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Ehemalige Organisationseinheiten Theologie / Religion, Wirtschaft und Politik (Seele), Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Nachhaltigkeitsforschung (Burger)
Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
The governance of sustainable energy transitions (SET) is facing multiple technological, economic, societal and political uncertainties. In practice, these energy-related uncertainties play a role not only at the level of “major politics,” but also in the policymaking of local decision makers and planners. This paper seeks to attain a more differentiated understanding of how...
Urban Planning
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Nachhaltigkeitsforschung (Burger)
Nudging refers to a much-debated political steering approach that relies on gentle interventions in decision architectures of individuals with the aim to shape their behaviour in a direction that is beneficial for them and/or for the society as a whole. For some, nudges have the potential to address grand societal challenges in an efficient and effective manner; others regard nudges as...
ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Nachhaltigkeitsforschung (Burger)
This article explores the politics of decentralization and state-peasant encounters in rural Oromiya, Ethiopia. Breaking with a centralized past, the incumbent government of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) committed itself to a decentralization policy in the early 1990s and has since then created a number of new sites for state-citizen interactions. In the context of...
Africa
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Nachhaltigkeitsforschung (Burger)
Soane, Emma; Schubert, Iljana; Pollard, Simon J.; Rocks, Sophie A.; Black, Edgar
Government institutions have responsibilities to distribute risk management funds meaningfully and to be accountable for their choices. We took a macro-level sociological approach to understanding the role of government in managing environmental risks, and insights from micro-level psychology to examine individual-level risk-related perceptions and beliefs. Survey data from 2,068 U.K. citizens...
Risk analysis
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Nachhaltigkeitsforschung (Burger)
Publication: ConferencePaper (Artikel, die in Tagungsbänden erschienen sind)