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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"regional governance"”.

  1. Epistemic communities and regional governance: policy development in municipal finance reform

    Karuppusamy, Shanthi2012

    … the US has undergone significant changes in how regional governance is conceptualized and the focus has shifted from government to governance and from governmental consolidation to problem solving (Barnes and Foster, 2011). Policy makers' quest for interjurisdictional responses to the financial …

    wayne-thes Repository record

  2. Projects without Project Ecologies: Experiments in Regional Governance from the Netherlands to Bulgaria and Back

    Krumova, Elena B.2012

    … and tried to apply the integrated method of regional planning developed in the area around the port of Rotterdam. It was led by a Dutch consultant and a team of Dutch and Bulgarian environmental experts. The main question the dissertation addresses is how a temporary organization operates in …

    columbia-diss Repository record

  3. Policy conflicts among local government officials: How does officials' engagement with regional governance relate to their position divergence on sustainability policy?

    Talukdar, Shahidur RashidVirginia Tech2023

    … analyzes position divergence among local and regional officials over community sustainability policy, with a focus on affordable housing, which is a major concern of community sustainability. This research examines if, and how, local government officials' engagement with regional governance …

    vt Repository record

  4. Strategic environmental assessment approach: governance and planning

    ISOLA, FEDERICAUniversità degli Studi di Cagliari2012

    The dissertation is framed within the topics of regional governance and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). Compared to its relationship with governance the SEA may be defined as a set of rules, principles, techniques and tools with the function of supporting the decision making process. The …

    cagliari Repository record

  5. Multi-scale regional transportation governance : evaluating cooperation and decision-making at New York Penn Station

    Heywood, Rebecca JMassachusetts Institute of Technology2016

    This thesis examines the existing regional transportation governance structure in New York City, and use Penn Station and the Gateway Rail Tunnel Project as lenses to explore the effectiveness of governance and the ability to realize regional transportation and economic development goals. It will …

    mit Repository record

  6. Making a Case for Social Innovation as a Structural Counterpart to Public Participation in Regional Planning

    Adikesavan, Manju AThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2017

    … hinterlands would automatically engender a regional outlook in planning and governance, it is currently not the case. In the New York City region, a lived regional experience does not translate into support for a regional governance structure.</p> <p>While strong legislative support has …

    cuny-grad Repository record

  7. A new climate for regionalism : metropolitan experiments in climate change adaptation

    Shi, Linda, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology2017

    … Most policy and academic interest in the governance of climate adaptation has focused on global, national, and local scales. Their efforts increasingly revealed the need to plan for adaptation at the scale of metropolitan regions. This dissertation is the first academic comparative …

    mit Repository record

  8. On the governance of regional innovation systems. Case studies from four city-regions within the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia: Aachen, Dortmund, Duisburg and Düsseldorf

    Schierenbeck, CarstenUniversity of Birmingham2010

    This thesis investigates the governance of so-called regional innovation systems. It studies regional and sub-regional dynamics in building institutional environments conducive to innovation. The research employs a qualitative research methodology that comprises semi-structured interviews with 47 …

    birmingham Repository record

  9. Sustainable development of maritime cultural heritage in the Gulf of Maine

    Claesson, Stefan

    … under U.S. federal jurisdiction, implement a regional governance structure based on the tenets of ecosystem-based management to manage and develop these resources effectively, and integrate valuation techniques in environmental and historic preservation regulatory procedures. Given these …

    unh-thes Repository record

  10. Negotiating regional futures:the successes and failures of the West Midlands Regional Development Agency Network

    Ayres, SarahAston University2001

    The introduction of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in the English regions in 1999 presented a new set of collaborative challenges to existing local institutions. The key objectives of the new policy impetus emphasise increased joined-up thinking and holistic regional governance. Partners were …

    aston Repository record

  11. Public Health Governance at the Watershed Scale: Exploring Opportunities for Multi-sector Governance to Advance Planetary Health in Northeastern Massachusetts

    Morales, DanielaMassachusetts Institute of Technology2025

    … the fact that watershed management influences regional public health outcomes through impacts to water quality, water quantity, and climate resilience measures, the organizations focused on watershed management do not have influence that matches the power of public health entities. This thesis …

    mit Repository record

  12. The localist turn in EU Regional Policy viewed from a Tuscan Perspective

    Fiasconaro, MiloDurham University2010

    … main economic policy of the European Union: the Regional Policy. The present work critically investigates the rationales and the intervention tools which shape the EU’s flagship policy, with a view to shedding light on the transformations which have lately affected the politics of local …

    durham Repository record

  13. English Sub-Regional Planning: Governance, Institutions and Outcomes in East Anglia

    Hollingsworth, Alexander JohnOxford Brookes University2021

    … experiments with top-down and formalised regionalism, the current phase in English local governance is considerably more mixed, and includes flexibly defined and bounded sub-regional institutions. If regional institutions shaped by national actors have proved to be brittle as a consequence …

    oxford-brookes Repository record

  14. Joint development of offshore polar oil and gas resources and the united nations convention on the law of the sea

    Abrahamson, John Topham2015

    … regime;  JDZs should support a framework of regional governance, including Arctic Council or Antarctic Treaty representation in the respective JDZs; and  Potential game changing events may affect the use of JDZs in the future, including political and technological developments, and …

    aus-cath Repository record

  15. Joint development of offshore polar oil and gas resources and the united nations convention on the law of the sea

    Abrahamson, John Topham2015

    … regime;  JDZs should support a framework of regional governance, including Arctic Council or Antarctic Treaty representation in the respective JDZs; and  Potential game changing events may affect the use of JDZs in the future, including political and technological developments, and …

    anu Repository record

  16. Investigating the Future and Image of Leesburg, VA

    Shayer, Ryan RobertVirginia Tech2023

    … emergence as not only a center of national governance but increasingly a nationally and internationally significant location for population and economic development. Leesburg, Virginia, located approximately forty miles northwest of the downtown core, has historically avoided the sprawling …

    vt Repository record

  17. Intervening in the trip to work. A system dynamics approach to commuting and public health

    Macmillan, AlexandraResearchSpace@Auckland2012

    … health outcomes. The model was shared with regional and national decision makers to influence policy. Results The review and policy analysis identified a complex range of connections between commuting and public health and found these have been poorly incorporated into transport planning in …

    auckland-ms Repository record

  18. Rethinking Civil Society Regionalism in Africa: Critical Reflections on West Africa

    Kogbe, Oluwabamidele IbrahimUniversity of Dundee2021

    … 1990s onward, there have been dynamic changes in regional integration in West Africa. These changes were different from those anticipated in the framework of the Treaty of Lagos that established the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in May 1975. ECOWAS revised its treaty in 1993 …

    dundee Repository record

  19. Cluster planning and cluster strategy in regional economic development organizations

    Green, TimothyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Paper 1: The changing landscape of regional economic development practice: Findings from a survey of regional economic development organizations in US metropolitan areas Regional-scale economic development practice has evolved considerably in the past few decades. The change has been influenced by …

    uiuc Repository record

  20. Regionales Flächenmanagement im Städtedreieck am Saalebogen - Konzeption, Handhabe und Weiterentwicklung

    Koch, RobertTechnische Universität Dresden

    … have turned out to be too inflexible to govern regional development, new ones are being implemented. One of them is Regional Land Management (RLM), which can be described as an application of regional management. A RLM comprises various aspects of planning, development and use of sites for …

    qucosa-diss

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