Entangled in scales: multilevel governance challenges for regional planning strategies

Scenario Planning for Effective Regional Governance: Promises and Limitations

Regional governance has improved efficiencies in various common goods such as transportation. Attempts to take advantage of such regional economies through regulation of land use run into the problems of existing local government controls and lack of existing alternative authority. One way to help promote regional solutions is to foster coordination among land use entities in local government. ...

Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management

Global Water Governance in the Context of Global and Multilevel Governance: Its Need, Form, and Challenges

To complement this Special Feature on global water governance, we focused on a generic challenge at the global level, namely, the degree to which water issues need to be dealt with in a centralized, concentrated, and hierarchical manner. We examined water ecosystem services and their impact on human well-being, the role of policies, indirect and direct drivers in influencing these services, and...

Regional governance: strategies and disputes in health region management

OBJECTIVE To analyze the regional governance of the health systemin relation to management strategies and disputes. METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES A qualitative study with health managers from 19 municipalities in the health region of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil. Data were drawn from 17 semi-structured interviews of state, regional, and municipal health policymakers and managers; a focus group; obs...

Mekong Regional Environmental Governance: Perspectives on Opportunities and Challenges

The Mekong Regional Environmental Governance (MREG) project is a part of the Resources Policy Support Initiative. REPSI is a World Resources Institute-coordinated collaboration among local, regional and international organizations based and working in the Mekong region. REPSI works towards increasing the capacity and legitimacy of policy-oriented research concerning environment and natural reso...