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Evidence-based practices and US state government civil servants: Current use, challenges, and pathways forward Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-15 Yuan (Daniel) Cheng, Leslie Thompson, Shuping Wang, Jules Marzec, Chengxin Xu, Weston Merrick, Patrick Carter
Leveraging a three-state survey of 323 civil servants and 36 interviews, representing blue and red states, this university-government-nonprofit collaborative research project aims to better understand how civil servants access and use evidence in their decision-making process. Our findings show that 54% of respondents find evidence-based practices (EBPs) useful in making budget, policy, and contracting
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Power system planning in the energy transition era: the case of Vietnam's power development plan 8 Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Minh Ha-Duong
This review examines Vietnam's eighth Power Development Plan (PDP8), analyzing how it reveals tensions between traditional energy planning concepts and emerging realities. PDP8 aimed to balance ren...
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Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance-based financing in theory and practice Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Jonathan Zeitlin, David Bokhorst, Edgars Eihmanis
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic marks an important departure in European Union (EU) governance, as it introduces an innovative “demand-driven, performance-based” model aimed at overcoming the limitations of past policies seeking to promote national reforms. In this study, we set out the theoretical assumptions underlying the RRF governance model
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A sacrifice for the greater good? On the main drivers of excessive land take and land use change in Hungary Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 György Csomós, Ádám Szalai, Jenő Zsolt Farkas
Despite continuous population decline or stagnation, many Central and Eastern European cities experience urban sprawl and expansion, accompanied by excessive land take and land use change. This paper investigates recent trends in land take and land use change in Hungarian cities, aiming to identify the drivers of these processes. The study utilizes the Urban Atlas (UA) databases from 2006 and 2018
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Communal grant and land allocation effect on native land disputation in Malaysia Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 A.M. Azima, Faathirah Jamaluddin, Zaimah Ramli, Suhana Saad, Novel Lyndon
Land management and community engagement are two key components in preventing conflict among native landowners and organizations. Disputes between owners and agencies will be the most difficult impediment to overcome in the land ongoing development. Led to extensive opposition among native customary peoples to native customary land alienation, the government has worked to provide a fair manner of individual
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Norms, institutions, and digital veils of uncertainty—Do network protocols need trust anyway? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Eric Alston
In large and complex human groups, social rules reduce individuals' uncertainty about their own choice set, including through these rules' simultaneous influence on the choice set of other individuals. But uncertainty varies as to the extent to which it is knowable and quantifiable ex ante. Therefore, different classes of social rules deal with the future uncertainty of individuals' conduct in structurally
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Contrasting state land and fire use policies condition fire regime seasonality and size in two Central Spain forest landscapes Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Francisco Seijo, Gonzalo Zavala, Rafael Ballester, Jose Maria Costa-Saura, Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda, Jesús Julio Camarero, José Antonio López Sáez
In this article we describe contrasting state land use and fire management policy forest landscape level legacies in two contiguous municipalities of the Gredos mountain range in Central Spain. We employed an exploratory sequential mixed methods approach to collect complementary palynological, dendroecological, municipal level individual fire report and state archive “Ordenación” plan data for the
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Who Gets Denied Telework in the U.S. Federal Service? Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Gregory B. Lewis, Ximena Pizarro-Bore, M. Blake Emidy
Discretionary rewards can motivate employees but increase social inequity. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, when supervisors had substantial discretion over whether and how frequently U.S. federal employees teleworked, those who did so several times a week liked most aspects of their jobs more than those who teleworked less, especially those who were denied telework. Though telework became a necessity
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Linguistic Diversity and Public Servants’ Turnover Intentions: Theory and Analysis From a Multilingual State Review of Public Personnel Administration (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Christopher A. Cooper, Luc Turgeon
Although approximately a quarter of the world’s countries are officially bilingual or multilingual, the relationship between linguistic diversity and human resource management has largely been overlooked. This article advances research by theoretically considering, and empirically investigating, whether public servants’ ability to use their official language of choice at work is related to their turnover
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Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Tim Bartley, Malcolm Fairbrother
As scholars race to address the climate crisis, they have often treated the problem as sui generis and have only rarely sought to learn from prior efforts to make industrial operations greener. In this paper, we consider what can be learned from other shifts away from polluting substances. Drawing on literatures on corporate regulatory strategies and evolving regulatory interactions, we argue for a
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Resistance to market interventionism: an analysis of the European industrial carbon management strategy consultation Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-08 Senni Määttä, Moises Covarrubias, Vincent de Gooyert
Establishing a framework for carbon management in the European Union and aligning this with climate policy relies on collaboration between diverse actors and coordination between diverse goals. The...
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Procedural constraints and regulatory ossification in the US states Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Jason Webb Yackee, Susan Webb Yackee
Scholars of the US regulatory process routinely assert that rulemaking is “ossified”—that it has become so encumbered with procedural constraints that it is difficult for agencies to issue socially desirable regulations. Yet, this claim has rarely been subject to empirical testing, and this is particularly true at the sub‐federal (i.e., US state) level. But the same factors that allegedly cause ossification
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Environmental identity and perceived salience of policy issues in coastal communities: a moderated-mediation analysis Policy Sciences (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Pallavi Rachel George, Vishal Gupta
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Using technology to reduce learning costs and improve program comprehension: Lessons from a survey experiment on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Stephanie Walsh, Gregory A. Porumbescu, Andrea Hetling
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food assistance to those in need, and while the program reaches many who are eligible, program participation falls short of reaching all who are eligible. One factor contributing to this gap in participation is difficulty understanding program eligibility, a common challenge with means‐tested benefit programs. Governments have attempted
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Impact of low‐performance signals on employee fraud in public organizations: Evidence from a pay‐for‐performance context Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Taek Kyu Kim
Employee fraud, defined as the misuse of organizational resources for personal financial gain, has long been a serious issue in public organizations, risking deteriorated performance outcomes. Although previous public administration research has discussed organizational cheating related to organizational performance, we need to inquire further about employee fraudulent behaviors across public organizations
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Climate action or delay: the dynamics of competing narratives in the UK political sphere and the influence of climate protest Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Nicole Nisbett, Viktoria Spaiser, Cristina Leston-Bandeira, Daniel Valdenegro
It is often argued that political will is needed to make progress on responding to the climate crisis. Political will needs a narrative though, substantiating why political intervention is needed. ...
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“For whoever has will be given more”? Land rental decisions and technical efficiency in Ukraine Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Vasyl Kvartiuk, Eduard Bukin, Thomas Herzfeld
Land rental markets had played a critical role in providing farms access to Ukraine’s agricultural land before the ban on land sales was lifted in 2021. This paper examines whether rental-based land relations can promote land use by more productive farms in the context of imperfect institutions. In particular, we examine whether Ukrainian farms’ decisions to rent land are linked to their agricultural
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Capabilities for transformative sustainability management in cities Public Manag. Rev. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Riina Bhatia, Matti Pihlajamaa, Kirsi Hyytinen, Anni Jäntti
Public organizations’ ability to promote sustainability is becoming a critical issue in public management research and practice. However, there is a scarce understanding of how to enable sustainabi...
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Digitalization and the green transition: Different challenges, same policy responses? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Marius R. Busemeyer, Sophia Stutzmann, Tobias Tober
How do citizens perceive labor market risks related to digitalization and the green transition, and how do these risk perceptions translate into preferences for social policies? We address these questions in this paper by studying the policy preferences of individual workers on how governments should deal with the two labor market challenges of digitalization and the green transition. Employing novel
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Should electric vehicle purchase subsidies be linked with scrappage requirements? J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Kevin Ankney, Benjamin Leard
We build a vehicle purchase and disposal model to analyze a policy that links a new electric vehicle (EV) purchase subsidy with a used gasoline vehicle scrappage requirement. We evaluate the policy based on changes in sales, scrappage, subsidy dollars spent, and emissions reductions. We find that linking a purchase subsidy with a scrappage requirement is expected to result in fewer new EV sales and
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Intermarriage amid immigration status uncertainty: Evidence from DACA J. Policy Anal. Manag. (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Catalina Amuedo‐Dorantes, Chunbei Wang
In 2012, the Obama administration issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by executive order. Since then, more than 800,000 undocumented immigrants who arrived as children have benefited from renewable 2‐year reprieves from deportation and work permits. In 2017, the Trump administration announced it would end DACA—an announcement immediately followed by court challenges. We
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Empowered service users: peer workers co-production in Norwegian mental health and substance use services Public Manag. Rev. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Kristina Bakke Åkerblom, Jonathan Quetzal Tritter
Employing citizens with first-hand experience as ‘peer workers’ (PW) is increasingly prevalent in mental health and substance use organizations. This Norwegian qualitative exploratory study present...
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Nudging citizens co-production: Assessing multiple behavioral strategies Policy Sciences (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Rotem Dvir
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To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Ringa Raudla, Egert Juuse, Vytautas Kuokštis, Aleksandrs Cepilovs, Vytenis Cipinys, Matti Ylönen
A regulatory sandbox is an emerging tool for addressing the challenges posed by the FinTech industry, but countries have embraced it to varying degrees. There is a need to systematically examine the question: Which factors explain the diverging trajectories in countries' decision to use (or not use) this instrument? This paper examines the adoption of regulatory sandboxes for FinTech in the Baltic
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Using Twitter to fight the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of United States governors Public Manag. Rev. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Sukwon Choi, Seok-Jin Eom
This study explores how United States governors used Twitter in non-political contexts during the pandemic. We analysed the content and volume of governors’ tweets during the pandemic using semanti...
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User acceptance of strategic planning: Evidence from Northern European municipalities Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Bert George, Dag Ingvar Jacobsen, Jan‐Erik Johanson, Åge Johnsen, Elias Pekkola
Strategic planning is core to public administration at all governmental levels. Evidence suggests that when conducted well strategic planning impacts several performance outcomes. Yet, public administration and strategy scholars have argued that strategic planning is not only a technical procedure. Its success is contingent upon the people involved in strategic planning. This study investigates strategic
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The AFOLU sector’s role in national decarbonization: a comparative analysis of low-GHG development pathways in Brazil, India and Indonesia Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Johannes Svensson, Vidhee Avashia, Rizaldi Boer, Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi, Michele Cotta, Carolina Dubeux, Gito Sugih Immanuel, Emilio Lebre La Rovere, Omkar Patange, Annuri Rossita, Saritha Sudharmma Vishwanathan
This paper analyses the role that AFOLU (agriculture, forest and other land use) plays in national deep decarbonization scenarios in Brazil, India and Indonesia between 2020 and 2050. It finds that...
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Carbon pricing under electricity market constraints: analyzing rent management dynamics in the Republic of Korea Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Asgeir Barlaup, Katja Biedenkopf
How do policymakers manage the tension between enforcing a carbon price and ensuring low-cost electricity provision? This paper answers this question in two steps. First, it combines literature on ...
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Accelerating social initiatives: an exploratory study on scaling in the social sector Public Manag. Rev. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Marion van Lunenburg
This exploratory study aims to provide an initial understanding of the role of accelerators in the public sector. Our findings on potential accelerators in the Dutch social sector show that they di...
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Embedding spatial planning in contemporary multi-level governance: The sustainability entanglement Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Hudu Banikoi, Francis Dakyaga, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah
The burgeoning unplanned urbanisation and growing environmental risks across global South cities pose core questions to urban sustainability, planning theory and practice. Who are the agents of, and what are the control mechanisms in spatial plan preparation? To what extent are economic, social, and environmental sustainability principles considered and embedded in spatial plans and frameworks? And
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Administrative evil and moral disengagement: The case of torture in apartheid‐era South Africa Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Christopher J. Einolf
Understanding how administrators can commit unethical acts is an important goal of public administration research. This article tests whether moral inversion, taken from Balfour, Adams, and Nickels' theory of administrative evil, can help explain torture, and also proposes and tests Bandura's theory of moral disengagement. It analyzes testimony from perpetrators of torture who testified before the
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An analysis of strategic goals and public procurement strategy regarding the implementation of The National Program for Land Registration in Romania Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-31 Vlad Păunescu, Alexandru-Iulian Iliescu, Tudor Sălăgean, Elemer-Emanuel Şuba, Mircea-Emil Nap
The National Program for Land Registration was supposed to be completed by 2023 with the registration of all administrative units in Romania. The aim of this study is to analyze the feasibility and acceptance of the strategic objectives of this project and the public procurement strategy in the view of three types of stakeholders involved in the project: private sector providers, cadastre academics
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Understanding residents’ choice of urban farming systems in the Kumasi metropolis of Ghana: Land use policy implications Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Faizal Adams, Ayat Ullah, Jonathan Quaye, Amos Mensah
The heightened food insecurity in urban settings has rekindled the debate over the promotion of urban agriculture (UA) as a sustainable alternative food supply source across the globe. This study, therefore, examines the determinants of urban residents’ decisions to engage in UA and their choice of agriculture practices. Cross-sectional data was solicited from 430 urban dwellers through a multi-stage
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Multifunctional evaluation and multiscenario regulation of non-grain farmlands from the grain security perspective: Evidence from the Wuhan Metropolitan Area, China Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Dan Huang, Yanchi Lu, Yaolin Liu, Yanfang Liu, Zhaomin Tong, Lijun Xing, Chao Dou
Non-grain production (NGP) represents a complex social phenomenon driven by a range of interests that involve agricultural development, livelihood security, and ecological preservation. It significantly alters the structure of agricultural production and vegetation cover, influencing regional grain supply and the multifunctional composition of agriculture. To achieve sustainable development goals related
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Reviewing 20 years of redevelopment trajectories of industrial sites literature and highlighting new research perspectives Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Belinda Ravaz, Pierre-Henri Bombenger, Massimiliano Capezzali, Teva Meyer
Although there has been a large amount of study into the future of post-industrial site, there have been few efforts to synthesize and connect this research. This paper presents a systematic review of the international literature on the redevelopment trajectories of post-industrial land. Its aim is to consolidate existing knowledge, identify gaps and provide a solid basis for future research. We will
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Orderly and synergistic development of urban-rural integration based on evolutionary game model: A case study in the Jiangxi Province, China Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Chao Zhang, Yupeng Fan, Chuanglin Fang
The orderly synergy is crucial to the integrated development of urban and rural areas in China. The orderly synergistic development process can be regarded as a game of balancing the interests of rural and urban areas. Therefore, numerical simulations with scenario analysis using the evolutionary game approach are conducted to investigate the orderly synergistic development of urban-rural integration
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Rewetting on agricultural peatlands can offer cost effective greenhouse gas reduction at the national level Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Jari Niemi, Tuomas Mattila, Jyri Seppälä
To reach EU’s carbon neutrality target by 2050, emission reductions in the land-use sector are needed. Agricultural peatlands attribute for half of the greenhouse gas emissions of cropland in both in EU and Finland. High greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural peatlands are primarily caused by CO emissions following aerobic peat decomposition due to deep drainage, and studies have shown that raising
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Determinants of sustainable customary land secretariats in Ghana: An economic modelling approach Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Benjamin Kwakye, Alexander Sasu
Land reforms in sub-Saharan Africa are transiting customary land tenure into a neo-customary land tenure regime. Accordingly, the Government of Ghana, together with its development partners, initiated the establishment of customary land secretariats (CLSs) to enhance the governance of customary land administration at the local level. Though this initiative is implemented with advances, events on the
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Implementing data exchange and interoperability on LADM country profiles using the ISO framework for enterprise interoperability standard Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Peter Oukes, Clifford Okembo, Javier Morales, Christiaan Lemmen, Jaap Zevenbergen, David Kuria
For a complete, harmonized and modernized land administration processes, seamless data exchange among departments within an organization, and among organizations is a fundamental requirement. Interoperability is therefore crucial and should be based on a well-developed Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) country profile for the implementation of a Land Administration System (LAS). This paper, through
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Corporate opposition to climate change disclosure regulation in the United States Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Addisu Lashitew, Youqing Mu
Extensive research shows that corporations tacitly resist climate change-related regulations even as they publicly espouse pro-climate strategies. In this study, we examine corporate responses to a...
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Does workplace inclusion mitigate emotional exhaustion? Evidence from local government organizations Public Manag. Rev. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Nicole M. Humphrey, Leisha DeHart-Davis, Shahidul Hassan, Deneen M. Hatmaker, Amy Smith
Over the past few years, many local government organizations have become more concerned with employee burnout and identifying strategies to support employees. In this paper we examine inclusion as ...
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Community-driven informal settlement upgrading as an everyday practice: The role of urban and governance policies Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-24 Haruka Ono, Uwamahoro Adrien
What factors contribute to the success of community-driven upgrading of informal settlements? The Rwandan government has adopted informal settlement upgrading and governance policies that allow citizens to participate in decision-making on issues that affect them in the Umudugudu—the smallest unit of governance. This study investigates how the government’s policy has enabled community-driven informal
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Understanding the role of physical spaces in social de-segregations: Spatial lessons from Kerala and Northern Ireland Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-24 S. Harikrishnan, John Doyle
Within development literature, recent decades have seen an unequivocal turn towards a call for a decentralised and more contextual and vernacular understanding of social, political and economic development. This paper brings together the development literature on the “participatory turn” with Henri Lefebvre’s work on social spaces and to move beyond the “” and “” of participation, to add the question
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Information for Contributors Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22
About the Journal Public Administration Review (PAR) is dedicated to advancing theory and practice in public administration. PAR serves a wide range of audiences globally. As the preeminent professional journal in public administration, Public Administration Review (PAR) strives to publish research that not only advances the science and theory of public administration, but also incorporates and addresses
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American Society for Public Administration Code of Ethics Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22
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Transformations in urban gardens: Neoliberal influences and land use conflicts in Shiraz's Qasr al-Dasht Gardens Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Yazdanian Ahmad, Rahmati Zahra, Cheshmehzangi Ali
The extensive transformation of urban gardens is a significant element in the process of planetary urbanisation. This is driven by the constraints of a neoliberal political economy aimed at maximising the capitalistic utilisation of urban spaces. This study examines the conversion of urban gardens to paved or hard surface areas, a phenomenon described as "de-gardening". The study is conducted through
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Developing a new methodology for determining typologies of peri-urban agriculture: A case study of the Jakarta Bandung Mega Urban Region Indonesia Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Setyardi Pratika Mulya, Delik Hudalah, Niken Prilandita
Peri-urban agriculture (PUA) has different ecological, socio-institutional, and economic conditions. The dynamic characteristics of PUA are driven by the location in a rural-to-urban transitional zone. In this context, a new approach should be developed for identifying PUA typologies to facilitate more effective and relatively quick policy management and planning. Therefore, this study aims to develop
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Deservingness, humanness, and representation through lived experience: analyzing first responders’ attitudes J. Public Adm. Res. Theory (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Ryan J Lofaro, Alka Sapat
Representative bureaucracy theory has mainly been used to understand how identities related to race, ethnicity, and gender influence how bureaucrats administer public services. Although representation through lived experience has expanded the scope of the theory, this theoretical thread has mostly focused on the perspectives of management. The purpose of this article is to employ lived experience representative
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Self‐enforcing path dependent trajectories? A comparison of the implementation of the EU energy packages in Germany and the Netherlands Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Simon Fink, Eva Ruffing, Luisa Maschlanka, Hermann Lüken genannt Klaßen
Since the 1990s, the EU has attempted to create a common electricity market. However, EU legislators are unsatisfied by the results. We argue that differentiated implementation of directives over time creates path dependencies that entrench national differences. The actor constellation of parties and incumbent operators at the beginning of the liberalization path determines how well countries implement
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From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Hanna Schwander, Jonas Fischer
This article reviews recent insights from the blooming Comparative Political Economy (CPE) literature on climate change with the aim to demonstrate the importance of integrating climate change into the field of CPE and to highlight the contributions of CPE to our understanding of the social and political obstacles to effective climate policies. In addition, we advance two key points to bring the CPE
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The political polarization over abortion: An analysis of advocacy coalition belief systems Policy Sciences (IF 3.8) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Anna M. Crawford, Christopher M. Weible
Although abortion policy is often discussed as a black-and-white conflict characterized by polarization and a lack of compromise, this study explores the validity of such a presupposition by asking how advocates articulate their belief systems about abortion policy and in what ways—if at all—are those beliefs shared within and across coalitions and create fissures within and between coalitions? Applying
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Is Trust in Local Government Influenced by the “Marketplace” of Choice? Public Administration Review (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Lanjun Peng, Justin M. Ross
Governments are subjected to many sources of competition that can be productive or destructive to their ability to maintain citizen trust. This paper explores the role of competition in the local government marketplace as a determinant of trust in local government. Using individual respondent data from the Gallup Poll Social Series in the United States from 2001 to 2022, this paper explores the effect
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The current policy focus shift from a sectoral to a territorial governance of wildfire reduction is aligned with forest owners’ preferences Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Maria João Canadas, Miguel Leal, Ana Novais, Paulo Flores Ribeiro, José Lima Santos
Land management for wildfire reduction has been said to require new governance arrangements that ensure the coordination at the local level among landowners and between them and other relevant private and public actors. To promote a shift in the policy approach to wildfire mitigation from the current focus on fuel management, within the forestry sector, to a more effective cross-sectoral landscape
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Palm oil expansion, insecure land rights, and land-use conflict: A case of palm oil centre of Riau, Indonesia Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Afrizal, Eka Vidya Putra, Linda Elida
Insecure rights tend to lead to land-use conflicts. The literature mainly focuses on the impact of insecure land rights on investment. Regarding the causes, studies mainly focus on the effect of state regulations. Little attention is given to the impact of the extractive economy on land rights security. This article scrutinizes how palm oil expansion manipulates insecure land rights, leading to land-use
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Evaluation of the impact of land use ratios and cover materials in settlement design on stormwater runoff Land Use Policy (IF 6.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Halime Firdevs Taşkın, Gülten Manioğlu
Due to higher levels of urbanization and increasing impermeable hard land covers, green spaces are decreasing, resulting in stormwater loss as surface runoff instead of being absorbed by soil and reintroduced into the water cycle. This study investigates the effect of land use ratios and land cover materials resulting from settlement design on surface runoff volume. The study was conducted using various
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How do donors integrate climate policy and development cooperation? An analysis of the development aid policies of 42 donor countries Climate Policy (IF 5.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Ida Dokk Smith, Kristine Schi Nordvold, Indra Overland, Tinatin Osmonova
This article assesses how donor countries integrate climate action into their development aid policies. An analytical framework is developed for the systematic comparison of development aid policie...
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Performance information, expectations and satisfaction with public service delivery in the context of co-production initiatives Public Manag. Rev. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Joris van der Voet, Petra van den Bekerom
Many studies on public service satisfaction have treated citizen expectations to be exogenous, focusing mainly on how these expectations influence satisfaction. This study examines how performance ...
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Collaboration in action: How micro-level relational dynamics are connected with issue frame convergence in collaborative governance networks Public Manag. Rev. (IF 5.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Lieselot Vandenbussche, Jurian Edelenbos, Jasper Eshuis
In this article, we investigate stakeholders’ micro-level relational dynamics and their connection to issue frame convergence in collaborative governance. We longitudinally studied the collaborativ...