The A. examines the evolving sub-regional governance in Flanders within the context of changing European regional policy, with a focus of development coalitions and their role in decentralization of decision-making and engagement of citizens
. The platforms contribute to a governance structure that enables public participation in policy-making.
Policy transfer : consultants and the geographies of governance
Decision making process ; Diffusion ; Expertise ; Governance ; Network ; Policy ; Political geography ; Transnationalism
The emergence of transnational geographies of governance presents a challenge to geographers. Geographical work on policy transfer has much to offer conceptions of emerging geographies of governance, when linked to the production of governance
structures, such as global policy networks. The paper argues that increased use of ethnographic methods in policy transfer studies enables a focus on how global policy networks are produced through the actors driving the transfers. This is illustrated through
Policy review section: the future of local government
The AA. set out the nature of the crises in local government brought about by the actions of the present Government. They think that the abolition of the GLC and the Metropolitan counties will not solve existing problems. Looking to the future
the AA. set out a number of guiding principles upon which any future reform should be based. They emphasize the need to consider the role of local government in the overall system of Government.
Networking the urban policy arena. Local governance and the regionalisation of territorial policy-making in Northrhine-Westphalia
Germany ; Local policy ; Network ; North Rhine Westfalia ; Regional development ; Regionalization ; Urban network ; Urban policy
The contribution deals with the following subjects : 1)Policy innovation as context management : 1) Regionalisation in Northrhine-Westphalia. 2) Local responses to regionalisation : Duisburg and its region. 3) Networking the urban policy arena : new
forms of governance in Duisburg. 4) Local and regional networking : potentials and contradictions for innovative governance. 5) Challenges to networking : bridging the local-regional mismatch. - (MT)
Public targets, private choices : urban climate governance in the Pacific Northwest
Climate policy ; Climatic change ; Ecological footprint ; Governance ; Greenhouse effect ; Private sector ; Public sector ; Transport policy ; United States of America ; Urban climate ; Urban policy
a preference for policies that rely on changes in individual behavior, economic incentives, and federal inaction on local government justification for climate-related policies. It concludes with a discussion of urban climate governance as part of a wider sys
This article explores two interrelated research objectives. First, it seeks to understand how local governments regulate climate change. Second, it examines the motivations for participation in urban climate change programs. Results show
-tem of neoliberal climate governance in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
Local government and 'coloured' residential segregation in Port Elizabeth, 1964-1976
Apartheid ; Cape Province ; Economic power ; Ethnic community ; Housing crisis ; Local policy ; Segregation ; South Africa ; Urban policy
An examination of the local government objectives in the enforcement of residential segregation. These were primarily economic and were severely compromised through local industrial interests and the central government. - (AJC)
The A. reflects upon the effectiveness of networked governance, using the collaborative spatial and environmental planning of Healey as a textbook example. He tries to answer the question of how effectiveness is guaranteed by strategic consensus
Crime management and urban governance : everyday interconnections in South Africa
Criminality ; Local policy ; Social policy ; South Africa ; Urban administration ; Urban policy
The paper uses a case study from South Africa to understand the microlocal experiences of the interconnections between what is described as crime management and local governance. The extent of interconnection is beyond that captured by the concept
of partnership, as multiple governance structures engage in crime management. The interconnection is theorised as the criminalisation of governance within a context of state-building.
Measurementality’ in biodiversity governance : knowledge, transparency, and the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
This article examines measurementality’ in biodiversity governance through knowledge, transparency, and the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It suggests that this approach aims to coordinate
paradigm in which science produces the raw materials for subsequent control and exchange and that, as a result, the intersection of science, discourse, policy, and economics within these governance systems requires sustained critical scrutiny.
the science–policy interface in order to optimize the generation of user-friendly knowledge of those elements of biodiversity that are considered politically and economically relevant. It concludes that measurementality is part and parcel of the neoliberal
[b1] Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Pays-Bas
This article identifies the programmatic and the political innovations of Regional Governance in the context of the integrated rural development and the multilevel character of rural areas. The paper describes the rural policy integration
, the sectors, the interlocking politics, the multilevel governance and gives a number of case studies. - (IfL)
The paper discusses the relationship between the divergent urbanisation/industrialisation patterns in northern and southern Europe, which results in different forms of urban governance. It considers the distinct urban restructuring and governance
mode in Spain, Greece and Portugal as a causal factor behind the lagging competitiveness of cities in southern Europe. This pattern of heterogeneity is not addressed in the EU urban policies aimed at promoting competitiveness (examples of six cities
' governance responses to the EU URBAN initiative).