... implementation. However, to make this more likely to happen, FUR should be embedded in municipal processes and local FUR efforts should be better recognised in global sustainability agendas. sustainable development goals (SDGs) follow-up and review local governance Europe voluntary local review (VLR...

... has always been the trademark of SPRAR’s governance design. ⁴ Local governments, in cooperation with NGOs, voluntarily decide whether to apply for the Ministry of the Interior’s public calls. They have notable autonomy to formulate, submit, and possibly realize their own “integration...

... cooperation place-based policies trust entrepreneurship local governance left-behind places European Institute ES/W00710X/1 Cooperation among local firms, as well as between firms and other local stakeholders, is often a key component of strategies through which left-behind places can carve out new...

... by European Commission ‘[…] to gather local governments voluntarily committed to achieving and exceeding the EU climate and energy targets’ ( CoM 2022 ). In 2015, CoM was merged with another European Commission launched initiative, Mayors Adapt, and in 2016 with another initiative, Compact of Mayors. Since...

... practices ( Ambrosini 2013 ; Ambrosini and Boccagni 2015 ; Schiller 2017 ). In various contexts, local governments have taken an active role in the integration of newly arrived refugees, rejected asylum seekers, and, in some cases, undocumented migrants, considered amongst other disadvantaged residents...

...-holding system. Embeddedness local governance networks blockmodeling economic coordination Vietnam transition R Z O Since the seminal work of Granovetter (1985) , the concept of embeddedness has been increasingly used to refer to dense networks of longstanding social relationships in which trust...

... for understanding how global governance is constructed. By analyzing the political struggles at the intersection of top-down and bottom-up norm diffusion processes, the book reveals (1) how global and local governance arrangements are co-constituted at the grassroots level, and (2) the importance of grassroots...

... Chile's Water Code 1981 IWM in Ecuador local resistance Latin America and Agenda 21 states creating global norm institutions World Bank antiglobalization rallies at the Ecuador Constitution Brazil Farmer Paul World Health Organization WHO global governance local governance transnational networks...

... local governance reform Tungurahua Celica El Chaco Pastaza Zamora Ibarra On August 15, 1962, 13 members of the Salasaca indigenous group in Ecuador’s Tungurahua province were shot to death by police as they took water from an irrigation canal. The police were acting on orders from a powerful...

... Management and the Fight Against Poverty Mushuk Yuyay financial mechanisms in Ecuador Nature Conservancy trust funds local governance governance reform integrated watershed management framing governance networks network expansion capacity building community-based participatory research Tungurahua...

... matter for building peace. Through the stories of municipal councillors, municipal employees, and civil society actors active in the three local spaces, the book demonstrates that local governments hold peacebuilding potential by implementing, for example, waste management, infrastructural developments...

...The role of political leadership in local governance in general and of mayors in particular has been emphasised for years in both scientific and political debate. Recent studies have shown that neither the role of mayors nor the importance of municipalities differ significantly between Germany...

... of epistocracy provides ways in which knowledge-based governance can be envisioned in various other governance contexts. epistocracy Loader Ian Walker Neil localism since 2012 Act Police Scotland Finland Scottish National Party SNP Haas Peter M Epistocracy Knowledge-based governance Local governance...

...This chapter focuses on the study of the emergence and configuration of a violent order in Pereira and its implications for local governance. The chapter explains how these developments are the result of a sequence encompassing the dislodging and rearticulation of the ecology of governance...

... organization collective efficacy resistance transnational networks local governance adaptive citizenship Chalatenango is the capital of a department of the same name located in the north-west part of El Salvador (see Map 6.1 ). It is home to an estimated 32,000 inhabitants ( DIGESTYC, 2014 ). Both...

... restructuring market oriented reforms O’Donnell G citizenship social movements Tunja Colombia ‘La Violencia’ civil war state formation state-led order violence local governance Tunja is located in the high plains of the Andes’ Eastern Cordillera. Home to 172,548 people ( DANE, 2018...

... still functioning. The chapter thus argues that, to promote a sustainable peace, United Nations interventions should address the tensions arising from building a new institutional architecture by taking into account the existing local governance and dispute-settlement structures and dynamics even when...

... institutions Paramount Chief Restoration Project Fennell Ronald Gboyama chiefdom headquarters town British special forces financial crisis global 2008 Local Government Act 2004 mining UN peacekeeping troops decentralization human rights patronage networks United Nations UN oil palm plantations...

...This concluding chapter argues that the quality of local governance distinguishes the performance of the revitalization initiatives undertaken in the original urban Empowerment Zones (EZs). Zone neighborhoods attained better outcomes than their matched-pair counterparts where good governance...

...This chapter examines political organisation in Hong Kong from the point of view of local governance, and argues that the post-colonial government has continued to rely on structures and machinery created by the colonial state for support and legitimacy. Her study of citizens' mobilisation...