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Matching Municipal Challenges And Resources: Intergovernmental Options, Christopher Spruce
Matching Municipal Challenges And Resources: Intergovernmental Options, Christopher Spruce
Maine Policy Review
For most of the era since 1960, when environmental policy and resource policy have been central public issues, the focus of public debates on those policies was at the federal and state levels. Now, more and more of the decisions and policies that will determine the quality of life for citizens are being made at the local level. There is concern over the ability of small governmental units, which often rely heavily on the New England tradition of volunteer government, to manage the new array of technical issues. Christopher Spruce asks if we should not think more carefully about the …