Publications



The economics and financing of city-scale retrofits

Book, Research article by on 1 Jan 2014

As concerns over climate change and resource constraints grow, many cities across the world are trying to achieve a low carbon transition. Although new zero carbon buildings are an important part of the story, in existing cities the transformation of the current building stock and urban infrastructure must inevitably form the main focus for transitioning […]



Regime complexes and national policy coherence: Experiences in the biodiversity cluster

Research article by Velázquez Gomar, Lindsay Stringer, Jouni Paavola on 1 Jan 2014

Regime complexes or overlapping regimes relating to a common subject matter create policy coherence challenges at the national level. Recent research has observed a positive correlation between regime complexes and policy coherence: improved regime integration enables greater policy coherence and vice versa. Policy coherence has nonetheless been approached as a problem of foreign policy and […]