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Towards Transformative Climate Governance: Capacities and Constraints for Local Government in Aotearoa New Zealand

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An emerging consensus calls for transformative climate governance. However, what instigates and sustains transformative pathways remains unclear. This study characterises the existence, quality and structural underpinnings of transformative governance capacities in local government climate change response in Aotearoa New Zealand, applying a ...
Gangadari K. Ranawaka, Anna L. Berka, Karen F. Hytten, Florentine D. van Noppen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Segmentation and regional analysis: labor typologies and geographic inequality in Antofagasta and La Araucanía, Chile. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Blanco O, Julián-Véjar D, Osorio-Rauld A.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Urbanization and Labor Market Informality in Developing Countries

Rapid and uncontrolled migration created by the population moving from rural to urban areas causes serious problems from the viewpoint of labor markets. Increases in rural-urban migration flows is contributing to a larger urban labor supply.
Bicerli, Mustafa Kemal, Gundogan, Naci
core  

Circularity Before Strategy: Translating the Circular Economy for Environmental Policy and Governance in Emerging Economies

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) is now a cornerstone of global environmental policy. However, current debates often frame CE as a future‐oriented strategy to be adopted or scaled, implicitly assuming that emerging economies and the Global South are starting from strictly linear conditions. Drawing on practice‐oriented and institutional perspectives,
Solmaz Filiz Karabag, Cali Nuur
wiley   +1 more source

The megaproject paradox in urban street food areas: structural inertia and forced resilience in the Global South. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Rahman SA, Syafrini D, Fariza MR, Permata BD, Ramadhani EO, Fadila A, Alyasin R, Putri FNN, Fauziah G, Permana RA.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Public Opinion About Community Participation in Natural Resources Governance: A Population Survey in Indonesia and Malaysia

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The international conservation and natural resources communities have increasingly embraced the principle of community participation. This rhetoric around participation has gained power and influence in setting countries' agendas for natural resources governance, largely without a sound understanding of public opinion on the issues.
Rachel S. Friedman, Emily Massingham, Kerrie A. Wilson, Angela J. Dean   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban sustainability in the global south. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Yang L, Hagishima A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unraveling the Interplay Between Collaborative Governance and Experimentation for Transformative Potential in Circular Water Systems: A Dutch Case Study

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Freshwater availability is a critical climate change challenge in coastal delta regions. This challenge requires a transformative change toward circular water management. While experimentation and collaborative governance are recognized as enablers of transformative change, their interaction remains complex and insufficiently understood ...
Flavia Simona Albu Cosoveanu, Kirsty Holstead, Jean‐Marie Buijs, Dave Huitema   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Infrastructure deficits and informal settlements in sub-Saharan Africa. [PDF]

Nature
Bettencourt LMA, Marchio N.
europepmc   +1 more source

“We Are Willing to Change, If…”: Potential Impacts of Citizens' Assemblies on the Willingness to Change for Sustainability in Rural East German Municipalities

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In light of the democratic and social‐ecological crises, deliberative minipublics such as citizens' assemblies are increasingly implemented and discussed by scholars as a means for sound decision‐making and to enhance public support for sustainability transformations.
Lea Findeis, Nicolas Jager
wiley   +1 more source