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Growing Grassroots Innovations: Exploring the Role of Community-Based Initiatives in Governing Sustainable Energy Transitions 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 ... ...
Tập 30 Số 3 - Trang 381-400 - 2012
The Governance of Sustainable Development: Taking Stock and Looking Forwards 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 ... ...
Tập 26 Số 1 - Trang 17-33 - 2008
Deliberative Multicriteria Evaluation 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 app... ...
Tập 24 Số 2 - Trang 169-190 - 2006
Evidence, Uncertainty, and Wicked Problems in Climate Change Decision Making in Australia 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 ... ...
Tập 32 Số 4 - Trang 663-679 - 2014
India's Ecocity? Environment, Urbanisation, and Mobility in the Making of Lavasa 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 fi... ...
Tập 30 Số 6 - Trang 982-996 - 2012
Path Dependency and the Implementation of Environmental Regulation 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 implemen... ...
Tập 25 Số 2 - Trang 250-268 - 2007
Goal Conflicts in Political Decisionmaking: A Survey of Municipality Politicians' Views of Road Pricing 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... ...
Tập 21 Số 4 - Trang 615-624 - 2003
Rescaling Spatial Planning: Spatial Planning Reforms in Denmark, England, and the Netherlands 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 responsibilitie... ...
Tập 33 Số 1 - Trang 184-198 - 2015
Governing urban development for climate risk: What role for public–private partnerships? 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 urbanisi... ...
Tập 34 Số 5 - Trang 927-944 - 2016
Intermediaries and Capability Building in ‘Emerging’ Clusters 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 ... ...
Tập 32 Số 4 - Trang 714-730 - 2014