When making governance decisions, such as land-use plans, policymakers must decide if and how to balance economic growth with environmental conservation.
In drafting and evaluating their emissions-reducing plans, policymakers typically use models to simulate the amount of mercury that would remain in the atmosphere if certain measures were taken to reduce emissions at their source.
Between the first and second plans, policymakers created indicators for sustainable development (there are currently 29) and related implementation laws.
These findings have potential implications for urban planning policymakers concerned with reducing population levels of sedentary behaviour, a public health concern.
All told, the plan urges policymakers to enact $2.5 trillion in new taxes and savings over the next decade, significantly more than the $1.8 trillion plan President Obama has put on the table.
The wisdom of exporting a failing model from means-tested social care to our universalist NHS is even more questionable – unless the plan of policymakers is to use it as a stalking horse for a very different kind of health service, more like social care, based on charging, rationing and much more privatisation.
Plan providers, policymakers and governments might want to create awareness of the opportunity cost of making withdrawals without specific needs.
This information could help program implementers and policymakers plan, design, and implement appropriate programs in the future to contain the epidemic in this vulnerable group.
We find that during the first Floods Directive planning cycle, policymakers have tended to rely on prior experience in their own federal states with planning under the Water Framework Directive to inform the design and carrying out of participatory processes.
The problem with international climate policy is, though, that it's constantly not working as planned, since policymakers view decisions as independent organizational products, not necessarily connected to action.
Assessment of future regional climates is of growing importance in the development of adaptation plans by policymakers.
