The concept of ecosystem services (ES) is attracting increased attention as a way to communicate the value of nature for human well-being by using a language that reflects...

This paper discusses opportunities to promote pollution prevention technologies through public policy, describing the case of dry cleaning. The crisis in dry cleaning is...

Environmental policy is characterised by complexity, in causes and effects, resulting in various combinations of policy instruments. However, evaluating these policy instrument...

Recent years have seen the emergence, take-up and use of the term 'policy mix' by innovation policy makers and by policy analysts & scholars alike. Imported from economic...

AbstractThis contribution fleshes out the insights that the epistemic community (EC) approach can make to studying the public policy process and to how policy instruments are...

This paper uses a policy design perspective with which to examine the formulation of programmes that are based on the concept of co-production. In doing so, the paper reviews...

Federalism plays a foundational role in structuring public expectations about how the United States will respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, as both an unprecedented public-health...

As a new concept in policy analysis, instrument constituencies shed light on the ‘supply side’ of policy-making and thereby fill a gap in our understanding of national and...

Different policy approaches and responses to common environmental challenges, such as climate change, exist between countries, and sometimes even within countries. This...

During the last decennia, the Walloon region in Belgium has launched new instruments to strategically fund university research. A new program called "Poles of Competitiveness"...