Sara Jensen
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520255890
- eISBN:
- 9780520942516
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520255890.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Ecology
Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in ...
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Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in unacceptable ways. This volume explores the rich yet largely uncharted terrain at the intersection of fire policy, fire science, and fire management in order to find better ways of addressing this pressing dilemma. This book aims to help scientists, policy makers, and the general public, especially residents of fire-prone areas, better understand where we are today in regard to coping with wildfires, how we got here, and where we need to go. Drawing on abundant historical and analytic information to shed new light on current controversies, this book offers a dynamic new paradigm for coping with fire that recognizes its critical environmental role. The book also tells how we can rebuild the important ecological and political processes that are necessary for finding better ways to cope with fire and with other complex policy dilemmas.Less
Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in unacceptable ways. This volume explores the rich yet largely uncharted terrain at the intersection of fire policy, fire science, and fire management in order to find better ways of addressing this pressing dilemma. This book aims to help scientists, policy makers, and the general public, especially residents of fire-prone areas, better understand where we are today in regard to coping with wildfires, how we got here, and where we need to go. Drawing on abundant historical and analytic information to shed new light on current controversies, this book offers a dynamic new paradigm for coping with fire that recognizes its critical environmental role. The book also tells how we can rebuild the important ecological and political processes that are necessary for finding better ways to cope with fire and with other complex policy dilemmas.
Joel D. Aberbach and Gillian Peele (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199764013
- eISBN:
- 9780199897186
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199764013.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This volume explores the problems facing the contemporary conservative movement and the Republican Party in the United States. The chapters analyze a range of issues confronting the American right, ...
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This volume explores the problems facing the contemporary conservative movement and the Republican Party in the United States. The chapters analyze a range of issues confronting the American right, including the factionalism and fissures within its different strands and the policy and strategic dilemmas which its faces. They delineate the evolution of the conservative movement and its relationship with the Republican Party both in historical context and in the Bush years. The volume examines the potential for rebuilding the Republican Party and the congruence of elite and mass attitudes with conservative and GOP positions on a variety of issues. The roles and positions of various parts of the conservative coalition, including the religious right, women's groups, and conservative thinks tanks are examined. Policy areas that are highly relevant to debates in conservative and Republican circles, including domestic, foreign, economic and deregulation policy are examined to assess their content, strengths and weaknesses. The book concludes with a discussion of the general themes argued by the contributors, focusing on the strengths but also the on the conflicted nature of contemporary American conservatism and on what these strengths and conflicts imply for the future of conservative and Republican politics.Less
This volume explores the problems facing the contemporary conservative movement and the Republican Party in the United States. The chapters analyze a range of issues confronting the American right, including the factionalism and fissures within its different strands and the policy and strategic dilemmas which its faces. They delineate the evolution of the conservative movement and its relationship with the Republican Party both in historical context and in the Bush years. The volume examines the potential for rebuilding the Republican Party and the congruence of elite and mass attitudes with conservative and GOP positions on a variety of issues. The roles and positions of various parts of the conservative coalition, including the religious right, women's groups, and conservative thinks tanks are examined. Policy areas that are highly relevant to debates in conservative and Republican circles, including domestic, foreign, economic and deregulation policy are examined to assess their content, strengths and weaknesses. The book concludes with a discussion of the general themes argued by the contributors, focusing on the strengths but also the on the conflicted nature of contemporary American conservatism and on what these strengths and conflicts imply for the future of conservative and Republican politics.
James Leigland
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- July 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198861829
- eISBN:
- 9780191894701
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198861829.003.0008
- Subject:
- Business and Management, International Business
This chapter focuses on independent power producer (IPP) projects, by far the most successful kind of public–private partnership (PPP) in the developing world. These projects generate more investment ...
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This chapter focuses on independent power producer (IPP) projects, by far the most successful kind of public–private partnership (PPP) in the developing world. These projects generate more investment in developing countries than all other forms of PPP combined. However, the development community exhibits ambivalence towards independent power producer (IPP) projects. They are supposed to work best in power sectors that are being reformed, where user tariffs are cost reflective and off-taker utilities are creditworthy. Yet, in practice, many influential multilateral development banks (MDBs), development finance institutions (DFIs), and donors are encouraging the use of IPP projects virtually everywhere in the developing world, whether or not sector reforms are taking place. This reflects a policy dilemma: most low-income countries desperately need more generating capacity, but should the development of IPP projects be delayed until progress is made on broader sector reforms? How can these policy dilemmas be resolved? Who can make that happen?Less
This chapter focuses on independent power producer (IPP) projects, by far the most successful kind of public–private partnership (PPP) in the developing world. These projects generate more investment in developing countries than all other forms of PPP combined. However, the development community exhibits ambivalence towards independent power producer (IPP) projects. They are supposed to work best in power sectors that are being reformed, where user tariffs are cost reflective and off-taker utilities are creditworthy. Yet, in practice, many influential multilateral development banks (MDBs), development finance institutions (DFIs), and donors are encouraging the use of IPP projects virtually everywhere in the developing world, whether or not sector reforms are taking place. This reflects a policy dilemma: most low-income countries desperately need more generating capacity, but should the development of IPP projects be delayed until progress is made on broader sector reforms? How can these policy dilemmas be resolved? Who can make that happen?
Nadia von Jacobi, Alex Nicholls, Daniel Edmiston, Attila Havas, Klaus Kubeczko, György Molnár, Georg Mildenberger, and Gudrun Schimpf
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198830511
- eISBN:
- 9780191868702
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198830511.003.0016
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation
This chapter addresses key issues that public policy seeking to support social innovation faces. Combining theoretical insights of the Extended Social Grid Model with empirical results obtained from ...
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This chapter addresses key issues that public policy seeking to support social innovation faces. Combining theoretical insights of the Extended Social Grid Model with empirical results obtained from EU policy surveys and case studies, it identifies key policy implications and recommendations. It first introduces key notions for social innovation policy, including the multifaceted landscape into which support is inserted; the necessity to recognize its political character; to what extent insights from business innovation studies can be useful; and why successful support of social innovation must imply institutional change. The chapter then outlines a series of recurrent policy dilemmas such as whether horizontal support should be preferred; the trade-off between degree and costs of marginalization that wish to be targeted; the difficulty to promote a capability to associate; and how the subsidiarity principle may clash against the need to overcome marginalizing processes.Less
This chapter addresses key issues that public policy seeking to support social innovation faces. Combining theoretical insights of the Extended Social Grid Model with empirical results obtained from EU policy surveys and case studies, it identifies key policy implications and recommendations. It first introduces key notions for social innovation policy, including the multifaceted landscape into which support is inserted; the necessity to recognize its political character; to what extent insights from business innovation studies can be useful; and why successful support of social innovation must imply institutional change. The chapter then outlines a series of recurrent policy dilemmas such as whether horizontal support should be preferred; the trade-off between degree and costs of marginalization that wish to be targeted; the difficulty to promote a capability to associate; and how the subsidiarity principle may clash against the need to overcome marginalizing processes.
Alon Tal
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780300189506
- eISBN:
- 9780300190700
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300189506.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
This book provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, ...
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This book provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands, and ecosystems. The book's description of Israel's trials and errors, and its exploration of both the environmental history and the current policy dilemmas surrounding that country'ss forests, hope to provide valuable lessons in the years to come for other parts of the world seeking to reestablish timberlands.Less
This book provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands, and ecosystems. The book's description of Israel's trials and errors, and its exploration of both the environmental history and the current policy dilemmas surrounding that country'ss forests, hope to provide valuable lessons in the years to come for other parts of the world seeking to reestablish timberlands.
James Leigland
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- July 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198861829
- eISBN:
- 9780191894701
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198861829.003.0009
- Subject:
- Business and Management, International Business
This chapter presents case studies of three recent renewable energy independent power producer (IPP) tender programs in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), in Uganda, Zambia, and South Africa. Using ...
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This chapter presents case studies of three recent renewable energy independent power producer (IPP) tender programs in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), in Uganda, Zambia, and South Africa. Using competitive tenders to select IPP projects is rare in Africa, but is viewed as an effective way of lowering project costs. And with the rapid reductions in the costs associated with wind and solar projects, renewable energy IPP projects may represent the power sector public–private partnerships (PPPs) of the future. These case studies detail the role of development partners in designing and implementing the first two of these programs and compare their performance with that of the South African program, a program designed and managed almost exclusively by South African officials and their advisers. What are the lessons that can be learned from these two distinct approaches? What impact do these kinds of programs have on the “IPP policy dilemma” described in Chapter 8?Less
This chapter presents case studies of three recent renewable energy independent power producer (IPP) tender programs in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), in Uganda, Zambia, and South Africa. Using competitive tenders to select IPP projects is rare in Africa, but is viewed as an effective way of lowering project costs. And with the rapid reductions in the costs associated with wind and solar projects, renewable energy IPP projects may represent the power sector public–private partnerships (PPPs) of the future. These case studies detail the role of development partners in designing and implementing the first two of these programs and compare their performance with that of the South African program, a program designed and managed almost exclusively by South African officials and their advisers. What are the lessons that can be learned from these two distinct approaches? What impact do these kinds of programs have on the “IPP policy dilemma” described in Chapter 8?
