We need metropolitan-scale governance to address global competitiveness, climate change and poverty reduction, all of which transcend local boundaries.
His first full week in office will begin with a football match at Fifa's Zurich headquarters on Monday, but the fun will swiftly give way to the serious matters of appointing a general secretary, implementing the wide-scale governance reforms approved on Friday and addressing a $550m£395m5m) shortfall.
This crucial need has to be sufficiently anticipated in order to secure legitimacy, efficiency and acceptability of an integrated world-scale governance of the oceans.
It aims at contributing to methodological and theoretical insights on the way sustainable institutions can be generated in conflicting institutional logics in the context of multi-scale governance.
I explore these ideas through two cases of connectivity conservation, which draws on conservation science to promote collaborative cross-scale governance.
SI will require pragmatic and innovative policies, including further revision of the Environmental Stewardship Scheme and the development of landscape-scale governance within an over-arching strategic approach to planning.
Our results suggest the need to expand our understanding of extractive cycles to explicitly incorporate multi-scale governance, shifting values, and external shocks (i.e., hurricanes) as major drivers of change of forest products.
Institutions strengthen resilience, yet there is a lack of systematic methodology and analysis of the role of multi-level and cross-scale governance and institutions in the context of disaster risk preparedness and Early Warning Systems (EWSs).
Our study suggests that for more sustainable risk and vulnerability reduction, the root causes of water-related risks and vulnerabilities should be addressed through adaptive multi-scale governance that carefully considers the context-specificity and the multidimensionality of the associated drivers and stressors.
Rewarding local effective management with formal cross-scale governance recognition and support can generate these incentives.
