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Collaborative governance case studies: the Land and Water Forum [PDF]

, 2013
This paper examines the progress of the Land and Water Forum, which was a stakeholder-led collaborative governance process established to recommend potential reform of New Zealand’s fresh water management. Introduction: Looking at collaborative processes
Elizabeth Eppel
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Can islands of effectiveness thrive in difficult governance settings ? the political economy of local-level collaborative governance [PDF]

Many low-income countries contend with a governance syndrome characterized by a difficult combination of seeming openness, weak institutions, and strong inter-elite contestation for power and resources.
Levy, Brian
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Exploring the matching patterns and driving mechanisms of ecosystem service supply–demand: a case study of the Zhengzhou metropolitan Area, China

Ecological Indicators
Enhancing spatial resilience through coordinated regional resource allocation requires an understanding of the mechanisms behind ecosystem service supply and demand (ESSD), which is essential to ecological security.
Siyuan Liang, Zizheng Zhang
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Environmental governance: Participatory, multi-level - and effective? [PDF]

Current international and European Union environmental policies increasingly promote collaborative and participatory decision-making on appropriate and multiple governance levels as a means to attain more sustainable policies and a more effective and ...
Fritsch, Oliver, Newig, Jens
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Revisiting the 'Missing Middle' in English Sub-National Governance [PDF]

, 2010
In the light of the new Coalition Government’s proposed ‘rescaling’ of sub-national governance away from the regional level, it is an opportune time to re-consider the strength and weaknesses of the city or sub-regional approach to economic development ...
Ayres S., Burch M., Centre for Cities, the Work Foundation and SURF, Cheshire P., Conservative Party, Conservative Party, Departments of Business, Innovation and Skills, Communities and Local Government and HM Treasury, Goodchild B., Harding A., Harding A., Harrison J., Harrison J., HM Treasury, BERR &, HM Treasury, ODPM &, House of Commons, IPPR, Keith Shaw, Local Government Association, Mawson J., Neuman M., New Local Government Network, New Local Government Network, Northern Way, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Parr J., Paul Greenhalgh, Pearce G., Pike A., Robinson F., Rodriguez-Pose A., Rodriguez-Pose A., Scott A., Senior D., Stoker G., Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit, Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit, Tees Valley Unlimited, The Work Foundation   +39 more
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Collaborative Project Governance and Scorecard Techniques for Successful Inter-firm Systems Integration [PDF]

, 2010
Inter-firm systems integration (e.g. supply chain systems) is required to enable partnering firms to co-create products or services. Each firm has their own strategy and IT governance model for guiding their systems and project portfolio management. In a
Chew, EK, Niebecker, KD
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An investigation of inversion method to measure the radial velocity of Kuroshio from Sentinel-1 SAR data

GIScience & Remote Sensing
Studies on the retrieval of ocean surface current by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mainly concentrate on coastal regions with land coverage, allowing for continuous land to estimate non-geophysical Doppler shifts.
Benhua Tan, Lihua Wang, Dechen Ge, Zhen Fang, Weiwei Sun, Tian Feng   +5 more
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Rescaling the state in Flanders: new problem or old solution? [PDF]

, 2012
The rescaling of state emphasizes the rise of the regional and the city-regional scale in particular, as a new unit for policy making. The new governing strategy is referred to as regional governance, were both governmental and / or nongovernmental ...
De Rynck, Filip, Temmerman, Caroline, Voets, Joris, Wayenberg, Ellen   +3 more
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Sentinel-1 Noise Suppression Algorithm for High-Wind-Speed Retrieval in Tropical Cyclones

Remote Sensing
Sentinel-1 cross-polarization (cross-pol) SAR data, known for their unsaturated backscattering characteristics, hold strong potential for high-wind-speed retrieval in tropical cyclones (TCs).
Dechen Ge, Lihua Wang, Weiwei Sun, Hongmei Wang, Wenjing Jiang, Tian Feng   +5 more
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Good Governance of land and natural resources : Balancing local and global interests [PDF]

This report presents the results of a seminar on ‘good governance of land and natural resources; balancing local and global interests’. Three case studies were presented on large-scale land acquisitions, biofuels – fuelling development in Brazil and ...
Klaver, D.C., Roo, N., de
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