Other Uses for Used Coffee Grounds in Gardens. Coffee grounds can also be used in your garden for other things. Many gardeners like to use used coffee grounds as a mulch for their plants. Other used for coffee grounds include using it to keep slugs and snails away from plants. The theory is that the caffeine in the coffee grounds negatively affects these pests and so they avoid soil where the coffee grounds are found.
Decentralization is the process of redistributing or dispersing functions, powers, people or things away from a central location or authority. While centralization, especially in the governmental sphere, is widely studied and practiced, there is no common definition or understanding of decentralization.
December 30, 2011. Decentralization is widely lauded as a key component of good governance and development. It is also broadly recognized as a process fraught with complexity and potential failure. This background paper offers a review of 33 scholarly papers, articles, and books on decentralization from 1956 to the present, with the majority of works (26) published since 2000.