{"title":"Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions and intervention","authors":"R. Prasad","doi":"10.3233/IJR-120029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/IJR-120029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":406236,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regulation and Governance","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134585463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental compliance and enforcement in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe","authors":"V. Madebwe, C. Madebwe, T. Madebwe","doi":"10.3233/IJR-120102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/IJR-120102","url":null,"abstract":"Concern for the quality of the environment worldwide, particularly in developing countries has resulted in the formulation, implementation, and enforcement of environmental regulation. A measure of the success of efforts at enforcement lies in whether they secure compliance. In Zimbabwe, like in other countries of Africa, there is scarce information on environmental enforcement and outcomes among the regulated community. This paper uses the Natural Resources Board and the Environmental Management Agency's (EMA) annual provincial data of summary statistics for the period 2005–2010 to analytically review temporal environmental compliance and enforcement activities in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. Annual inspections rose from 658 in 2005 to 1705 in 2007 but it still remains inadequate to detect and monitor the range/types of environmental violations. The number of violators brought to compliance in any year is suboptimal. Most violations attracting fines (79%) fall under the Environmental Management Act CAP 20:27 followed by the Forestry Act CAP 19:05(16%). Fines range from US$ 5 to US$ 5,000. As the economy stabilizes and businesses reopen, frequency of inspections, particularly targeted inspections, should be scaled up.","PeriodicalId":406236,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regulation and Governance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133063274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The President of the Office of Electronic Communications as a national regulatory authority of the telecommunication sector in Poland","authors":"Monika Przybylska","doi":"10.3233/IJR-120074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/IJR-120074","url":null,"abstract":"The position of the President of the OEC (Office of Electronic Communications) in Poland is revered and held in high regard. This authority is treated as an independent regulatory authority. Independent authorities are a new category of bodies in Poland. The setting up of such regulatory authorities aims at the development of common market in network-bound sectors, which is important for the development of the entire market economy. Independent regulatory authorities are very effective in regulating network-bound sectors because they are not under political control. The position of the President of the OEC is interesting because this category of organization has been created by the Polish legislative (it should be noted that this process is in accordance with community law). However, authorities in the telecommunications sector had existed before Poland joined the EU (European Union), and the history of creating the President of the OEC (especially in the field of tasks) shows how the position and the role of the President of the OEC have changed.","PeriodicalId":406236,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regulation and Governance","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124732843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Criterion for a fares policy and fares index for bus transport in Sri Lanka","authors":"A. Kumarage","doi":"10.3233/IJR-120017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/IJR-120017","url":null,"abstract":"The public transport sector in Sri Lanka faces many problems. Most of these problems seem to be related to the absence of a fares policy. Implicit fare policies, which have been followed in the past, have given rise to many problems of a serious nature, which have continued to undermine the quality of bus transport and threaten its continuity as a viable mode of transport. It is evident that even the numerous management changes from time to time have not made much of a difference.","PeriodicalId":406236,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regulation and Governance","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122652056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incentive regulation and multi-year price controls: an application to the regulation of power distribution in India*","authors":"I. Alexander, Clive G. Harris","doi":"10.3233/IJR-120005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/IJR-120005","url":null,"abstract":"There is a perception among potential investors in electricity distribution projects in India that the price-setting methodologies employed by regulatory agencies are not conducive to long-term investments. Although regulators acknowledge the problem that present approaches lead to, they believe that the available information base does not support the development of credible multi-year tariffs. This paper evaluates whether this constraint is a barrier to the implementation of an incentive-based methodology and shows that this need not be the case. An IBRC (incentive-based revenue and cost pass-through) hybrid methodology that rewards companies for improvements in efficiency for cost items under their control is developed. The robustness of this approach is evaluated given the database of information available to regulators in India. These results are more generally applicable across other sectors and in other countries.","PeriodicalId":406236,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regulation and Governance","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129899342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dimensions of the global financial crisis: the future of corporate governance and regulation","authors":"C. C. Ruppel","doi":"10.3233/IJR-120086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/IJR-120086","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines corporate governance and regulation in the context of the current global financial crisis (GFC). Taking into account the concept of government and self-regulation as well as the danger of contagion and systematic risk, it is demonstrated that a complex web of interrelated failures – in both corporate governance and government regulation – have not only caused but also prolonged the GFC. Executive compensation, ERM systems, CEO-Chairman duality, as well as independence and competence of the board of directors not only defines an area for possible regulatory reforms but also reveal the ability of companies to effectively use the freedom being associated with the notion of self-regulation. Examining government regulations, such as residential, tax, finance, and monetary policies in the US and other countries, as well as international banking supervision accords (Basel) illustrate that not only failures in corporate governance but even more a number of government regulations were causal for the GFC. In addition, recent state interventions and draft laws, that is, monetary measures and restrictions for short-selling and executive compensation, indicate the danger of overregulation and the implementation of further imprudent policies. This article recommends concrete steps to be taken by companies and governments in order to address revealed weaknesses and correct existing failures. In some cases, especially in crisis management, new government regulation and interventions are unavoidable but should be based on appropriate diagnoses of the root problems and important principles such as transparency, risk control, and international cooperation.","PeriodicalId":406236,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regulation and Governance","volume":"118 25","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120825726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power sector reforms in India: A case study from Delhi","authors":"Shahid Hasan, V. Gaba","doi":"10.3233/IJR-120073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/IJR-120073","url":null,"abstract":"After distribution privatization experience in Orissa, the only other utility that has been unbundled and privatized is that of Delhi. The model for privatization of the distribution business in Delhi has been fairly unique and has also come under enormous scrutiny, primarily due to political factors. No other state government in India has tried to replicate this particular model for privatization.","PeriodicalId":406236,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regulation and Governance","volume":"20 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120883243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management and development of coastal and marine areas along the Indian coast","authors":"A. Cherian, N. Chandrasekar, G. Rajamanickam","doi":"10.3233/IJR-120069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/IJR-120069","url":null,"abstract":"The marine environment of India, which includes the adjacent coastal areas, supports productive and prospective habitats such as mangroves, coral reefs, and sand dunes. The main challenge facing the sustainable use of coastal and marine areas is the loss of natural habitat and biodiversity, and consequently the loss of opportunity of exploiting renewable living resources. The marine environment is facing extreme pressure due to the growing needs of people and the multi-use that coastal and marine areas are put to. These pressures contribute to the depletion of marine resources and degradation of the marine environment. This paper briefly discusses the sustainable development of coastal zone including islands and the unsustainable anthropogenic activities that enhance the vulnerability of the coastline. In the absence of integrated coastal and marine management, our coasts may witness severe stress in the near future.","PeriodicalId":406236,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regulation and Governance","volume":"106 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130661137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Kyoto Protocol after Marrakesh","authors":"C. Dasgupta","doi":"10.3233/IJR-120016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/IJR-120016","url":null,"abstract":"The accords reached at Bonn and Marrakesh resolved important operational questions left open at Kyoto and gave final shape to the Kyoto Protocol. This achievement came at a considerable price in terms of defining the Kyoto targets as well as procedural transparency.","PeriodicalId":406236,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regulation and Governance","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132171183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Off-grid solar electrification for rural development: the implications of the Renewable Energy Development Project (REDP) in China","authors":"Benjamin Sovacool","doi":"10.3233/IJR-120002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/IJR-120002","url":null,"abstract":"Over the course of 2002 to 2007, the $316 million Renewable Energy Development Project (REDP) sold more than 400,000 solar home systems benefiting two million individuals in north-western China. This study examines the history, benefits, and challenges of the REDP. International development donors and energy analysts have hailed the REDP as a best practice example in solar home system deployment. The article illustrates how solar home systems continue to provide benefits to users and that their portability especially complements the lifestyle of nomadic herders that roam the vast expanses of the country's North-western region. However, it also finds that even for such highly successful programmes as the REDP, purchasing decisions are based on price rather than quality, and after-sales service networks remain weak. Grid electrification and market saturation have also eroded the contributions made under the programme. The article concludes by drawing on what the experiences of the REDP mean for the regulation and governance of off-grid solar electrification projects more generally.","PeriodicalId":406236,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Regulation and Governance","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115960802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}