Transgovernance
Transgovernance

Author: Louis Meuleman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-09-14

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 3642280099

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‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion on sustainable development contribute to a knowledge democracy? How can concepts such as second modernity, reflexivity, configuration theory, (meta)governance theory and cultural theory contribute to a ‘transgovernance’ approach which goes beyond mainstream sustainability governance? This volume presents contributions from various angles: international relations, governance and metagovernance theory, (environmental) economics and innovation science. It offers challenging insights regarding institutions and transformation processes, and on the paradigms behind contemporary sustainability governance.This book gives the sustainability governance debate a new context. It transforms classical questions into new options for societal decision making and identifies starting points and strategies towards effective governance of transitions to sustainability.

Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development
Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development

Author: Harald A. Mieg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-22

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1136225595

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Which new institutions do we need in order to trigger local- and global sustainable urban development? Are cities the right starting points for implementing sustainability policies? If so, what are the implications for city management? This book reflects the situation of cities in the context of global change and increasing demands for sustainable development. The book introduces core findings, new methods, and international experience related to sustainability innovations and the social transformation of cities, synthesizing insights from megacity research, sustainability science, and urban planning. Written by a team of more than fifty leading researchers and practitioners from all five continents, it traces general urban transformations and introduces new approaches such as: smart growth strategies; cross-sectoral, transdisciplinary urban transition management; rubanisation; and city syntegration. The book reveals the potential of new, networked agencies of sustainability transformation, and discusses the role of science institutions in the diffusion and implementation of institutional and social innovations. This comprehensive book is of immense value to students, researchers, and professionals working on issues of sustainable development, in environmental programs in human geography, planning and the built environment, sociology and policy studies, institutional economics, and environmental politics.

Introducing Relational Political Analysis
Introducing Relational Political Analysis

Author: Peeter Selg

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-09-21

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 3030487806

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This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis. Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories for articulating a relational political analysis, Peeter Selg and Andreas Ventsel put forth a concrete relational theory of the political, which has implications for research methodology, culminating in a concrete method they call political form analysis. In addition, they sketch out several applications of this theory, methodology and method. They call their approach “political semiotics” and argue that it is a fruitful way of conducting research on power, governance and democracy – the core dimensions of the political – in a manner that is envisioned in numerous discussions of the “relational turn” in the social sciences. It is the first monograph that attempts to outline an approach to the political that would be relational throughout, from its meta theoretical and theoretical premises through to its methodological implications, methods and empirical applications.

Transgender Identities
Transgender Identities

Author: Sally Hines

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0415999308

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Offers accounts of the diversity of living transgender. This book is suitable for scholars and students in sociology and gender and sexuality studies.

Enticements
Enticements

Author: Joseph J. Fischel

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2024-02-20

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1479807613

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"Enticements: Queer Legal Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that provides an array of queer theoretic descriptions of and prescriptions for the legal regulation of sex, gender and sexuality"--

Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa
Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa

Author: Thomas Callaghy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-12-20

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780521001410

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A contributory volume considering how global forces establish networks of power across Africa, first published in 2001.

Queer Politics in Contemporary Turkey
Queer Politics in Contemporary Turkey

Author: Paul Gordon Kramer

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2022-03-23

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 152921484X

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Drawing on the words and stories of queer Turkish activists, this book explores queer lives in Turkey and challenges dominant conceptualizations of queer Turkish experience within critical security discourses.

Governance, Policy and Juxtaposition
Governance, Policy and Juxtaposition

Author: Michael Roe

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 3030318486

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This book considers governance and policy-making within the maritime sector, and focuses significantly on the dimensional context within which governance works. Recognising the importance of understanding governance and policy at times when the world is faced with social, political, and economic problems, it highlights the fact that both areas are equally significant in understanding today’s political economy. By focusing on the maritime sector, a pillar industry supporting international trade activities, the book offers a unique perspective to explain the difficulties of balancing policy-making with governance in order to provide solutions. It also examines the importance of developing a governance process that encourages and accommodates juxtaposition in a way that ensures that the effect of independent policy-making is understood upon the success or otherwise of policies across a range of contexts and problems. Given the in-depth nature of the text, it is of interest to academics, researchers and professionals in the field.

Towards Innovative Freight and Logistics
Towards Innovative Freight and Logistics

Author: Corinne Blanquart

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-06-15

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1119307791

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Freight transport faces a dual challenge: it must satisfy the demands of globalized trade and meet environmental requirements. In this context, innovation is a crucial topic to enable the transition from the current transportation and logistics system to a sustainable system. This book provides an overview of the latest technological innovations in Europe and worldwide, based on ICT and new vehicle concepts, for all modes and all scales (urban, regional, national or international). The authors consider innovation supply, the process of innovation and innovative business models. Some perspectives and solutions are proposed on the deployment of innovation, specifically concerning the transformation of the organization of the system and the relationships between industry, governmental players, operators and users.

Metagovernance for Sustainability
Metagovernance for Sustainability

Author: Louis Meuleman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1351250582

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The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted by the United Nations in September 2015 are universally applicable in all 193 UN Member States and connect the big challenges of our time, such as hunger and poverty, climate change, health in an urbanised environment, sustainable energy, mobility, economic development and environmental degradation. Sustainability has the characteristics of a ‘wicked problem’, for which there are no one-size-fits-all solutions. This book tests the hypothesis that the implementation of sustainable development, and in particular the 2015 SDGs, requires tailor-made metagovernance or ‘governance of governance’. This is necessary to develop effective governance and high quality and inclusive public administration and to foster policy and institutional coherence to support implementing the SDGs. Based on the growing literature on governance and metagovernance, and taking into account the specificities of societal factors such as different values and traditions in different countries, the book presents a framework for the design and management of SDG implementation. It shows how hierarchical, network and market governance styles can be combined and how governance failure can be prevented or dealt with. The book presents an overview of fifty ‘shades of governance’ which differ for each governance style, and a sketch of a concrete method to apply sustainability metagovernance. Metagovernance for Sustainability is relevant to academic and practitioner fields across many disciplines and problem areas. It will be of particular interest to scholars, students and policy-makers studying Sustainable Development, Governance and Metagovernance, Public Management and Capacity Building.