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Licensed Commoning and the Authoritarian Commons: Governing Participation in China's Community Gardens

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's environmental governance transition combines intensified vertical accountability and performance‐based management with expanding calls for public participation. However, despite growing demand for civic engagement, there remains limited understanding of how participatory environmental initiatives are structured and governed in practice.
Linjun Xie, Mengqi Shao, Gaohan Deng
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Integration for Enabling Environments: Decentralised Water Technologies for Rural Water Reuse

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water reuse holds significant promise for addressing global water challenges, yet wide scale implementation remains limited. Decentralised water technologies for reuse have been highlighted as a potential aide in the reduction of water challenges, specifically for environments that have typically been considered ‘water rich’, and in rural ...
Elizabeth Lawson, Jaime Amezaga
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Positive Energy Districts: The Role of Legitimation and Identity Across Residential and Industrial Contexts

open access: yesEnvironmental 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

Orchestration of Climate Action in Municipalities: A Collective Capacity Approach

open access: yesEnvironmental 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Multilevel Conceptual Framework for Flood Risk Governance

open access: yesEnvironmental 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

Contested urban land: approaching land management and land-based conflicts in urban Somaliland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Stockbruegger, Jan   +4 more
openaire  

Urban Land Use

2015
Abstract We provide an integrated treatment of the theoretical literature on urban land use inspired by the monocentric model, including extensions that deal with multiple endogenous business centers, various dimensions of heterogeneity, and durable housing.
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Urban Land Markets

2021
Urban land markets play an important regulatory and development function in the efficient and effective access, use and sustainable management of land and property markets. Efficient commodification of urban land markets underpins inclusive and progressive urban human settlement functioning. However, inefficient urban land markets perpetrate suboptimal
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Urban Land Economics

2015
Cities: The Rise and Fall of Cities.- Reinventing Cities.- The Consumer City Center.- Urban Decline.- Urban Crime.- Agglomeration: Agglomeration Spillovers.- Geographic Concentration of Industry.- Sub centers.- Sprawl.- Homelessness: A Comparison of Homelessness Across Cities.- Poverty and the Role of Public Transportation.- Homeless in California ...
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