Analyzing emerging practices of collaboration in planning and public policy to overcome the challenges complexity, fragmentation and uncertainty, the authors present a new theory of collaborative rationality, to help make sense of the new practices. They enquire in detail into h…
"Planning, public policy, and administration are increasingly challenged by complexity, fragmentation, uncertainty, and global processes. Traditional approaches do not provide solutions to wicked problems. These challenges are stimulating alternative theory and practices around …
Environmental policymaking has become an experimental field for new modes of governance. This book focuses on three prominent characteristics of new governance arrangements: the broad participation of non-state actors, the attempt to improve vertical and horizontal coordination,…
In early 1990s, government of Pakistan realized that water infrastructure was failing, and there was a sense of urgency to cope with the water scarcity, and the challenges posed worsening groundwater quality, and potential impact of climate change variability. Thus, the governme…
On one day in 2009, in 38 countries around the world, 4,000 ordinary citizens gathered to discuss the future of climate policy. This project, ‘WWViews’, was the first global democratic deliberation - an attempt to enable ordinary people to reach informed decisions on and impact…
