Green Innovation in City Planning Law and Policy

Minority Language Policy and Planning in the Micro Context of the City: The Case of Manchester

This paper investigates service provisions in community languages offered by Manchester City Council and agencies working alongside to find out whether there is an explicit language policy in Manchester, how such a policy is formulated, how it functions, and how it is reflected in education. Data was collected through interviews with different personnel in MCC, focus group discussions with comm...

Linking Law, Science and Policy to Spur Innovation

Green Innovation and Policy: a Co-Evolutionary Approach

This paper seeks to analyse the role of institutions and entrepreneurship in the field of green innovation in Wales. Green innovation can be defined as innovations in environmentally responsible products and services that are both sustainable and contribute to reducing the impact of greenhouse gases (GHG) upon the environment. The paper adopts a standard co-evolutionary perspective that will ta...

Planning the Green Walkable City: Conceptualizing Values and Conflicts for Urban Green Space Strategies in Stockholm

Urban green spaces are essential elements of cities, contributing to the quality of life in numerous ways. However, densification strategies create a complex relationship between urban development and the quality, as well as the quantity, of urban green space. This paper examines the Green Walkable City Programme in Stockholm, a document developed to supplement the comprehensive plan as a strat...

The evolution of health care advance planning law and policy.

CONTEXT The legal tools of health care advance planning have substantially changed since their emergence in the mid-1970s. Thirty years of policy development, primarily at the state legislative level addressing surrogate decision making and advance directives, have resulted in a disjointed policy landscape, yet with important points of convergence evolving over time. An understanding of the evo...