Dysfunctional Social Systems, Experiential Traits and Sheer Wickedness: Interrogating the Vicissitudes of Criminal Violence in South Africa by Omololu Fagbadebo, Martin Kabange, Zwelithini Zwane, Judell Joseph, Hlengiwe Mabizela

“…This paper submits that a deliberate and conscientious approach, through a reformed criminal justice system as well as societal re-orientation, would be necessary to recalibrate the subconsciousness of citizens to be attuned to the appropriate social order stimulated by responsive and responsible governance structures. …”
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Decarbonization of the Colombian Building Sector: Social Network Analysis of Enabling Stakeholders by John Salazar, Jose Guevara, Monica Espinosa, Felipe Rivera, Juan F. Franco

“…Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is one of the main challenges to stopping climate change; in particular, the building sector acts as one of the main emitters. In response, governments have been developing nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and roadmaps to establish measures to achieve net-zero emissions. …”
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Dynamic-Based Limit Analysis for Seismic Assessment of Free-Standing Walls of San Giovanni Church in Castelseprio UNESCO World Heritage Site by Luca Sbrogiò, Lorenzo Tavano, Ylenia Saretta, Amedeo Caprino, Alejandra Chavarría Arnau, Gian Pietro Brogiolo, Maria Rosa Valluzzi

“…In such cases, the dynamic response governs the activation of local mechanisms of collapse, determining the shape of the macroblocks and their position. …”
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Novice rural principals’ successful leadership practices in financial management: Multiple accountabilities by Phumlani Erasmus Myende, Michael Anthony Samuel, Ansurie Pillay

“…Rather than being a pathological problem, school financial management offers policy and practice potential to develop co-responsible governance.…”
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A sustainable balance between innovation and risk: How the “right to science” affects China’s medical biotechnology regulatory policy by Yiping Han, Lindsay L. Fan, Yang Xue

“…We believe that a comprehensive global effort is needed to harmonize these two principles, highlighting the imperative of responsible governance in steering the trajectory of this powerful scientific frontier. …”
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A Study on Public Perceptions of Carbon Neutrality in China: has the Idea of ESG Been Encompassed? by Rita Yi Man Li, Qianqian Wang, Liyun Zeng, Hong Chen

“…The results revealed that people’s concerns about carbon neutrality were mainly related to the environment (e.g. low carbon, sustainable, and wind power), social (e.g. country and poverty), and governance (responsibility, government report). Weibo users believed that achieving carbon-neutrality allows us to pursue a better life. …”
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The Benefits of Fit-for-Purpose Land Administration for Urban Community Resilience in a Time of Climate Change and COVID-19 Pandemic by David Mitchell, Bernhard Barth, Serene Ho, M. Siraj Sait, Darryn McEvoy

“…It proposes ways to be better manage urban growth through the responsible governance of land tenure rights and more effective land-use planning to improve resilience to multiple shocks and stresses, hence, delivering improved access to safe land and shelter. …”
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Transitioning toward sustainable consumption at the Swedish local governance level by Katarina Axelsson, Karin André, Elena Dawkins, Åsa Gerger Swartling, Maria Xylia

“…We identify opportunities to establish more responsive governance structures as important for addressing these issues, where interactions at multiple levels are required to achieve successful governance of Sweden's work on sustainable consumption and address the barriers identified by this study. …”
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If it Matters, Measure it: Unpacking Diversification in Canada by Trevor Tombe, Robert L. Mansell

“…At the end of the day, responsible governments must define their objectives clearly, and recognize the costs of policies meant to achieve those objectives. …”
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If it Matters, Measure it: Unpacking Diversification in Canada by Trevor Tombe, Robert L. Mansell

“…At the end of the day, responsible governments must define their objectives clearly, and recognize the costs of policies meant to achieve those objectives. …”
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Recreation and Tourism Service Systems Featuring High Riverbanks in Taiwan by Guey-Shin Shyu, Wei-Ta Fang, Bai-You Cheng

“…Taiwan’s cities exhibit high levels of urbanization, which has resulted in limited recreation space in urban areas. In response, government policies have been enacted to promote the large-scale greening of rivers in urban areas and the establishment of aquatic recreation areas that do not interfere with water flow areas, pavilions for recreation purposes, indoor stadiums, and biking lanes alongside riverbanks to provide citizens with recreation space. …”
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Incorporating Point-of-Care Bacterial Fluorescence into a Wound Clinic Antimicrobial Stewardship Program by Thomas E. Serena

“…Background: In 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of an emerging world-wide crisis of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms. In response, government and professional organizations recommended that health care systems adopt antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs). …”
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Creating ‘wellbeing societies’: moving from rhetoric to action by Faten Ben Abdelaziz, Carmel Williams, Yasmine J Anwar, Vivian Lin, Ruediger Krech

“…The urgency and need for change has never been greater. In response, governments are paying increasing attention to the notion of wellbeing as an integrating concept to drive action to address these challenges. …”
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Do institutional contingencies matter for green investment?—An institution based view of Chinese listed companies by Farman Ullah Khan, Junrui Zhang, Imran Saeed, Sajid Ullah

“…Current research in the field of environmental management has placed significant emphasis on understanding the reasons behind varying organizational responses to environmental responsibilities. Governance scholars emphasize the central role of institutional factors in shaping environmental responsibilities, primarily due to the substantial influence exerted by regulatory institutions. …”
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Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Population Health and the Public’s Role in Its Governance: Perspectives From a Citizen and Expert Panel by Vincent Couture, Marie-Christine Roy, Emma Dez, Samuel Laperle, Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon

“…This raises important ethical considerations but also calls for responsible governance, considering that this will affect the population. …”
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First Report of Native Parasitoids of Fall Armyworm <i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i> Smith (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Mozambique by Albasini Caniço, António Mexia, Luisa Santos

“…As an emergency response, governments in several countries distributed and/or promoted massive use of synthetic insecticides among smallholder farmers to fight FAW. …”
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Tenure reform for better forestry: An unfinished policy agenda by Aggarwal, S, Larson, A, McDermott, C, Katila, P, Giessen, L

“…This article draws on recent assessments conducted in 23 countries by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on community-based forestry and associated forest tenure regimes based on the internationally endorsed Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (the VGGT). The findings suggest that governments are increasingly giving legal recognition to community rights to use both timber and non-timber forest products for commercial purposes. …”

Impact mechanism of land resource allocation on integrated urban-rural development by ZHAO Wei, ZHU Peixin

“…[Results] (1) Theoretically, a unified market-based urban-rural land allocation system can bring about an increase in social welfare compared with a divided state, while the quasi-public goods attribute of land and the limited rationality of the government dictate that the allocation of land resources under the orientation of integrated urban-rural development should be between a “responsive government” and an “effective market”. (2) The government’s control behavior, characterized by tax policy, has a significant positive impact on the level of integrated urban-rural development, but the impact of industrial policy is not significant, and both the marketization of urban land and the marketization of agricultural land significantly contributed to the improvement of the level of integrated urban-rural development during the study period. (3) The mediation effects of marketization of agricultural land and urban land were 19.29% and 12.26% respectively in the path of tax policy affecting the level of integrated urban-rural development; the mediation effect of land marketization between industrial policy and integrated urban-rural development was not significant. …”
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Global Health Governance and Health Equity in the Context of COVID-19: A Scoping Review by Wafa Abu El Kheir-Mataria, Hassan El-Fawal, Shahjahan Bhuiyan, Sungsoo Chun

“…Background: Health equity is an important aspect of responsible governance. COVID-19 exposed existing shortfalls of Global Health Governance (GHG). …”
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The politics of adaptive governance: water reform, climate change, and First Nations’ justice in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin by Carina A. Wyborn, Lorrae E. van Kerkhoff, Matthew J. Colloff, Jason Alexandra, Ruby Olsson

“…Adaptive water governance scholarship aspires to flexible and responsive governance that is inclusive and supports learning and collaboration among a wide range of stakeholders. …”
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