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Cultural heritage governance and management has been shifting from the sole authority of the state and public bodies towards approaches that list multi-actor partnerships in several combinations involving public actors, civil society, private actors and community. This paper examines the public–civil, public–private and public–private–community partnerships through expounding rationales, conceptual backgrounds and theoretical framings for each partnership, followed by a systemic review and analysis of the academic literature sourced through the PRISMA protocol. The analysis objective was to assess the main advantages and disadvantages of each of the partnerships in governing and managing cultural heritage, noting the levels of representation of each governance and management approach. The results have shown that the public–civil and public–private–community partnerships have similar advantages and disadvantages, with the public–civil partnership being the least represented approach in the literature, while the public–private partnership has the highest level of representation with advantages and disadvantages that are inclined towards more pragmatic aims than those of the other two examined approaches. The so-called 'new governance models' of heritage were also detected in the analysis; however, they represent only a variant of the already analysed models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the complex, multilateral and polycentric governance of the climate agenda, as well as the knowledge management architecture around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Noting the difficulty involved in this governance, the paper shows how it has been capable of making progress in combating the climate crisis. Climate action governance resembles a network of networks, a dense web of public, private, social, technological, knowledgebased and intersectoral initiatives. Ensuring compliance with agreements is, without question, complex in many respects, but to date it has proven to be the only viable path. Highly dependent on the global context, the green transition is an opportunity to make a qualitive leap forward, against the backdrop of an energy crisis triggered by the invasion of Ukraine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• The geopolitical situation in Europe has put a premium on the risk governance of petroleum infrastructures. • The situation demonstrates complex connectedness; between institutions, sectors, nations, analytical levels, and between safety and security risk problems. • We propose a new research agenda to enable safety science to analyze and contribute to the governance of risks of this nature. • The article outlines a theoretical framework for holistic risk governance of risks with complex connectedness. The geopolitical situation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 caused instant concern regarding the security of European petroleum infrastructures, with the sabotage against the Nord Stream pipelines visible manifestations of the weaponization of energy infrastructures. In this article, we use the sudden shift in the security situation around Norwegian petroleum infrastructures as an example to highlight the intersection between security and safety risk problems, and the relationship between different analytical levels in the subsequent risk governance. The example presents an opportunity for analytically capturing complexity and connectedness in a way that enables empirical study and conceptual development. We argue that there is a need for a reoriented research agenda for how safety science deals with multi-level, multi-actor and cross-sectoral risk governance, if safety science is to be able to study, theorize, and ultimately contribute to the solving of some of our major contemporary societal risks. To this end, we suggest a theoretical framework for holistic risk governance, that facilitates the empirical study of and theoretical development around risk problems that contain both safety and security dimensions, and crosses sectoral borders and political-administrative levels, including the international level. Utilizing conceptual lenses from the social sciences, the suggested theoretical framework emphasizes intra-organizational dimensions of risk governance, intersectoral coordination challenges, and multi-level dimensions of risk governance under processes of securitization. This framework should have relevance beyond our empirical example, and may serve as a steppingstone for further scholarship dealing with the governance of complex, inter-organizational, cross-sectoral, multi-actor and multi-level risks at the intersection between security and safety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By engaging the frameworks of boundary organizations and social worlds, this article examines the emergence of non-certified organic agri-food in China by studying its pioneer organization - the Beijing Farmers' Market (BFM). Based on tri-angulated analysis of texts, semi-structured interviews and on-site observations, we show that BFM allows diverse organic agri-food actors to cooperate by constructing a market configuration that accommodates elements of their diverse social worlds. This study contributes to studies that explore the expanding 'civic' spaces in China by explaining how civic actors mediate a public problem under the radar of State regulation. It sheds light on how some seemingly 'ungoverned' objects are indeed regulated through social interactions in margins of the mainstream food system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]