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Can national policy blockages accelerate the development of polycentric governance? Evidence from climate change policy in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2017
Many factors can conspire to limit the scope for policy development at the national level. In this paper, we consider whether blockages in national policy processes − resulting for example from austerity or small state political philosophies − might be ...
Abbott, Aiken, Andersson, Andrew Gouldson, Barry, Bauer, Boasson, Boasson, Bulkeley, Bulkeley, Bulkeley, Bulkeley, Bäckstrand, Bäckstrand, Cabinet Office, Cameron, Cao, Carter, Cashore, CCC, CCC, CCC, Chateau, Chatham House, Chernilo, Cole, Cole, Davies, DCLG, De Búrca, DEFRA, DeLanda, European Commission, Fankhauser, Flyvbjerg, Froggatt, Geels, Giddens, Giddens, Gillard, Grin, Hajer, Harris, Harvey, Hertin, HM Government, HM Treasury, HM Treasury, HM Treasury, Holton, Howlett, Ifan, Jacobs, James Van Alstine, Jessop, Jessop, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, Jouni Paavola, Jänicke, Kingdon, Latour, Lemos, Lever, Liefferink, Lockwood, Loorbach, Lorenzoni, Lovell, Markantoni, Mazzucato, McGinnis, McGinnis, Muinzer, Nachmany, Newell, Office for Budget Responsibility, Office for Budget Responsibility, Okereke, Ostrom, Ostrom, Paavola, Paavola, Pahl-Wostl, Patashnik, Peters, Pielke, Pierson, Pike, PWC (Price Waterhouse Cooper), Rickards, Ross Gillard, Royles, Russel, Sabatier, Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, Skovgaard, Sovacool, Stirling, Swyngedouw, Termeer, Townshend, Treisman, UNFCC, Voß, Walker, Welsh Assembly Government, Welsh Assembly Government, Welsh Government, Zelli, Zero Waste Scotland   +112 more
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Healing Brazil's Blue Amazon: The Role of Knowledge Networks in Nurturing Cross-Scale Transformations at the Frontlines of Ocean Sustainability

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018
HIGHLIGHTSThe Anthropocene compels unlocking of ocean-related network capabilities.Orchestration of local, regional, and global knowledge networks can augment transformative capacity.Transdisciplinary network diagnostics are promising social learning ...
Leopoldo C. Gerhardinger, Leopoldo C. Gerhardinger, Leopoldo C. Gerhardinger, Leopoldo C. Gerhardinger, Leopoldo C. Gerhardinger, Philipp Gorris, Philipp Gorris, Philipp Gorris, Leandra R. Gonçalves, Leandra R. Gonçalves, Leandra R. Gonçalves, Leandra R. Gonçalves, Dannieli F. Herbst, Dannieli F. Herbst, Dannieli F. Herbst, Dannieli F. Herbst, Daniele A. Vila-Nova, Daniele A. Vila-Nova, Fabiano G. De Carvalho, Fabiano G. De Carvalho, Fabiano G. De Carvalho, Marion Glaser, Marion Glaser, Marion Glaser, Ruben Zondervan, Ruben Zondervan, Bruce C. Glavovic   +26 more
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Investigating conservation performance payments alongside human–wildlife conflicts: The Swedish lynx and wolverine protection policies

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation performance payments are becoming an increasingly popular instrument to tackle human–wildlife conflicts. In Sweden, Sámi communities practicing reindeer husbandry receive performance payments as compensation for reindeer losses caused by lynxes and wolverines.
Josef Kaiser, Thomas Hahn, Tobias Krueger, Dagmar Haase   +3 more
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Enabling effective urban green space stewardship through planning: A qualitative comparative analysis in Southwest England

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Amid increasing urbanisation and biodiversity decline, ‘effective stewardship’ of urban green space (UGS) is a complex but critical nature‐based solution for long‐term environmental, social and economic gain. Combining stewardship and sense‐of‐place frameworks with European nature‐based solutions guidance, we investigate which social and ...
Fay Kahane, Melissa Ralph, Rosalind F. Shaw   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

IMPLICATIONS OF THE EU MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE IN THE FIELD OF COMPETITION POLICY – A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF COHESION AND COMPETITION POLICY [PDF]

The paper has in view to present the intrinsic characteristics of the European Union and to show that these characteristics require in an objective way the implementation of a multi-level governance.
Florin Bonciu
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Unraveling the Central State, But How? Types of Multi-Level Governance. IHS Political Science Series: 2003, No. 87 [PDF]

, 2003
The reallocation of authority upwards, downwards, and sideways from central states has drawn attention from a growing number of scholars in political science.
Hooghe, Liesbet, Marks, Gary
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Regional Policies, Practices, Tools, and Strategies to Implement Polycentric Development: Comparative Case Studies of Portland, Seattle, and Denver

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Many of the larger US metropolitan regions promote polycentric development as a way of fostering livability, accessibility, and sustainability. Polycentric urban structures can increase transit ridership, promote active transportation, and decrease ...
Reid Ewing, Torrey Lyons, Seyed Hassan Ameli, John Hersey, Justyna Kaniewska   +4 more
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Blue‐Prints for Ocean Governance: Analyzing Resource Sustainability in International Blue Economic Frameworks

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Championed as a pathway for sustainable growth, the “blue economy” (BE) has garnered increasing interest in recent decades. International organizations like the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) increasingly point to marine resources and activities as a “new frontier” for economic growth ...
Flora St. Pier, Anar Ahmadov, Farid Guliyev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engagement in a Public Forum: Knowledge, Action, and Cosmopolitanism [PDF]

, 2017
Facing challenges to the civic purpose of higher education, some scholars and administrators turn to the rhetoric of engagement. Simultaneously, the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism has gained intellectual favor, advocating openness to the lived ...
Bacon, Balazs, Ball, Batterbury, Beck, Benhabib, Benton, Blackstock, Brewer, Brewer, Brewer, Brewer, Brewer, Brewer, Brewer, Brewer, Brown, Brown, Cahill, Cahill, Cameron, Cameron, Castleden, Chan, Chatterton, Delanty, Dowling, Fine, Fuller, Fuller, Fuller, Galdorisi, Garzón, Gidwani, Gramsci, Greenwood, Gregson, Hall, Harvey, Held, Hodges, Jazeel, Johnson, Kant, Kaplan, Kapoor, Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities, Kendall, Kesby, Kitchen, Kumar, Lane, Larner, Mason, Mason, McGuirk, Metcalfe, Mitchell, Mitchell, mrs kinpaisby, National Research Council, Noffke, Ntshoe, Nussbaum, Pain, Pickerill, Pickerill, Popke, Research Excellence Framework 2014, Rogers, Russell, Skrbiš, Slaughter, Sánchez-Flores, Valentine, Warf, Wilson, Wynne-Jones, Young   +78 more
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Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López, Samara López‐Ruiz, Gabriela Cuadrado‐Quesada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source