More Democratic Sustainability Governance through Participatory Knowledge Production? A Framework and Systematic Analysis

An analytical framework for democratic metropolitan governance

Introduction Continued urban sprawl combined with slowed-down or failed attempts of local government reform has resulted in a growing divergence between functional and institutional urban spaces in most industrialised countries. Today, cities in the (weberian) sense of territorially integrated socioeconomic entities no longer exist. The urban phenomenon is better described by the notion of metr...

Democratic governance and evaluation

Governance for Sustainability Through Transition Management

The paper discusses the concept of “Transition management” that has been adopted by Dutch policy makers for working towards sustainability. The purpose of the paper is threefold: First, to describe the conceptual model of transition management. Second, to examine how the concept sits with concepts of comprehensive planning, adaptive governance, interactive governance, and multilevel governance ...

Integrating adaptive governance and participatory multicriteria methods: a framework for climate adaptation governance

Climate adaptation is a dynamic social and institutional process where the governance dimension is receiving growing attention. Adaptive governance is an approach that promises to reduce uncertainty by improving the knowledge base for decision making. As uncertainty is an inherent feature of climate adaptation, adaptive governance seems to be a promising approach for improving climate adaptatio...

Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance

Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the volatility of earnings and employment in the co-ops compared with conventional capitalist firms; on the long-term viability of co-ops; on the relative produc...