Article
Political Science
Serena Y. Kim, William L. Swann, Christopher M. Weible, Thomas Bolognesi, Rachel M. Krause, Angela Y. S. Park, Tian Tang, Kiernan Maletsky, Richard C. Feiock
Summary: The Institutional Collective Action (ICA) framework has provided mechanisms and methods for addressing collective action problems in fragmented governance, but requires further critical evaluation and future research planning.
POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL
(2022)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Yue Liu, Qinghua Lu, Guangsheng Yu, Hye-Young Paik, Liming Zhu
Summary: Blockchain eliminates the need for trusted intermediaries by enabling decentralization in software applications. However, concerns about the reliability and efficiency of blockchain arise due to vulnerabilities in on-chain decision-making and off-chain coordination. Conventional governance frameworks do not apply to blockchain, leading to a lack of clear authority in the ecosystem. This paper presents a comprehensive blockchain governance framework addressing these issues and demonstrates its feasibility through qualitative analysis and case studies.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Wanxin Li, David von Eiff, Alicia Kyoungjin An
Summary: This paper evaluates the capacities of key players in Hong Kong's water management, finding that their abilities to pick up signals and balance interests have remained relatively stable, with a lack of collaboration with intermediaries. Therefore, the authors suggest a focus on capacity building and involving the public and communities in governance for water sustainability in Hong Kong.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Lazaro Chuwa, Joseph Perfect-Mrema
Summary: Tanzania is poised to become a major exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) due to its significant natural gas reserves. However, it needs to address issues such as lack of local industry capacity, poor government coordination, and weaknesses in its legal, policy, and institutional framework.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Peter Bradley
Summary: While governments around the world are taking actions on sustainable development, the application of institutional economics in this area is still in its early stages. Most existing research focuses on common pool resources or social ecological systems, rather than consumption and production choices. The paper presents a framework for sustainable production and consumption based on literature, experiential knowledge and theory.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2021)
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Education & Educational Research
Chuo-Chun Hsieh
Summary: This study aims to contribute conceptually to the understanding of higher education dynamics in the context of globalization by focusing on transitions in governance and variations at the local level. By constructing a hybrid analytical framework, the study examines the limitations and implications of various theoretical approaches to describing the transformation of governance in the education sector. The results provide a nuanced understanding of educational transition and offer insights for further research.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Junghee Choi
Summary: This study examines the impact of Texas's National Research University Fund (NRUF) on the salaries and employment of faculty, finding that the policy has a positive effect on the salaries of both male and female full professors, but it also widens the gender gap in salary and negatively affects the employment of female full professors. The findings suggest that organizational pursuit of prestige may have unintended consequences for faculty gender equity.
AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL
(2023)
Review
Business
Liang Chen, Tony W. Tong, Shaoqin Tang, Nianchen Han
Summary: This study systematically reviewed research on digital platforms, proposing the view of digital platforms as a distinct organizational form where incentive and control mechanisms play a crucial role. Through an integrative framework, it explored the interrelations among value, governance, and design in digital platforms.
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Fernando Onate-Valdivieso, Priscilla Massa-Sanchez, Patricio Leon, Arianna Onate-Paladines, Monica Cisneros
Summary: Water is essential for life and human activities, but there are issues in current wastewater governance. The study found that existing regulations are not coherent, and there are problems with citizen participation and institutional coordination.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Lina Diaz-Castro, Maria Guadalupe Ramirez-Rojas, Hector Cabello-Rangel, Ever Sanchez-Osorio, Mauricio Velazquez-Posada
Summary: This article conducted a systematic review of scientific literature to understand the role of governance in health policies during health emergencies like the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The review found that governance approaches mainly focused on the health emergency problem, description of actors, and decision-making processes. However, there is a lack of a coherent set of global health policies within a large-scale global governance framework. The social, economic, and political contexts across countries have resulted in heterogeneous health outcomes during the pandemic.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Economics
Katherine Coffey, James Monks
Summary: This paper examines the relationship between university board selection processes and constituent representation, board composition in terms of size and demographic composition, and the influence of board composition on institutional outcomes. The study finds that institutional sector, Carnegie classification, and wealth predict board size, and that institutions with larger boards tend to have more favorable outcomes. Board gender and racial composition is less correlated with outcomes than board size.
MANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Bing Sun, Mark Baker
Summary: This research highlights the need for more critical engagement with the broader contexts, clearer governance dimensions, and driving factors behind the evolution of climate policy within China due to limitations in existing studies. By developing a policy-dimensioned framework, the study reveals how China has utilized various national policy tools since the 1990s to address climate change, building on previous modes and forms rather than completely replacing them. A wide range of contextual and agential factors, along with experimentation and influence from state political figures, are related to this evolution in Chinese climate governance.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Review
Forestry
Xinran Shen, Paola Gatto, Francesco Pagliacci
Summary: Forest ecosystems provide crucial services to humans, and carbon sequestration and storage, governed by market-based instruments (MBIs), are of utmost importance. This study examines the role of public institutions in MBIs and categorizes them into nine types. It finds that multiple instruments coexist and interact, and public institutions play various roles in forest carbon mechanisms. Furthermore, public institutions are projected to have an increasing role in future climate policy.
Article
Urban Studies
Sergio Barile, Maria Vincenza Ciasullo, Francesca Iandolo, Giovanni Catello Landi
Summary: The study draws on emerging sharing initiatives in cities worldwide, analyzing the roles of municipalities in supporting and regulating urban sharing initiatives. The results highlight the crucial role of municipalities in successfully implementing and executing sharing initiatives, contributing to urban sustainability.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Raphael Anammasiya Ayambire, Jeremy Pittman, Michael Drescher, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Andrea Olive
Summary: The working landscape approach is gaining recognition for its potential in addressing global environmental crises and supporting social well-being. However, a comprehensive conceptual framework to guide further research and practice is still lacking. This article provides such a framework through a review and synthesis of the governance dimension of working landscapes. The framework focuses on achieving social well-being and environmental protection, fostering collective action, and enhancing governance fit in working landscapes.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Meine Pieter van Dijk, Gigi Limpens, Julius Gatune Kariuki, Diederik de Boer
Summary: This article explores the potential of telephone farmers, a growing segment of urban-based medium-size farmers in Kenya, and the impact they have on the hidden middle of agricultural value chains. It highlights the need for support services from various actors in the value chain to optimize telephone farm production and improve food security. The article also discusses the role of telephone farmers as innovators and their contributions to the development of value chains and dynamic ecosystems.
JOURNAL OF AGRIBUSINESS IN DEVELOPING AND EMERGING ECONOMIES
(2023)
Article
Management
Wasim Sultan, Suhail Sultan, Meine Pieter Van Dijk, Jo Ritzen
Summary: This research explores the potential synergies between industry and university in Palestine to enhance the resilience of the agriculture sector. The study finds a lack of confidence among farmers in agriculture research, poor communication, and misalignment of purpose. It suggests that universities should include industry linkages in their mission and provide novel evidence-based research to meet farmers' needs. Furthermore, farmers and agribusinesses should take initiative in communicating their problems and seeking innovation to improve collaboration and create a healthier agriculture sector.
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Economics
Joyeeta Gupta, Aarti Gupta, Courtney Vegelin
Summary: This article reviews the coverage of environmental justice issues in this journal over the past two decades, explores different theoretical and empirical approaches to justice, and provides recommendations for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS-POLITICS LAW AND ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Hilmer J. Bosch, Joyeeta Gupta
Summary: This article examines the evolution of water property rights in investor-State contracts regarding mineral, petroleum, and land issues in Africa and Asia. The study finds that water allocation is not only governed by a State's water law, but also implicitly regulated by contracts and international investment treaties. The granting of contracts to foreign international investors results in the de facto privatization of water, reducing the State's ability to regulate water resources during the contract term. Furthermore, long-term quasi property rights granted to investors in these contracts pose challenges to adaptive water governance in the face of increasing climate change impacts.
REVIEW OF EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE & INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
S. A. Te Wierik, J. Keune, D. G. Miralles, J. Gupta, Y. A. Artzy-Randrup, L. Gimeno, R. Nieto, L. H. Cammeraat
Summary: The redistribution of terrestrial evaporation through atmospheric circulation and precipitation is crucial for the Earth system, especially in sparsely sampled regions like Africa. Understanding the variability in the dependency of precipitation on transpiration is important for regional moisture recycling and ecosystem functioning.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mingshun Zhang, Li Zhang, Meine Pieter van Dijk
Summary: Sustainable public procurement (SPP) in China is a hierarchical and centralized multi-level system driven by legal and policy initiatives, social benefits, and public body commitments. There is untapped potential for more SPP in China, but barriers exist at the operational level. This research recommends a reform of SPP by involving state-owned enterprises and infrastructure projects in a different approach.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Hilmer J. Bosch, Joyeeta Gupta
Summary: This article explores the evolution of legal knowledge on private property rights in water worldwide and how these rights are embedded in existing legal constructions. It argues that while most states have placed water in the public domain, the difficulty of abolishing past statutory systems of water rights has led to successful demands by Indigenous peoples for recognition and reclamation of their water rights. States are reallocating water rights through statutory mechanisms, but this has also created confusion and affected the state's ability to adaptively govern water resources.
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-WATER
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Johan Rockstroem, Joyeeta Gupta, Dahe Qin, Steven J. Lade, Jesse F. Abrams, Lauren S. Andersen, David I. Armstrong McKay, Xuemei Bai, Govindasamy Bala, Stuart E. Bunn, Daniel Ciobanu, Fabrice DeClerck, Kristie Ebi, Lauren Gifford, Christopher Gordon, Syezlin Hasan, Norichika Kanie, Timothy M. Lenton, Sina Loriani, Diana M. Liverman, Awaz Mohamed, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, David Obura, Daniel Ospina, Klaudia Prodani, Crelis Rammelt, Boris Sakschewski, Joeri Scholtens, Ben Stewart-Koster, Thejna Tharammal, Detlef van Vuuren, Peter H. Verburg, Ricarda Winkelmann, Caroline Zimm, Elena M. Bennett, Stefan Bringezu, Wendy Broadgate, Pamela A. Green, Lei Huang, Lisa Jacobson, Christopher Ndehedehe, Simona Pedde, Juan Rocha, Marten Scheffer, Lena Schulte-Uebbing, Wim de Vries, Cunde Xiao, Chi Xu, Xinwu Xu, Noelia Zafra-Calvo, Xin Zhang
Summary: The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are closely linked but often treated independently. This study proposes safe and just Earth system boundaries to maintain stability and minimize harm to humans from Earth system change. Findings show that justice considerations have a greater impact on setting boundaries than safety considerations.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Joyeeta Gupta, Diana Liverman, Klaudia Prodani, Paulina Aldunce, Xuemei Bai, Wendy Broadgate, Daniel Ciobanu, Lauren Gifford, Chris Gordon, Margot Hurlbert, Cristina Y. A. Inoue, Lisa Jacobson, Norichika Kanie, Steven J. J. Lade, Timothy M. M. Lenton, David Obura, Chukwumerije Okereke, Ilona M. M. Otto, Laura Pereira, Johan Rockstroem, Joeri Scholtens, Juan Rocha, Ben Stewart-Koster, J. David Tabara, Crelis Rammelt, Peter H. Verburg
Summary: Living within planetary limits requires attention to justice as biophysical boundaries are not inherently just. Through collaboration between natural and social scientists, the Earth Commission defines and operationalizes Earth system justice to ensure that boundaries reduce harm, increase well-being, and reflect substantive and procedural justice.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Review
Environmental Studies
Augusto Heras, Joyeeta Gupta
Summary: Complying with the Paris Agreement requires leaving fossil fuels underground (LFFU), which raises justice issues in the Global South. This review highlights that renewable investments in the Global South are still relatively low, and such deployment is more additive than substitutive. However, there is potential for leapfrogging in the Global South. Literature on LFFU in the Global South is limited, primarily focusing on subsidies. Nonetheless, integrating stranded assets in developing countries' accounting could make LFFU attractive. The Right to Development influences the governance and justice issues of the energy transition, and power dynamics play a crucial role. However, a global and multilevel just transition may achieve LFFU.
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Joyeeta Gupta, Klaudia Prodani, Xuemi Bai, Lauren Gifford, Tim M. Lenton, Ilona Otto, Laura Pereira, Crelis Rammelt, Joeri Scholtens, Joan David Tabara
Summary: This passage discusses the inadequacy of global environmental assessments in addressing justice issues and proposes an Earth system justice framework as a guide for sharing limited ecospace in the global community. By analyzing how justice concerns are addressed in environmental assessments and global environmental change projects, an Earth system justice framework is developed, which focuses on achieving fair sharing of ecospace through setting Earth system boundaries and providing minimum resource needs, and addressing inequality, overconsumption, and harmful accumulation through equitable redistribution of resources, rights, and responsibilities.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
(2023)
Review
Environmental Studies
Clara Mcdonnell, Joyeeta Gupta
Summary: This review paper explores strategies for institutional investors to influence the fossil fuel industry and their implications for achieving an inclusive fossil fuel phase-out. Through a systematic review of research papers, seven strategies for influencing the phase-out are identified. The paper highlights the need for future research on the role of under-studied actors, the implications of investor action for an inclusive energy transition, and policy solutions to incentivize long-term investor engagement with climate issues. Legal mandates and decarbonization strategies are necessary to align finance with climate goals.
Article
Environmental Studies
Meine Pieter van Dijk
Summary: A land market is emerging in Tanzania due to land legislation reform and agricultural modernization. The demand for land has increased and the liberalization of land rights enables farmers to buy or lease land. Agricultural innovations, such as crop insurance, hybrid seeds, and mobile phones, have contributed to the transformation process and the growth of the land market. A survey was conducted to assess the effects of crop insurance on maize farmers in three regions.
Article
Area Studies
Robert Tama Lisinge, Meine Pieter van Dijk
Summary: The study found that interactions between stakeholders, inadequate funding, leadership challenges, and weak ownership can compromise the implementation of regional transport infrastructure programmes. It also showed that factors such as dedicated funds, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, and strong political leadership play a larger role in successful implementation than equality in decision-making and clarity of roles and responsibilities. The variations in collaborative arrangements across programmes suggest that a one-size-fits-all solution for accelerated implementation does not exist.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
S. A. Te Wierik, J. Keune, D. G. Miralles, J. Gupta, Y. A. Artzy-Randrup, L. Gimeno, R. Nieto, L. H. Cammeraat
Summary: This study investigates the contributions of biological and non-biological sources of evaporation in Africa to rainfall over major watersheds. It shows that almost 50% of the annual rainfall in Africa originates from transpiration, with large variability between watersheds, highlighting the importance of understanding implications for continental-scale water availability amidst current and projected land use changes.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2022)
