Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) is shorthand for an investing principle that prioritizes environmental issues, social issues, and corporate governance.
This global context establishes smart urban governance as a strategic approach that connects policy, planning, and implementation across multiple spatial scales from national frameworks to individual developments.
Urban waste governance in Nigeria reveals a critical yet overlooked nexus between environmental management, informality, and political legitimacy.
Proposing Solutions: The Role of Urban Governance in Global Environmentalism. The tendency to perceive the policies of one city or one nation as ineffectual to the global problem prompts political and cultural apathy toward the environmental issue.
Introduction Urban climate governance pathways refer to the diverse routes through which cities develop, implement, and evolve strategies to address climate change impacts.

This qualitative case study examines how a transformative environmental governance framework clarifies the institutional, cognitive, and relational conditions required to confront such intractable challenges under constrained political openness and asymmetric power relations.
Understanding the diversity of urban water regimes in Europe require dealing with governance instruments, actors strategies and institutional environment. To embrace it, we propose a typology of synchronous urban water regimes delineating four ideal forms.

Internationally recognized for its long-established urban environmental policy (Biomanizales) and local environmental action plan (Bioplan), it offers an example for integrating adaptation into local policies and plans.