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Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-04-2014
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 24-01-2017
DOI: 10.3390/SU9020165
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-03-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S43621-021-00024-Z
Abstract: Communities that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change need to adapt to increase their resilience. Effective government policies and plans are a key component of this transition, but they are not sufficient in themselves. The community needs to be made aware of the risks, acquire knowledge about the options that are available for a response, and be empowered to take their own actions. Effective public engagement is therefore key to success in planning for climate change. This paper focuses on the importance of public engagement in climate change adaptation policy. It undertakes a systematic quantitative review of the literature dealing with the core themes of climate change awareness, knowledge, and engagement in policy-making. The findings reveal a gap in the existing academic literature on public engagement, its impacts on different types of knowledge, and the integration of both into climate change adaptation policy. In addition, findings show a strong link between public knowledge and engagement that can be used to encourage and motivate the public by using behavioural economics as a policy instrument. The paper also makes a useful contribution by identifying more effective strategies to improve climate change resilience and sustainability.
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
Date: 03-2016
DOI: 10.1142/S1464333216500071
Abstract: Within the gamut of the neo-liberal economic ideology, private sector participation in urban service delivery is visualised as the ultimate solution to efficient and sustainable provision of the same. While private sector participation is being pushed vigorously in municipal solid waste management in Indian cities, there is a critical gap of literature related to its performance from a holistic dimension of sustainability. A robust study can only be conducted if the sustainability assessment criteria and indicators are expansively framed to enable critical studies to take place. Based upon a detailed analysis of existing literature on private sector participation in both generic and specific contexts of municipal solid waste, this paper elaborates on a comprehensive sustainability assessment framework for ex-post evaluation of private sector participation in municipal solid waste (MSW) management in the context of Indian cities but which is also possible to replicate or remodel as per contextual requirement in other developing countries.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 29-11-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-06-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-01-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-09-2010
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-10-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-05-2023
DOI: 10.1177/10780874221101393
Abstract: Much research has examined the socio-spatial distribution of, and access to, urban greenspace the challenges of supplying greenspace, especially in periods of dynamic urban change, remain poorly understood. Multiple factors shape urban greenspace provision, however understanding the role of leadership as a factor remains somewhat elusive. Addressing this critical knowledge gap, we employed a case study approach, using qualitative methods, to hear first-hand from the key stakeholders involved with municipal urban greenspace provision, to investigate how different types of leadership affected greenspace provision in Surrey, Canada – a dynamically changing mid-size city. Semi-structured interviews with 32 purposively selected participants reveal that here, both leadership and organizational culture influenced resources and decision-making supporting greenspace provision. Aligned political leadership and organizational leadership witnessed a significant increase in Surrey's urban greenspaces – the converse occurred in a later administration. Findings provide insights into the governance of greenspace especially how different types of leadership can play a pivotal role in effective greenspace provision.
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Date: 26-12-2023
DOI: 10.2166/WCC.2022.279
Abstract: Climate change will impact water bodies and create significant challenges for natural resource managers. Despite the increasing impacts of climate change on water quality, the development and implementation of long-term strategic adaptation measures are seldom governmental priorities. So far, research has mainly tended to focus on the availability and volume of water rather than the quality. Comparatively fewer studies have considered adaptation strategies that deal with the uncertainties of the impacts of climate change on the quality of water bodies. This paper reports the results of a systematic review of literature on adaptation options and the barriers and drivers that can exert a positive or negative influence on their implementation. Findings suggest that there has been and continues to be a cautious approach to a growing concern for a natural resource of utmost necessity. Most of the strategies mentioned in the literature use coping or incremental approaches. However, adaptation strategies offering low levels of resilience for addressing water quality may not be up to the challenge of significant future climate changes.
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-03-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-04-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-03-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-03-2017
Publisher: Australian Cities Research Network
Date: 2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2021
Publisher: The Higher Education Academy
Date: 04-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.WASMAN.2016.10.012
Abstract: The informal waste recycling sector has been an indispensable but ironically invisible part of the waste management systems in developing countries as India, often completely disregarded and overlooked by decision makers and policy frameworks. The turn towards liberalization of economy since 1991 in India opened the doors for privatization of urban services and the waste sector found favor with private companies facilitated by the local governments. In joining the privatization bandwagon, the local governments aim to create an image of a progressive city demonstrated most visibly through apt management of municipal solid waste. Resultantly, the long important stakeholder, the informal sector has been sidelined and left to face the adverse impacts of privatization. There is hardly any recognition of its contributions or any attempt to integrate it within the formal waste management systems. The study investigates the impacts of privatization on the waste pickers in waste recycling operations. Highlighting the other dimension of waste collection and management in urban India the study focuses on the waste pickers and small time informal scrap dealers and this is done by taking the case study of Amritsar city, which is an important historic centre and a metropolitan city in the state of Punjab, India. The paper develops an analytical framework, drawing from literature review to analyze the impacts. In conclusion, it supports the case for involving informal waste sector towards achieving sustainable waste management in the city.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-05-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-01-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2013
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