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Growing Grassroots Innovations: Exploring the Role of Community-Based Initiatives in Governing Sustainable Energy Transitions
Tập 30 Số 3 - Trang 381-400 - 2012
The challenges of sustainable development (and climate change and peak oil, in
particular) demand system-wide transformations in sociotechnical systems of
provision. An academic literature around coevolutionary innovation for
sustainability has recently emerged as an attempt to understand the dynamics and
directions of such sociotechnical transformations, which are termed
‘sustainability transitio...
The Governance of Sustainable Development: Taking Stock and Looking Forwards
Tập 26 Số 1 - Trang 17-33 - 2008
The number of books and papers bearing the terms ‘sustainable development’ and
‘governance’ in their titles has grown exponentially in the last decade or so.
The main purpose of this paper is to explore what meanings have been attached to
these two essentially contested terms and to assess the extent to which the
material on them constitutes an important, coherent, and cumulative body of
scholarsh...
Deliberative Multicriteria Evaluation
Tập 24 Số 2 - Trang 169-190 - 2006
Multicriteria evaluation (MCE) is a well-tried and effective procedure for
structuring and aiding complex decisionmaking processes, especially those
involving environmental considerations. Formal deliberative processes have also
been successful in aiding understanding and meeting consensus in complex and
difficult decision problems which involve more than one decisionmaker. Here,
both approaches a...
Evidence, Uncertainty, and Wicked Problems in Climate Change Decision Making in Australia
Tập 32 Số 4 - Trang 663-679 - 2014
Policy makers have had great difficulty in understanding and responding
effectively to complex or ‘wicked’ problems. Contentious policy initiatives are
hard to implement when knowledge bases are divergent and incomplete, when
short-term interests conflict with long-term benefits, and when problems are
construed or framed in very different ways. These features of wicked problems
have been central i...
India's Ecocity? Environment, Urbanisation, and Mobility in the Making of Lavasa
Tập 30 Số 6 - Trang 982-996 - 2012
In a context of rapid urbanisation in the Global South the potential of
ecocities to provide sustainable development is hotly debated within academic
and policy circles. This paper will contribute to this debate by referring to
Lavasa, India's largest planned ‘hill city’, a fifth of the size of Mumbai.
Mentioned in the influential McKinsey report as an emerging global city, Lavasa,
the first ‘sust...
Path Dependency and the Implementation of Environmental Regulation
Tập 25 Số 2 - Trang 250-268 - 2007
The authors examine the implementation of environmental regulation and
demonstrate that path dependency, created largely by resource constraints,
narrows the range of options for implementing regulation. It also magnifies the
impact of the institutional history of the regulatory body and the impact of the
disciplinary commitments of those working within the regulatory body on the
implementation pr...
Goal Conflicts in Political Decisionmaking: A Survey of Municipality Politicians' Views of Road Pricing
Tập 21 Số 4 - Trang 615-624 - 2003
An ongoing discussion concerns road-pricing schemes as measures to abate traffic
congestion and air pollution in metropolitan areas. If such measures are to be
effective, road-pricing fees must be set sufficiently high However,
municipalities are likely to have other goals besides reducing car use, such as
upholding fairness among citizens and financial goals such as creating revenues.
If conflict...
Rescaling Spatial Planning: Spatial Planning Reforms in Denmark, England, and the Netherlands
Tập 33 Số 1 - Trang 184-198 - 2015
Following a wave of spatial planning reforms at the beginning of the 21st
century, a second wave of reforms has recently swept through several European
countries. In this study we investigate the significance of these latest
developments by analysing the reforms in Denmark, England, and the Netherlands
from the perspective of rescaling, the process of redividing tasks, and
responsibilities between...
Intermediaries and Capability Building in ‘Emerging’ Clusters
Tập 32 Số 4 - Trang 714-730 - 2014
Increasing attention has begun to focus on the important role that organisations
undertaking intermediary functions can play in supporting emerging clusters of
small producers. In contrast to most studies of intermediaries that focus on
governance and filling information gaps, in this paper we examine how the
organisational skills of intermediaries evolve as firms in the cluster assume a
broader r...
Governing urban development for climate risk: What role for public–private partnerships?
Tập 34 Số 5 - Trang 927-944 - 2016
Urban partnerships are an instrument of urban governance common in major urban
development projects. However, the potential for these traditional urban policy
instruments to promote climate-adapted greenfield development remains largely
untested. This study examines this potential through an analysis of four urban
development partnerships for master-planned estates in two rapidly urbanising
region...