{"title":"DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES IN MUNICIPAL SDGS FROM COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE PERSPECTIVE","authors":"S. Ishida","doi":"10.20319/socv3.1939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20319/socv3.1939","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborative governance is gaining attention as a model for improving public administration and increasing citizens' trust in government. Over the past two decades, theoretical and empirical studies have considered mechanisms for new forms of governance, and a variety of evidence assures that stakeholders can come together and work cooperatively to solve mutual problems. Existing research indicates that collaborative governance can be a possible alternative to command-and-control or adversarial policymaking and its implementation. In addition, there is interest in research that recognizes the variables that influence collaborative governance outcomes and whether collaboration is successful. These include the initial conditions of a collaborative process and essential elements of collaborative placemaking, such as trust-building and facilitative leadership. This study analyzes the literature on collaborative governance in terms of theoretical and empirical aspects, focusing on municipal SDGs in Japan. The SDGs are aimed at sustainable development in both developed and developing countries, and recently even in Japan, some local governments have been actively working to rethink their existing policies in terms of SDGs. This study examines the drivers, conditions, and challenges of collaborative governance from the perspective of municipal SDGs.","PeriodicalId":426315,"journal":{"name":"Socialis Series in Social Science","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134535536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LEGAL LANGUAGE IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT: A REVIEW OF LANGUAGE SIMPLIFICATION PROJECTS","authors":"Mohammed Al Rezan, M. Karim","doi":"10.20319/socv3.5768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20319/socv3.5768","url":null,"abstract":"Ordinary subscribers face difficulties in understanding legal language, jargon, legislation and contract terms included in the privacy policies or terms of services used in the digital services, especially in smartphone apps. In particular, software developers are expected to include simpler language to comply with the legal provisions, and the users demand clearer language in the privacy policies or terms of services of the apps to provide informed consent. This paper reviews two projects that aim to simplify legal languages, one for developers and one for users. The primary aim of these projects is to encourage clearer legal language and provide reforms and proposals to improve current practices. It has been revealed that these efforts to simplify legal language are applied to specific categories and narrow fields and do not replace the original legal documents.","PeriodicalId":426315,"journal":{"name":"Socialis Series in Social Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122842963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ESSENCE AND FACTORS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY OF THE REGION","authors":"G. Sadykova","doi":"10.20319/socv2.1328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20319/socv2.1328","url":null,"abstract":"This article summarizes and provides some definitions for the concepts of “sustainability”, “sustainable development”, “socioeconomic sustainability of a region”. Socioeconomic sustainability refers to economic growth, which includes practices that maintain a preferred percentage of development in a region. This “special form of activity of regional development” will be that where the population of a given territory will live better. From a social sustainability perspective, economic sustainability recognizes the impact of production entities on workers and society as a whole. This includes human rights, health, and security, work-life balance, charity, diversity, and equality. The article analyzes the essence of the economic sustainability of a region, examining the main factors, including negative ones, of its economic sustainability because no concept of transition to sustainable development will produce the desired result without taking into account the regional component. It is, therefore, necessary for a region to improve all its components and to make the best use of the factors influencing socio-economic sustainability. The author concludes that the unsustainable development of a region may lead to even greater risks, which will be difficult to manage in the future.","PeriodicalId":426315,"journal":{"name":"Socialis Series in Social Science","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123944494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}