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Experimental Governance Capacity and legitimacy in local governments
Contemporary planning and governance of cities involves practices of experiments and trials in urban experiments, collaborative platforms, and urban development projects with high ambitions for sustainability and innovative solutions. These practices of experimental governance can be seen as new policy instruments that include actors from all sectors ...
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The Need for Governance by Experimentation: The Case of Biofuels [PDF]
The policies of the European Union concerning the development of biofuels can be termed a lock-in. Biofuels were initially hailed as a green, sustainability technology. However evidence to the contrary quickly emerged. The European Commission proposed to alter its policies to accommodate for these effects but met with fierce resistance from a ...
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Effective governance of transnational adaptation initiatives [PDF]
Transnational climate governance has mainly been preoccupied with climate change mitigation, both in practice and as studied in academic literature. However, transnationally governed adaptation initiatives are emerging and increasing in scale. This paper
Dzebo, Adis, Environmental Governance
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Global governance by goal-setting: the novel approach of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Open issue, part II [PDF]
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations present a novel approach to global governance where goal-setting features as a key strategy.
Global Sustainability Governance +4 more
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Effects of smoking on the lower respiratory tract microbiome in mice
Background Recent studies break with traditional opinion that the lower respiratory tract is sterile, and increasingly focus on the lung microbiome and disease.
Rui Zhang +6 more
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Ellsberg paradox in decision theory posits that people will inevitably choose a known probability of winning over an unknown probability of winning even if the known probability is low [1].
Song-Ju Kim, Taiki Takahashi
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Background: The aim of our study was to identify the association between Human papillomavirus (HPV) positive rate and smoking in lung cancer (LC) patients.
Rui ZHANG, Ling CHEN, Ya-Deng CUI, Ge LI
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Adaptive governance as bricolage [PDF]
Adaptive governance is proposed as an analytical framework for understanding water distributions in the Anthropocene and for fostering transformative interventions.
F. Frick-Trzebitzky +3 more
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Greed is one of the most common features of human nature, and it has recently attracted increasing research interest. The aims of this paper are to provide one of the first empirical investigations of the effects of greed on job performance and to ...
Yiming Zhu +3 more
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The Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (GTSEZ) in northwest Laos exemplifies an experimental governance model, where sovereign powers are partially privatized to drive economic development.
Josto Luzzu
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