Participation of local people in water management: evidence from the Mae Sa Watershed, northern Thailand

"In the early 1990s, Thailand launched an ambitious program of decentralized governance, conferring greater responsibilities upon sub-district administrations and providing fiscal opportunities for local development planning. This process was reinforced by Thailand's new Constitution of 1997, which explicitly assures individuals, communities and local authorities the right to participate in the management of natural resources.

Influencing Sustainable Mobility with Social Influence

This paper explores how a socio-psychological approach strengthened with social influence theory can contribute to attaining sustainable mobility by evaluating four mobility projects in the Netherlands as a response to the lack of that approach in Dutch planning practice. Findings indicate that social influence can contribute effectively to current mobility approaches. Social influence is activated when either social proof is triggered through descriptive social norms or when commitment is triggered through competitions with financial incentives

INTERNATIONAL LAW-IMMUNITY OF EMPLOYEE OF UNITED NATIONS DELEGATION FROM IN REM PROCEEDINGS IN MUNICIPAL COURTS

A landlord\u27s summary proceeding for recovery of possession was brought in a New York municipal court against a secretary of the Argentine delegation to the United Nations. The defendant appeared specially and moved to vacate the service of the precept, claiming immunity from suit by virtue of the grant of diplomatic privileges and immunities to official employees of member delegations under Article V of the Headquarters Agreement between the United States and the United Nations. Held, motion denied. Realty not directly pertaining to a delegation\u27s employee\u27s official position is not removed from the jurisdiction of the local courts by the grant of diplomatic immunity.Agostini v. De Antueno, (N.Y. Mun. Ct. 1950) 99 N.Y.S. (2d) 245