Published in Quality & Quantity
There is a growing consensus among citizens and members of local government that citizen participation is desirable for local government. However in practice, there are differing perceptions between them regarding the level and extent of citizen participation. As citizen participation is a multi faceted concept, its meaning is construed differently...
Governments are seeking for new ways to fight corruption within their own administration. The opening of data has the potential to involve citizens in detecting corruption by providing them the ability to view and analyze data about what is happening within the government. However, how open data can be used to detect corruption is not clear. In thi...
This article explores posible managment scenario for Quimbo central hydroelectric compensation area and challenges to handle environmental governance implementation in order to achieve conservation and restoration ecology for 11.079 hectares of dry forest, located in the Magdalena high river basin, between Agrado, Gigante, Tesalia and Paicol munici...
The objective of this work has been to know how the community participation activities carried out in the hospitals are framed, through the opinions of professionals of the Social Health Work about their professional performance in the community intervention and from the community social work, as well as through the analysis of the experiences that...
In order to decarbonize the energy sector, there is a widespread consensus that the role of end-users in the energy system should change from passive consumption to active prosumption and engagement. This is of particular importance as an increasing number of technologies and business models are focusing on the end-users. These developments provide...
Currently most municipalities in Sweden venture to increase citizen participation in spatial and social planning inquiries. The fact of the matter is that the population’s involvement in such inquiries is continuously decreasing. Where there is some participation, the representation of different socio-‐economic groups is low. This is resulting in ...
La Constitució espanyola no estableix grans transformacions de fons sobre el model d’Administració pública, amb les seues pròpies regles de funcionament, anterior a la seua aprovació. Hi fxa, però, principis clàssics de tot Dret democràtic modern com a elements essencials del model d’administració pública constitucional, com ara el principi de lega...
Published in Public Organization Review
This paper addresses governance reforms of the last three and a half decades and looks into the future. This is done in three parts. The first part presents a birds-eye view of the massive literature on governance and governance reforms with a focus on the good, the bad, and ugly sides, then in part two argues for an alternative concept or theory o...
Published in GeoJournal
Citizen participation is a crucial democratic practice in many western societies. In contemporary societies, different social agents utilise information and communication technology using Internet-based systems, to establish two-way communication in order to promote citizen participation. One such approach is volunteered geographical information (V...
Living labs as a research approach have been said to hold many promises regarding the evaluation of state-of-the art technologies in real-world contexts, for instance by allowing close cooperation with various stakeholders. At the same time, a living lab approach is connected with substantial complexity and increased risk. This paper elaborates on ...
