Advancing UN digital cooperation: Lessons from environmental policy and governance
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 173, S. 106392
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 173, S. 106392
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 151, S. 103614
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Public administration review: PAR
ISSN: 1540-6210
AbstractDespite a voluminous literature on resource availability and the implications for organizational performance, little is known about how changes in government agencies' resources impact their policy implementation activities and goal prioritization. This article explores how changes in resources affect regulatory enforcement activities by types of resources and policy implementation activities, and whether resource cutbacks prompt a tradeoff of the effectiveness‐equity goals. Using the block‐group level data on the Clean Air Act (CAA) implementation from 2012 to 2019, we find that state environmental agencies prioritize regulatory effectiveness over environmental justice by concentrating their resources on communities where task demands correspond to organizations' core missions. They also promote social equity to some extent when facing spending cutbacks but not staffing cuts. Spending cutbacks had a less severe impact on compliance inspections for more socially vulnerable communities, while those exposed to more imminent environmental harms received more inspections.
In: Marine policy, Band 159, S. 105892
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Economic Analysis and Policy, Band 81, S. 225-237
In: Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
This book introduces a novel discourse, based on socio-legal theory of compliance with international environmental law, which addresses the overarching question: When can international environmental law and policy achieve implementation, compliance, and be effective? Offering an important contribution to academic and practical understandings of implementation and compliance with international environmental obligations, the book firstly critiques existing multidisciplinary theories of law and then brings together international and domestic legal theories to highlight their symbiotic relationship. It also stresses the importance of interactions between domestic and international legal and policy processes. This pioneering discourse is argued to be transformative to international environmental regimes and offers a way for them to be truly normative and to achieve compliance. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of socio-legal studies and international environmental law and policy. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
In: Routledge introductions to environment series
Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their forests, while environmentalists question whether we can solve ecological problems with the same thinking that created them. As the process of steering society, governance has a critical role to play in coordinating these disparate voices and securing collective action to achieve a more sustainable future. Environmental Governance is the only book to discuss the first principles of governance, while also providing a critical overview of the wide-ranging theories and approaches that underpin policy and practice today. It places governance within its wider political context to explore how the environment is controlled, manipulated, regulated and contested by a range of actors and institutions. This book shows how network and market governance have shaped current approaches to environmental issues, while also introducing approaches such as transition management and adaptive governance. In so doing, it highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches currently in play, and considers their political implications. This second edition has been comprehensively updated to build upon the success of the acclaimed first edition, with a new chapter on the environmental governance of outer space and updated analysis of international climate change summits. It provides a ground-breaking overview of dominant and emerging approaches of environmental governance, forging critical links between them. Each chapter has been updated with new case studies, key debates and figures, and includes questions for discussion and further reading. It is essential reading for students of the environment, politics and sociology, and, indeed, anyone concerned with changing society to secure a more sustainable future.
In: Lex localis: journal of local self-government, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 197-216
In order to explore the relationship between the sustainable development of urban buildings and spatial rationality planning under the guidance of local government policies, this paper takes Beijing, Shanghai, and other regions as examples to conduct a questionnaire survey literature, analyzes environmental policies and green building principles, and puts forward several hypotheses based on relevant literature. Spatial rationality planning has an impact on the sustainable development of cities. Environmental policies and green building design principles have a constraining effect on the sustainable development of cities. Government policies can ensure the sustainability of urban building development and promote the rational distribution of space. The results show that there is an inevitable relationship between the rational spatial layout and the sustainable development of urban buildings, and environmental policy and green building design principles can promote the rational planning of space. Government policies can guide the rational layout of space and improve the sustainable development of cities. Therefore, spatial rationality planning is the main factor for the sustainable development of the city, government policy is the external factor, and environmental policy and green building design are the constraints. From the perspective of environmental policies and green building principles, local governments should guide spatial rationality planning to improve the sustainable development of buildings.
In: Routledge international handbooks
Introduction: Framing environmental history today and for the future / Emily O'Gorman, Mark Carey, William San Martín, and Sandra Swart -- Ethics, justice, and environmental histories / Heather Goodall, Meera Anna Oommen, and Madhuri Mondal -- Oral and environmental history : time, place, decolonisation and the more-than human world / Katie Holmes and Aet Annist -- Sounding environments / Hedley Twidle and Aragorn Eloff -- Geographical information system, remote sensing and spatial data infrastructure / Marina Miraglia and Kairo da Silva Santos -- The tangled bank / Harriet Ritvo and Rebecca Woods -- Multispecies cultures and environmental change : the animal (agency) turn / Diogo de Carvalho Cabral and Heta Lähdesmäki -- Animal and vector-borne diseases, zoonoses, and one health / Lyle Fearnley and Melissa Salm -- The non-human in agriculture : technologies of agriculture and non-human aspects of farming / Veronika Settele and Claiton Marcio da Silva -- (Inter)national and (Trans)regional agents : the coastal sand dunes of Mozambique / Joana Gaspar de Freitas, Inês Macamo Raimundo, Ignacio García Pereda, and Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Ruwan Sampath -- Actor-networks, conservation treaties, and international environmental history: Reassembling conventions / Raf de Bont and Simone Schleper -- Hazards and disasters : locusts, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, droughts / Katrin Kleemann and Admire Mseba -- Planetary boundaries, climate change and the Anthropocene / Ruth Morgan and Cristián Simonetti -- Extinction in environmental history : historizing problems of classification and intentionality / Dolly Jørgensen and Miles Powell -- Temporality and environmental history in the Anthropocene : timing climates, modeling futures / Emil Flatø and Erik Isberg -- Fossil fuels from extraction to emissions / Antoine Acker, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Lukas Becker, Matthew Shutzer, and Nathalia Capellini -- Global histories of environment and labour in Asia and Africa / Mattin Biglari and Olisa Godson Muojama -- Toxicity, racial capitalism and colonial mining : lessons from cyanide and gold mining in Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) / Elijah Doro and Marco Armiero -- Local fishermen knowledge and scientific expertise in Eastern Europe and West Africa: Assessing the unseen / Stefan Dorondel, Veronica Mitroi-Tisseyre, and Youssoupha Tall -- Historical memory and technocratic failures in environmental impact assessments / Javiera Barandiarán and Ricardo Oyarzún -- Cities, food, water, and environmental history in China, the USA and India: Making bubbles / Shen Hou and David Biggs -- Urban environmental governance: Historical and political ecological perspectives from South Asia / Jenia Mukherjee and René Véron -- Pedagogy for the depressed : empowerment and hope in the face of the apocalypse / Michelle K. Berry and Emily Wakild -- Activist environmental history : on war machines and guerrilla strategies / Regina Horta Duarte, Bruna Luiza Costa Pessoa, and Lucas Erichsen -- Communicating environmental history : reaching diverse audiences through online forums / Jonatan Palmblad and Jessica M. DeWitt -- Environmental history in museums : past practice and future opportunities / Luke Keogh, Liisi Jääts, Nina Möllers, and Libby Robin -- Environmental historians, policy, and governance / Alessandro Antonello and Margaret Cook -- Future directions in environmental history / Cintia Velázquez-Marroni, Jessica Urwin, Nicolo Paolo Ludovice, Bryan Umaru Kauma, Sangay Tamang, and Jayson Maurice Porter.
In: Economics of energy & environmental policy, Band 13, Heft 1
ISSN: 2160-5890
In: Routledge research in global environmental governance
"This book examines the imperative role of global environmental governance, and the need to incorporate corporate environmental accountability and mechanisms for enforcement, to effectively address the global environmental crisis. The author, Felix M. Edoho, Sr., examines the issues at the various global, national, and regional levels. In Part I the book examines the issues at the global level and looks at the impact of transnational corporations and globalization on the global environmental crisis. Furthermore, it also examines the efforts of the UN in initiating global environmental architecture to tackle the crisis. Part II considers the issues at the national level and focuses on Nigeria. The author explores Nigeria's regulatory and institutional framework for environmental governance and implementation. Lastly, at the regional level in Part III, the discourse centres on how decades of oil exploration and production have unleashed monumental ecological tragedies in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria due to the lack of corporate environmental accountability. This book will be of great interest to academics and students who are interested in broadening their knowledge of environmental governance and policy in developing countries. It will also be of value to environmental regulatory agencies and public administrators, development professionals, and transnational corporations"--
In: Economics of energy & environmental policy, Band 13, Heft 1
ISSN: 2160-5890
In: Routledge global institutions series, 124
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In: Journal of benefit-cost analysis: JBCA, S. 1-23
ISSN: 2152-2812
Abstract
We explore the changes in central government administration due to European Union (EU) membership and its consequences for policy outcomes and economic efficiency in Finland and Sweden. Both countries became members of the EU in 1995. Upon joining the union, member states are expected to adopt common legislation and are encouraged to develop similar rule-making procedures. The actual implementation of EU directives varies considerably between member states, however. This is also the case for Finland and Sweden. Despite the two Nordic countries for historical reasons having had similar government systems, upon becoming members of the EU, they started to diverge. Using a model of delegation and comparing the more centralized Finnish system with the decentralized institutional setup in Sweden, we show that the Swedish approach leads to a stricter than optimal environmental policy, which in turn makes EU policy non-optimal from a global point of view, ceteris paribus. We also provide empirical support for our findings in the form of some example cases. We focus on environmental policy since this is an area that has been high on the EU agenda.
In: Journal of policy modeling: JPMOD ; a social science forum of world issues, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 212-234
ISSN: 0161-8938