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Supreme Decree No. 28984 - Regulation Of The Regime Of Incentives For Small And Marginal Field Production, Evo Morales Ayma, Presidente Constitucional De La Republica

Latin American Energy Policies

The purpose of this decree is to regulate Article 64 of Law No. 3058- Hydrocarbons Law by establishing a regime of incentives for oil and natural gas in small and marginal fields.

Organic Environmental Law, Asamblea Nacional De Venezuela

Latin American Energy Policies

Establishes the norms to develop the constitutional rights for a safe, healthy and ecologically balanced environment. Art. 38 states that in the process of environment education, the knowledge of indigenous communities will be considered, as well as their techniques associated with the use of natural resources and ecological harmonic ways of life.

Law 26.190 - Electric Energy Law, El Senado Y Cámara De Diputados De La Nación Argentina

Latin American Energy Policies

This law declares a national interest in electricity generation from the use of renewable energy sources in Argentina. It calls for increased research on renewable energy technology development as well as an increase in the manufacture of equipment for this purpose. It sets the goal of having 8% of Argentina's national energy consumption derived from renewable energy sources within ten years of its enactment.

Living In A Land Of Fire, R. J. Whelan, P. Kanowski, M. Gill, A. Andersen

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Fires are an inherent part of the Australian environment. They cannot be prevented, but the risks they pose — to life, health, property and infrastructure, production systems, and to environment values — can be minimised through systematic evaluation and strategic planning and management. Fires have a fundamental and irreplaceable role in sustaining many of Australia’s natural ecosystems and ecological processes, and they are a valuable tool for achieving many land management objectives. However, if they are too frequent or too infrequent, too severe or too mild, or mistimed, they can erode ecosystem ‘health’ and biodiversity and compromise other land management …

Executive Decree No. 2066 - Electricity Sector Regime, Presidente Constitucional De La República, Ecuador

Latin American Energy Policies

This decree aims to establish general rules and procedures for implementing the Law of the Electricity Sector with respect to the generation, transmission, distribution and marketing of electricity that is needed to meet the domestic demand through the optimal use of natural resources.

Executive Decree No. 2066 - General Regulation For The Law Of The Electrical Sector, Presidente De La Republica Del Ecuador

Latin American Energy Policies

Decree that establishes the general norms and procedures for the application of the Law of the Electrical Sector. Chapter XII defines the meaning of unconventional renewable energy resources and talks about the encouragement and priority of the assignment of funds for the use of such resources.

Technical Collaboration Agreement Between The Association Of Renewable Energy Generators And The Ministry Of Environment And Natural Resources, Ministerio De Ambiente Y Recursos Naturales

Latin American Energy Policies

The goal of this agreement is to strengthen the technical, topical content and analytical capability of the natural resources of the Country under an environmentaly sustainable focus.

Carbon Dioxide And Climate Changes, Gregorio Marbán, Ana Arenillas, Ángeles Gómez Borrego, Teresa Valdés-Solís Iglesias, Marta Álvarez Rodríguez, Jesús M. Arrieta López De Uralde, Alexandra Coello Camba, Carlos M. Duarte Quesada, Neus Garcías Bonet, Núria Marbà Bordalba, Aurore Regaudie De Gioux, Sergio Ruiz Halpern, María Sánchez Camacho, Raquel Vaquer Suñer, Roberto Martínez Orio, Isabel Suárez Díaz, Ignacio Cruz Cruz, Diego Martínez Plaza, Fernanda Sánchez Ojanguren

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This short guide is divided into four sections. Each one provides an explanation of climate change and how it affects the following: ecosystems; our role as global citizens; our daily habits; the problems associated with the current energy sector; possible clean energy alternatives; and the challenge of transportation.

Communications Breakdown: Revisiting The Question Of Information And Its Significance For Community Informatics Projects, William Tibben

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

The gap between those who understand the complexities of community requirements and the information technologists who can build the technologies represents a central focus of concern with Community Informatics (CI) research. This paper explores how different assumptions about the utility of information leads to poor communication between researchers and practitioners. Braman’s four-part hierarchy is a useful vehicle to investigate this as she seeks to include a range of actors such as policy makers, technologists and community members. A number of case study examples are explored to illustrate the value of Braman’s work for CI.

Development Plan For The Energy Sector 2007 - 2017, Bureau Des Mines Et De L'Energie

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

The national program for the development of the energy sector of Haiti seeks to enable policy makers and various stakeholders providing them with a management tool for the industry. The program covers the period 2007-2032. The conservation of natural resources (especially forests) from the point of view of energy management and environmental integrity will be considered through various measures such as: Support for more efficient use of fuel from wood and charcoal; the production of energy and other forest biomass resources; the conversion to diesel, bio-diesel and LPG of 1,000 small businesses that use wood as fuel; the promotion of …

When Can Politicians Scare Citizens Into Supporting Bad Policies? A Theory Of Incentives With Fear Based Content, Arthur Lupia, Jesse O. Mennng

Department of Political Science: Hendricks Symposium

Analysts make competing claims about when and how politicians can use fear to gain support for suboptimal policies. Using a model, we clarify how common attributes of fear affect politicians’ abilities to achieve self-serving outcomes that are bad for voters. In it, a politician provides information about a threat. His statement need not be true. How citizens respond differs from most game-theoretic models – we proceed from more dynamic (and realistic) assumptions about how citizens think. Our conclusions counter popular claims about how easily politicians use fear to manipulate citizens, yield different policy advice than does recent scholarship on counterterrorism, …

Law No. 3009 - Electric Energy, Congreso De La Nación De Paraguay

Latin American Energy Policies

With sustainable development in mind, this law calls for diversification in the forms of energy available. Additionally, it calls for the applications of new technologies in the field. This law regulates the activities of production and / or independent transportation of electricity, including cogeneration or self-generated electricity.

Icts And Political Accountability: An Assessment Of The Impact Of Digitization In Government On Political Accountability In Connecticut, Massachusetts And New York State, Albert Meijer

National Center for Digital Government

This report presents a first analysis of the results of empirical research into the impact of digitization on political accountability in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York State. The report focuses on presenting the empirical findings and these data still require further analysis.

The United Kingdom Flexible Working Act, Georgetown Federal Legislation Clinic

Memos and Fact Sheets

In 2002, the United Kingdom passed new legislation granting employees with young or disabled children the right to request flexible work arrangements from their employers. The law does not guarantee a right to flexible working but seeks to increase flexibility in UK workplaces by requiring a process for negotiation between employees and employers. Stated simply, that process places the initial responsibility on the employee to propose a new work arrangement and explain its potential impact on the employer. The employee and employer must then consider the request together, and the employer may refuse the request only for certain business reasons.

Housing And Service Options For Older Adults In Maine, Julie T. Fralich Mba, Kate Maggioncalda

Disability & Aging

Older adults want to live at home and in their community as independently as possible for as long as possible (Bayer & Harper L, 2000). The housing and service needs of older adults vary greatly by age, by condition, by setting, by geographic region, and over time. Some older adults do not require any supportive services; others need services that may range from assistance with shopping to extensive need for nursing care. Needs also fluctuate in response to acute events (often requiring hospitalizations), or other temporary changes in health status. The challenge is to have a mix of private and …

Labor Supply With Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates And Their Tax Policy Implications, Andrew Grodner, Thomas J. Kniesner

Center for Policy Research

Our research fleshes out econometric details of examining possible social interactions in labor supply. We look for a response of a person's hours worked to hours worked in the labor market reference group, which includes those with similar age, family structure, and location. We identify endogenous spillovers by instrumenting average hours worked in the reference group with hours worked in neighboring reference groups. Estimates of the canonical labor supply model indicate positive economically important spillovers for adult men. The estimated total wage elasticity of labor supply is 0.22, where 0.08 is the exogenous wage change effect and 0.14 is the …

Re Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre And Nsgeu (P-05121), Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

This is a union policy grievance regarding the Employer's approach to the compensation of employees for time lost on storm days. The Employer was compensating only if the time lost was for less than two hours. The Union believed that the Employer should pay for the first two hours. The Union seeks full redress, including retroactive compensation. The Employer agreed to the requested remedy if the Grievance is successful.

The grievance fails. The Union could not prove its interpretation of the relevant clauses of the Collective Agreement.

Economic, Environmental And Social Performance Of The Irish Tourism Sector: Towards Sustainability, Kevin Griffin, John Carty

Conference papers

Ireland is promoted a clean, green tourism destination, famous for it’s landscape, environment, natural habitats and biodiversity. However, is this image still realistic and is it an image that can be sustained as Ireland develops post 2006? This question is examined through the course of this paper and relevant tourism policies are drawn on to illustrate this issue further.

Over the past decade, Irish tourism has performed quite well and has made a strong contribution to the national economy[1]. An efficient government sector, a competitive air and maritime transport sector, a strong partnership between public and private sector, …

Bus Rapid Transit: A Handbook For Partners, Mti Report 06-02, George E. Gray, Thomas F. Larwin, Norman Kelley

Mineta Transportation Institute

In April 2005, the Caltrans Division of Research and Innovation (DRI) asked MTI to assist with the research for and publication of a guidebook for use by Caltrans employees who work with local transit agencies and jurisdictions in planning, designing, and operating Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems that involve state facilities. The guidebook was also to assist to transit operators, local governments, community residents, and other stakeholders dealing with the development of BRT systems. Several areas in the state have experienced such projects ( San Diego , Los Angeles , San Francisco , and Alameda County ) and DRI wished …

Contributions Of The Earned Income Tax Credit To Community Development In Indian Country, Kristen Wagner, Karen Edwards, Miriam Jorgensen, Dana Klar

Center for Social Development Research

The earned income tax credit (EITC) has become a central element in a suite of programs and polices that promote “asset building” for the poor. Increasingly, it has become a way not only for individuals but also communities to turn their economic circumstances around. The Center for Social Development in collaboration with Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies engaged ten Native community organizations currently providing free tax preparation services in a study that examined uptake and potential uses of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) income by Native people. Through community surveys we learned that a majority of survey …

Academic Capabilities And Disadvantaged Students: The Role Of Institutions, William Elliott Iii, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Notwithstanding the far reaching intellectual and practical contributions of Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy, researchers have suggested that it may not adequately address the role of institutions. This paper suggests that traditional measures of self-efficacy underemphasize institutional factors. This may have important implications, especially for considering the circumstances of disadvantaged groups. It may be productive to think of self-efficacy as a multidimensional construct that includes personal and institutional dimensions. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we examine how self-efficacy theory can be expanded to account for the social and economic realities of disadvantaged groups and lead to empirical work that can inform policy …

Wealth Building In Rural America: Programs, Policies, Research, Jon Bailey, Jami Curley, Karen Edwards, Gena Gunn, Eric Henson, Njeri Kagotho, Anna Lee, Kathleen K. Miller, Luxman Nathan, Trina R. Shanks, Michael Sherraden, Margaret S. Sherraden, Jean Schumacher, Bill Schweke, Ann Ulmer

Center for Social Development Research

Wealth Building in Rural America: Programs, Policies, Research

Law No. 3429 - Agreement Between The Republic Of Bolivia And The Republic Of Venezuela, Congreso Nacional De Bolivia

Latin American Energy Policies

Aproves the Energy Collaboration Agreement between Bolivia and Venezuela.

Comparison Of Risk Management Policies In Oecd Countries, Reza Lahidji

Geohazards

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development started in 2003 a series of country studies and reviews aimed at assisting its Member countries in evaluating the effectiveness of their risk management systems, notably in terms of their ability to contend with large-scale risks of the future, and at offering them guidance in making the requisite improvements. The project, entitled the OECD Futures Project on Risk Management Policies, focuses on the consistency of risk management policies and on their ability to deal with the challenges, present and future, created by the evolution of the risk landscape.

The Project gathers eight Member …

Law No. 28749 - General Rural Electrification Law, Presidente Del Congreso De La República Del Perú

Latin American Energy Policies

Law which has as main objective the establishment of regulations for the promotion and efficient electrification of rural zones and isolated locations in Peru.

Hydrocarbons Organic Law, Asamblea Nacional De Venezuela

Latin American Energy Policies

Regulates the activities of exploration, exploitation, refining, industrialization, transportation and storage of hydrocarbons and their products.

Firewall - It-3310-01

Information Technology Services

Access to University IT resources from off-campus locations has increased due to the proliferation of teaching, research, and administrative applications and the increased mobility of faculty and staff. Opening unsecured and uncontrolled paths to University IT resources presents significant risks to the University community and IT infrastructure. Appropriate controls and protections are required in order to mitigate these risks, preserve and protect University IT assets.

Virtual Private Network - It-2310-00

Information Technology Services

Virtual Private Networking (VPN) services are offered by Georgia Southern University to provide secure network communication and extend local network access to offsite locations. The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines for the Remote Access VPN that supports the Georgia Southern University’s Acceptable Use Policy, Workstation Security Standards, Remote Network Access Policy, and Security Standards for Information Systems Policy.

Improving Historic Preservation Enforcement In The District Of Columbia, David J. Henry

Georgetown Law Historic Preservation Papers Series

Within the past few years, the creation of the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) has been an important change in the District of Columbia government. OAH is viewed by many as an innovative government agency that provides fair and impartial administrative adjudication for District agencies, with efficiency. However, since OAH began full operations in 2004, the effectiveness of historic preservation enforcement has actually decreased. The primary indicators of this are the fewer number of completed adjudications and the smaller amount of fines collected in the past year.

This paper is a policy paper. As such, the paper will identify problems …

Plan For The Generation Of The Dominican Electricity Sector 2006-2020, Comisión Nacional De Energía

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

This document outlines a strategic plan which focuses on providing for growth in the sector by promoting development in the field of energy generation through private investment.