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 The implementation of EU environmental policy: a policy problem without a political solution? (1999)
A Jordan
3 Spatial planning, devolution, and new planning spaces (2010)
Phil Allmendinger, Graham Haughton
4 Face-to-face, buzz, and knowledge bases: sociospatial implications for learning, innovation, and innovation policy (2007)
Bjørn Asheim, Lars Coenen, Jan Vang
5 Converging agendas? Energy and climate change policies in the UK (2009)
Heather Lovell, Harriet Bulkeley, Susan Owens
6 Governing space: planning reform and the politics of sustainability (2006)
Richard Cowell, Susan Owens
7 Discourse coalitions and the Australian climate change policy network (2000)
Harriet Bulkeley
8 Beauty and the beast? BP’s and Exxon’s positions on global climate change (2000)
Ian H Rowlands
9 Green niches in sustainable development: the case of organic food in the United Kingdom (2006)
Adrian Smith
10 What are we gaining from stakeholder involvement? Observations from environmental planning in the Great Lakes (2001)
Thomas C Beierle, David M Konisky
11 Overcoming barriers to climate change adaptation—a question of multilevel governance? (2010)
Helene Amundsen, Frode Berglund, Hege Westskog
12 The rise of urban growth coalitions, UK-style? (1991)
A Harding
13 Creating 'a generation of NIMBYs'? Interpreting the role of the state in managing the politics of urban development (2012)
Andy Inch
14 Retrieving the baby from the bathwater: slum upgrading in Sub-Saharan Africa (2007)
Sumila Gulyani, Ellen M Bassett
15 International urban festivals as a catalyst for governance capacity building (2010)
Paul Benneworth, Hugh Dauncey
16 Policy networks and advocacy coalitions: explaining policy change and stability in UK industrial pollution policy? (2000)
Adrian Smith
17 Measurement of spatial equity (1993)
M Truelove
18 Transportation: the bottleneck of regional competitiveness in Toronto (2008)
Roger Keil, Douglas Young
19 Ecological versus social restoration? How urban river restoration challenges but also fails to challenge the science – policy nexus in the United Kingdom (2006)
Sally Eden, Sylvia Tunstall
20 Regional planning tensions: planning for economic growth and sustainable development in two contrasting English regions (2003)
David Counsell, Graham Haughton
21 Vulnerability and capacity: explaining local commitment to climate-change policy (2008)
Sammy Zahran, Samuel D Brody, Arnold Vedlitz, Himanshu Grover, Caitlyn Miller
22 Urban regime theory in comparative perspective (1994)
G Stoker, K Mossberger
23 Ethnic-minority businesses in the UK: a review of research and policy developments (2008)
Monder Ram, Trevor Jones
24 Governing climate change transnationally: assessing the evidence from a database of sixty initiatives (2012)
Harriet Bulkeley, Liliana Andonova, Karin Bäckstrand, Michele Betsill, Daniel Compagnon, Rosaleen Duffy, Ans Kolk, Matthew Hoffmann, David Levy, Peter Newell, Tori Milledge, Matthew Paterson, Philipp Pattberg, Stacy VanDeveer
25 Remote sensing, digital mapping, and geographical information systems: the creation of national policy in the United Kingdom (1986)
D W Rhind
26 Balancing concentration and dispersion? Public policy and urban structure in Toronto (2000)
Pierre Filion
27 Urban regeneration in London Docklands: a five-year policy review (1988)
A Church
28 Getting involved in plan making: participation and stakeholder involvement in local and regional spatial strategies in England (2010)
Mark Baker, Stephen Hincks, Graeme Sherriff
29 In search of the ‘economic dividend’ of devolution: spatial disparities, spatial economic policy, and decentralisation in the UK (2012)
Andy Pike, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, John Tomaney, Gianpiero Torrisi, Vassilis Tselios