PRIMUS/Informed Cities: Making research work for local sustainability

The final report of a three year European Commission FP7 project

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EU Support for Cities towards Sustainable Development – An Empirical Study about Failure or Success at the Local Government Level

The European Union is often viewed as a quasi-federal construct characterised by a voluntary pooling of sovereignty by member national governments. However, the integration of Europe also has serious consequences for sub national governance including significant impacts on local authorities and cities. Over the past two decades in particular the relationship between Europe and local/regional government has undergone profound change. What began as an "ever closer union" between nation states fifty years ago is today showing more and more signs of an evolving system of multi-level governance. There is a growing activism in the relations between the EU and local government. Local and regional authorities are becoming far more insistent and dynamic in the way they demand a voice in the preparation of European plans, programmes and policies. In particular, local authorities stress that the principle of subsidiarity as enshrined in European treaties, gives them legal, moral, and practical credibility as stakeholders in the European policy process. From the EU perspective, it is clear that more and more European initiatives, whether legislative or funding in nature, permeate to the local level. The growing partnership is recognition of a fundamental understanding between the different levels of governance, namely that the European Union needs sub-national bodies to implement policy, and on the other side, that local and regional authorities need European assistance to build the necessary knowledge, human resource, and financial capacity to facilitate improved implementation

Prospects for multi-level governance of maritime security in the Sulu-Celebes Sea: lessons from the Baltic Sea region

2020, 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper assesses the prospects for the implementation of multi-level governance of maritime security in the Sulu-Celebes Sea Tri-Border Area, noting the interdependencies within its terrestrial-maritime environments. It draws on the lessons of multi-level governance practices in the Baltic Sea region. A multi-level governance framework of maritime security in the Baltic Sea region is elaborated to identify the key characteristics of multi-level governance that are important prerequisites for an integrated (land-sea) nexus in maritime security management. Through the examination of the functionality of these characteristics in the Sulu-Celebes Sea, the paper discusses the implications of the existence, and or the lack, of these main characteristics of a functional multi-level governance and assesses the prospects of such governance within the Sulu-Celebes Sea. The \u27common seas\u27 nature of the semi-enclosed sea and the entanglement of transboundary, land-maritime dimensions of the maritime security challenges imply the need for a distinct form of governance, for which the Baltic Sea region can provide lessons learnt

Evaluating governance for local sustainability : online tools for self-assessment

The shift from 'top-down' government to 'bottom-up' governance represents a gradual but profound change in the ways that local governments are expected to behave in relation to its citizens. This shift has an impact on the quality and flow of information from government to citizens, and it also implies the need for this flow of information to be a two-way process. This article considers how the proposed shift implies the need for evaluation processes within a relatively new cross-cutting policy area – sustainable development. Firstly, this article defines the political reasons for changes in the approaches toward local policy evaluation. Secondly, it discusses the evaluation principles that are useful in analysing public policy processes at local government level (such as Local Agenda 21) and describes a specific pan-European online self-evaluation tool for local authorities. Finally, it discusses the potential benefits and obstacles of such a tool for two different groups of end-users – local governments and their communities, and the scientific and policy communities

La Agenda 21 Local en Europa: la segunda fase de la modernización ecológica en los gobiernos municipales

«Modernizazio ekologikoak», bai kontzeptu gisa bai teoria gisa, garapen industrial eta ekonomikoaren ondorioz nazioan izandako aldaketei buruz jardun du. Hala ere, gobernantzaren eginkizuna ere modernizazio-prozesuaren ezaugarrietako bat bihurtzen ari da pixkanaka. Tokiko gobernantzek, garapen iraunkorreko helburu komuna lortu nahi duten herritar, interes-talde (stakeholder) eta ekoizpen- unitate txikienek osatuta, eginkizun erabakigarria dute modernizazio ekologikoaren bigarren fasean. Jarduera horietako asko Tokiko Agenda 21 delakoaren babesean antolatzen dira Europan. Europako toki-administrazioek egin diote aurre, beste inork baino lehenago, erronka berriari, eta Europa osoan gogo handiz erantzun diote. Material enpirikoa DISCUS proiektuko datu-basea ustiatzetik lortu da.Ecological modernisation as a theoretical construction has mainly dealt with changes on a national level and in connection with industrial and economic development. However, the role of local government has also increasingly become one feature of interest within the modernisation process. Local level governance plays a crucial role especially concerning the second phase of modernisation ¿ that of involving inhabitants, stakeholder groups and smaller production units towards a common goal of sustainable development. Many of these activities in Europe are conducted under the organisational headline of Local Agenda 21. European local governments have been in the forefront of taking up the new challenge. In this paper we will show how local governments in different parts of Europe have responded to this task. The empirical material will be based on our large dataset collected within DISCUS research project.La «modernización ecológica» como concepto y teoría ha versado sobre los cambios experimentados a escala nacional como consecuencia del desarrollo industrial y económico. Sin embargo, el papel de la gobernanza también se está configurando progresivamente como uno de los rasgos distintivos del proceso de modernización. La gobernanza local, en la que están implicados los ciudadanos, los grupos de partícipes y las más pequeñas unidades productivas tras un objetivo común de desarrollo sostenible, desempeña un papel crucial en la segunda fase de la modernización ecológica. Muchas de estas actividades se organizan en Europa al amparo de la Agenda 21 Local. Las administraciones locales europeas han sido las primeras en encarar el nuevo desafío y en responder activamente en muy distintos puntos de toda Europa. El material empírico procede de la explotación de la base de datos del proyecto de investigación DISCUS

La Agenda 21 Local en Europa: la segunda fase de la modernización ecológica en los gobiernos municipales

«Modernizazio ekologikoak», bai kontzeptu gisa bai teoria gisa, garapen industrial eta ekonomikoaren ondorioz nazioan izandako aldaketei buruz jardun du. Hala ere, gobernantzaren eginkizuna ere modernizazio-prozesuaren ezaugarrietako bat bihurtzen ari da pixkanaka. Tokiko gobernantzek, garapen iraunkorreko helburu komuna lortu nahi duten herritar, interes-talde (stakeholder) eta ekoizpen- unitate txikienek osatuta, eginkizun erabakigarria dute modernizazio ekologikoaren bigarren fasean. Jarduera horietako asko Tokiko Agenda 21 delakoaren babesean antolatzen dira Europan. Europako toki-administrazioek egin diote aurre, beste inork baino lehenago, erronka berriari, eta Europa osoan gogo handiz erantzun diote. Material enpirikoa DISCUS proiektuko datu-basea ustiatzetik lortu da.Ecological modernisation as a theoretical construction has mainly dealt with changes on a national level and in connection with industrial and economic development. However, the role of local government has also increasingly become one feature of interest within the modernisation process. Local level governance plays a crucial role especially concerning the second phase of modernisation ¿ that of involving inhabitants, stakeholder groups and smaller production units towards a common goal of sustainable development. Many of these activities in Europe are conducted under the organisational headline of Local Agenda 21. European local governments have been in the forefront of taking up the new challenge. In this paper we will show how local governments in different parts of Europe have responded to this task. The empirical material will be based on our large dataset collected within DISCUS research project.La «modernización ecológica» como concepto y teoría ha versado sobre los cambios experimentados a escala nacional como consecuencia del desarrollo industrial y económico. Sin embargo, el papel de la gobernanza también se está configurando progresivamente como uno de los rasgos distintivos del proceso de modernización. La gobernanza local, en la que están implicados los ciudadanos, los grupos de partícipes y las más pequeñas unidades productivas tras un objetivo común de desarrollo sostenible, desempeña un papel crucial en la segunda fase de la modernización ecológica. Muchas de estas actividades se organizan en Europa al amparo de la Agenda 21 Local. Las administraciones locales europeas han sido las primeras en encarar el nuevo desafío y en responder activamente en muy distintos puntos de toda Europa. El material empírico procede de la explotación de la base de datos del proyecto de investigación DISCUS