Sentences with phrase «policy experiments designed»

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Perhaps it would be useful to do some experiments or demonstration projects in distressed areas to see what policy designs work best for these targeted job creation policies.

There are two primary ways to achieve «environmental flows» of water necessary to sustain river ecosystems, write Mike Acreman, of the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and colleagues in a review published this month in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: controlled releases like the recent experiment on the Colorado that are designed with specific objectives for ecology and ecosystem services in mind and hands - off policies that minimize or reverse alterations to the natural flow of the river.

What evidence shows that federal courts would produce better results than the state and local governments that have been designing and experimenting with education policy for years?

Such policies include instituting external, curriculum - based exams linked to real - world consequences for kids; maintaining high standards for earning good grades; and experimenting with well - designed cash - incentive programs.

The negative income tax experiments were designed to influence political debate on income support policy in at least two ways.

Districts from Los Angeles to New York City are experimenting with new policies designed to eliminate zero - tolerance discipline.

This is the reason why the scientific method has been so successful: instead of very clever men convincing their less clever fellow - men that they should be in charge of things and dictate policy, it requires those very clever men to design an experiment, make a falsifiable claim as to the outcome of the experiment, measure the actual results of the experiment and then publish their results so that other very clever men can check their claims, verify that the results are reproducible and then refine and test the hypothesis with other experiments.

By adjusting the values of those parameters found to be influential through numerical experiments and simulations, short - term and long - term policy recommendations that can keep the system within optimum levels or sustainable development targets (e.g., Millennium Development Goals or the Post-2015 Development Agenda) can be designed and tested.

I possess the necessary knowledge to work on several projects focusing on areas such as civil engineer design, sustainable design and management, architectural design, renewable energy, energy and environmental policy, environmental and engineering management, and environmental experiments.