Most downloaded papers 

The papers listed below are the thirty research papers downloaded most often from the Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy website in the last twelve months. The papers are ranked in order of their popularity, such that the paper ranked 1 has been downloaded most often. The list is updated monthly, with statistics based upon a rolling twelve-month period. The figure in parentheses is the year in which the paper was published in print.

1 The governance of sustainable development: taking stock and looking forwards (2008)
Andrew Jordan
2 Governing space: planning reform and the politics of sustainability (2006)
Richard Cowell, Susan Owens
3 Converging agendas? Energy and climate change policies in the UK (2009)
Heather Lovell, Harriet Bulkeley, Susan Owens
4 The territorial governance of the shadow economy (2008)
Luigi Burroni, Colin Crouch
5 Policy networks and advocacy coalitions: explaining policy change and stability in UK industrial pollution policy? (2000)
Adrian Smith
6 Vancouver’s promise of the world’s first sustainable Olympic Games (2008)
Meg Holden, Julia MacKenzie, Robert VanWynsberghe
7 The implementation of EU environmental policy: a policy problem without a political solution? (1999)
A Jordan
8 Deliberation and inclusion: vehicles for increasing trust in UK public governance? (2001)
Dan Bloomfield, Kevin Collins, Charlotte Fry, Richard Munton
9 Ethnic-minority businesses in the UK: a review of research and policy developments (2008)
Monder Ram, Trevor Jones
10 Beauty and the beast? BP’s and Exxon’s positions on global climate change (2000)
Ian H Rowlands
11 Multilevel governance, networking cities, and the geography of climate-change mitigation: two Swedish examples (2009)
Eva Gustavsson, Ingemar Elander, Mats Lundmark
12 Locating and explaining area-based urban initiatives: New Deal for Communities in England (2004)
Paul Lawless
13 Green niches in sustainable development: the case of organic food in the United Kingdom (2006)
Adrian Smith
14 Discourse coalitions and the Australian climate change policy network (2000)
Harriet Bulkeley
15 Environmental integration and policy implementation: competing governance modes in waste management decision making (2009)
Måns Nilsson, Mats Eklund, Sara Tyskeng
16 Partnerships, power, and scale in rural governance (2001)
Bill Edwards, Mark Goodwin, Simon Pemberton, Michael Woods
17 Regional planning tensions: planning for economic growth and sustainable development in two contrasting English regions (2003)
David Counsell, Graham Haughton
18 The new politics of urban housing (2008)
Alan Murie, Rob Rowlands
19 The limits of property-led regeneration (1993)
R Imrie, H Thomas
20 Urban regeneration in London Docklands: a five-year policy review (1988)
A Church
21 Retrieving the baby from the bathwater: slum upgrading in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007)
Sumila Gulyani, Ellen M Bassett
22 Community participation: using social network analysis to improve developmental benefits (2008)
Nancy Holman
23 Decentralisation, enablement, and local governance in low-income countries (2002)
A H J (Bert) Helmsing
24 Local government systems: from historic divergence towards convergence? Great Britain, France, and Germany as comparative cases in point (2000)
Hellmut Wollmann
25 Face-to-face, buzz, and knowledge bases: sociospatial implications for learning, innovation, and innovation policy (2007)
Bjørn Asheim, Lars Coenen, Jan Vang
26 Cost – benefit analysis and environmental policymaking (2001)
Nick Hanley
27 Transportation: the bottleneck of regional competitiveness in Toronto (2008)
Roger Keil, Douglas Young
28 The implications of EU accession for Polish SMEs (2001)
David Smallbone, Bogdan Piasecki, Anna Rogut
29 Vulnerability and capacity: explaining local commitment to climate-change policy (2008)
Sammy Zahran, Samuel D Brody, Arnold Vedlitz, Himanshu Grover, Caitlyn Miller
30 Environmental policy in Thailand: values, attitudes, and behavior among the slum dwellers of Bangkok (1997)
A G Daniere, L M Takahashi