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Sustainability Transformations and Environmental Accountability
This chapter positions accountability as an attribute of sustainability transformations and examines how environmental accountabilities provide...
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Urban Agenda and Metropolitan Governance in Pamplona: Lessons from a Multi-level and Multi-actor Process
This chapter analyzes the process of metropolitan governance in Pamplona, Spain, as an example of a multi-level and multi-actor process in line with...
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Water Resources Allocation and Governance
Water is a fundamental resource essential for sustaining human societies, supporting ecosystems, and ensuring overall environmental health. It plays...
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Neo-liberal or not? Cree** enclosures and openings in the making of fisheries governance
Neo-liberalism can mean different things from different perspectives. Social scientists tend to use the concept to identify and critique trends of...
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Navigating the Intersection of New Populism and Climate Change in Global Governance
Globally, new populism has been on the increase, posing a threat to conventional governing structures and institutions. Concurrently, climate change...
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Financing climate justice in the European Union and China: common mechanisms, different perspectives
Climate justice is a concept with many different and competing interpretations. It has salience at intra-country, inter-country and intergenerational...
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Global Food Governance
This article helps lay a basis for the kind of deep analysis of the stakes of global food governance that is required today, under the impact of the...
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Unfair and Unjust: Temporary Labour Migration Programmes in and from Asia and the Pacific as Barriers to Migrant Justice
Temporary labour migration programmes (TLMPs) are the most available option for regular migration available to low-wage migrant workers from Asia and...
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Rural Gangs and Village Governance
With the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese nation has basically solved the survival issue, but to build China into a stronger...
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State, Society and Environmental Security in International Relations Theory
As emerging non-traditional security issues in global politics such as environmental crises offer new avenues of research on the state-society...
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Unpacking Urban Environmental Visions and Contestations of Street Vendors in Kolkata, West Bengal
Street vendors, more popularly known as “hawkers” in South Asia, constitute a visible part of the urban informal population in India and often settle...
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The spatiotemporal impact of urban elderly care facilities on residential value and the resulting governance implications
As the world is increasingly witnessing an aging society, the demand for elderly care facilities has gradually increased. However, there is...
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Indigenous Peoples in International Law and Governance
The first part of the chapter is dedicated to the emerging of the instruments of international human rights law specifically dedicated to Indigenous...
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Prospects for Strengthening Adaptation Governance Through Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Indigenous populations in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are innocent victims of climate change and their knowledge remains largely peripheral in sha**...
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Gender, Environmental Conflict, and Direct Action
For over 500 years, colonial worldviews have shaped and ordered the world through acts of dispossession, domination, and exploitation. In more recent...
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Cities as Catalysts: Multilevel Climate Governance Between Boston and Massachusetts
The American federal system possesses distinctive characteristics, which impact multilevel climate governance and shape the nature of interactions...
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Spatially Disaggregated Assessment of Environmental Inequalities Among Vulnerable Groups due to Urban Rainstorm Flooding
Waterlogging caused by heavy rains, a recurring problem in cities located within floodplains having poor runoff, often results in unequal degrees of...
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Mining questions of ‘what’ and ‘who’: deepening discussions of the seabed for future policy and governance
In spite of a proliferation of academic and policy-oriented interest in deep sea mining (DSM), this paper argues that two underlying questions remain...
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An Integrated Analysis of Social, Economic, and Environmental Indicators’ Effects on Public Health and Health Inequality Globally: From the Perspective of Vulnerability
Public health and health inequality have been widely researched as they are essential for human development and social justice. Although factors...
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How Could Local Communities Regulate Companies to Assess the Overlooked Environmental and Social Impacts of Industrial Projects?
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a process to determine the significant environmental and social impacts of a proposed project to put forward...