All over the world, local, regional and national governments are exploring various governance approaches ranging from public-private partnerships to civic engagement and citizen participation. All of these meet the interdependency character of complex decision making process. In the governance literature, different forms of governance arrangements are seen as promising solution for managing suc...

one of the important issues which deals simultaneously with the european :union: (eu) enlargement policy and its common foreign and security policy, is eu's policy towards its neighbors. after eu enlargement. it is a crossroad of eu foreign, security, development and trade policies which aims at europeanization and creating a ring of friends around its borders where good governance, political a...

The synthesis of the BONUS+ research is introduced. The HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan is examined as a case to illustrate the potentials and challenges in building the science-policy making interface on a macro regional level. The projects address environmental challenges in the Baltic Sea as defined by the Baltic Sea Action Plan, or consider the environmental governance and decision making wit...

As Cloud Computing provides agile and scalable IT infrastructure, QoS-assured services and customizable computing environment, it increases the call for agile and dynamic deployment and governance environments over multi-cloud infrastructure. By now, governance and Non Functional Properties (such as security, QoS...) are managed in a static way, limiting the global benefits of deploying service...

Public policy decisions are increasingly made by regional governance efforts that involve diverse decision makers from multiple government units within a geographic region. These decision-making bodies face competing pressures to represent regional and local interests. We study how decision makers balance preferences for regionalism and localism within metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs)...

The utility sector in industrialised countries is undergoing a process of transformation. Liberalisation and privatisation policies have triggered changes in the social, technological and ecological dimension of the provision of electricity, gas, water and telecommunications. These processes interact in complex ways, bringing about transformation dynamics which are highly uncertain while having...

The widespread use of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) is beginning to create problems derived from the governance of said structures. To date there is not a single effective solution to solve all existing challenges to govern this type of infrastructure. This paper describes the problems encountered when designing a SOA governance solution in a real e-Government scenario. More specifically...

Adaptive governance is a concept of growing interest in the environmental policy and management literature (e.g., see Brunner and Steelman et al. 2005; Olsson et al. 2006; Scholz and Stiftel 2005). In general, adaptive governance refers to institutional change processes that are responsive to emerging problems or knowledge surrounding complex ecological systems. While some studies have provided...

Transnational governance schemes (TGSs) are interorganizational networks of public and/or private actors that jointly regulate global public policy issues, such as the prevention of human rights violations and the protection of ecosystems. Considering that TGSs mainly address issues of public concern, the general public represents a major source of legitimacy in transnational governance. We the...

Forest and colleagues have persuasively made the case that policy capacity is a fundamental prerequisite to health reform. They offer a comprehensive life-cycle definition of policy capacity and stress that it involves much more than problem identification and option development. I would like to offer a Canadian perspective. If we define health reform as re-orienting the health system from acut...