"The fact is that any instrument with no institutional grounding of second- and third-raters, no spectral army of amateurs, will wither and vanish: how can it not?" Mark Singer wrote in "The Wire" in 1997.
Reconnaissance field trips and aerial photograph survey identified main green covers in three urban-forest types, namely roadside niches, urban parks, and institutional grounds.
A total of 115,140 trees were evaluated for species identification, dimensions and site-environs conditions, with 40.8% at roadsides, 38.2% in parks, and 21.0% in institutional grounds.
These dimensions included advocacy at policy level, service delivery on the ground, institutional support at federal and state level, and capacity building of service/care providers.
David Eldridge, who keeps the must-read blog One Writer and his Dog, was remarkably restrained in his reaction: "One could argue all day with this provocation and take issue with it easily on the grounds of a debate about personal and institutional taste, the grounds of theatre culture politics and in defence of playwrights under commission too and in the life of the NT.
Alternative explanations that vindicate the assumed role of institutional practice in grounding obligations might be built on the basis of considerations of fair notice (cf. the doctrine Dworkin calls "conventionalism", Dworkin 1986) or other key principles of political morality, perhaps including considerations related to authority.
She sees some "hope that the future may be different for other young scientists" because of the efforts of many people devoted to improving lab safety, she said in her talk, but "even the most far-reaching and best-intentioned individual efforts can flounder in the face of grounded, institutional resistance to change".
This decision was consistent with the conversation analytic view that practices used in institutional interactions are grounded in, rather than distinct from, everyday communication practices [ 71].
4. Finally, political transition: development must be recognized essentially as a political process, a process grounded in institutional development, creating, nurturing and supporting institutions that are fit for purpose.
The firm tried to get an institutional fund off the ground in 1993, but it failed miserably and the company went back to its bailiwick of individual investors.
