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Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems [PDF]

, 2018
Recent advances in land system science and in institutional analysis provide complementary, but still largely disconnected perspectives on land use change, governance, and sustainability in social-ecological systems, which are interconnected across ...
Messerli, Peter, Rist, Stephan, Sébastien Boillat, Jean-David Gerber, Gerber, Jean-David, Boillat, Sébastien, Urs Wiesmann, Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe, Andreas Heinimann, Oberlack, Christoph, Brönnimann, Stefan, Stephan Rist, Heinimann, Andreas, Stefan Brönnimann, Peter Messerli, Christoph Oberlack, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Wiesmann, Urs Martin   +17 more
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Ocean Governance and Marine Conservation: Institutional Work as a Lever for Ocean Sustainability

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ocean governance presents one of the most complex environmental policy challenges of our time, requiring coordinated action across multiple scales, sectors and stakeholder groups. This paper applies institutional work theory to systematically examine how actors create, maintain and disrupt the governance arrangements underpinning ocean ...
Kedar Uttam, Kristjan Jespersen, Paige Olmsted, Katryn Pasaribu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional patterns in the achievement of the Lisbon Strategy: a comparison between polycentric regions and monocentric ones [PDF]

Polycentrism is a common feature of European urban systems. Lately, the concept has assumed a more normative relevance and it has been often considered as a pre-requisite for a more sustainable and balanced development across Europe. However, the effects
Paola Bertolini, Enrico Giovannetti, Francesco Pagliacci   +2 more
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Trialogue in raising good news agents: A case study from InnerCHANGE South Africa

Verbum et Ecclesia
This article is a case study. It reflects on InnerCHANGE South Africa’s (ICSA) efforts to develop missionaries emerging from African neighbourhoods of poverty. ICSA calls those missionaries, good news agents.
Kasebwe T.L. Kabongo
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Nested Carbon Governance in Southeast Asia: Towards Just Nature‐Based Solutions?

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NbS) have gained prominence as an integrated approach to addressing climate change and biodiversity loss while supporting sustainable development. Yet, their implementation across Southeast Asia remains fragmented and often contested.
Helena Varkkey, Michelle Ann Miller, David Taylor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Passive Polycentric Mechanism to Improve Active Mediolateral Balance in Prosthetic Walking

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Prosthetic legs are typically passive systems without active ankle control, restricting mediolateral balancing to a hip strategy. Resulting balance control impairments for persons with a lower extremity amputation may be mitigated by increasing hip ...
Evert S. van Hal, Juha M. Hijmans, Klaas Postema, Egbert Otten   +3 more
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Moving Beyond Co-Management: Opportunities and Limitations for Enabling Transitions to Polycentric Governance in Chile’s Territorial User Rights in Fisheries Policy

International Journal of the Commons, 2020
This paper contributes insights to discussions of adaptive governance in marine socio-ecological systems by elucidating the conditions which limit or enable the transition from co-management to polycentric governance at the local scale.
Sarah A. Ebel
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The Role of Trade Unions in Environmental Governance: Exploring Workers Legitimacy Judgments

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trade unions are increasingly expected to play a role in sustainability transitions, but their legitimacy as environmental governance actors remains underexplored. Our study uses a multidimensional framework to examine how workers, both union members and non‐members, evaluate trade union legitimacy “from below.” This framework distinguishes ...
Urša Golob, Branko Bembič, Klement Podnar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Statecraft, Fragmented Authoritarianism, and Technocratic Governance: The Structure and Agency of China's Local Environmental Politics

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local environmental politics in China is often said to be dominated by state‐controlled modes of multi‐level governance. However, top‐down governance is embedded within and transformed by local politics, adding complexity to governance practices and environmental outcomes.
Minsi Liu, Kevin Lo
wiley   +1 more source

How did we get here? The evolution of a polycentric system of groundwater governance

Ecology and Society
Polycentric systems are widespread globally and studied extensively, but cross-sectional studies are more prominent than longitudinal studies, and limited attention has been paid to how polycentric systems develop. We present an evolutionary framework to
Ruth Langridge, Christopher K Ansell
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