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AI as a Catalyst for Good Governance: Transforming South Africa’s Fight Against Corruption
Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers opportunities to advance good governance and combat corruption in South Africa, presenting a path to restore...
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The Effect of Citizens’ Perception of Governance on Tax Compliance: A Cross-Country Analysis Study for 32 Sub-Saharan African Countries
Raising domestic revenue still represents a priority for most Sub-Saharan African countries that continue to face high tax non-compliance. This...
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Governance constraints in building climate resilience: Evidence from coastal Bangladesh
Bangladesh is extensively cited as one of the countries most at risk of the adverse effects of climate change. The coastal zone of this country is...
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Water Insecurity and Urban Water Governance: Understanding the Context
The introductory chapter of this book begins with the conceptual understanding of water insecurity, water governance, and urban water governance,...
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Urban–rural Integration and Poverty: Different Roles of Urban–rural Integration in Reducing Rural and Urban Poverty in China
Poverty is a common problem faced by all countries. Breaking the restrictions on urban–rural development imposed by the dual urban–rural system,...
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Spaces of Decoupling in the Netherlands and Poland: Emerging Local Governance Networks for Hosting Non-EU Migrants in Peripheral and Shrinking Areas
A significant share of migration studies is dedicated to understanding how large cities in Europe deal with the influx of international migrants,...
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Implications of the Urban Water and Food Systems Governance Nexus for Household Food Security in the City of Gweru, Zimbabwe
Innovative water governance practices are essential to achieve sustainable cities through robust public policies and stakeholder engagement. This...
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Resilient Governance of Urban Redevelopment State, Market and Communities in China Since 1990
To examine the origins, characteristics, and outcomes of resilient governance with Chinese characteristics, this open access book takes Guangzhou, a...
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Assessing Urban Water–Energy–Food Security: A Case of Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration
Water–energy–food (WEF) risks and security are widely concerned, but there are few quantitative studies on WEF security assessment, especially...
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Built-in Flood Risk: the Intertwinement of Flood Risk and Unregulated Urban Expansion in African Cities
Urban flood risk is significantly shaped by ground conditions and the built environment, which are constantly modified and transformed by human...
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Does Urban Shrinkage Inhibit Residents' Welfare? From the Perspective of Urban–Rural Development in China
Eliminating poverty and improving welfare are the value pursuit of global development. Based on the panel data of prefecture-level cities in China...
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Governance, Monumentality, and Urbanism in the Northern Maya Lowlands During the Preclassic and Classic Periods
This article synthesizes monumentality, governance, urbanism, and regional statecraft in the Northern Maya Lowlands during the Preclassic and Classic...
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Beyond Funding Micro Property Entrepreneurs in Urban South Africa: Governance Innovation Through the uMaStandi Programme
Across South Africa, new forms of affordable rental housing in townships have emerged, shaped by the longstanding backyard housing model. This...
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Marginalized Urban Rivers: Between Local Governance and Environmental Justice
In this chapter, the overall objective is to discuss environmental justice from the perspective of local governance and urban landscape management....
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Land as Common Property: The Fit of Land Governance with Ostrom’s Design Principles
Ostrom’s design principles have been widely recognized in sustaining commons governance. However, studies focusing on the assessment of the design...
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The Development and Institutionalization of Urban Agriculture Policy: Emerging Governance Models in Three Norwegian Cities
Urban agriculture has been closely associated with citizen activism and voluntary work based on local bottom-up initiatives. However, municipalities...
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Managing public urban lands for sustainable urban development in Bujumbura, Burundi: The role of land administration system
Public Urban Lands (PULs) are among the pieces of land that will contribute to achieving sustainable urban development. There is a need to have an...
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Assessment of urban green spaces per capita in a megacity of the Philippines: implications for sustainable cities and urban health management
Megacities house the highest human population due to centralizing economic activities, causing congestion and increased settlements in urban areas....
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Absorptive Philanthropic Governance: The Resilience and Differentiation of Chinese Philanthropic Foundations Amidst the Pandemic
The development of philanthropic foundations in China is constrained by both state corporatism and the ‘administrative absorption of society.’ In...