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Towards a conceptual framework for the study of shifts in modes of environmental governance : experiences form the Netherlands
No full textIn the last decade, many authors have observed shifts from government to governance in the environmental policy domain. However, a clear conceptual framework to differentiate
between modes of environmental governance is lacking and our understanding of when,
how and why environmental governance changes from one mode to another is limited. In
this paper we propose such a framework and we illustrate its usefulness by applying it to
two environmental policy sectors in the Netherlands: urban environmental policy and policy
regarding sustainable production and consumption. We show how the application of our
framework leads to detailed, replicable and comparable claims about character and intensity of shifts in environmental governance. From this analysis, we conclude that character and intensity of shifts in environmental governance vary significantly. Furthermore, we show that modes of governance build on rather than completely replace one another. Finally, we point to a number of possible explanations for shifts in environmental governance, recognized in literature and in practice. We conclude with some suggestions for further research
Rethinking Environmental Governance
No full textRethinking Environmental Governance brings to light the pluralistic views, diverse forces, and multiple realities (re)shaping formal and informal decision-making structures, processes, and power interplay in environmental governance. Linking socio-economic drivers with the evolution of cultural norms, the (re)shaping of institutional arrangements, and ever-changing power relations, the book looks at processes of institutional emergence across spatio-temporal scales. Through case study illustrations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, it illustrates how actors and institutions (co)produced political spaces of engagement as an integral part of their livelihood (re)making
Institutional work in environmental governance
No full textIn this Special Issue, we interrogate and evaluate the concept of institutional work in the domain of environmental governance, by bringing together diverse papers spanning a range of substantive and theoretical approaches. The papers apply the concept of institutional work across fields of regional development, water governance, climate change adaptation, and urban planning, and disciplines of planning, sociology, political science, geography, and anthropology. As a whole, the Special Issue contributes to a growing body of literature exploring the role of agency in processes of institutional change. This has implications for environmental governance scholarship, which emphasises the role of institutions across all scales from local to global and to understanding transformations in governance systems within which institutional change plays a central role
Rethinking Environmental Governance
Full text linkRethinking Environmental Governance brings to light the pluralistic views, diverse forces, and multiple realities (re)shaping formal and informal decision-making structures, processes, and power interplay in environmental governance. Linking socio-economic drivers with the evolution of cultural norms, the (re)shaping of institutional arrangements, and ever-changing power relations, the book looks at processes of institutional emergence across spatio-temporal scales. Through case study illustrations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, it illustrates how actors and institutions (co)produced political spaces of engagement as an integral part of their livelihood (re)making
Sustainable in global commodity trade: Successful responsible entrepreneurship or fallacious market capture?
No full textAllocation of Public and/or Private Responsibilities: sturingsarrangementen voor adaptieve gebiedsontwikkeling
No full textPublic and Private Regulation of the Forestry Sector: The Cases of The United States and Canada: Part 1
No full textThis paper discusses and compares public and private forestry regulation practices in Canada and the United States. The analyses focuses on industry layout, sustainability policies and new and alternative forms of environmental governance. It concludes with an eye towards Russia, its public forestry policy and the rise of non-state voluntary regulatory practices
Sustainable supply chain governance systems: conditions for effective market based governance in global trade
No full textIn this article I discuss the conceptualisation and existing empirical
research on the creation of sustainable global product chains. This papers sets
steps in moving from normative prescriptive approaches towards an empirical
descriptive approach, comparing available research in various forms of global
markets and types of commodities and lifting the analysis to the level of
‘product channels’ (the collective level) instead of ‘product chains’ of
collaborating individual businesses. It explores various strategies employed
by businesses in international collaboration in product improvement
and competitive mechanisms that may support the change towards more
sustainable products sourced from developing countries. Recent research in the
Dutch-South African value chain of fruits and wine are used as examples to
illustrate the virtue of this three level approach. For a full understanding of
dynamics in achieving sustainability in global value chains a multi-level
theoretical approach is required combining empirical studies at firm level, at
global value chain system level and at the level of global dynamics
Sustainability Through the Market - the Impacts of Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Introduction
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