Local Authorities as Peace Factors/Actors/ Workers

The Local Authorities' Part

Local environmental health planning. Guidance for local and national authorities.

The World Health Organization was established in 1948 as a specialized agency of the United Nations serving as the directing and coordinating authority for international health matters and public health. One of WHO’s constitutional functions is to provide objective and reliable information and advice in the field of human health, a responsibility that it fulfils in part through its publications...

Local Authorities and the Mental Health Act

One of the main principles of the Royal Commission of 1957 and of the Mental Health Act which followed it was a reorientation towards community services. This has given local authorities the function of caring for most of the mentally ill who are not being treated within hospitals and will allow them to play as big a part ?n mental health as they have done in physical health. The opportunity ha...

The Public Health: Interviews with Local Authorities

authority in the City of Birmingham to see that these vast numbers of workmen with their dependants?comprised in a population now numbering 920,000?are well housed and care for. Fortified with the knowledge that another visitor to Birmingham in 1752, then a considerable market town, found its inhabitants to be " generally of an obliging and ingenious disposition," we sought an interview with Mr...

Planners as Market Actors: The Role of Local Planning Authorities in UK’s Urban Regeneration Practice

At a time of public sector retrenchment in urban regeneration it has become increasingly important to understand how planners can help create better places. Recent studies suggest that planners must behave as market actors by deploying planning tools strategically to influence market behaviour. In this context, this paper examines how local planning authorities use a variety of policy instrumen...