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Empirical Analysis of Strategic Management in Inter-Governmental Organization

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences, 2022
In this study, we present a strategic change theoretical model and empirically validate it in the context of inter-governmental organizations. We followed a survey methodology approach and tested our model hypotheses using exploratory and confirmatory ...
James Wan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Metric partnerships: global burden of disease estimates within the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation [version 1; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

open access: yesWellcome Open Research, 2019
The global burden of disease study—which has been affiliated with the World Bank and the World Health Organisation (WHO) and is now housed in the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)—has become a very important tool to global health ...
Marlee Tichenor, Devi Sridhar
doaj   +1 more source

Degrees of change toward polycentric transboundary water governance: exploring the Columbia River and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2019
Complex challenges emerging in transboundary river basins reveal a need to include a range of interests and actors in governance processes. Polycentric governance is one framework that can address this need and inform adaptive and resilient governance ...
William Jesse Baltutis   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Self-Governance for Sustainable Global Supply Chains: Can it deliver the impacts needed? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The world community convened in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 for the third UN Conference on Sustainable Development. We are, however, increasingly facing major persistent threats, which despite being known for a few decades are still far from being ...
Walter J.V. Vermeulen   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Deliberation in Democracy’s Dark Times

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2018
This piece reflects on the on the legacies of democratic deliberation, particularly mini-publics in responding to issues of disinformation, bigotry and nativism that has entered the political mainstream today.
Lucy J. Parry, Nicole Curato
doaj   +2 more sources

Sustainability: Politics and governance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
he article gives an overview of global sustainability policy and politics. It is shown how international policy making on sustainable development has progressed from environmental policy toward recent approaches of Earth system governance. Key challenges
Global Sustainability Governance   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Balancing science and political economy: Tobacco control and global health [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

open access: yesWellcome Open Research, 2018
Background: Global tobacco control is a major public health issue, as smoking-related disease burden remains high worldwide. The World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) are the driving forces in global tobacco control. However, little research
Mitsuru Mukaigawara   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rich man’s solution? Climate engineering discourses and the marginalization of the Global South [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Numerous recent studies project that ‘climate engineering’ technologies might need to play a major role in the future. Such technologies may carry major risks for developing countries that are often especially vulnerable to, and lack adaptive capacity to
Möller, Ina   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Assessing the effectiveness of orchestrated climate action from five years of summits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Action-oriented summits like the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit and 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, have become a major feature of global climate governance. Their emphasis on cooperative initiatives by a host of non-state and local actors creates high
Shrivastava, Manish   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

Science for change: A survey on the normative and political dimensions of global sustainability research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Global change and sustainability research increasingly focusses on informing and shaping societal transformations towards more sustainable futures. Doing so, researchers encounter the deeply political and normative dimensions of sustainability problems ...
Global Sustainability Governance   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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