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Digital change in the public administration during the covid pandemic today.Our colleague Dr. Caroline Fischer discussed the digital change in the public administration during the covid pandemic today. Prof. Dr. Tobias Brandt and Niklas Korte from the University of Münster published a study “Covid as a driver of innovation” and invited for a discussion with researchers and practitioners. The recorded discussion.Read more
Le Ahn Long shares here US based project on climate hazardsThe increasing frequency and severity of global disruptions diminish governments’ capacity to effectively serve their constituencies. Many long-standing policies and practices are rapidly becoming obsolete or untenable in the face of technological, environmental, and social shocks, while public demands mount for nimble, responsive policymaking (Head and Alford 2015). The proposed research examines how cities are responding to such disruptions, focusing on the myriad challenges posed by the climate crisis. Cities are a key locus of governance: More than 55 percent of the world’s population currently lives in urban areas, and this number is expected to climb to nearly 70% by 2050 (UN 2018). When a disruption occurs, local decision-makers can react in a range of ways, from doing nothing or making small adjustments at the margins of current practices, to fundamentally changing policy processes and outcomes. These choices have important implications for community health, safety, and quality of life, but we do not know enough about the decision processes that produce these variegated outcomes.Read more