Essays about: "public policymaking"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 35 essays containing the words public policymaking.
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16. Understanding new expectations for democratic environmental governance : a policy analysis of an activist movement in the South-East of France
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : This paper is based at the nodal points of several phenomena, including political distrust in France, a European trend supporting public participation, a failed experiment of citizen assembly in France, and the organisation of a citizen collective to advocate for a replication of a similar citizen assembly, at the regional level, by environmental activists. In this context, I have conducted a policy analysis focusing particularly on the activist movement with the aim to provide insights into new expectations for democratic governance of environmental resources. READ MORE
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17. Social Sustainability in EU-Based Urban Regeneration
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : The social dimension of sustainability has been underdefined and under researched when compared to the fields of economic and environmental sustainability. The paper explores the difficulty in understating the concept of social sustainability and the difficulty in operationalising the concept, items discussed in interviews. READ MORE
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18. Institutional theory and local economic development policies: A case study of Stockholm municipality’s new Business Policy
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : The explorative case study aims to understand how the reform of business support and development undergoing in Stockholm municipality addresses existing institutions, and to what extent does the institutional context have the potential to adopt and sustain the change. Two case studies, Högdalen industrial area and Årsta wholesale center, illustrate how local economic development is organized in practice. READ MORE
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19. Conflicting interests in European Union copyright law: A socio-legal analysis of what problem representations Article 17 DSMD is grounded in
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : For many years, critics of the European Union copyright framework have raised concerns about the lack of legal recognition of exceptions and limitations to copyright-protected works and other protected subject matter, and argued that the European Union copyright framework favours the protection of intellectual property over fundamental rights. The debate about this imbalance reached new heights when the European Commission enacted a proposal, which after much controversy passed legislation as the Directive on Copyrights in the Digital Single Market (DSMD). READ MORE
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20. Pursuing Women-Empowerment in the Public Transport System : A case study in Sweden
University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för hälsa och välfärdAbstract : This case study applies women's empowerment and feminist theories to discuss the transport system's possible link with women empowerment and understand how a gender-responsive transport system based on women's complex needs would empower them and improve their status of health and well-being. The research area is two small urban in Sweden with less than 1500 populations. READ MORE
