It is important to place the motivations and behaviours of mayors in a local context, and this paper therefore connects the role of mayors with key success factors for renewable energy policies.
Among Lüneburg's town records, he found reports on antisocial behaviour of two schoolboys in a local hostelry – "thoroughly drunk and … slashing … with [their] dirks and hunting knives".
Labour is also planning to install champions for victims of antisocial behaviour in every local authority.
The Freedom Centre's chief executive and operations manager are full of ideas on how HullCoin could incentivise beneficial behaviour in the local community – from persuading more school children to use the centre's library to encouraging people to set up child-minding groups, or help with the clear-up after Christmas shows.
However, selection of variables for the models was not restricted to those with significant outcomes from bivariate analysis but included those closely linked with maternal health seeking behaviour in previous local studies [ 19- 23, 23].
Interviews were conducted either face-to-face or by telephone and comprised a series of open-ended questions to elucidate the background to the Connect2 projects and the putative mechanisms by which they might influence travel behaviour in their local populations.
Given this spatiotemporal clustering, point clusters are frequently explained in terms of copycat suicides, with suicidal behaviour spreading through a local network via social learning [4], [5].
Last year, researchers at Cambridge University led by Theresa Marteau, director of the behaviour and health research unit, conducted an experiment in a local Cambridge pub called The Pint Shop.
Dickinson said such a tax would "generate positive behaviour in a direction that is beneficial to the UK, local communities and global society as a whole".
These results suggest that policies designed to incentivise certain behaviour in local stakeholder groups may be more successful if they create opportunities for local decision-making.
