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Building Affordable Futures: The Role of Plank Road Community Land Bank and Trust

  Urban affordability is an issue cities all over the world grapple with. Emerging from first the foreclosure crisis in 2008 and now COVID-19, many cities are facing an ongoing and more severe problem: the lack of quality affordable housing. Compounded by...

The Sunrise of Water Era: Innovating governance towards sustainable water management

By Marijana Krstić   Water shapes every facet of our world: it is essential part of life we use daily - life giving, and sometimes a brutal force of nature - contested and destructive. As a shared resource, it could both unite and divide us. Management of this...

BLOCKCHAIN AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

BLOCKCHAIN AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION An opportunity or a risk? By Leonardo Ortenzi    Introduction The following article is intended to illustrate and analyze the main argument of the Blockchain Technology, focusing on making an examination of this technology...

Paving the Way for a Sustainable Energy Future: Insights from Cameroon, Ghana, and Nigeria

In a world grappling with the challenges of climate change and energy sustainability, it is imperative for nations to reassess their energy strategies. The thesis, titled "Critical Analysis of the Future of Energy Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Just Energy...

The Law on Nature Restoration: An Innovative Stride Towards Environmental Regeneration

The Law on Nature Restoration originates from an extensive consultative phase between the European Commission and various stakeholders, following the publication of the European Biodiversity Strategy 2030 in 2021. The preceding strategy had achieved modest results: a...

The Plank Road Community Land Bank and Trust is developed by Prof @SheilaRFoster & Clayton Gillette with Project Manager Manny Patole and focuses on #cocreation and #cogovernance of local community assets to facilitate community-driven economic development https://labgov.city/theurbanmedialab/building-affordable-futures-the-role-of-plank-road-community-land-bank-and-trust/

Professor @chrisiaio at “𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 - 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬-𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑”, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, as a representative of the @eu_engage

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭
Monday, November 6, 5:00 p.m. at Aula 203,
@UniLUISS, Viale Romania 32.
Keynote speaker @BenkiPiyako, introduced by @ProfPrencipe
Interventions from @anto_gaudioso and @rafbarb
👉https://luiss.formstack.com/forms/healing_ourselves_by_healing_the_planet

🔗This article on the topic of #Blockchain analyzes opportunities and risks that this new technology could generate, applied to the field of #PublicAdministration

Read more about the new insight here
https://lnkd.in/gVCQJCDW

#EmergingTech #BlockchainInnovation #Bitcoin #insight

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Recent Publications & Projects

The Co-City Design Principles

The Co-city approach has been formulated at this stage considering the various developmental phases it has been through in each chapter and the cases that have been analyzed in different cities. The most recent chapter dubbed Urban Co-governance illustrated the 5P’s...

ENERGY COMMUNITIES: THE EVOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN AND ITALIAN REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS

  Background: climate emergency and energy transition   Climate change plagues the earth system, the anthropogenic activity of the inordinate use of fossil fuels in industrial supply chains, commercial activities and the energy sector is the main cause of...

Urban Co-Governance

As the previous chapter exposed us to the policies and regulatory instruments to enhance the city collectively and provided clear examples of cities that have learned from the Reggio Emilia Regulation which also brought forth Co-Bologna, this chapter seeks to build...

The City as a Commons

This chapter looks at how public policies have developed in a few places that allow both public and private players to jointly or cooperatively generate and then manage shared urban resources across the city. It gives varying definitions of collaboration and how much...

The Urban Commons

The second chapter of the Co-city book is initiated by recalling Elinor Ostrom’s revolutionary studies of natural resource commons (Ostrom 1990), posing the question: Are there groups of residents and/or resource users who are willing and able to organize themselves,...

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CTE360: BUILD YOUR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

CTE360: BUILD YOUR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

  Are you ready? This is an exciting opportunity for you. 𝐂𝐓𝐄𝟑𝟔𝟎: 𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 https://www.comune.roma.it/web-resources/cms/documents/CTE360_2024.pdf Are you a student, graduate or researcher with an innovative idea or entrepreneurial dream?...

LabGov’s Research Team Night – Nov. 13 2023

LabGov’s Research Team Night – Nov. 13 2023

LabGov’s research team gathered in a pleasant evening, with the co-director Christian Iaione, to present and discuss some of the ongoing projects they are working on. Dr. Sofia Eliodori, Postdoc Fellow at Luiss Guido Carli University for the project EUARENAS presented...

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