Samuel Agyei-Mensah, George Owusu, Cynthia Awuni, Ben Howard, Issahaka Fuseini, Wouter Buytaert, Frans Berkhout
{"title":"Chiefs and floods: hybrid governance and co-production of flood risk adaptation in Tamale, Ghana.","authors":"Samuel Agyei-Mensah, George Owusu, Cynthia Awuni, Ben Howard, Issahaka Fuseini, Wouter Buytaert, Frans Berkhout","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2024.2410899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2024.2410899","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change is changing physical and social risks facing people in African cities. Emerging awareness is beginning to stimulate a wide range of adaptive responses. These responses are playing out in a complex institutional and governance context which shape their effectiveness and legitimacy. Employing a hybrid governance approach, we investigate the development of flooding and flood protection in the context of urban development in Tamale, Ghana. We argue that the interplay between traditional and state-based authority shapes the market for land, the regulation of land use and the provision of urban services, including flood protection. Hybrid governance influences the types of knowledge applied to urban problem-solving, the legitimacy of choices made, the human and other resources that can be deployed in building community resilience and the willingness to act in the provision of public goods by communities. We suggest how the existing hybrid governance setting could be strengthened to achieve more effective and legitimate adaptation to dynamic flood risks under climate change in Tamale, with lessons for other West African contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"26 6","pages":"656-672"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11552701/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142621744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francesco S Montesano, Frank Biermann, Agni Kalfagianni, Marjanneke J Vijge
{"title":"Can the Sustainable Development Goals Green International Organisations? Sustainability Integration in the International Labour Organisation.","authors":"Francesco S Montesano, Frank Biermann, Agni Kalfagianni, Marjanneke J Vijge","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2021.1976123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1976123","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In global sustainability governance, many actors have emphasised the need for policy integration across the economic, social, and environmental dimensions. In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to advance such integration. But have international organisations responded to this call, and can we observe any integrative effect of the SDGs? We draw on International Relations theories that incorporate change in their analysis and develop an analytical framework to assess change through the lenses of ideas, norms, and institutions. We use this framework to assess sustainability-oriented change in the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The ILO is traditionally an organisation with a primarily socio-economic mandate and hence an ideal case to study whether the SDGs had any impact after 2015 in strengthening the environmental dimension of sustainability in the ILO's institutional settings and policy development. We focus on the 2010-2019 period and conduct a systematic qualitative content analysis of primary documentary sources, complemented with expert interviews and data on operational developments. The paper concludes that there is a significant yet instrumental greening trend in the ILO's approach to sustainable development, but also a bidirectional influence between the ILO and the SDGs.</p>","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"25 1","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e5/42/CJOE_25_1976123.PMC9893765.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10663699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}