This paper analyzes the determinants of alternative automobile fuel regulation and development support with a particular focus on methanol fuel. We find that embedded interests, bureaucratic reforms, and political circumstances in the Chinese national, provincial, and municipal governments have...

Wind rights and access to natural wind flow raise important legal issues, policy questions, opportunities, and financial risks for landowners, their neighbors, and for wind facility developers. This is particularly evident with respect to the phenomenon called wake effect (downwind effect) that...

Subsidizing technology fosters product innovation that might lead to a quicker technology adoption. This innovation effect could justify subsidy expenses beyond the directly related social value of the subsidized good during its lifetime. This paper proposes a method to calculate the underlying...

This article addresses the challenges to urban planning, which is a social activity that affects the development of urban communities and helps them to cope with the challenges posed by the global-local and real-virtual dialectic. The approach to planning is influenced by an emerging creativity...

Information, sustainability indicators and efficient public services are a permanent challenge for cities concerned with citizens' quality of life and effective local government. The objective of this study is to describe and assess the digital city projects in Chicago and Schaumburg (USA),...

Using a stochastic dominance approach, we analyze poverty dynamics in Burkina Faso under the three structural adjustment plans (SAP) between 1994 and 1998. The policies implemented during the three SAP led to a transfer of resources towards the rural poor and vulnerable populations, but were not...

There is much discussion regarding the Sustainable Development Goals' (SDGs) capacity to promote inclusive development. While some argue that they represent an opportunity for goal-led alignment of stakeholders and evidence-based decision-making, other voices express concerns as they perceive...

The aim of this paper is to analyze relationships of cooperation and conflict between a mining company and the involved communities, New Social Movements and the three levels of government. The mining company begun operations for an open pit mine of gold and silver supported by officials from...

With the end of China’s 11th Five-Year Plan approaching, this paper analyzes sub-national governments' implementation strategies to meet national energy efficiency targets. Previous research focuses on the way governance practices and decision-making structures shape implementation outcomes,...

This paper analyzes the career backgrounds of local government officials in provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPBs) in China and explains appointment processes of Chinese EPB bureaucrats. Using biographical information of provincial EPB heads and drawing on extensive fieldwork...