The passage of the legislation – which the government says is designed to promote certainty for farming communities across the river system - comes as the Coalition continues to negotiate with crossbench senators on its push to transfer responsibility for environmental approvals to the states and territories.
Sea-level rise challenges public policy-making because existing planning frameworks and methods are designed to promote certainty using static and time-bound planning and legal instruments.
Governments also promote certainty in capital markets by providing a "well-funded public debt," as the U.S.' first Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, argued in his "Report on the Public Debt".
Like most EU and US planning systems, planning in Israel aims to promote certainty regarding future development by employing statutory land-use plans for stabilizing and binding the development of land use.
The benefit of governance is that it promotes certainty and efficiency as people know what the rules are, what happens, and when.
In this article, we report two studies which tested predictions about U.S. residents' moral views on promiscuous mating, using a theory which regards these views as facultative solutions to adaptive problems related to promoting paternity certainty and conforming to local social norms.
Lord Denning, the Master of the Rolls, explained that upholding partial ouster clauses promoted the certainty of the executive's actions.
These results were consistent with the view that anti-promiscuity beliefs may function to promote paternity certainty in circumstances where male parental investment is particularly important.
Research on the link between religion and sexual morality has viewed religiosity as an extension of a long-term monogamous mating strategy (Weeden, Cohen, & Kenrick, 2008) or as an effort to promote paternity certainty (Strassman et al., 2012).
"A final point which nobody seems to want to address is the fact that we know for a certainty that promoting children to the fourth grade who are not reading is a prescription for failure".
