this study is written following the analysis of institutional collaboration in the urban regions. based on this, and with the goal of facilitating the cooperation as one of the elements of governing patterns in the theories of new regionalism this study aims to analyze the governmental and public institutions’ commitment (as the main involving organizations for the regional management matters i...

Since 1998, the Hong Kong (HK) Special Administrative Region (SAR) government has implemented territory-wide e-government initiatives, which are pursuant to the Digital 21 Information Technology Strategy (info.gov.hk/digital21). Subsequently, the years 1998 to 2007 marked the initial stages of e-government development in HKSAR as information and services were made available online (refer to sta...

Many developing countries assign local governments increasing responsibilities in fighting poverty. This requires local social policy to go beyond the execution of centrally designed and funded education and health programs. Hence, local governments and their partners have both an opportunity and a need to analyze key local bottlenecks for poverty reduction and social development. Drawing on an...

The Regional Workshop on National Implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention in East Asia and the Pacific was organised for strengthening the capabilities of States Parties in East Asia and the Pacific to nationally implement obligations and additional agreements stemming form the BTWC, and to support the CBM process in the region. The workshop was hosted by the Government of the Phili...

In this study, statistical data on the national economic and social development, including the year-end actual area of arable land, the crop yield per unit area and 10 factors, were obtained for the period between 1980 and 2010 and used to analyze the factors driving changes in the arable land of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, China. The following areas of arable land, which represent d...

Local policy adoptions provide an excellent opportunity to test among potential mechanisms of policy diffusion. By examining three types of antismoking policy choices by the 675 largest U.S. cities between 1975 and 2000, we uncover robust patterns of policy diffusion, yielding three key findings. First, we distinguish among and find evidence for four mechanisms of policy diffusion: learning fro...

This article examines the emergence of city-region governance as a specific state spatial selectivity in post-reform China. The process has been driven by the state in response to the crisis of economic decentralization, and to vicious inter-city competition and uncoordinated development. As part of the recentralization of state power, the development of urban clusters (chengshiqun) as intercon...

A “Smart City” is intended as an urban environment which, supported by pervasive ICT systems, is able to offer advanced and innovative services to citizens in order to improve the overall quality of their life. In this context, the present contribution formulates a pioneering proposal, by drawing an advanced information centric platform for supporting the typical ICT services of a Smart City. I...