Local governments attempting to respond to environmental change face an array of challenges. To better understand policy responses and factors influencing local government capacity to respond to environmental change, we studied three environmental issues affecting rural or peri-urban towns in different regions of New York State: climate change in the Adirondacks (n = 63 towns), loss of open spa...

The New York State Department of Health was asked in September 1978 of investigate a cluster of leukemias and lymphomas in a rural town in western New York State of less than 1,000 people. Four cases of these diseases had been diagnosed in the town's population in the previous 10 months. Residents were concerned about environmental hazards such as background radiation and contamination of their...

career days; and science projects undertaken with Scout troops. Churches that received grants from the competition varied in denomination, geographical region, and the size of the communityserved. Among the cities represented are Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Churches in smaller towns in several states also received grants; eight...

successor planning process in family businesses is recognized as one of the most important phases of family business lifecycle. family businesses play a vital role in developing regional and global economy and fuel the creation of new jobs, new business growth and increase in entrepreneurial activities. in this study, it was attempted to investigate the impact of family business characteristics...

Archaeological Dialogues / Volume 22 / Issue 02 / December 2015, pp 146 149 DOI: 10.1017/S1380203815000203, Published online: 02 November 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1380203815000203 How to cite this article: Monica L. Smith (2015). Towns and cities. A commentary on ‘performing towns’. Archaeological Dialogues, 22, pp 146-149 doi:10.1017/S1380203815000203 ...