To engage people in biodiversity and other environmental issues, one must provide the opportunity for enhanced understanding that empowers individuals to make choices and take action based on sound science and reliable recommendations. To this end, we must acknowledge some real challenges. Recent surveys show that, despite growing public concern, environmental issues still rank below many other...

The article deals with the actual and important issue of maintaining a balance interests customer, as well principles contract system in field procurement goods, works, services for state municipal needs, such stimulating innovation, efficiency, implying priority providing needs through purchase innova. In practice, it is often judged only by number participants competitive procedure, acting re...

Notions of public interests or common goods present a major reference point for the legitimation global governance and governors, yet they are rarely subject to closer analysis. After highlighting how connection plays shared pivotal role in legitimating private actors alike, this article suggests an expanded understanding as consisting substantial element, individual interest-based procedural e...

the term paradigm has become a central issue in philosophy of science. increasing attention to paradigm in public administration, as a branch of social science, is also highlighted. this paper attempts to analysis seven paradigms in public administration research and to study ontological, epistemological, methodological, rhetorical and axiological assumptions of the each paradigm. finally, we b...

Abstract Both the frequency and intensity of hot temperature extremes are expected to increase in coming decades, challenging various socio-economic sectors including public health. Thereby, societal attention data available real time, such as Google search attention, could help monitor heat wave impacts domains with lagged availability. Here, we jointly analyze health waves Germany at weekly t...

t the time that Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the party’s monopoly position in the political sphere, and its rationale for playing the dominant role in economic and social arrangements, centered on a single thesis—one that had been prominently stated and emphatically endorsed since Lenin’s time. The party so fully represented the people’s ...