Sentences with phrase «policy instrument design»

In 9 books and more than 90 articles and book chapters, his broad - ranging scholarship has addressed topics spanning drinking water, trade and environment conflicts, policy instrument design, and the legal and institutional issues in creating markets for ecosystem services.

«What should have been a question about improving a policy instrument design became a vote for or against raising the carbon price and so raising energy prices in the EU.

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War became an instrument of state policy designed to quell dissent on the part of the oppressed, to expand territory imperialistically, or to maintain sources of privileged wealth.

Governance could become more effective by using well - designed mixes of policy instruments to motivate changes in behaviour to support sustainable development.

We had people talking about pharma research, sales, technical support, instrument design, research policy, medical illustration, science writing, grants officers, editing, the tenure track, the research track, research administration, and so on.

However, designing education reform is not the interest of policymakers whose job is to use «symbolic activity» and «hortatory» policy instruments.

SEDL's work on charters, a unique policy instrument for increasing school - site control over education reform, examined the establishment and design of charter schools in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Although neither ConnCAN nor Global Strategies released the questionnaire that served as the survey instrument, it is clear from today's memo that the poll was designed to collect valuable political information, as well as perspectives on policy issues.

This paper considers targeted incentive policies designed to retain experienced high - need teachers, of retirement age, as instruments to extend current teachers» careers.

But whole life is a complex instrument that is designed to return more than a term life policy to the insurance company.

Even more challenging are the policy design issues that will decide the extent to which a REDD instrument will interact with the over-arching climate change mitigation strategy.

Despite the potential cost - effectiveness of market - based policy instruments, such as pollution taxes and tradable permits, conventional approaches — including design and uniform performance standards — have been the mainstay of U.S. environmental policy since before the first Earth Day in 1970.

We advise public policy makers at all levels with respect to the design of suitable instruments for emissions trading, incentives and funding mechanisms as well as the evaluation of their impacts.

This article presents an overview of the design and performance of seven major emissions trading programs that have been implemented over the past 30 years and identifies a number of important lessons for future applications of this important environmental policy instrument.

mitigation of emissions, including the design of national policy instruments, the roles of market failures such as in technological innovation, and the role of institutions in managing international collective action.

Family Voices: Piloting a New Qualitative Measure of Family Engagement for Head Start and Early Head Start Staff and Families (PDF - 2,468 KB) Aikens, Bandel, Akers, Lyskawa, & Jerald (2014) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation & Mathematica Policy Research Focuses on the development of qualitative instruments designed to better understand family engagement in Head Start and Early Head Start; draws on pilot data collected during the 2012 - 2013 program year; and provides information about the performance of the piloted interview protocols, revisions made to instruments based on their performance, and the best methods for gathering qualitative information about family engagement experiences from families and staff in future studies.