The Economic Limitations to Certain Uses of Interstate Compacts

1937 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Spengler
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Public Utilities ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
Water Power ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Interstate Compacts ◽  
Council Of State ◽  
Oil Gas ◽  
Boundary Lines

Within recent months, increased attention has been given the possibility of utilizing interstate compacts to cope with problems that transcend the boundary lines of given states. A Council of State Governments has been created to promote such interstate agreements, and several states have established commissions to facilitate coöperation with this council. Compacts have been advocated as solutions not only for the problem of criminal extradition, but also for such problems as the control of the extraction of natural resources (e.g., coal, oil, gas, water supplies, and water power) and the conservation of their supply, and the regulation of milk prices, of the conditions of labor, and of the production and distribution of the services of certain classes of public utilities.

Nomadic Peoples and Alternate Conceptions of Place

Fully Human ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 129-149
Author(s):  
Lindsey N. Kingston
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Community Membership ◽  
Freedom Of Movement

Under pressure from sedentary majority populations, nomadic peoples face serious threats to their cultural survival and livelihood. Nomadic groups have long faced suspicion and discrimination—as illustrated by the ongoing marginalization of European Roma and Travellers, the Maasai of Tanzania and Kenya, and the Bedouin of the MENA region—and modern societies tend to see human rights, including the basic rights of freedom of movement and property rights, through a lens that privileges settlement. Indeed, nomadic peoples are often viewed with suspicion and excluded from the citizenry because they move “too much” and do not conform to majority views related to settlement, land use, and community membership. This bias leaves nomadic peoples without functioning citizenship in regard to state governments, who fail to understand their basic needs and perspectives. Resulting rights abuses center not only on rights to land and natural resources but also on cultural and political expression.

The Council of State Governments Justice Center Approach to Increasing Risk-Level Consistency in the Application of Risk Assessment Instruments

Assessment ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 107319112095806
Author(s):  
Daryl G. Kroner ◽  
Bree Derrick
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Level System ◽  
Recidivism Rates ◽  
Mental Health Settings ◽  
Increasing Risk ◽  
Council Of State ◽  
Risk Categories

Correctional and forensic mental health settings potentially have multiple risk assessment instruments administered on a single client. Because of the various methods of determining risk categories, risk-level consistency can become an issue. The Council of State Governments Justice Center developed a Five-Level System that can be applied to most risk assessment instruments. Using the Level of Service Inventory–Revised and two created risk assessment instruments, the present study assessed if the Five-Level System (vs. normative percentile categories) demonstrated greater agreement between the two instruments, and, if so, the percentage of greater agreement. The Five-Level System demonstrated 4% to 5% greater agreement for both risk-level placement and recidivism rates. The implications of this greater consistency among risk assessment instruments is an increased fairness in making risk-level assignments.

Public Service Media Utilities: Rethinking Search Engines and Social Networking as Public Goods

2013 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Andrejevic
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Relative Content ◽  
Public Utilities ◽  
Network Neutrality ◽  
User Mobility ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Technological Developments

Far from being relegated to history's dustbin by technological developments, a public service rationale is as pertinent as ever in the digital era, the capabilities of which lend themselves to the development of public service media. This article explores calls to regulate digital media platforms like Facebook and Google as public utilities, but concludes that, with the exception of regulations to facilitate user mobility and platform/network neutrality, it makes more sense to focus on the development of a robust public service media sector for the digital era. Such a sector would broaden the scope of public service beyond content production and distribution to include social media, search and other information-sorting and communication utilities. The article considers the rationale and scope for such a program, arguing that an era of information glut poses challenges that are distinct from those associated with the broadcast era of relative content scarcity.

Murray-Darling Basin Commission: a case study in integrated catchment management

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Blackmore
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Integrated Catchment Management ◽  
Murray Darling Basin ◽  
Murray River ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Basin Water

This paper describes the Australian Murray-Darling basin experience in integrated catchment management, what has been achieved and what remains to be done. The basin water is shared by three states, but falls under the jurisdiction of four governments, that of the Commonwealth as well as the State governments. The critical development in recent years at the political and bureaucratic level was the establishment of a three-tier management structure that allows common interests to be developed, discussed, resolved and implemented. Two main problems had to be resolved before significant co-operative action could take place, namely the issues of water sharing between the states and the sharing of costs associated with Murray River salinity. A framework Salinity and Drainage Strategy was developed to address this, and is described. This paper also describes the Natural Resources Management Strategy, the cornerstone of efforts to sustain the natural resources of the basin. The strategy emphasises community participation and empowerment. The problems identified, strategic aims to address these problems and the role of community action are detailed.

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