How can public participation improve environmental governance in China? A policy simulation approach with multi-player evolutionary game

Z Chu, C Bian, J Yang - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2022 - Elsevier
This study explores how public participation can help reshape environmental governance in
China. As China is committed to constructing an ecological civilization, a new participatory …

Improvement of regional environmental quality: Government environmental governance and public participation

WU Lihua, MA Tianshu, B Yuanchao, LI Sijia… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The improvement of regional environmental quality (REQ) not only requires local
governments to adopt environmental investment, legislation and law enforcement, but also …

A critical framework to develop human-centric positive energy districts: towards justice, inclusion, and well-being

MT Nguyen, S Batel - Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) are a new energy initiative from European member states.
They are, simply put, local districts which produce more energy than they consume. PEDs …

Reflexive governance: Exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

PH Feindt, S Weiland - Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Elaborated in publications on transition management, sustainability governance and
deliberative environmental governance,'reflexive governance'addresses concerns about …

Citizen Social Science for More Integrative and Effective Climate Action: A Science-Policy Perspective

AP Kythreotis, C Mantyka-Pringle, TG Mercer… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Governments are struggling to limit global temperatures below the 2° C Paris target with
existing climate change policy approaches. This is because conventional climate policies …

[HTML][HTML] Participatory methodology guidelines to promote citizens participation in decision-making: Evidence based on a Portuguese case study

D Correia, JE Feio, J Marques, L Teixeira - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Citizens' role evolved to become active agents in decision-making. However, existing policy
definition procedures are still not tailored to engage citizens and the participation of specific …

The impacts of governmental performance assessment policy and citizen participation on improving environmental performance across Chinese provinces

J Wu, M Xu, P Zhang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
Although existing studies have paid a great deal of attention to the impact of government
policy instruments on environmental governance, they failed to explore the relationships and …

Politicizing hydroelectric power plants in Portugal: Spatio-temporal injustices and psychosocial impacts of renewable energy colonialism in the Global North

S Batel, S Küpers - Globalizations, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The extent to which infrastructures being deployed for a postcarbon transition can be
considered sustainable has been increasingly scrutinized within the critical turn in energy …

Towards enhancing local citizen participation in Uganda

D Mwesigwa - Dynamics of politics and democracy, 2021 - goodwoodpub.com
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose an alternative model of enhancing citizen
participation in Uganda. Research Methodology: The central approach for this paper was …

[HTML][HTML] Participative environmental policy integration in the Irish energy sector

G Mullally, N Dunphy, P O'Connor - Environmental Science & Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
This article explores the implications of participation for Environmental Policy Integration
(EPI), through the window of Irish energy policy, employing concepts of 'energy …