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Enhancing Governance Capacity to Ensure a Long-Term Water Supply: The Case of Windhoek, Namibia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Windhoek, Namibia, faces water stress, urbanisation, climate change and governance challenges; these issues are constraining water provision and underpinning the urgency to implement an integrated water resource management plan.
Steven Hendrik Andreas Koop   +8 more
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Toward successful joint knowledge production for climate change adaptation: lessons from six regional projects in the Netherlands

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
In the domain of climate change adaptation, joint knowledge production (JKP) through intensive cooperation between scientists, policy-makers, and other actors is often proposed as a means to reconcile supply and demand for knowledge.
Dries Hegger, Carel Dieperink
doaj   +1 more source

Transparency Under Scrutiny: Information Disclosure in Global Environmental Governance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Although transparency is a key concept of our times, it remains a relatively understudied phenomenon in global environmental politics. The link between transparency and accountable, legitimate and effective governance is assumed, yet the nature and ...
Aarti Gupta, Gupta, A.
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A Phosphorus-Nitrogen Flame-retardant: Synthesis and Application in Cotton Fabrics

open access: yesMedžiagotyra, 2018
Cotton textiles with high air permeability, good hygroscopicity and good soft-feeling due to be natural cellulose fabrics, but their high flammability greatly limit its applications; fire-retardant finishing of cotton fabrics can impart good flame ...
Qiang-Lin LI   +5 more
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A game theoretical model for the stimulation of public cooperation in environmental collaborative governance

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2022
Digital technologies provide a convenient way for the public to participate in environmental governance. Therefore, by means of a two-stage evolutionary model, a new mechanism for promoting public cooperation is proposed to accomplish environmental ...
Yinhai Fang, Matjaž Perc, Hui Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

A Leap of Green Faith: the religious discourse of Socio-Ecological Care as an Earth system governmentality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The Anthropocene is fundamentally altering concepts of human agency and responsibility in the governance of the Earth system. These concepts are paramount in discussions about governing deliberate interventions into the global climate – often referred to
Boettcher, Miranda   +2 more
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Environmental Governance

open access: yes, 2012
Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their
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How does network governance affect social-ecological fit across the land-sea interface? An empirical assessment from the Lesser Antilles

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2017
Governance across the land-sea interface presents many challenges related to (1) the engagement of diverse actors and systems of knowledge, (2) the coordinated management of shared ecological resources, and (3) the development of mechanisms to address or
Jeremy Pittman, Derek Armitage
doaj   +1 more source

Adaptation variation of easiness on environmental, social, and governance components in the selected sustainability developments [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 2023
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Environmental, Social, and Governance reporting is universally recognized as a pivotal component embraced by the industry to address climate change and serve as a safeguard to the physical and social environments of society. In
F.R. Sutikno   +3 more
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Transformative Change through the Sustainable Development Goals? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The 2030 Agenda of the United Nations comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 sub-targets which serve as a global reference point for the transition to sustainability.
Weiland, Sabine   +5 more
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