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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"polycentric governance"”.
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Critical Polycentric Governance: Indigenous Peoples' Tenure Security in India's Forests
Polycentric systems of governance, where diverse institutional actors including government, community and CSOs operate across multiple jurisdictional levels interdependently, are argued to offer unique opportunities to address complex collective action problems at scale. While an extensive …
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State Steering in Polycentric Governance Systems: Climate Policy Integration in Ontario and California's Transportation Sectors
The post-Kyoto era of climate governance has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number and diversity of actors and organizations, resulting in a complex institutional regime that displays the essential features of polycentric governance (Keohane and Victor 2011; Abbott 2012; 2018). The complexity …
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Adaptive water governance: flood management and the policy process in Scotland
… improves the understanding of adaptive water governance in the policy process, and draws lessons of policy relevance for flood management. Scholars using the concept of adaptive water governance posit that factors influencing the governing activities of social actors are of critical importance …
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Barriers for Establishment of Clinical Research Units in Safety-Net Health Systems: A Qualitative Study of Leadership Participants With Experience in Federally Qualified Health Centers
… the ideas of organizational change readiness and polycentric governance, and how theories within those fields of study can be applied along with an understanding of tangible barriers to enact a centralized research unit. Finally, after addressing the disparity of these systems to conduct research, …
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Constraints on the adoption of Adaptive Water Management principles: the case of Greater Tehran.
… future uncertainties. The AWM characteristics of polycentric governance, institutional flexibility, and public participation were used to assess the adaptability of the existing water management. The research findings showed that, despite the lack of adaptability in the current Greater Tehran …
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The race to zero: emission reduction strategies in the sugarcane growing industry in southern Malawi
… in attaining them, and explores the relevance of polycentric governance in the emission reduction agendas of the sugarcane growing industry in southern Malawi. The research used qualitative methods including semi-structured interviews and mixed media reviews (reports, policies, websites, and …
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Towards a New Energy Charter: Re-imagining International Investment Treaties for a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition
… adequately embedded in an international energy governance framework that can benefit both foreign investors as well as local communities by drawing on thinkers such as Habermas, Kuhn and Latour to deconstruct the current dual-actor paradigm of investment law and to achieve a paradigm shift …
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GOVERNING FORESTS AS COMMONS, BEYOND EFFICIENCY: CAPABILITIES, CONFLICTS, AND COMPLIANCE WITH SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AGREEMENTS
… crisis. Specifically, it focuses on forest governance and forests-related conflicts as emblematic of the current multiple and entwined crisis, as addressing forest deterioration and depletion is also an issue of recognizing people’s opportunities (capabilities) to look for and pursue …
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Local environmental governance: Assessing proactive initiatives in building energy efficiency
… taking the initiative in environmental governance. But can they make any difference in addressing current environmental challenges, which are becoming more and more global in scope? This PhD thesis explores and analyses the outcomes of proactive initiatives in the field of building …
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A framework for analyzing the sustainability of peer produced science commons
… cooperation requires the ability to design governance and enforce rules related to access, use, and ownership over shared resources. Traditional approaches to the governance of scientific research struggle to accommodate these novel forms of collaboration and cooperation. For example, - A …