Power dynamics shape and reshape water diplomacy and impact water conflicts, cooperation, and the status-quo. Analysis of conflict and cooperation can help specify the need for particular terms of agreement in water diplomacy. Institutional design…
Emerging technologies are changing how groundwater policy decisions are made, by expanding monitoring and communications. The science-policy interface is facilitated by these technologies but also remains a primarily political dynamic, underscoring the importance of communication…
Governments must recognise that technology does not exist in a vacuum but amid broader social, political and economic forces that are often unpredictable. The security and privacy concerns of citizens cannot be dismissed through assurances…
Technology neither provides a conclusive fix for unsustainable behaviour nor excuses humanity from an inconvenient reckoning about the perils of greed and exploitation. Before embracing a post-pandemic smart city surge, policymakers must embrace this fundamental…
The turn of the decade is seeing substantial efforts to reduce plastic pollution across Southeast Asia. Around the world, trillions of plastic bags are used each year with troublesome impacts on living conditions and waste infrastructure. In Thailand, a ban on…
Old ways of thinking about and making policy were built for a different era. Do we continue down this road, hoping that doing the same things again and again, only ‘better’ this time, will push…
Resource boomtowns are unique policy laboratories that have the resources to experiment with innovative development initiatives and, if embracing an opportunistic planning vision, have the chance to remake themselves using the proceeds of their fleeting…
Technology is neither a substitute for good governance nor a solution to bad. It will succeed only to the extent that governments commit to institutional reform and consider sustainable growth more of an existential imperative…
While the SDGs were designed largely with national-level policies in mind, cities are playing an increasing role by incorporating SDG goals into urban plans. This policy process, often referred to as SDG localisation, raises new opportunities…
While improved governance is a solution to a variety of challenges, earthquake resilience presents an opportunity to explore the pitfalls of governance reform strategies that assume the preeminence of global standards and hegemonic knowledge frames….
