http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75552 2026-04-11T04:20:26Z 2026-04-11T04:20:26Z Lejano, Raul Kan, Wing Shan http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75555 2026-02-03T23:56:59Z 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z

Title: IPCC and the city: the need to transition from ideology to climate justice Authors: Lejano, Raul; Kan, Wing Shan Abstract: The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been released. In it, several sections address climate change, mitigation, and adaptation in cities, with discussions of the crucial role of planning and governance in the same. This article offers a reflection on the urban elements of AR6, pointing to the prevalence of ideological elements in it, typologizing form over critical assessments of real conditions in developing cities. As much as AR6 emphasizes the carbon footprint of society, it ignores the social footprint of carbon and the potentially massive adjustments mitigation and adaptation will require of developing nations and their urban populations. Description: Critical analysis of IPCC AR6, alternative concept of the social footprint of carbon.

2024-09-01T00:00:00Z Lejano, Raul Stokols, Daniel http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75554 2026-02-03T23:49:46Z 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Social Ecological Systems in Flux Authors: Lejano, Raul; Stokols, Daniel Abstract: A world in flux confronts the present generation, raising fears of systems gone awry. Whether it is the prospect of runaway climate change or the dangers of unbridled artificial intelligence, these dilemmas suggest that scientific and technological remedies have not been matched by progress in harnessing social and political capacities for collective action. Part of this impasse stems from a gap between the multidimensional nature of con- temporary global crises and unidimensional modes of understanding and managing them. In this article, we describe an integrative approach rooted in the paradigm of social ecology that might enable us to tackle these challenges more comprehensively. We discuss, for example, how a social ecological perspective focuses attention not only on the carbon footprint of society but also on the social footprint of carbon. We review the tenets of social ecology and reflect on its promise for spurring new modes of collaborative research and collective action, including more effective strategies for planetary governance. Description: Review of the need for a social ecological approach to understand wicked global problems. Description of alternative analytic of climate change, based on the social footprint of carbon.

2024-08-01T00:00:00Z Lejano, Raul Kan, Wing Shan http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75553 2026-02-03T23:43:06Z 2025-05-02T00:00:00Z

Title: Conjectures on a relational turn in policy studies Authors: Lejano, Raul; Kan, Wing Shan Abstract: We explore emerging work around the relational dimensions of public policy. What constitutes a relational frame of analysis is a broad terrain, but some general tenets characterize these approaches, including the foregrounding of relationships between policy actors along with the idea that these relationships are, at least in part, constitutive of the role and identity of these actors. In fact, relationality has long been a feature of studies on policy processes and implementation. More recent scholarship in policy and public administration attempts to more systematically theorize and analyze relationality. This draws from the “relational turn” in sociology and other social sciences. After reviewing the relevant literature on relationality, we offer several propositions on the immediate relevance of the concept of relationality for policy studies. Short of accepting strong ontological and teleological claims regarding relationality and society found in the broader literature, there nevertheless is value in the systematic exploration of the relational dimensions of public policy—i.e., as a mode of description of the practice of policy in the everyday, and as a rich, new lens by which to understand institutions in society. While previous policy literature will acknowledge the relevance of the relational in policy life, there has yet to be a concerted effort to foreground relationship and relationality so as to be the primary focus of analysis.

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