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Environmental governance refers to the processes of decision-making involved in the control and management of the environment and natural resources. International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), define environmental governance as the "multi-level interactions (i.e., local, national, international/global) among, but not limited to, three main actors, i.e., state, market, and civil ...
According to the sector, the weights attributed to the relative importance of environmental, social, and governance factors change. Over time, the weighting of categories is subject to change. For instance, according to Nagy et al. (2020), the governance factor recorded a significant growth in weight, rising from 19% in 2007 to 27% in 2019 and ...
Both of these evidence the importance of NGOs in bringing market actors into the realm of environmental climate governance. [35] Self-regulating private networks have been identified as having the potential to lead to behavioural change that could lead to successful global climate governance. [34]
Work done by Rutherford, on US Environmental Impact Assessments, and by Agrawal on local forest governance in India, are examples of this method of analysis.Both illustrate how the production of specific types of expert knowledge (statistical models of pollution, or the economic productivity of forests) coupled with specific technologies of government (the EIA assessment regime or local Forest ...
Applying the existing earth system governance (ESG) framework [1] to the challenge of understanding and analysing transformations towards sustainability. [2]Earth system governance (or earth systems governance) is a broad area of scholarly inquiry that builds on earlier notions of environmental policy and nature conservation, but puts these into the broader context of human-induced ...
But the list of environmental costs of food production is a long one: topsoil depletion, erosion and conversion to desert from constant tillage of annual crops; overgrazing; salinization; sodification; waterlogging; high levels of fossil fuel use; reliance on inorganic fertilisers and synthetic organic pesticides; reductions in genetic ...
Environmental resource management is an issue of increasing concern, as reflected in its prevalence in several texts influencing global sociopolitical frameworks such as the Brundtland Commission's Our Common Future, [3] which highlighted the integrated nature of the environment and international development, and the Worldwatch Institute's annual State of the World reports.
Political ecology emphasized that understanding how power works in environmental governance follows Foucault’s notion of “governmentality”. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] [ 51 ] Foucault sees governmentality as the means employed by the government to make its citizens behave in line with the priorities of government. [ 52 ]