Results 31 to 40 of about 1,154 (240)
Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation, 2015 This paper used the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework to analyse the missing links between urban managers and urban residents in Angola, Ghana and Kenya.
Samson AKINOLA
doaj +1 more source
Policy sequencing to reduce tropical deforestation
Global Sustainability, 2021 Non-technical summary Tropical deforestation continues apace despite a proliferation of commitments made by companies and governments to control it.
Paul R. Furumo, Eric F. Lambin
doaj +1 more source
Polycentric governance and climate change
, 2019 This chapter deals with the performance of polycentric governance, focusing specifically on how well it handles the distinct complexities associated with climate change. The notion of polycentric governance emerged in the early 1960s, but its popularity increased greatly after one of its chief exponents, Elinor Ostrom, was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...
Huitema, Dave +3 more
openaire +4 more sources
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability has prompted companies to engage with stakeholders in addressing environmental and social challenges. This paper investigates how companies and stakeholders co‐create value through a collaborative and iterative process that facilitates the formulation and implementation of sustainable strategies.
Meryem Altaf +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Polycentric Governing: A Marxist Interpretation
, 2023 Abstract A structural, Marxist, Gramscian approach brings a historical materialist understanding to polycentric governing. It highlights the class character of social relations, of the state, and of governing more generally, all within the context of capital accumulation on a world scale.
openaire +2 more sources
Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.This study investigated the spatial patterns and development mechanisms of urban underground space (UUS) in Shanghai using underground points of interest data. It revealed distinct development mechanisms between the main city and suburbs, highlighting the need for differentiated UUS planning and policies to optimize underground space resources ...
Chenxiao Ma +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increasing electricity demand from data centres, industrial applications, electric vehicles and domestic heating is creating pressure to develop electricity systems in many parts of the world, but especially in Western countries. In response to challenges such as grid congestion, interconnection queues and climate‐related hazards, network ...
Jussi Valta +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how farmers perceive and respond to climate policy risk in the context of drought and argues that understanding such responses is as important as understanding farmer reactions to the biophysical impacts of climate change.
M. Anne Visser +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Governing polycentric urban regions
Territory, Politics, Governance, 2022 Widely recognized as an empirical reality, an important analytical framework and a normative goal for territorial development policies, polycentric urban regions (PURs) are the subject of concerted international interest among those charged with planning and governing cities and regions.
John Harrison +4 more
openaire +3 more sources
Collective Decision‐Making and Institutional Configurations in Polycentric Environmental Governance
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why do formally similar multi‐level governance arrangements produce different governance outcomes in urban climate and transport policy? This article examines variation in governance performance across three metropolitan regions in Norway operating under the national Urban Growth Agreement (UGA) framework and pursuing the shared objective of ...
Kirsten Hegsvold
wiley +1 more source