Many cities spill across multiple political jurisdictions as their populations and footprints have grown over time, leading to fragmented decision-making and lack of co-ordination even though they all 'belong' to a continuous urban agglomeration.
Particularly when the literature is mature and fragmented, decision-makers are likely to lack the time and skills to retrieve all the publications.
The idea of including all the opponents of the government within it may have seemed a good way of giving all interests a share of the cake, but means a leadership so fragmented that no decision can be taken.
Inconsistent and fragmented U.S. government decisions have made it difficult for foreign investors in the U.S. to make critical investment decisions.
Accustomed to viewing the European Union through an American prism, many investors took fright at Europe's fragmented and glacial decision-making process, Mr. Brzeski said.
This turned out to be a disastrous decision that fragmented Custer's regiment and placed its three main components too far apart to support each other.
Conservation organisations may have little option but to create small protected areas to conserve biodiversity in highly fragmented landscapes, but the decision to do so should take account of the greater cost burden that small protected areas incur.
There are three main areas of concern: how financial supervisors interact with the private sector; how they arrive at their decisions; and the fragmented nature of the rules.
Despite the rich experience in both models and tools for airport performance analysis, existing models and tools address only fragmented parts of the airport decision-making process.
Even though foreign GPs were struggling to make decisions based on fragmented information, they had also come up with various strategies for gaining experience in order to achieve their goal of practising medicine in Finland.
Climate-change adaptation must be the explicit responsibility of a legal entity provided with sufficient financial and technical resources to carry out its responsibilities in practice and to develop networks for learning and partnerships for decision-making between fragmented public and private actors.
