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Orchestration of Climate Action in Municipalities: A Collective Capacity Approach

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Municipalities are increasingly positioned as key actors in enabling local climate action, yet their ability to mobilise societal actors remains insufficiently understood. This study examines how municipal officials in six Finnish municipalities from different local contexts understand and operationalise collective capacity for climate action,
Maija Faehnle, Hanna Nieminen, Jani P. Lukkarinen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metis and Latin American Cities: Talca and Its Many Small Parking Lots

ARQ
The destruction and demolition of buildings following the 2010 earthquake left numerous intra-urban voids throughout Chile’s central valley. These voids, mostly located in historic city centers, were reactivated by local actors through a combination of ...
Felipe Miño
doaj   +1 more source

Criminal governance and extortion in informal economies: fear as a mechanism of territorial control in Lima. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Espinoza Escobar JH, Sotelo-Llancari S, La Rosa Salvador VI.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Informal Workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 Countries [PDF]

The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main job in 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than
Hazans, Mihails
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A Novel Multilevel Conceptual Framework for Flood Risk Governance

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, flood risk is increasing as climate change progresses. Contemporary flood risk management practice often utilises hydrodynamic modelling (for hazard risk assessments), social vulnerability assessments, and risk communications in silo, which fragments evidence‐based decision‐making for effective flood risk management. We hence develop
Aiperi Stambekova, Avidesh Seenath
wiley   +1 more source

When Policy Is the Hazard: Institutional Legitimacy and Climate Risk Attribution Among Farmers in Water Stressed California

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, Jordan Pantano, Grace Kumetat, Julia Marhenke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnicity, gender, and social class in Honduras: an analysis using the permanent household survey. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Ney Simons S, Pineda Talavera D, Llopis Hernández JO, Cruz KA, Pineda Talavera ME, Sierra Cáceres C, Marcía Hernández DR.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Absence of a Written Employment Contract and Health Outcomes Among Employed Adults in Chile. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health
Bravo-Rojas G, Páez-Guajardo M, Viviani C, Castellucci I.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Urban Informality Reconsidered in a Neoliberal Context: Gecekondu, Identity, Poverty and Islamic Philanthropism in Turkey [2012]

, 2012
Under the impact of various strategies of neoliberal governance, informality has extended its space at all levels of urban politics in the last three decades in Turkey.
Demirtas-Milz, Neslihan
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