Sustainability-oriented organizations have typically adopted governance approaches that undertake community participation and collaboration through multistakeholder arrangements. Documented challenges of this model are associated with collaboration and institutional capacity, and include reactive accountability structures, inability to reach consensus, funding limitations, and lack of innovatio...

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+) requires harmonizing different policy sectors and interests that have impacts on forests. However, these elements have not been well-operationalized in environmental policy-making processes of most developing countries. Drawing on five cases—Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Papua New Guinea, and Vietnam, t...

Advancing stakeholder participation beyond consultation offers a range of benefits for local flood risk management, particularly as responsibilities are increasingly devolved to local levels. This paper details the design and implementation of a participatory approach to identify intervention options for managing local flood risk. Within this approach, Bayesian networks were used to generate a ...

Abstract The study aimed to investigate the relationship between organizational environment antecedents and their impact on performance management among local government authorities further understand role of stakeholder political support in monitoring review governments. used quantitative research design techniques data collection phase May August 2017 Greater Accra Region Ghana. sample includ...

Stakeholder participation is increasingly seen as beneficial for short and long term responses to climate change risks. Past research highlights the role social networks play both a key outcome of participation, well an important step towards other environmental governance goals. This paper focuses on relation mutual understanding, which often discussed in literature, but has yet be studied emp...