Nowadays, humanity encounters many problems connected to the use of natural resources. International actors have established diverse global initiatives and regional and national legal reforms linked to the issue. Thus, this study provides a comparison of selected provisions regarding information...

Area 5 focuses on the regional and local dimensions of the new European path to socio-ecological transition. Its central assumption is that any strategy developed to enhance a socio-ecological transition is unlikely to yield strong results unless the resources of regional and local actors are...

Good governance is considered one of the significant requirements for development and competency in the public-sector organisations. However, according to the Worldwide Governance Report, the state of Palestine has been experiencing a poor quality of governance. The motivation behind this study...

Governments can play great roles in their countries, regions, and cities; facilitating or leading the resolution of festering problems and opening new pathways for progress. Examples are more numerous than one might imagine and raise an important question: 'how do governments become great?'....

The focus of this research is on the socio-political effects of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in Namibia. CBNRM transfers responsibility for and profits from wildlife to the local level. This is expected to have ecological, economic and socio-political effects. The main aim...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to answer the question of whether a foreign direct investment (FDI) contributes to the sustainable development in Croatia by analyzing the relationship between the fourth dimension of sustainable development, good governance, and theFDI. The aim of this...