Federalism and Local Authority: Empowering Local Governments to Address Environmental Problems

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Roesler
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Environmental Problems

Environmental Responsibility In The Development Of Green Entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonina Bobkova ◽  
Natalya Andryeyeva ◽  
Liudmyla Verbivska ◽  
Valentyna Kozlovtseva ◽  
Viktoriia Velychko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Ecological Responsibility ◽  
Green Business ◽  
Green Entrepreneurship

The purpose of this study is to determine the main directions of development of green entrepreneurship on the basis of environmental responsibility. The relevance of this study is due to the need to identify the main directions of green business development to solve environmental problems, based on the basic principles of environmental responsibility. It is believed that environmental responsibility is the basic basis for the formation of socially responsible green entrepreneurship, whose mission is environmental improvement on the basis of sustainable development. It is established thatit is expedient to consider ecological responsibility on levels (the state, the enterprises, the public).As the experience of successful companies shows, environmental responsibility can be integrated into the value and business of the company.The analysis revealed the main tools to stimulate green entrepreneurship: environmental taxes, "green" investments, instruments of stimulating influence on green entrepreneurship. It is established that in Ukraine the main responsibility for the implementation of sustainable development lies with the state and enterprises. The research revealed shortcomings in the organization of supervision measures and control over the targeted use of funds for the implementation of environmental programs. Also the imperfection of the regulatory framework, the inefficiency of the accounting, reporting and monitoring system, the ineffectiveness of measuresmonitoring the results of each project within a specific program to solve environmental problems. It is established that local governments and enterprises are two important participants in the environmental management system in Ukraine. Therefore, it is important to regulate environmental responsibility at the national, including regional, and corporate levels.

scholarly journals State Preemption of Local Authority: Explaining Patterns of State Adoption of Preemption Measures

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 540-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Fowler ◽  
Stephanie L Witt
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
State Adoption ◽  
Institutional Features

Abstract State preemption of local policymaking has attracted increasing attention from scholars, public officials, and citizens, as states have prevented local governments from boosting the minimum wage, regulating firearms, and barring certain forms of discrimination, among other policies. Although scholars have examined the legal dimensions of state preemption and analyzed preemption in specific areas, we lack a comprehensive account of which states have adopted preemption laws and why some states are more active than others in adopting them. Using a dataset drawing on preemption legislation in seventeen policy areas, we test support for competing explanations for variation in adoption of state preemption measures. Our general conclusion is that political factors are more significant than institutional features in explaining state preemption activity. More specifically, and consistent with expectations, we find preemption measures are more likely to be adopted by Republican-controlled states. We also find that legislative professionalism, political culture, and home-rule status are correlated with the prevalence of preemption measures.

Beijing will get tough on polluting firms

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Regulations ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Heavy Industry ◽  
Industrial Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Polluting Firms

Subject Enforcing environmental regulations in China. Significance Getting China's severe environmental problems under control depends on forcing large industrial firms to abide by environmental rules. Despite efforts to improve environmental governance as part of a 'war on pollution', the state's own heavy industrial firms account for a large number of environmental violations. Impacts The handful of SOEs in heavy industry responsible for the vast majority of pollution incidents will face significant pressure. The government's legitimacy is increasingly tied to its ability to curb pollution. Environmental problems will strain central-local relations as local governments struggle to regulate firms that answer to Beijing.

scholarly journals KEBIJAKAN PERIZINAN LINGKUNGAN HIDUP DI DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
H. Rhiti ◽  
Y. Sri Pudyatmoko
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Building Permit

AbstractIn DIY the environmental permit is recognized as an istrument for preventing the environmental problems. Local Government policies related to environmental permits are: the harmonization of economic interests with local wisdom and the environment; the interconnection between environmental permits and spatialplanning; the environmental permit as a requirement for the nuisance permit and building permit; the application of SPPL (statement letter to manage the environment) for small lactivities. According to local governments, the policies are appropriate to protect the environment.IntisariDi DIY perizinan lingkungan diakui sebagai instrumen untuk mencegah timbulnya masalah lingkungan hidup. Kebijakan Pemerintah Daerah terkait perizinan lingkungan dilakukan dengan: harmonisasi kepentingan ekonomi, muatan lokal dan lingkungan; mengaitkan perizinan lingkungan dan RTRW; menjadikan Izin Lingkungan sebagai syarat bagi Izin Gangguan dan IMB; dan penerapan SPPL bagi kegiatan mikro dan kecil. Kebijakan-kebijakan tesebut dianggap oleh Pemerintah Daerah sebagai cukup tepat bagi pelestarian fungsi lingkungan hidup di daerah.

THE VALUATION APPROACH IN RELATION TO THE MODEL OF PRIVATISATION FOR LAND DEVELOPMENT ADOPTED

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fauziah Raji ◽  
Norhaya Kamarudin
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Land Development ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Property Development ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

Privatisation of property development has been practiced in Malaysia since the 1980s where it not only involved the Federal Government but also the State Governments and the Local Governments. The government undertakes privatisation of property development for various benefits such as to reduce expenditure, to improve the quality of development and to ensure faster delivery of product.  It was observed that valuation of lands involved in the privatisation is significant as the valuation determines the returns to the government and costs to the developer. Inevitably the valuation will determine whether the privatisation should proceed or not. This research investigates the relationship between the model of privatisation adopted (MOP) and the approach to valuation for privatisation of property development projects by a local authority in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  The models of privatisation studied are the land swap, land lease, and the joint venture developments. Altogether fifteen privatisation projects were studied. Data gathered from interviews with key personnel from the identified projects were analysed qualitatively. The findings of the research positively report that the model of privatisation not only determines the type of valuation to be carried out whether capital or lease valuation but also influences the parameters for determining the value.  

scholarly journals PERJANJIAN BUILD AND TRANSFER ANTARA PEMERINTAH DAERAH DENGAN PIHAK SWASTA DALAM PENYEDIAAN INFRASTRUKTUR (Studi Di Nusa Tenggara Barat)

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zainal Asikin
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Private Enterprises ◽  
Transfer Model ◽  
Legal Decision ◽  
Cooperative Agreement ◽  
The Future ◽  
Local Execution

Undergoing local authority does not always bring with it advantage to the local government, but this may challenge the local government to make efforts to support and fund its governmental develop-ment. On of the ways out is by working in cooperation with private enterprises based the law of local execution. This study is intended to analize the cooperative agreement of local government with build and transfer model which is adopted widely by some local governments in Indonesia. Through  normative juridical study along with statute and case approaches, it is found the coopera-tive agreement of build and transfer in Indonesia is ruled by some official regulations which have different substantive points and have conflicted norms and vague rules related to legal subyect, procedures or mechanism of having agreement. In the future  it  is needed to issue legal decision re-lated to cooperative agreement between the local government and private enterprises which is more comprehensively in order to resolve the legal affairs or disputes.  Key words:  build and transfer, infrastructure, bouwheer

State Government Preemption of Local Government Decisions Through the State Courts

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 671-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Swanson ◽  
Charles Barrilleaux
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
State Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
The State ◽  
State Courts ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Data Set

What factors are associated with state government preemption of local government policies? This research asks whether state courts limit local authority in areas in which local preferences differ from the state’s, and whether this is conditioned by the level of autonomy the state grants the local government. Using a newly constructed data set of 404 local governments that had local ordinances challenged in state courts between the years 1996 and 2017, we find that local governments with citizen ideological preferences that differ from the state are less likely to have an ordinance preempted by the courts when the level of local autonomy given by the state is high. Thus, institutions like home rule provide local governments with certain legal protections from challenges to local authority.

Analysis of the Sustained and Firm Support of Resource-Based Industries on China's Economy

2013 ◽  
Vol 448-453 ◽  
pp. 4228-4234
Author(s):  
Zhong Min Wang ◽  
Lian Rong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Structure Optimization ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Considerable Progress ◽  
Contribution Rate ◽  
Economic Contribution ◽  
China’S Economy

In recent years, due to the increasingly cumulative effect of environmental problems caused by the development of resource-based industries, people ascribe the economic development lag brought about by the deformity of economic structure in resource-based regions to resource-based industries. The only way to economic structure optimization and transformation is to compress resource-based industries. After nearly a decade of economic transforming practice as well as under the support and guidance of the macro policy and the active cooperation of local governments, the non-resource-based industry has made considerable progress, while resource-based industry is still on the rise in the proportion of the total economy. This paper will, from the perspective of the economic contribution rate, analyze the contribution of the resource-based industry on our economy from 2003 to 2011 so as to prove the continued steady support of resource-based industry on China's society and economy.

Attitudes towards risk and decision-making within local government

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mairead Grimley ◽  
Kevin John Burnard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThis case study aims to explore the perceptions and attitudes towards risk within a UK local authority and the subsequent effects on decision-making. Through a qualitative analysis of both primary and secondary data, this study advances current understanding of the complex relationships between risk and decision-making. The study concludes by suggesting how local governments may better provide value to constituents.Design/methodology/approachThis research follows a single case study approach. Data were collected through both a focused online survey and semi-structured interviews. Respondents were selected through purposive sampling in order to capture direct insights and understanding of the concepts under consideration. The study focuses on a single local authority within the UK.FindingsBuilding on extant literature, this case study highlights both the individual and organisational considerations towards risk perception. Following the analysis of collected data, the study highlights the influence of risk aversion and public involvement within decision-making.Originality/valueBy aiming to improve and advance understanding of risk and decision-making in a local authority setting, the relevance of this research may be wider than internal organisational structures. The study provides recommendations for further research towards facilitating the inclusion of the citizen within decision-making processes.

scholarly journals Strengthening the Law on the Construction of High-rise Building That is Beneficial to Support National Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Michael Sofian Tanuhendrata ◽  
Jovita Irawati ◽  
Henry Soelistyo Budi
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Central Government ◽  
National Development ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Facility Manager ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Very High

<p><span lang="EN-US">The number of high-rise buildings in the big cities of Indonesia is increasing along with land being more limited and its prices being very high. Most of these high-rise buildings are in Jakarta and some of them are facing the risk of building failure that may cause business and operation interruption.  These buildings that have been erected and operating need to receive regular maintenance and supervision to ensure the building's condition and safety. Many building owners and managers do not conduct and plan maintenance and supervision properly causing these buildings of being at risk of fire and building structure – mechanical failure / damage. For this reason, rigorous regulations, and its enforcement in building construction and maintenance are needed to ensure that these buildings operate reliably and encourage building owners and facility manager to comply with them properly. Cultivated Penalty and strict sanctions need to be renewed and must be implemented properly by Government bodies and local authority. Building Audit Institute can be formed to assist the central government and local governments (Governor) in carrying out their functions to ensure the safety and security of buildings, including their users. Strengthening existing laws and regulations will greatly assist in law enforcement and certainty for owners, building managers and building users, which in turn will support national development.</span></p>

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