A major challenge for any decentralizing regime is to develop more inclusive and participatory decisionmaking processes and to be responsive to conflicting demands from diverse constituencies while maintaining its governing capacity. Using Taiwan’s experience in managing groundwater...

What role can public participation play in environmental management? Among major tools for environmental management, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been widely practised in many countries. Its effectiveness, however, varies depending on the extent to which transparency and public...

Despite its many promises, devolved governance may pose great challenges to environmental conservation, especially in the context of newly democratized polities where local communities tend to be dominated by place-bound clientele networks that pursue developmental interests at the expense of...