Accounting for the distributional impacts of policy in the green accounts

Green income accounting models are designed to appropriately value changes in a country's natural resource (natural capital) base. However, green NNP is useful as a guide for domestic and international policy only to the extent that it accurately reflects the economic goals and policy options of policy makers. For example, international policy designed to slow natural capital depletion in a developing country is more effective if policy makers recognize the developing country's perceived income effects of the policy. Traditional green accounting models do not satisfy this criterion because they are based on the assumption that policy makers are either not concerned with the distributional consequences of policies, and/or are not limited in the instruments available to them. We present an alternative green NNP measure that reflects distributional goals and policy implementation. Using this measure, the depletion (accumulation) of natural capital stocks in excess of economically efficient rates may increase income.

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Interdependance, linkage et système international : de l'analyse conceptuelle aux problèmes de politique étrangère

Études internationales ◽

10.7202/702166ar ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 329-352

Author(s):

Irnerio Seminatore

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

International Relations ◽

International System ◽

Political Context ◽

International Policy ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The North ◽

Interdependence Theory ◽

The Face ◽

The Impact

The emergence and evolution of the literature dealing with interdependence in the international System is looked into. An attempt is made to show its significance and main points as well as its implications. The debates on interdependence within the North-American political context are regarded as solutions to the preceding issues on dependence. Interesting passages are dedicated to the impact of the interdependence theory on the interpretation of the international system, as illustrated by two schools of thought in foreign policy (Kissinger-Brzezinski). Linkage of the tactical and strategic aspects to the economic and political interrelation of international relations, as put forward by policy makers, has brought to the fore the difficulties and limits of negotiation in the face of competition and in the aftermath of confrontation. This paper offers subtle, yet positive, conclusions on the use of the interdependance theory in international policy.

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Challenges in the development of the geodiversity concept

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15619 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

José Brilha

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Natural Capital ◽

Well Being ◽

University Education ◽

Conservation Areas ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Environmental Impact Assessments ◽

Conservation Actions ◽

Nature Play ◽

Development Goals

The concept of geodiversity, despite being in use for almost 30 years, still has little impact on society. It is not easy to explain the reason for this dissociation, considering that the elements that constitute geodiversity are intrinsically part of nature, play an essential role in ecosystem services and, consequently, in human well-being.During the last decade we have seen a great development in the interest of the geoscientific community in this subject, represented by the increase in the publication of papers and doctoral and master theses all over the world. One of the main challenges is now to transpose all this scientific knowledge into society. Obviously, theoretical and conceptual discussions about geodiversity are an integral part of science and must continue, but if we want that society recognizes the importance and value of geodiversity, we must be able to demonstrate clearly how geodiversity can help to solve some of the problems we face today.Among other priorities, the geoscientific community has to be able to demonstrate in an structured way:<ul><li>The importance of geodiversity in implementing nature conservation actions and its direct relationship with biodiversity;</li> <li>The contribution of geodiversity for ecosystems restoration and its accounting as part of natural capital;</li> <li>The need to quantify the role of geodiversity in ecosystem services;</li> <li>The urgency of make environmental impact assessments including all possible effects that may affect geodiversity elements and processes;</li> <li>The importance of integrate the concept of geodiversity in pre-university education curricula;</li> <li>That the information and environmental interpretation provided to visitors of protected areas and other conservation areas should always include geodiversity.</li> </ul>Once the importance of geodiversity is fully recognized by policy-makers, managers, and the society in general, the fulfilment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals will be for sure closer than it is today.

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How to Make Your Work Really Influence Future Healthcare

Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration - Design, Development, and Integration of Reliable Electronic Healthcare Platforms ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1724-5.ch016 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 271-296 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Aleš Bourek

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Policy Implementation ◽

Health Systems ◽

Healthcare Systems ◽

Ordinary People ◽

Future Health ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Healthcare Environments ◽

Personalized Health ◽

Personalized Health Care

Future health systems, besides traditional areas defined and addressed since 1980, face the advent of Proactive, Predictive, Prospective, Preventive, Participative and Personalized health care (HC). Reliable e-health platforms can help us with these challenges. They should be designed and implemented in a way to help ordinary people achieve extraordinary results. Even the best projects addressing HC systems improvement are not automatically qualified for implementation unless adopted by policy makers. The introduction of strategies with a potential for healthcare systems improvement to policy makers is necessary but difficult because of the complexity of the addressed issue. Illustrated on four projects, selected from the 25 the author participated in, from 1993 to 2016, principles, processes and attitudes found beneficial for successful policy implementation in various healthcare environments, are presented, to help with the integration of reliable electronic healthcare platforms into coming healthcare systems.

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Social Issues in Electronic Commerce

Ethical Issues of Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-931777-15-5.ch014 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 189-206

Author(s):

Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou ◽

Athanasia Pouloudi

Keyword(s):

Network Security ◽

Policy Implementation ◽

Electronic Commerce ◽

Social Issues ◽

Policy Makers ◽

White House ◽

Online Transactions ◽

Complex Process ◽

Legislative Framework ◽

National Governments

Policy implementation for electronic commerce is a complex process since policy makers, national governments in their majority, have to act in a fast changing environment. They need to balance special national demands with international cooperation (Papazafeiropoulou & Pouloudi, 2000). One of the areas that policy makers have to tackle is dealing with barriers that have been reported in the adoption of electric commerce today. These barriers are mostly derived from factors such as lack of awareness about the opportunities offered by electronic commerce as well as lack of trust to ward network security. Additionally the current legislative framework, drawn before the advent of electronic commerce, is perceived as outdated, thus impeding the expansion of online transactions. Policy makers, therefore, find it increasingly critical to update commerce legislation (Owens, 1999; Shim et al., 2000; the White House, 1999) and take other measures to facilitate the uptake of electronic commerce.

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‘Cease and desist?’ The persistence of Marlboro brand imagery in racing video games

Tobacco Control ◽

10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055300 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. tobaccocontrol-2019-055300

Author(s):

Susan Forsyth ◽

Patricia A McDaniel

Keyword(s):

Video Games ◽

Video Game ◽

Real Life ◽

Smoking Prevention ◽

International Policy ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Philip Morris ◽

History Of ◽

Negative Publicity ◽

Game Industry

BackgroundSince 1972, Philip Morris (PM) has sponsored motorsports. Racing video games are a popular genre among youth and often emulate the branding of their real-life counterparts, potentially exposing youth to tobacco imagery. We examined racing video games for the presence of Marlboro imagery and explored the history of efforts to remove or regulate such imagery.MethodsWe searched the Truth Tobacco Industry documents for relevant documents and used information from video game-related websites and game play videos to identify racing video games that contained Marlboro trademarks and imagery. We also collected information on the Entertainment Software Ratings Board’s (ESRB) tobacco-specific and overall game ratings.FindingsIn 1989, negative publicity surrounding the presence of Marlboro logos in racing games led PM to threaten legal action against two game makers for copyright infringement. PM also launched a media campaign promoting this intervention as evidence of its commitment to youth smoking prevention. Nonetheless, we identified 219 video games from 1979 to 2018 that contained Marlboro trademarks and/or Marlboro-sponsored drivers and livery. Among the games in our sample with an ESRB game rating, all but one received an ‘E,’ indicating appropriateness for everyone, and all but three lacked tobacco content descriptors.ConclusionRacing video games have been and continue to be a vehicle for exposing adolescents to the Marlboro brand. Because voluntary efforts by PM and the video game industry to prevent youth exposure to tobacco brands in video games have been ineffective, USA and international policy-makers should prohibit tobacco content in video games.

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Local Actions, National Policies and International Knowledge: Family Planning and Statistical Practices in Taiwan (1949–1980s)

Social History of Medicine ◽

10.1093/shm/hky122 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

pp. 819-842

Author(s):

Yi-Tang Lin

Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

General Population ◽

Population Policy ◽

Population Council ◽

International Policy ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Population Decrease ◽

Tacit Consent ◽

International Knowledge ◽

The Ideal

Summary Using an approach based on the sociology of quantification, this article illustrates how actors utilised statistics when importing family planning to Taiwan and exporting their experience to international policy makers. The functions of statistics—producing knowledge and making policies—assisted the implementation of international programmes in Taiwan, where any actions leading to a population decrease were prohibited in the 1950s. The Population Council and Taiwanese officials first secured the provincial government’s tacit consent by claiming the programme to be an experiment in general population policy rather than one focused on the insertion of intra-uterine devices (IUDs). They went on to win the central government’s endorsement in 1964 by presenting IUD insertions as tools for achieving the ideal population size for economic development. Finally, experts packaged and repackaged the Taiwan programme as a success by wielding locally-collected statistics, reframing the programme to fit the conclusions of international research at the time.

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Will Policy Makers Hear My Disability Experience? How Participatory Research Contributes to Managing Interest Conflict in Policy Implementation

Social Policy and Society ◽

10.1017/s1474746409990339 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 207-220 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Karen R. Fisher ◽

Sally Robinson

Keyword(s):

Policy Implementation ◽

Participatory Research ◽

Formative Evaluation ◽

Evaluation Process ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Evaluation Practice ◽

Policy Theory ◽

Interest Conflict ◽

Participatory Policy ◽

Service Experiences

Participatory evaluation gives primacy to the experience of people affected by the policy. How realistic is it for researchers to persuade government of its benefits, given the gap between participatory policy theory and government evaluation practice? We apply this question to the Resident Support Program evaluation. The program coordinates support for people living in boarding houses and hostels in Queensland, Australia. We found that a participatory, longitudinal, formative evaluation process facilitated service user contribution to research outcomes, service experiences and policy implementation. In addition, the values position of participatory research can contribute to managing interest conflict in policy implementation.

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Evaluasi Program Akselerasi di SMA Negeri 3 Kota Gorontalo

Jurnal Pendidikan Islam Iqra ◽

10.30984/jii.v15i1.1505 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Zelan Tamrin Danial

Keyword(s):

Human Resources ◽

Policy Implementation ◽

Learning Outcomes ◽

Academic Support ◽

Evaluation Criteria ◽

Product Evaluation ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Accelerated Program ◽

Academic Support Personnel ◽

School Supports

Evaluation Of The Acceleration Program In SMA Negeri 3, Gorontalo. This study aims to: a) evaluate various policies regarding the acceleration program in SMA Negeri 3 Gorontalo city at the context stage, b) evaluate the availability of available resources to support the implementation of the acceleration program in SMA Negeri 3 Gorontalo city at the input stage, c) evaluate the implementation of the acceleration program at SMA Negeri 3 Gorontalo city at the stage of the process, and d) evaluate the success achieved in the implementation of the acceleration program in SMA Negeri 3 Gorontalo city at the product stage. This study employs an evaluative approach with data collection techniques, such as interview, observation and documentation.The results indicate that; 1) the results of the evaluation context that supports the acceleration program at SMA Negeri 3 Gorontalo city show that there is an acceleration program of policy in SMA Negeri 3 Gorontalo City and the understanding of policy makers about the acceleration program in SMA Negeri 3 Gorontalo city is intensively good , the formulation of the vision and mission of the school supports the policy implementation of the accelerated program, b) the results of the input evaluation show that the input component is a) the availability of human resources, namely teachers and academic support personnel, 2) the availability of facilities and infrastructure that support the implementation of the program (classes, laboratories, IT), d) curriculum, e) student recruitment , f) availability of funds, all of which support the acceleration program at SMA Negeri 3 Gorontalo city, 3) the results of the evaluation of the process show that the stages of the learning process carried out in the acceleration program in SMA Negeri 3 Gorontalo city are very dynamic and support the improvement of the competence of students studying in the accelerated class, and 4) the results of product evaluation indicate that a product stage of the acceleration program at SMA Negeri 3 Gorontalo city , shows that the evaluation criteria for students’ learning outcomes in the accelerated class display good results with an average of 95.75 or very good category.

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The policy implementation of corporation of consumer dispute resolution (BPSK) Reviewed from law number 8 year 1999 On consumer protection

Legal Standing Jurnal Ilmu Hukum ◽

10.24269/ls.v1i1.584 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Aditya Bagus Kuncoro

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Policy Implementation ◽

Dispute Resolution ◽

Consumer Protection ◽

Central Government ◽

Lower Class ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Class Society

The corporation of consumer protection plays an important role in the dispute resolutions that often occur in the community. Its existence is so beneficial for the middle class society who often becomes a dupe of injustice in the economic and business competition. However, in fact, the existence of a corporation of consumer disputes resolution in Indonesia does not have a serious attention from policy makers. The results of this study is that there is an imbalance in the regulation of central and local about the existence of this corporation of consumer dispute resolution. It is particularly on the issue of unclear funding arrangements and there is a misinterpretation between the central government and the regions. Therefore, the middle and the lower class society are not able to compete.

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GLIMPSE 2.0: a framework to feed the world

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review ◽

10.22434/ifamr2015.0202 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 1-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Aidan J. Connolly ◽

Luiz R. Sodre ◽

Kate Phillips-Connolly

Keyword(s):

Grounded Theory ◽

Nutritional Requirements ◽

Original Research ◽

International Policy ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Governmental Organization ◽

Grounded Theory Methodology ◽

Management Review ◽

The World ◽

New Research

Five years ago a new acronym GLIMPSE was proposed in the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review to summarize the seven barriers faced by agriculture in its quest to feed the world, based on interviews of 25 agribusiness experts. Through an iterative, grounded theory methodology the original research that led to the GLIMPSE framework was validated, deepened and expanded. The new research made minor revisions to the original GLIMPSE, but confirmed it as an effective framework to explain to an interested public how agriculture can tackle the planet’s nutritional requirements if certain constraints are addressed. Specifically, international policy makers, governments, non-governmental organization, charities, industry organizations, integrated food companies and farmers often struggle to explain the complex challenges agribusiness faces, and in this respect the GLIMPSE framework allows all stakeholders to describe the main challenges agriculture faces on its journey to feed almost 10 billion people by 2050.

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