Hasil Pencarian  ::  Simpan CSV :: Kembali

"despite arguments that decentralization creates successful rural development, studies in many countries find that the adoption of decentralization does not always make rural development more effective. while decentralization theoretically offers substantial opportunities for successful rural development, all too often the implementation is hampered by various challenges. this paper deals with this challenging issue, which is to identify the potentialities and challenges brought by decentralization for rural development. through literature review, this paper suggest countries applying decentralization to pay attention on several main factors consisting of formulation of local budget, social capital, local capacity, and community participation."

"Japan and China have a long history of environmental cooperation. In recent years, economicpotential of environmental industry has been well recognized, besides the requirement of environmental protection. Both Japan and China have incorporated green growth into their dominant national strategies and set up high priority for promoting environment and energy relatedindustries, which serves as the background for further mutually beneficial cooperation. In thisarticle, we reviewed the history and found that Japan-China environmental cooperation hasdeveloped from government-oriented stage to business-oriented stage. It is more stable againstthe complex and volatile international political situation; but stable intergovernmental rela-tionship is one of the key factors for initiating environmental cooperation projects. Later, wediscussed the opportunities and challenges for Japan-China environmental cooperation con-sidering the roles of state actor and business power. A systematic scheme was concluded toanalyze the critical factors and dynamic relations for environmental cooperation and business.Business power has been exerting more and more influence on international and domestic environmental politics. Due to the political limitation of state actors, business power is expectedto be more active in promoting stable and sustainable cooperation. Moreover, environmentalcooperation could also be a key to mitigating the political tensions between Japan and China."