This article examines the phenomenon of local resistance to regulation by instruments in the water sector. Governance failures are mainly explained by concentrating on governance design, considering regulation as a set of control mechanisms. We propose an alternative perspective by putting the...

Urban areas are becoming increasingly subject to and vulnerable to water-related natural disasters. Urban areas are a kind of socio-ecological system wherein the human development dynamics co-evolve with the natural dynamics. Most of the literature is focused on the impact of natural disasters...

Park, Leahey and Funk – PLF – present a thought-provoking contribution to tracking scientific progress by studying the ‘disruptiveness’ of academic publications and patents in a large-N analysis. Their effort – published in Nature 613 (2023) – is timely because the best possible...

Anthropogenic environmental impacts substantially threaten the sustainable development of cities and counties. This paper offers an original assessment of the role played by population, economic growth and technology change in the evolution of local air pollution and soil sealing, using the...

Environmental transitions face the challenge of incentivizing change and governing complexity. Changing perceptions is critical to address these challenges. Perceptions shape policy and directly determine the potential and pathway of environmental transitions. While often addressing risk...

Performance reporting in sunshine regulation is subject to disclosure biases, because agents may game the regulation or encounter di culties in complying. These biases limit the appraisal of the impact of sunshine regulation on performance. We investigate the behavioral causes of such disclosure...

Environmental governance faces inconsistencies limiting its efficiency and ability to frame a sustainable co-evolution of Human and Nature. Regarding natural resource governance in developing countries, frictions in between policy design and property rights allocation cause these...