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Quellen der Governancediskussion (Ökonomie und Politikwissenschaft) -- Makroebene: "Orders of Governance" (First Order: Lokale und regionale Problemlösungs- und Politikprozesse. Second Order: Institutionelle Aspekte. Third Order: Grundsätze eines Good Governance) -- Mesoebene: "Cooperation" (Im Innenverhältnis: Corporate Governance. Im Außenverhältnis: Netzwerke und Kooperationen im Sozialraum) -- Mikroebene: "Interaction" (Interaktionen in Governance-Prozessen. Governance-Methoden).

The book addresses in detail local governance in Spain. In recent decades, local governments in Europe have increasingly found themselves under pressure from a multitude of new challenges, such as demographic change, climate change, fiscal austerity policies, digitization, the demand for more citizen participation in local affairs, and the migration crisis in some of them, to name just a few. Consequently, a wave of political and administrative reforms to address these challenges, pressures and problems, has changed local governance in many countries. In part, these changes were the result of reform policies introduced by national and state governments, often triggered by austerity policies, which has become an overwhelming reality for Spanish local governments that have been forced to introduce innovations in local governance. This book aims to give an account of these innovations in local governance in Spain. This book considers the local political-administrative structure in its dimensions, focusing on the analysis of its party system, electoral competition and political behavior in the local arena, as well as on local finances, all of which are determining elements in urban and rural governance processes. On the occasion of the recent crisis unleashed by Covid-19, the book will also deal with local governance in crisis situations. The book will also contextualize local governance processes in Spain in relation to the trends in local governance observed in other European countries.

Introduction -- The Nature of Cities and the Mission of Governance -- Institutional Change of Urban Governance in China -- Integrated Governance: An Explanatory Framework -- Municipal-County Relations: Dividing and Governing Municipalities or Mixed Model -- Institutional Development of Cross-border Governance in American Cities -- Institutional Development of Urban Cross-sectoral Synergy -- Reform of Urban Street Management System -- Urban Community Service and Public Space Construction -- Systematic Comparison of Municipal Performance Evaluation.

Climate change is one of the most daunting global policy challenges facing the international community in the 21st century. This Element takes stock of the current state of the global climate change regime, illuminating scope for policymaking and mobilizing collective action through networked governance at all scales, from the sub-national to the highest global level of political assembly. It provides an unusually comprehensive snapshot of policymaking within the regime created by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), bolstered by the 2015 Paris Agreement, as well as novel insight into how other formal and informal intergovernmental organizations relate to this regime, including a sophisticated EU policymaking and delivery apparatus, already dedicated to tackling climate change at the regional level. It further locates a highly diverse and numerous non-state actor constituency, from market actors to NGOs to city governors, all of whom have a crucial role to play.

Einleitung -- Ausgangspunkte -- Zentrale Begriffe und Konzepte -- Kleinstaatentheoretische Grundprämissen -- Annahmen zu kleinstaatlicher Politik -- Annahmen zu Governance im Kleinstaat -- Exkurs: Liechtenstein – (k)ein typischer Kleinstaat? -- Schlussbetrachtung.

Chapter 1. On the Reflexive Relations Between Knowledge, Governance, and Space -- Part I: How Knowledge Enables Governance -- Chapter 2. Lessons from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) for Governance in Conditions of Environmental Uncertainty -- Chapter 3. Knowledge of Governance as Knowledge for Governance: Spatialized Techniques of Neutralization -- Chapter 4. The Atmosphere of Democracy: Knowledge and Political Action -- Chapter 5. Risk Governance: From Knowledge to Regulatory Action -- Chapter 6. Knowledge and Governance: Can Systemic Risk in Financial Markets be Managed? The Case of the Euro Crisis -- Part II: How Knowledge Drives the Effectiveness of Governance -- Chapter 7. Explaining Subnational Governance: The Role of Governors' Codified and Uncodified Knowledge -- Chapter 8. The (De-)Contextualization of Geographical Knowledge in Forest-Fire Risk Management in Chile as a Challenge for Governance -- Chapter 9. Carbon Markets, Values, and Modes of Governance -- Chapter 10. The Fight Against Corruption in Brazil: A Case of Good Governance? -- Chapter 11. Lateral Network Governance -- Part III: How Governance Affects Learning and Innovation -- Chapter 12. Knowledge and the Deliberative Stance in Democratic Systems: Harnessing Scepticism of the Self in Governing Global Environmental Change -- Chapter 13. Nurturing Adaptive Governance Through Environmental Monitoring: People, Practices, Politics in the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Region, South Africa -- Chapter 14. Ex Ante Knowledge for Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Introducing the Organizational Network Governance Approach -- Chapter 15. Collective Learning and Institutional Collective Action in Fragmented Governance -- Chapter 16. The Remapping of Forest Governance: From Shareholder to Stakeholder -- Chapter 17. The Governance of Global Innovation Systems: Putting Knowledge in Context -- Chapter 18. Experimentalist Systems in Manufacturing Multinationals: Recursivity and Continuous Learning Through Destabilization -- Chapterv19. Networks as Facilitators of Innovation in Technology-Based Industries: The Case of Flat Glass.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reputation and Trust -- 3. Reputation and Good Public Governance -- 4. Entities, Roles, and Functions of Reputation- Based Governance -- 5. Computing Mea sures of Reputation -- 6. The Production of Statistical Information and the Analysis of Policies -- 7. Managing Policies -- 8. Applications of Reputation- Based Governance -- 9. Interdependence Between the Choice and Execution of Policies -- 10. Reputation- Based Demo cratic Participation -- 11. Final Considerations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This open access book focuses on theoretical and empirical intersections between governance, knowledge and space from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions elucidate how knowledge is a prerequisite as well as a driver of governance efficacy, and conversely, how governance affects the creation and use of knowledge and innovation in geographical context. Scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, public administration, political science, sociology, and organization studies provide original theoretical discussions along these interdependencies. Moreover, a variety of empirical chapters on governance issues, ranging from regional and national to global scales and covering case studies in Australia, Europe, Latina America, North America and South Africa demonstrate that geography and space are not only important contexts for governance that affect the contingent outcomes of governance blueprints. Governance also creates spaces. It affects the geographical confines as well as the quality of opportunities and constraints that actors enjoy to establish legitimate and sustainable ways of social and environmental co-existence.

Both firms and governments are increasingly taking steps to address sustainability, and at the same time the issue of governance has become more prominent due to the numerous problems in public and business life which have manifest failures in governance. As initiatives for sustainability increase in importance and prominence, so has the need for governance of sustainability plans and actions. This volume of Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility responds to that need and focuses on the relations between governance and sustainability. The book looks at what has been happening in various locations around the world, identifying varying approaches and examining whether and how a best practice could be developed. Gathering contributions that are varied in scope and produced by authors from around the world, it provides a rich picture of the progress (or lack of progress) being made in a wide array of contexts. For its depth and broad scope, Governance and Sustainability is a must-read for researchers, students, and practitioners interested in sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Ensuring long-term water security is essential in the pathway towards sustainable development in Argentina. Floods cause 60% of all critical events in the country and are responsible for 95% of economic losses. Severe droughts, in a country where the agricultural sector accounts for 6.4% of GDP as compared to a global average of 3.6%, have a strong impact in the economy. The country is also home to some of the most polluted basins worldwide. Furthermore, climate change will likely shift further water availability, uses and demand. The report is the result of a policy dialogue with more than 200 stakeholders at different levels in Argentina. It assesses water governance in Argentina, identifies several key challenges to effective, efficient and inclusive water policies, and provides a set of policy recommendations to enhance water governance as a means to address relevant societal challenges, both within the scope of water management and beyond. In particular, ways forward for Argentina include strengthening the co-ordination between national and provincial water policies, setting up a multilevel water planning and investment framework, improving basin management practices, and enhancing economic regulation for water services.

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The Forerunners of Global Governance: A Brief History -- In the beginning -- Globalization -- Concluding remarks -- 2 The Theoretical Debate -- Governance -- Governance goes global -- Theory with Chinese characteristics? -- Concluding remarks -- 3 The World the United States Made -- Before hegemony -- Embedding hegemony -- Concluding remarks -- 4 Contested Governance and the China Challenge -- Taking history seriously -- China goes (sort of) global -- China and global governance -- Concluding remarks -- 5 The Rise of the Rest? -- Early risers -- Late developers -- The BRICS -- A new institutional order? -- Concluding remarks -- 6 Regionalism in a Global Era -- Regions: Good in theory? -- The EU: First and foremost? -- The Asian alternative -- Concluding remarks -- 7 Governing the Global Economy -- Conceptualizing the evolving economic order -- Concluding remarks -- 8 Governing the Global Environment -- The inconvenient truth -- The politics of climate change -- Concluding remarks -- 9 Governing Global Security -- Is peace possible? -- Concluding remarks -- 10 The Future of Global Governance -- The perils and necessity of extrapolation -- The cosmopolitan alternative -- Is world government the (only) answer? -- Rethinking global governance -- Bibliography -- Index.

Introduction -- Deconstructing internet governance : a framework for analysis -- Revisiting the origins : the internet and its early governance -- Privatization and globalization of the internet -- The WSIS decade and the public-private partnership thirst -- Enacting internet governance : power and communities over time -- Conclusion : reflections on a global issue domain