Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation of Lagos Coastal Communities to Flooding by Prince Emeka Ndimele, Akinloye Emmanuel Ojewole, Gabriel Olarinde Mekuleyi, Lateef Akorede Badmos, Christopher Monday Agosu, Emmanuel Sunday Olatunbosun, Oluseyi Olaide Lawal, Jamiu Adebayo Shittu, Olufemi Olabode Joseph, Kehinde Moyosola Ositimehin, Felix Chinsom Ndimele, Catherine Oluwalopeye Ojewole, Iman Olawunmi Abdulganiy, Odunayo Temitope Ayodele

“…Specifically, the 2020 flood incidence in Nigeria affected about 40% of the local government areas, and 97% of the states, displacing over 120,000 persons and killing 68 persons aside from properties and farmlands destroyed. …”
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Spatial and temporal epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 virus lineages in Teesside, UK, in 2020: effects of socio-economic deprivation, weather, and lockdown on lineage dynamics by Moss, E.D., Rushton, S.P., Baker, P., Bashton, M., Crown, M.R., dos Santos, R.N., Nelson, A., O’Brien, S.J., Richards, Z., Sanderson, R.A., Yew, W.C., Young, G.R., McCann, C.M., Smith, D.L.

“…Discussion: National and local government interventions appeared to be ineffective at the sub-regional level if they did not include school closures. …”
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Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Coinfection of Urogenital Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis among Primary School Children in Biase, Southern Nigeria by Kenneth Nnamdi Opara, Eteye Udobong Wilson, Clement Ameh Yaro, Luay Alkazmi, Nsima Ibanga Udoidung, Friday Maduka Chikezie, Bassey Eyibio Bassey, Gaber El-Saber Batiha

“…The study was carried out to determine the current infection status and risk factors associated with Schistosoma haematobium and soil-transmitted helminth (STH) coinfection among school children in Biase Local Government Area (LGA), Cross River State, Nigeria. …”
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Poverty Dynamics and the Fundamental Root Causes in Iran by Zahra Azari, Parviz Mohamadzadeh, Davoud Behboudi

“…These elements include: limited access orders, the presence of subordinate institutions in the economy, political isolation, lack of guarantee of property rights, lack of transparency in access to information, lack of freedom of expression in the press, rent, lack of a strong mechanism for monitoring, weak labor unions, government unresponsiveness, weak local government, not believing in law and legislation, and finally, the lack of education in demanding in schools and universities. …”
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Path and Practice of Gap Management in National Parks: A Comparison Between China and the US and Inspirations Therefrom by Yun MA, Siyuan HE

“…Despite efforts to integrate these areas into a unified management framework, these communities are primarily controlled by local governments, with limited support from the competent park authorities. …”
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The Design of Incentive Mechanism for Policy-Oriented Guarantee Institutions’ Digital Transformation in China by Youqing Lv, Guojian Ma, Linlin Lv, Juan Ding

“…Based on the principal-agent relationship between local governments and policy-oriented guarantee institutions, this study constructs a basic incentive model (model I) and an incentive model introducing a regulatory signal (model II), empirically analyzes the digital transformation effort of guarantee institutions under the influence of different factors and discusses how local governments should design the optimal incentive mechanism. …”
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Challenges in the Implementation of Fiscal Decentralization and It’s Effects on the Health Sector in Uganda by George Stanley, Kinyata, Siraje, Kaaya

“…Abstract: This article was written to show how decentralized services such as health do not match with adequate financial resources for Local Governments to deliver health services effectively in Uganda. …”
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THE TENDENCY TOWARDS CENTRALIZATION EXPERIENCED IN THE MANAGEMENT OF METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITIES IN TURKEY by Orhan Veli Alıcı

“…Therefore, the centralization process in local governments contained all of the city boundaries. …”
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Does Accrual Accounting Reduce Public Investment? Evidence from Three Recent Evaluation Studies by Désirée I. Christofzik, Florian Dorn, Stefanie Gäbler, Christian Raffer, Felix Rösel

“…Three recent studies evaluated the effect of accrual accounting in German local governments — with surprising key findings. Local governments using accrual accounting reduce sales of public assets but also reduce capital spending. …”
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Evolutionary Game and Numerical Simulation of Cultivated Land Protection Policies Implementation in China by Xinhai Lu, Yanwei Zhang, Yucheng Zou

“…The central government, local governments, and farmers have mutually restricted and influencing interest relations. …”
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INCORPORATING PUBLIC INPUT WITH GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) FOR BICYCLE STRATEGIC PLANNING by Jiangli Li, June Chae-Un

“…It illustrates how local governments can engage the public in bicycle planning through a public input process and use of GIS. …”
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Gouvernance des politiques de relocalisation face au risque de montée du niveau de la mer by Hélène Rey-Valette, Bénédicte Rulleau

“…This article addresses the local governance conditions for adaptation policies through the case of relocation which is one of the recommended measures for adaptation to sea level rise. …”
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A SCI Analysis Model: Research on Influencing Factors of Local E-Government Responsiveness in China by Shaoqing Tian, Rongrong He, Chongli Huang, Qiong Feng, Fan Jiang

“…According to the research results, the practical enlightenment is that the future should change from “system-driven response” and “competition-driven response” to “citizen-driven response,” which is of a certain practical significance for improving the response level of e-government of local governments in China.…”
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Ochrona środowiska jako istotny element funkcjonowania samorządu terytorialnego w Polsce by Maciej Jabłoński

“…Currently, not to be underestimated is the role of local governments in the field of environmental protection. …”
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Prawno-administracyjne aspekty utrzymania czystości i porządku w gminach by Maciej Jabłoński

“…Maintaining cleanliness and order in municipalities poses a challenge for local governments. In the context of the changing legal and factual contexts they operate in, municipalities are obliged to take action to protect the environment in everything they do. …”
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Land Price Distortion, Financial Development, and Regional Innovation by Pengcheng Zhou, Ruiqi Qin, Baitang Luo, Hao Wen

“…As an important tool for local governments to implement regional development policies, the allocation of land resource plays an important role in promoting regional innovation and development. …”
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Example Ordinance for Compost Amending Soil in Urban Landscaping by Jovana Radovanovic, James D. McGuire, Jana Caracciolo, Tom Ankersen, Eban Z. Bean

“… This publication describes an example ordinance that can be used by local governments as a starting point for developing a compost amendment ordinance tailored to their local situation and conditions. …”
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Estimation of supply and demand for public health nurses in Japan: A stock-flow approach. by Kazuya Taira, Masanao Horikawa, Takahiro Itaya, Rikuya Hosokawa, Misa Shiomi

“…The number of PHNs working in Japanese local governments is estimated to decline until 2035, resulting in a shortage. …”
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Identifying key influencing factors of cross-regional railway infrastructure interconnection: a fuzzy integrated MCDM framework by Simai Yang, Pengcheng Xiang, Xiaping Zhao, Yiting Wang, Mingming Hu, Yan Qian

“…Among them, the cooperation modes between the central government and local governments, as well as among local governments, were identified as the most critical factors. …”
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How Does Social Mobilization Shape the Collective Coproduction of Urban Community Regeneration in China? by Jinpeng Wu, Yuting Chen, Ruiqi Shi, Jing Xiong

“…When local governments adopt all-around, point-to-point, targeted, or random mobilization schemes, this often results in four corresponding patterns of community collective coproduction: comprehensive, generalized, club, and formalistic. …”
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