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The Water Framework Directive: A New Directive for a Changing Social, Political and Economic European Framework. European Planning Studies

by Maria Kaika
"... ABSTRACT This article examines the intricate process of developing the European Union’s Water Frame-work Directive. It sees the Directive as a response to recent economic, political and social changes related to water management, including the shift from government to governance, the liberalization ..."
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ABSTRACT This article examines the intricate process of developing the European Union’s Water Frame-work Directive. It sees the Directive as a response to recent economic, political and social changes related to water management, including the shift from government to governance, the liberalization

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by Maria Kaika, Maria Kaika
"... This paper has been published as: Kaika M 2003 The Water Framework Directive: a new directive for a changing social, political and economic European framework European Planning ..."
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This paper has been published as: Kaika M 2003 The Water Framework Directive: a new directive for a changing social, political and economic European framework European Planning

A framework for information systems architecture.

by J A Zachman - IBM Syst. J., , 1987
"... With increasing size and complexity of the implementations of information systems, it is necessary to use some logical construct (or architecture) for defining and controlling the interfaces and the integration of all of the components of the system. This paper defines information systems architect ..."
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architecture by creating a d e scriptive framework from disciplines quite independent of information systems, then by analogy specifies information systems architecture based upon the neutral, objective framework. Also, some preliminary conclusions about the implications of the resultant descriptive framework

Decision-Theoretic Planning: Structural Assumptions and Computational Leverage

by Craig Boutilier, Thomas Dean, Steve Hanks - JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH , 1999
"... Planning under uncertainty is a central problem in the study of automated sequential decision making, and has been addressed by researchers in many different fields, including AI planning, decision analysis, operations research, control theory and economics. While the assumptions and perspectives ..."
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Planning under uncertainty is a central problem in the study of automated sequential decision making, and has been addressed by researchers in many different fields, including AI planning, decision analysis, operations research, control theory and economics. While the assumptions

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Analysis

by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson - AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW , 2002
"... We exploit differences in early colonial experience to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of colonization strategy was, at l ..."
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We exploit differences in early colonial experience to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of colonization strategy was

European Unemployment Dilemma

by Lars Ljungqvist, Thomas J. Sargent - Journal of Political Economy , 1998
"... Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980's. We impute the higher unemployment towelfare states ' diminished ability to cope with more turbulent economic times, ..."
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Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980's. We impute the higher unemployment towelfare states ' diminished ability to cope with more turbulent economic times

Parameterized Complexity

by Rod G. Downey, Michael R. Fellows, Rolf Niedermeier, Peter Rossmanith, Rod G. Downey (wellington, New Zeal, Michael R. Fellows (newcastle, Rolf Niedermeier (tubingen, Peter Rossmanith (tu Munchen , 1998
"... the rapidly developing systematic connections between FPT and useful heuristic algorithms | a new and exciting bridge between the theory of computing and computing in practice. The organizers of the seminar strongly believe that knowledge of parameterized complexity techniques and results belongs ..."
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into the toolkit of every algorithm designer. The purpose of the seminar was to bring together leading experts from all over the world, and from the diverse areas of computer science that have been attracted to this new framework. The seminar was intended as the rst larger international meeting with a specic focus

Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth

by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson - IN HANDBOOK OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, ED. PHILIPPE AGHION AND STEPHEN DURLAUF , 2005
"... This paper develops the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental cause of differences in economic development. We first document the empirical importance of institutions by focusing on two “quasi-natural experiments” in history, the division of K ..."
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of Korea into two parts with very different economic institutions and the colonization of much of the world by European powers starting in the fifteenth century. We then develop the basic outline of a framework for thinking about why economic institutions differ across countries. Economic institutions

Unbundling Institutions

by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson - JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY , 2003
"... This paper evaluates the importance of “property rights institutions”, which protect citizens against expropriation by the government and powerful elites, and “contracting institutions”, which enable private contracts between citizens. We exploit exogenous variation in both types of institutions dri ..."
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driven by colonial history, and document strong firststage relationships between property rights institutions and the determinants of European colonization strategy (settler mortality and population density before colonization), and between contracting institutions and the identity of the colonizing

Reversal of fortune: geography and institutions in the making of modern world income,Quarterly

by Daron Acemoglu , Simon Johnson , James A Robinson - Journal of Economics, , 2002
"... Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years, those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal weighs against ..."
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Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years, those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal weighs
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