Participatory urban planning ties climate change adaptation to local development opportunities.
Regardless of citizenship status, immigrants can and should play a vital role in local, state and national decision-making - joining neighborhood block associations, speaking up in community board meetings, commenting on and proposing local development opportunities, and advocating for meaningful legislation with their state and national representatives.
Galanter said the Ikea would generate too much traffic and "did not satisfy this community's need for minority-owned local economic development opportunities". Haagen said that approval of Ikea--which in November opened its first Southland outlet in his Burbank mall with a huge wave of television advertising--would have given him leverage to attract the highly popular Nordstrom chain to the mall.
In her book local economic and development opportunities the aspirations of a whole range of actors (village chiefs, 'development greenhorns', cynical industrialists and agriculturalists all clash and reshape how technologies and policies are used in the field).
In the future, the "Lisbon Strategy" will most likely be associated with another catchphrase formulated by the Presidency, namely the opening-up of Europe to the new economy and the furtherance of a "world-class communications infrastructure" as a means of promoting local development and creating job opportunities.
That's the thrust of a new report out Friday from an influential local business group, highlighting development opportunities in neighborhoods along the Los Angeles River.
The EPA works with communities to address areas where toxic messes have been left behind, safeguarding public health and — in many cases — turning over cleaned-up sites to local communities for economic development opportunities.
Kegler [ 55] identified the importance of drawing on existing local leadership, and extending development opportunities to new leaders.
This study confirmed previous findings on the importance of financial incentives, local recruitment, and career development opportunities as important factors for retention of health care providers in the rural settings.
Their actions could also provide the incentive to invest in the research process, which would bring with it capacity development opportunities for local researchers.
At a systems level, on-site services can enhance professional development opportunities for local staff (eg. via case conferences, journal clubs, and training in technical procedures), which can lead to a sustainable enhancement to workforce capacity.
