… -based monitoring’ to embrace a broad range of approaches, from self-monitoring of
harvests by local resource users themselves, to censuses by local rangers, and inventories by …

… Empirical evidence shows that the effects of local land use regulations aimed at reducing
growth are evident in land values and housing prices. In areas having growth controls, the …

… This book also represents collaboration between local communities as knowledge
producers, local civil society organisations as managers and crafters of knowledge and district …

… This paper examines how and why scale matters, drawing on six basic arguments; …
structure and local agency; and reviews current research efforts to better link the local and global …

… SOEs controlled directly by a local government. These SOEs constitute the largest group of
controlling shareholders of listed companies in China. The listed companies they control are …

… If this view of board-as-mediator had prevailed, we might have seen a very different
jurisprudence of local land use matters. But it did not. By the 1960's the general wisdom held that in …

… questions about the pest-control responses to local and landscape habitat dynamics, and
there are many conditions under which natural habitat may fail to provide pest control (eg, if …

… local decisions and urban growth at the local level? Is it central or local states that matters
more in shaping local … How important is the central–local relationship? How do these factors …

This paper reviews some of the multiple influences on health issues in South Africa, placing
them in the context of globalisation. By examining the complexity of factors, both domestic …

Where do local power and authority lie in Africa when formal bureaucratic state institutions
are either very weak or non-existent? At first glance, it seems that in Africa's worst-off states, …