneity of the tourist
arrivals and length of stay
variables in the tourist
expenditures equation, is
estimated simultaneously using
the generalized method of
moments. The results indicate
that the US FAA downgrade and
the EU ban impact monthly
tourist receipts negatively in the
short term while the downgrade
also impacts tourist expenditures
in the long term. Moreover, the
ban impacts length of stay
negatively in the short and long
term while the downgrade
impacts length of stay negatively
only in the long term. The
substantial decline in tourism
receipts from 2008 to 2010
despite an increasing trend in
tourist arrivals is due to the
shorter stay of tourists, indicating
that high-spending tourists have
not returned following the
downgrade and ban.

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products https://www. Virtual water trade Importing food products is
sciencedirect.com/ Water savings associated with the
science/article/ Water loss simultaneous transfer of virtual
abs/pii/ Water scarcity water required for the production
S2352550918302148 Water abundance of these products. This
Trade partners reduces water
resource depletion in
the importing country and offers
water and food security. The
objective of this study is to
quantify the water savingsand
water losses due to virtual water
import by India from 1986 to
2013 based on 203 products.
Long-term average virtual water
import from partner countries is
20.2 Bm3/y. Crop products
consume the largest portion of
imported virtual water (17.7
Bm3/y) followed by industrial
products (2.4 Bm3/y). Livestock
products contribute a smaller
amount to virtual water import
(0.1 Bm3/y). If these products
were produced in India instead
of being imported, India would
have used 31 Bm3/y of its water
resources. Thus, the import
of products by India leads to
10.8 Bm3/y of global water
savings. Importing products from
Africa leads to global water
losses and most virtual water is
saved due to import from South
America. Based on the water
saved/ lost, the trade partnership
of India with partner countries
could be classified as mutually
beneficial, partially beneficial,
unsustainable and pressured.
India can amend its trade
relations with the partners based
on this classification. India’s
trade with other countries should
consider the water availability in
the exporting countries and the
comparison between the virtual
water required to import the
products and to self-produce.
Only such a balanced approach
can help to sustainably manage
the global and national water
resources. The present study,
however, targets only on the
virtual water imports of India and
the strategies that the nation
could adopt from its own
perspective. In order to develop
a policy framework, the virtual
water export of India should also
be considered.
https://www. Development cost We study a problem where a
sciencedirect.com/ Government regulations firm must decide on its product
science/article/ Product development types, market price(s), and
Green product quality dimensions. Given that
pii/S092552731830330X Sustainability consumers' willingness to pay for
an environmental
quality dimension (e.g., energy
efficiency) varies, the firm makes
the above-mentioned decisions
to improve its performance.
Since the outcomes of such
decisions directly influence the
firm's environmental
performance, our primary goal is
to understand how governmental
regulations can be set as a
driver of green
product development and
ultimately benefit the
environment. Our investigation
captures quality-
based development costs while
incorporating the environmental
quality dimension. The findings
reveal that the government
should impose regulations with
caution as firms may opt for a
strategy that provides a larger
profit at the expense of lower
total environmental performance.
Moreover, under some
conditions, strict regulations can
cause firms to be reluctant to
innovate by producing a
single standard product rather
than distinct products for
different market segments.

https://www. Corporate environmental In international scientific

sciencedirect.com/ responsibility literature, it is argued from
science/article/pii Economic freedom institutional theory that economic
/S095965261930335X Freedom from freedom stimulates corporate
government regulation environmental responsibility.
Small governmen However, economic freedom
comprises several different
dimensions, such as government
size, rule of law, open markets,
and (freedom from) government
regulation. Whereas previous
literature has shown that rule of
law and open markets stimulate
corporate environmental
responsibility, the impact of
government size and
government regulation on
 corporate environmental
responsibility of companies
located in different countries has
yet not been explored. This
paper contributes to scientific
literature by researching the
effects of these two dimensions
of economic freedom on
corporate environmental
responsibility. We hypothesize
that small government stimulates
corporate environmental
responsibility and that freedom
from government regulation
discourages it. Using panel data
from ASSET4 for the corporate
environmental responsibility of
5023 companies, and data of
government size and
government regulation from
Fraser Institute and Heritage
Foundation for 41 countries, the
authors perform panel analysis
for the period 2005–2014 to test
the hypotheses. The estimation
results show that both small size
of government and freedom from
government regulation decrease
corporate environmental
responsibility. The test results
are robust for the type of
economic freedom data (Fraser
Institute or Heritage Foundation)
used.

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Awards https:// Quality management This study examines the
www.sciencedirect.com/ Survey applicability of the MBNQA 2002
science/article/pii/ Path analysis criteria to the government sector
S0038012110000601 Empirical research and contributes to the growing
Quality body of literature that addresses
Service operations the need for performance
Government metrics for government
performance organizations. As the MBNQA is
measurement being proposed and pilot tested
Government services in government organizations,
Service quality this work provides support for
management the transference and application
Partial Least Squares of the model to government
services in a municipal
government.

This study demonstrates the first

structural model test using
 Partial Least Square (PLS) of an
instrument that was based on a
one-to-one item to criteria
correspondence. We collected
data from a city government and
used PLS to analyze the survey
data and tested the MBNQA
model fit. The findings of this
study show that the proposed
Malcolm Baldrige National
Quality Award (MBNQA) criteria-
based instrument provides a
viable set of measures for a
municipal government to review
and measure their business
(organization) processes. These
measures can enhance decision
making about resource
allocations because such
measures allow evaluation of
processes and a better
understanding of the integration
among these processes

https://www. Mexican Government The Mexican Government has

sciencedirect.com/ awards healthcare card awarded French smart card
science/article/pii/ contract manufacturer Gemplus a
S0965259006704820 contract to deliver 3.7 million
smart healthcare cards. Seguro
Popular, one of the Mexican
government's social security
organizations, has taken delivery
of the cards, which will be at the
front-end of a new country-wide
e-healthcare program aimed at
securely storing patient
information, ensuring citizens get
the correct healthcare benefits
and reducing paper-based
administration.
https://www. Cultural awards This chapter considers the
sciencedirect.com/ Literary prizes economic dimensions of prizes
science/article/pii/ Movies and awards in the arts. It first
B9780444537768000064 Symbolic capital treats the role of awards in the
Tournaments of value markets for artistic goods: their
effect on sales, earnings, and
consumer demand, and their
function as judgment devices or
quality signals. Also discussed
are the costs of mounting an
awards program, and the
economics of awards
administration and presentation.
The chapter then takes up a
broader set of economic
considerations, beyond those of
 commerce as such, discussing
the role of prizes as a form of
symbolic capital in the economy
of prestige. This symbolic role
includes their reputation effects
and relation to cultural branding;
their function as a form of
incentive for artists; their
capacity to predict or determine
an eventual canon of esteemed
works; and their value within an
increasingly international system
of cultural status hierarchies.
Having surveyed the existing
literature, the chapter concludes
by noting economists’ narrow
and excessive emphasis on the
material consequences of prizes,
and the many fundamental areas
of inquiry that remain wide open
for future research. These
include the economics of
sponsorship, particularly
philanthropic sponsorship; the
role of social capital and the
system of exchange and
reciprocity involving judges,
recipients, and administrators;
and the economics of the
awards industry as a whole, its
global dispersion, and its large-
scale functions and effects within
the

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Short-term https:// Short-term Short-term exposure to ambient
outcome www.sciencedirect.com/ Air pollution air pollution has been associated
science/article/pii/ Lung function with reduced lung function
S0048969718326408 Children among asthmatic children.
Repeated measures However, there is little
information about the effects
among healthy children,
especially in areas with relatively
high exposure background.
https://www. Acute disseminated This study shows a profile of
sciencedirect.com/ encephalomyelitis ADEM in South Indian children
science/article/ Cohort studies at admission and at discharge
pii/S2211034817302225 Prognosis from hospital. ADEM has a good
Mortality immediate outcome though
death during the nadir of disease
has been recorded in this study
and in the literature and effort
should be taken for optimal life
support for these children who
 would have a good outcome if
life support is successful. We
have been able to show that,
presence of myelopathy, the
mean number of hours of altered
sensorium and the mean
duration of hospital stay were
associated with a bad prognosis
using three different outcome
scales. Fever at admission,
ventilator associated pneumonia,
more profound altered
sensorium at nadir of disease,
signs of meningeal irritation at
presentation and lower motor
neuron involvement also, during
the course of disease were
associated with an immediate
bad outcome using one of the
outcome scores used in our
study. Future studies should also
address the question of why
children with myelopathy, signs
of lower motor involvement and
fever at onset have a bad
immediate outcome.
https://www. Robotic assisted surgery The benefits of minimally
sciencedirect.com/ Minimally invasive invasive partial
science/article/pii/ Health economics nephrectomy (PN) for
S2405456917300780 Costs localised renal cancers are well
Outcomes established. Outcomes and
Partial nephrectomy hospital activity following PN
Kidney cancer have not been studied for the
English National Health System,
despite a growing use of robotic-
assisted PN (RAPN)

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Long-term
outcome