A Strategic Orientation Model for the Turkish Local e-Governments

Increased environmental uncertainty and complexity along with budget constraints requires public organizations to manage strategically as never before. The environments of public organizations have become increasingly turbulent and more firmly interconnected. During the past two decades, governments have innovated new management tools such as strategic planning, outsourcing, and performance measurement to deal with complex governance and networks to provide their public services. Meanwhile, the drive to implement e-government has resulted in the formulation of many e-government visions and strategies, driven by their own sets of political, economic, and social factors and requirements. With this regard, recent developments in e-service provision of Turkish Local e-Governments deserve empirical and well-structured research. Building on the recent literature, this study draws a strategic orientation framework and tests it by analyzing the contents of strategic documents of 114 Turkish Local e-Governments

Global political system's perspective to climate-society interactions

The purpose of this paper is to suggest some of the principal elements that might be useful in the development of a general theory of the climate-society interaction, to point out some of the pathways and linkages among political components involved in coping with climatic impacts, and to identify some obstacles, strategies, and incentives that apply to making policy choices related to climate

Scenario of the impact of a future climate change on world food production

In order to study implications of a future CO/sub 2/-induced climatic change, plausible long-term changes of patterns of temperature and rainfall must be devised. One such scenario is presented, showing regions that may be wetter or drier than now in a future warmer climate. This information was combined with data on world food productivity to show some crops that could be affected by climate-induced changes in soil moisture. Assumptions made when preparing the map of possible changes in soil moisture are discussed. (JGB

Anthropogenic climate change: assessing the responsibility of developed and developing countries

If the international community of nations is ever to assess responsibility for carbon dioxide production and changed distributions of climate, calculations must be extended backward and forward to encompass a range of reasonable scenarios of fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions. The preliminary calculations presented here indicate that developed countries might have to bear the brunt of responsibility for new climatic regimes, as suppliers of fuel to the world, as major consumers, and as the major overall cumulative contributions of CO/sub 2/ to the atmosphere through the next century