Sentences with phrase «regional economic systems»

The drought struck at a time when regional population levels were growing, which, in turn, put more demands on regional economic systems.

Not exact matches

NEXUS» goal is for its members to achieve higher returns with less risk than typical angel investments by utilizing a model combining the business acumen of NEXUS members with Florida's community resources — including the vast university system and regional economic development programs.

One wonders what alternative courses of action to the Civil War might have brought southern leaders to see that, although their people did not create slavery as an economic system or raw cotton as the principal product in the regional economy, the regional modus operandi was antithetical to the spirit of the American Constitution and the democratarian trend of Western civilization.

The lack of a supervising agent, coupled with the inability to fulfil necessary preconditions regarding successful regional cooperation: whether these being Khosla's (2007)(a rejection of war, a mutual dispute system, a shared culture and common threats) Ayoob's (1985)(ideological and political affinity) and Bandara and Yu's (2003)(geographical advantages, trade complementarity, lack of political tension, and differentiated economic structures) means that member states are acclimatized to defect, making the regional entity captive to on - going disputes.

Striving for something more formal than the current system — in which individual companies negotiate with state Empire State Development Corporation officials — Cuomo said each of the 10 regional economic councils will develop a comprehensive plan and submit it to the state by November.

[15] Ghana's growing economic prosperity and democratic political system has made it a regional power in West Africa.

If he is successful in championing the Yorkshire - wide proposal designed by local authorities across the region, we could see an important shift in the devolution agenda in England — from a top - down to a bottom - up system, built on economic as well as identity motifs and with a much wider, regional scale.

In a statement, Cuomo said, «These investments are critical to our transportation system and essential for community growth and regional economic competitiveness.»

That's just a sample of the hundreds of projects funded by one of Cuomo's signature economic development initiatives, a system of 10 regional councils that develop plans based on regional strengths and compete for state funding — more than $ 4 billion so far.

«I think some of the governor's economic development — the broad - based reforms to the business climate and the more tactical, programmatic work like regional councils and START - UP are taking hold, and you're seeing the positive effect in the vibe of people, in the comments of people,» Adams said, referencing a system of tax - free zones rooted in public universities.

The state proposed to give developers a $ 1.5 million grant — awarded through a system of regional economic development councils that Gov. Andrew Cuomo created in 2011 — as well as a $ 15 million forgivable loan that was drawn from a state fund which Republican senators created to support projects on Long Island.

The government has identified five main goals to achieve by 2030: a clean and economical energy system, a healthy and active aging society, a framework of next generation infrastructures, substantial economic benefits through regional and international collaborations, and a complete recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.

A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).

Topics covered included strategic planning, economic and social development, higher education finance, history and governance, the structure of the U.S. higher education system, and the role of higher education in promoting regional and national growth.

«When I became Director of Teaching and Learning here, we spent a great deal of time analysing our long - term results for our system and noted that there were a group of schools who, for various reasons — it could be that they are regional schools, had a lot of new staff and transient populations, they could be a school that are in low socio - economic areas or they could be schools with new principals — but consistently over five or six years, the Year 9 - 12 results in literacy were not showing that students were making enough progress with the amount of time they spent in a school,» Doyle shares.

Raise Your Hand partnered with E3 Alliance, a regional collaborative to increase economic outcomes by aligning education systems, and the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) to provide executive coaching to school leaders in the Central Texas region (Austin, Hutto, and Lockhart) to enhance and expand their organizational and instructional leadership skills.

The E3 Alliance was formed as a collaborative effort of Austin Community College (ACC), the Austin Area Research Organization (AARO), the University of Texas and others to initiate a regional effort to increase global competitiveness, economic vitality and overall quality of life for Central Texas by aligning our education systems to better fulfill the potential of every citizen.

Such caution combines with the complexity and interdependence in the economic area to produce a more collaborative and moderate system, in which negotiation tends to displace confrontation as a style of interaction, at least among actors with the capacity to inflict system - wide as distinct from regional destruction.

New Entry improves local and regional food systems by training the next generation of farmers to produce food that is sustainable, nutritious, and culturally - appropriate and making this food accessible to individuals regardless of age, mobility, ethnicity, or socio - economic status.

Hudson Valley AgriBusiness Development Corporation Executive Director Todd Erling — «Protecting our farmland is a critical step which can support our regional food systems and ensure that our farm families can make a living as viable partners in a sustainable economic future.»

It covers the full range of institutions that make up the UN system, from the Secretariat and its regional economic commissions, to the specialized agencies, funds and programmes.

The need to develop a new ecologically and economically sustainable energy system may take decades to complete, but will not be possible if scientific, technical, economic, and policy innovations — and regional as well as global collaborations — are not developed, shared, and implemented.

Earlier in 1990s, he propounded many important suggestions that had been adopted by the central government, for example, establishing tax share distribution system between central and local government (1993), reducing the disparities of regional development (1994), prohibiting the army of engaging in commerce (1994), creating jobs as most priority goal of economic development (1997), balance between social development and economic development (2000), new conception of development based on people - centred (2000,2004).

(ii) Information on economic, demographic, and technological trends that contribute to changes in the Earth system and that influence society's vulnerability to global and regional climate change.

These changes will have cascading effects on key regional bio-physical systems and cause global climatic feedbacks, and in the north will affect socio - economic systems (high confidence).

Current models of climate change include sea level rise, land degradation, regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,136].

Coordinated regional efforts with adjoining governmental entities to include Native American tribes relative to regional public transit systems, water distribution / consumptive use matters pertaining to the Clean Water Act, waste water treatment infrastructure, economic development initiatives and legislative appropriation efforts

Redirecting the native title system to the economic and social development of traditional owner groups might be effectively pursued through a regional strategy.

A mandatory labelling system was introduced there as an experiment to stimulate regional economic benefits.