Local level failure? Non-compliance of EU environmental policy within EU multi-level governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Katharina F.F. Heidtmann ◽  
Torsten J. Selck
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Multi Level

scholarly journals Sinergitas Pembangunan Tata Ruang Pertahanan Daerah dalam Menghadapi Ancaman Non-Militer di Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Alfajri Alfajri ◽  
Azhari Setiawan ◽  
Herry Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Human Development Index ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Development ◽  
Local Context ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Securitization Theory ◽  
Real Community ◽  
Multi Level

This article aims to understand and explain the local context of state’s defense toward non-military threats in Indonesia. As the broading and deepening development of security significance, non-traditional security agenda urges multi-levels and multi-sectors synergy especially in the local government because the nature of non-military threats in Indonesia developed at the local level. First, authors review numbers of literatures about non-traditional security, non-military threats and the securitization theory. Second, the article elaborates the strategic environment—global, regional, and national—and threats perception from the perspective of Indonesia’s defense posture. After that, the article explains securitization aspects of multi-level and multi-sectors synergy on facing the non-military threats at the local level. The result of this research is the synergy of national development, regional development and national defense development needs to be synchronized with the support of clear regulations, considering the available resources to achieve real community welfare, both in terms of income, employment opportunities, business opportunities, access to policy making, competitiveness, and an increase in the human development index. The strategic relations between stakeholders in the synergy of national defense development is essential to achieve formidable defense. Policy socialization between vertical agencies of ministries/institutions and regional governments needs to be optimized and intensified so that there will be a common perception in the management and implementation of national defense development on dealing with non-military threats.

scholarly journals Urban Policy in Times of Crisis: The Policy Capacity of European Cities and the Role of Multi-Level Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 107808742110417
Author(s):  
Roberta Cucca ◽  
Costanzo Ranci
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Policy Capacity ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Multi Level

This article investigates how the policy capacity of urban governments in Europe to deal with the social challenges caused by the 2008-2009 financial crisis, has been strongly shaped by the institutional multi-level governance (MLG) settings in which cities were embedded. We consider the financial crisis as an important ‘stress test’ for urban policy. Urban governments faced a highly complex, trilemmatic situation: they faced not only growing social and economic problems at the local level, but also a process of devolution of institutional responsibility from central to local governments, and important cuts in central funding. Our analysis is based on an empirical investigation carried out between 2009 and 2016 in six major European cities: Barcelona, Copenhagen, Lyon, Manchester, Milan, and Munich. What clearly emerges from the research is that European cities may still show a certain capacity to innovate and govern economic changes and social challenges only if supported by an enabling MLG system.

scholarly journals Development of environmental projects at the level of public administration

2021 ◽  
Vol 937 (2) ◽  
pp. 022029
Author(s):  
R Oleksenko ◽  
Yu Voronina ◽  
O Nesterenko ◽  
N Horbova ◽  
I Verkhovod
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Ecological Status ◽  
State Level ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Ecological Condition ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Further Development

Abstract The article is devoted to the issues of improving the ecological condition of territories. territorial development is a complex and multifaceted issue. One of the main priorities of territorial development today is the issue of ecology. Environmental problems are global in nature. However, their solution belongs to the competence not only of international environmental organizations, but, first of all, of central authorities at the state level and territorial communities at the local level. One of the effective methods of analysis of the ecological condition of the territory for further development of mechanisms for cleaning the environment is the Habitat method. The methodology is proposed by the UN and is actively implemented to analyze the ecological status of territories. The article analyzes some elements of the methodology of assessment of territories, gives an example of analysis of territorial development of one of the cities of Ukraine. Based on the analysis, an algorithm for assessing the ecological condition of the territory has been developed and ways to form environmental policy at the territorial level through the formation of effective mechanisms for public management of territorial development have been proposed.

Cultuurbeleid op lokaal vlak

Res Publica ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-184
Author(s):  
Luc Martens
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Policy Effects ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Policy Level ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Multi Level

Considering cultural policy it is very important to have a multi-level policy concerning cultural facilities and an active involvement of the citizen at local level. To optimize local cultural policy one should aim for an interactive or complementary policy. This means that each policy level has to take its own responsabilities; that there has to be a mutual consultation between all policy levels and a mutual reinforcement of the policy effects at each level. The role of local governments is to provide for basic facilities and to install efficient frameworks for consultation and cooperation. Future challenges are the reinforcement of cooperation between cultural actors and to support innovating work.

scholarly journals Human rights networks and regulatory stewardship: An analysis of a multi-level network of human rights commissions in the United Kingdom

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 809-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corina Lacatus
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Regulatory Networks ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
National Human ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
National Human Rights Institutions

Regulatory networks are increasingly important actors in multi-level systems of human rights governance. Yet we know little about the role that domestic networks play as intermediaries or about the strategies they use to integrate sub-national human rights institutions to ensure compliance at the local level. We draw on the theoretical literature on orchestration to conceptualise network governance and propose a new intermediary for the human rights governance, the multi-level network, which operates inside one country. We apply this theoretical model to the case of a multi-level network operating at the domestic level in the United Kingdom – Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Equality and Human Rights Commission, and Scottish Human Rights Commission. We discuss how the three commissions use the tools of managerial stewardship to facilitate intra-network collaboration and how they engage in hierarchical stewardship to gain access to international networks and take on a leadership role globally and regionally.

scholarly journals Housing for Refugees in Sweden: Top-Down Governance and its Local Reactions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Emilsson ◽  
Klara Öberg
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Governance Framework ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Local Reactions ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Specific Number

AbstractIn this article, we investigate local level reactions to the top-down state steering for the housing of refugees in Sweden. We especially reflect on events after the increased refugee reception in Sweden in 2015 and the introduction of a Settlement Act in 2016 which made it mandatory for municipalities to receive a specific number of refugees and organise accommodation. This has resulted in a wide array of housing situations for refugees concerning standard, costs and temporary solutions. A multi-level governance framework from on central government steering perspective is applied. We argue that the modified legislation can be understood as a change in governance throughout the years — from persuasion to economic incentives and, finally, to coercive methods. Sweden is a country that has distinguished itself as one refraining from particularity and continuing to work towards equality between newcomers and citizens. In relation to recent legal and political developments, we identify a change — a paradoxical change, as governance for the more-equal reception of refugees in Sweden seems to lead to increased inequalities for refugees on the local level.

scholarly journals Multi-level Governance of Integration Policy. Role of the Cities. Comparison of Warsaw and Prague

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Patrycja Matusz ◽  
Mikołaj Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Multilevel Governance ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Integration Policy ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Multi Level

This paper analyses the role of the cities in the multi-level governance of integration policy. The goal was to analyse the relations of diverse actors in a multi-level governance context and the direct impact of the transnational EU policy to local level actors (that also bypassed the national level). We show how the interconnection of policy levels and the presence of actors in many roles in the process of developing immigrant integration policies resulted in the top-down transfer of policy goals. We also highlight the converse perspective and demonstrate how bottom-up policy initiatives strengthen the position of cities as important players in the multilevel governance, both individually and collectively.

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