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The ‘Stifling’ of New Climate Politics in Ireland

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2021
In 2019, Ireland declared a ‘Climate Emergency,’ receiving plaudits from across the political spectrum for doing so. Some argued the country was experiencing an era of ‘new climate politics’: In 2017, Ireland had established the first Citizens’ Assembly ...
Louise Michelle Fitzgerald   +3 more
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Your Resilience is My Vulnerability: ‘Rules in Use’ in a Local Water Conflict

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2014
This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders.
Frank Sondershaus, Timothy Moss
doaj   +1 more source

City-to-city learning within climate city networks: definition, significance, and challenges from a global perspective

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2020
Cities are increasingly joining forces through transnational municipal networks. The presented research focuses on one of the key services of these organisations: providing a platform for city-to-city learning. Interviews with representatives of networks
Wolfgang Haupt   +3 more
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Making it normal for new enrollments: Effect of institutional and pandemic influence on selecting an engineering institution under the COVID-19 pandemic situation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The COVID19 pandemic has forced Indian engineering institutions (EIs) to bring their previous half shut shades completely down. Fetching new admissions to EI campuses during the pandemic has become a now or never situation for EIs. During crisis situations, institutions have struggled to return to the normal track.
arxiv   +1 more source

What Are We Witnessing? Student Protests and the Politics of the Unknowable

open access: yesJournal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2019
South African public higher education has been dogged by student protests since 2015. Many of these disruptions raise pertinent issues for the sector, as well as bring about valued awareness and change.
Dionne van Reenen
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Spatiality of the Commons

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2014
This editorial sets the scene for the special feature by explaining the importance of geography to the commons and its governance, critically appraising the existing literature on this theme, highlighting important contributions from recent research and ...
Timothy Moss
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Navigating a Murky Adaptive Comanagement Governance Network: Agua Fria Watershed, Arizona, USA

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2013
Adaptive comanagement endeavors to increase knowledge and responsiveness in the face of uncertainty and complexity. However, when collaboration between agency and nonagency stakeholders is mandated, rigid institutions may hinder participation and ...
Cameron Childs   +4 more
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Effect of rule choice in dynamic interactive spatial commons

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2008
This paper uses laboratory experiments to examine the effect of an endogenous rule change from open access to private property as a potential solution to overharvesting in commons dilemmas.
Marco A. Janssen   +3 more
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From В«RevolutionВ» to В«TransformationsВ» and В«ChangesВ»? Development of Discourses of Analysis Qualitative Social Change

open access: yesСоциологическая наука и социальная практика, 2021
The popular condemnation of «revolutionaryism» in post-Soviet Russia is seen as contradicting the global trends in scientific analysis of the role of revolutions in the development of society, according to which it is the revolutionary institutional ...
Yury V. Latov
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