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 Vancouver’s promise of the world’s first sustainable Olympic Games (2008)
Meg Holden, Julia MacKenzie, Robert VanWynsberghe
5 The implementation of EU environmental policy: a policy problem without a political solution? (1999)
A Jordan
6 The territorial governance of the shadow economy (2008)
Luigi Burroni, Colin Crouch
7 Environmental integration and policy implementation: competing governance modes in waste management decision making (2009)
Måns Nilsson, Mats Eklund, Sara Tyskeng
8 Multilevel governance, networking cities, and the geography of climate-change mitigation: two Swedish examples (2009)
Eva Gustavsson, Ingemar Elander, Mats Lundmark
9 Regional planning tensions: planning for economic growth and sustainable development in two contrasting English regions (2003)
David Counsell, Graham Haughton
10 Locating and explaining area-based urban initiatives: New Deal for Communities in England (2004)
Paul Lawless
11 Discourse coalitions and the Australian climate change policy network (2000)
Harriet Bulkeley
12 The new politics of urban housing (2008)
Alan Murie, Rob Rowlands
13 Cost – benefit analysis and environmental policymaking (2001)
Nick Hanley
14 Policy networks and advocacy coalitions: explaining policy change and stability in UK industrial pollution policy? (2000)
Adrian Smith
15 Deliberation and inclusion: vehicles for increasing trust in UK public governance? (2001)
Dan Bloomfield, Kevin Collins, Charlotte Fry, Richard Munton
16 Community participation: using social network analysis to improve developmental benefits (2008)
Nancy Holman
17 Participation in EU biodiversity governance: how far beyond rhetoric? (2009)
Felix Rauschmayer, Sybille van den Hove, Thomas Koetz
18 What are we gaining from stakeholder involvement? Observations from environmental planning in the Great Lakes (2001)
Thomas C Beierle, David M Konisky
19 Transportation: the bottleneck of regional competitiveness in Toronto (2008)
Roger Keil, Douglas Young
20 Face-to-face, buzz, and knowledge bases: sociospatial implications for learning, innovation, and innovation policy (2007)
Bjørn Asheim, Lars Coenen, Jan Vang
21 Beauty and the beast? BP’s and Exxon’s positions on global climate change (2000)
Ian H Rowlands
22 Vulnerability and capacity: explaining local commitment to climate-change policy (2008)
Sammy Zahran, Samuel D Brody, Arnold Vedlitz, Himanshu Grover, Caitlyn Miller
23 Green niches in sustainable development: the case of organic food in the United Kingdom (2006)
Adrian Smith
24 Immigrant entrepreneurship, institutional discrimination, and implications for public policy: a case study in Toronto (2007)
Carlos Teixeira, Lucia Lo, Marie Truelove
25 The joy of joining up: modes of integrating the local government modernisation agenda (2003)
Richard Cowell, Steve Martin
26 Community participation, rights, and responsibilities: the governmentality of sustainable development policy in Australia (2008)
Jennifer A Summerville, Barbara A Adkins, Gavin Kendall
27 Retrieving the baby from the bathwater: slum upgrading in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007)
Sumila Gulyani, Ellen M Bassett
28 EU Cohesion policy and the role of the regions: investigating the influence of Structural Funds in the new member states (2008)
John Bachtler, Irene McMaster
29 Partnership and role perception, three case studies on the meaning of being a representative in rural partnerships (2009)
Petra Derkzen, Bettina Bock
30 ‘Wicked’, ‘messy’, and ‘clumsy’: long-term frameworks for sustainability (2008)
Bob Frame