Many water related problems can be attributed to governance failure at multiple levels of governance rather than to the resource base itself.
The argument of the paper is that a strengthened public sphere is both an increasingly significant attribute of financial governance and a welcome development, but one that is not yet fully consolidated.
Anticipating sources of instability has long been regarded as a fundamental attribute of good governance.
It is this core attribute of Chinese governance that has raised some 600 million people out of poverty in only 30 years, not to speak of other impressive accomplishments such as building a vast high-speed rail network along with other infrastructure to modernize a backward country in record time.
We show that neither director attributes (e.g., independence, title, and busyness) nor firm attributes (e.g., governance or board busyness) completely explain the phenomenon.
"It is also vital not to lose the things that have worked well, and to recognise that not every error or mistake should be attributed to the governance model".
Novel aspects of our application of these methods were the specification of the focal system's governance attributes according to requirements for adaptive capacity, and constraining scenarios according to the current governance settings while varying key social and biophysical drivers.
Understanding the influence governance attributes have on the future trajectory of SES is likely to assist choice of effective interventions, as well as needs and opportunities for governance reform.
The article concludes by introducing testable governance attributes that have the potential to minimise transaction costs between participants in industry-academic collaboration and therefore foster long-term research collaborations.
Overall, the authors considered just nine of the MPAs (about 10%) to be effective, having four or more attributes of good governance and design.
S&P gave a long list of indicators it might use, including "economic, regulatory and geopolitical influences, management and corporate governance attributes, and competitive position".
