Essays about: "institutional capacity"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 152 essays containing the words institutional capacity.

  1. 21. Disentangling leadership dynamics in the EU’s external climate security policy - Collaborative leadership by the European Commission and the EEAS

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Stefanie Scharmann; [2022]
    Keywords : Climate security; European Commission; EEAS; collaborative leadership; new intergovernmentalism; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This study examines whether the European Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) exercise collaborative leadership in the European Union's (EU) external climate security policy. While the academic debate acknowledges that both actors are very engaged in addressing external climate-related security risks, it does not answer whether they exercise a leadership role. READ MORE

  3. 22. Borders, visions and regions. The cross-border governance capacity of the Øresund Region. How to improve influence of cross-border regions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Jens Bjørn Gefke Grelck; [2021]
    Keywords : Øresund; cross-border regions; Greater Copenhagen; governance capacity; rescaling; institutional reorganization; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In recent years, cross-border regions have been challenged by multiple levels governance creating barriers rather than solutions to support cross-border spaces. This study aims at inquiring how the role of cross-border regions is changing in relation to their governance capacity. READ MORE

  4. 23. Shooting for the Sun: A feasibility assessment of Lebanon’s renewable electricity targets

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Lea Fahrnberger; [2021]
    Keywords : Lebanon; feasibility assessment; growth modeling; renewable electricity; energy transition; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Most electricity in Lebanon is produced by burning fossil fuels, which produces more than one half of domestic greenhouse gas emissions, and the state-owned electricity companies are unable to meet the demand. To increase the country’s generation capacity and simultaneously combat the effects of climate change, the government aims to produce 30% of its electricity from renewables by 2030. READ MORE

  5. 24. Wine, climate, and institutions : exploring the role of endogenous institutional change on climate resilience with agent-based modelling

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Matteo Bruno Ricozzi; [2021]
    Keywords : adaptation; agent-based; change; climate change; cooperatives; endogenous; geographical indications; institutions; modelling; resilience; viticulture;

    Abstract : The literature highlights how climate change might challenge the definitions of wine geographical indications (GIs) in Europe. The central issue addressed in this thesis is whether European GI viticultural systems could tackle climate change via initiating adaptive institutional change processes to relax the constraints imposed by GI production standards. READ MORE

  6. 25. The aid allocation dilemma : How to balance recipient vulnerability and recipient capacity?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Agnes Holm; [2021]
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    Abstract : How bilateral aid donors allocate their adaptation aid is of importance since the most vulnerable to climate change often lack the capacities necessary to combat climate change impacts alone. However, from a donor perspective, the lack of institutional capacity implies that the allocated resources might be managed less effectively compared to in a context with ’good governance’. READ MORE