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Why converging technologies need converging international regulation

Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, gene editing, nanotechnology, neurotechnology and robotics, which were originally unrelated or separated, are becoming more closely integrated. Consequently, the boundaries between the physical-biologi ...

Springer2024

Artificial intelligence of things for synergizing smarter eco-city brain, metabolism, and platform: Pioneering data-driven environmental governance

Jeffrey Huang, Simon Elias Bibri

Emerging smarter eco-cities, inherently intertwined with environmental governance, function as experimental sites for testing novel technological solutions and implementing environmental reforms aimed at addressing complex challenges. However, despite sign ...

Elsevier2024

Smart cities and sustainable development goals (SDGs): A systematic literature review of co-benefits and trade-offs

Simon Elias Bibri

Despite the wealth of research on smart cities, there is a lack of studies examining interlinkages between smart cities and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In other words, there is limited research on how implementing smart city solutions can lead to ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2023

Nine recommendations for the governance of AI systems

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Some governance functions traditionally performed by humans are increasingly informed and sometimes automatically executed by machine learning algorithms (governance by machine learning) to benefit society. Therefore, it is necessary to think also about th ...

EPFL2022

How to link sustainability assessments with local governance? – Connecting indicators to institutions and controversies

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Albert Merino, Pekka Jaakko Halla

The concept of sustainability is growing in importance for local urban governance, and indicator-based assessments represent a popular means for its operationalization. While much effort has been spent developing the technical aspects of these assessments, ...

2022

Measures against the abandonment of common property summer pastures: experimental evidence from joint appropriation-provision games

Ivo Philippe Baur

Common property summer pastures constitute longstanding evidence that the tragedy of the commons can be prevented through self-organization. As a byproduct of their sustainable governance, high nature value farming systems with well-integrated patchy lands ...

RESILIENCE ALLIANCE2021

Combatting climate change through a portfolio of approaches

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Given the urgency of deploying all possible ways to combat climate change, and in light of lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak that it was a mistake to ignore signals and not prepare for worst-case scenarios, this article suggests that tech ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2021

COVID-19: A risk governance perspective

One effect of the COVID-19 crisis has been to require policymakers to go through the various stages of the risk governance process under conditions of high stress and compressed timescales. In this article we use our risk governance framework to outline th ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)2020

Barriers to the implementation of international agreements on the ground: Climate change and resilience building in the Araucanía Region of Chile

Nicola Mary Banwell, Silvia Hostettler

Implementing disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate change adaptation and mitigation (CCA/M), and sustainable development are key to increasing community resilience to pressing climate change risks. Barriers to grassroots implementation of national and int ...

2020

lnternational governance issues on climate engineering Information for policymakers

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Some climate engineering technologies are being developed to remove CO2 from the atmosphere (carbon dioxide removal, CDR), which is expected to contribute to reducing and preventing climate change. Some other technologies (solar radiation modification, SRM ...

EPFL International Risk Governance Center2020

The Effect of European Integration on Swiss Energy Policy and Governance

Matthias Finger, Paul Adrianus Van Baal

The unique “Swiss way” of association with the European Union (EU) has received increasing attention in light of recent events such as Brexit as it is based on sectoral agreements without an overarching institutional framework. As such, Europeanization of ...

2019

Policy analysis during socio-technical energy transitions: three essays on the Swiss electricity sector

Paul Adrianus Van Baal

Global energy systems are changing rapidly. This energy transition complicates the use of traditional policy analysis methods. However, proper policy analysis and design is essential in managing the transition. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approa ...

EPFL2019

The development of Mobility-as-a-Service in the Helsinki metropolitan area: A multi-level governance analysis

Matthias Finger, Maxime Ugo Julien Audouin

The concept of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) has the potential to help break away from the current automobility system of private car ownership towards a more sustainable 'post-car' system. While technology undoubtedly plays an important role in the develop ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Governing the Use of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies: Not One-Size-Fits-All

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) have the capacity to improve how many companies and organizations conduct transactions or store information securely, among many other potential benefits. However, their development and implementation d ...

2018

Social Innovation and Resilience: exploring the dynamics and impacts on the digital transformation of governance & society

Gianluigi Viscusi, Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

This paper is set out to establish the foundations for developing a framework to assess the potential impact of social policy innovation to contribute to the debate on the future of welfare systems. This calls in fact for monitoring the evolution of social ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2018

Agency conflicts around the world

Erwan Morellec, Boris Nikolov

We use a dynamic model of financing decisions to measure agency conflicts for a large panel of 12,652 firms from 14 countries. Our estimates show that agency conflicts are large and vary significantly across firms and countries. Differences in agency confl ...

2018

Introduction to the IRGC Risk Governance Framework

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin, Marcel Thomas Bürkler

The IRGC Framework recommends a holistic, multidisciplinary and multistakeholder approach to risk. It supports processes that aim to provide and structure scientific evidence about a risk in a societal context. It helps decision-makers analyse the major am ...

EPFL2017

Crise et gouvernance : gouvernance urbaine dans un contexte de crise: trajectoires de villes intermédiaires haïtiennes après le séisme du 12 janvier 2010

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

On January 12 2010, Haiti was hit by an earthquake of 7.2 on the Richter scale. Close to 220,000 persons died, more than 300,000 were wounded and almost two other million were displaced. The earthquake¿s epicenter was actually several kilometers away the c ...

EPFL2017

Towards a sustainable development licence to operate for the extractive sector

Bruno Maria Camelo Oberle

The extractive sector now holds an even more predominant position for national economies following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. The sector can make significant contributions to the achievement of a large number of these Goals. ...

Springer Heidelberg2017

Shaping public sector innovation theory: an interpretative framework for ICT-enabled governance innovation

Gianluigi Viscusi, Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

The paper discusses from a conceptual standpoint the need for renewing the lenses through which looking at the phenomenon of ICT-enabled innovation in governance and policy-making, suggesting that a possible ‘new theory of public sector innovation ́ should ...

Springer Verlag2015