■ Abstract This chapter reviews the literature relevant to environmental governance in four domains of scholarship: globalization, decentralization, market and individual incentives-based governance, and cross-scale governance. It argues that in view of the complexity and multiscalar character of many of the most pressing environmental problems, conventional debates focused on pure modes of gov...

Intersectoral partnerships mirror the changing nature of the relationships among state, business and civil society organizations, and are often considered innovative mechanisms to overcome single actor failure in the context of globalization. This article analyzes the capacity of partnerships to promote sustainable change in global agrifood chains from a governance and a development perspective...

The purpose of this study was to better understand how partnerships are initiated, maintained, and sustained in public health practice. A qualitative design was employed to conduct individual interviews and focus groups. The participants included practitioners from 6 purposively selected public health units in the Canadian province of Ontario that developed partnerships in program planning. It ...

Climate change poses increased risks to coastal communities and the interconnected infrastructure they rely on, including food, energy, water, transportation (FEWT) systems. Most in US are ill-prepared address these risks, resilience planning is inconsistently prioritized not federally mandated. This study examined plans of 11 cities understand 1. How FEWT systems were considered within and, 2....

This integrative review summarizes currently available evidence on academic-service partnerships in the profession of nursing. More than 300 articles, published primarily in refereed journals, were accessed. Articles (110) were included in this review as they presented detailed and substantive information about any aspect of a nursing academic-service partnership. The majority were anecdotal in...

Academic-service partnerships are the future. These partnerships require a new paradigm and new practice models that necessitate change in how and where decisions are made as well as who is accountable for both the decisions and the outcomes of those decisions. The role of organizational leaders in this new paradigm becomes aligning resources to create and sustain partnerships. Partnerships are...

In India, over the last decade, a series of stewardship failures in the health system, particularly in the medical profession, have led to a massive erosion of trust in these institutions. In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the situation is similar and has reached crisis proportions; this crisis requires urgent attention. This paper draws on the insights from the recent developme...