Reflexive Governance For Sustainable Development

Author : Jan-Peter Voß
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847200265
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development written by Jan-Peter Voß and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the issue of sustainable development in a novel and innovative way. It examines the governance implications of reflexive modernisation - the condition that societal development is endangered by its own side-effects. With conceptualising reflexive governance the book leads a way out of endless quarrels about the definition of sustainability and into a new mode of collective action.

Author : Jan-Peter Voss
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development written by Jan-Peter Voss and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors assert that sustainability is not a defined end-state, but should be understood as the capacity of society to learn about the conditions of its future existence. This requires a specific kind of problem solving framework which emphasises the interlinkage of problems and scales.

Author : Eric Brousseau
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262017245
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflexive Governance for Global Public Goods written by Eric Brousseau and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global public goods (GPGs)--the economic term for a broad range of goods and services that benefit everyone, including stable climate, public health, and economic security--pose notable governance challenges. At the national level, public goods are often provided by government, but at the global level there is no established state-like entity to take charge of their provision. The complex nature of many GPGs poses additional problems of coordination, knowledge generation and the formation of citizen preferences. This book considers traditional public economy theory of public goods provision as oversimplified, because it is state centered and fiscally focused. It develops a multidisciplinary look at the challenges of understanding and designing appropriate governance regimes for different types of goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development assistance. The chapter authors, all leading scholars in the field, explore the misalignment between existing GPG policies and actors' incentives and understandings. They analyze the complex impact of incentives, the involvement of stakeholders in collective decision making, and the specific coordination needed for the generation of knowledge. The book shows that governance of GPGs must be democratic, reflexive--emphasizing collective learning processes--and knowledge based in order to be effective.

Author : Olivier De Schutter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847315844
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflexive Governance written by Olivier De Schutter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflexive governance offers a theoretical framework for understanding modern patterns of governance in the European Union (EU) institutions and elsewhere. It offers a learning-based approach to governance, but one which can better respond to concerns about the democratic deficit and to the fulfillment of the public interest than the currently dominant neo-institutionalist approaches. The book is composed of one general introduction and eight chapters. Chapter one introduces the concept of reflexive governance and describes the overall framework. The following chapters of the book then summarise the implications of reflexive governance in major areas of domestic, EU and global policy-making. They address in turn: Services of General Interest, Corporate Governance, Institutional Frames for Markets, Regulatory Governance, Fundamental Social Rights, Healthcare Services, Global Public Services and Common Goods. While the themes are diverse, the chapters are unified by their attempt to get to the heart of which concepts of governance are dominant in each field, and what their successes and failures have been: reflexive governance then emerges as one possible response to the failures of other governance models currently being relied upon by policy-makers.

Author : Louis Meuleman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642280099
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transgovernance written by Louis Meuleman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion on sustainable development contribute to a knowledge democracy? How can concepts such as second modernity, reflexivity, configuration theory, (meta)governance theory and cultural theory contribute to a ‘transgovernance’ approach which goes beyond mainstream sustainability governance? This volume presents contributions from various angles: international relations, governance and metagovernance theory, (environmental) economics and innovation science. It offers challenging insights regarding institutions and transformation processes, and on the paradigms behind contemporary sustainability governance.This book gives the sustainability governance debate a new context. It transforms classical questions into new options for societal decision making and identifies starting points and strategies towards effective governance of transitions to sustainability.

Author : Jens Newig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317991494
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governance for Sustainable Development written by Jens Newig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable development stirs up debate about the capacities of political steering and governance. The complexity of the task expounds limits of steering in three dimensions: goals, knowledge, and power: Sustainability goals are subject to changing and controversial risk perceptions, values and interests. Moreover, knowledge of the coupled dynamics of society, technology and nature is limited. Finally, the power to shape structural change in society and technology is distributed across a multitude of actors and societal subsystems. Steering attempts therefore have to cope with conflict and ambivalence, with uncertainty, and with a lack of central control; and they have to face the necessity of coordinating different actor groups and social networks. This volume explores steering strategies and governance arrangements for sustainable development with a view to these problem dimensions. The contributions by authors from various disciplines approach these challenges from different conceptual angles, ranging from positivist, managerial up to post-modern, constructivist perspectives. By combining theoretical reflections with insights from empirical research in European and American contexts, the volume maps out conditions and identifies approaches which both reflect the limits of steering and reveal options for constructively taking up the task of sustainable development in science and practice.

Author : Louis Meuleman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351250582
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metagovernance for Sustainability written by Louis Meuleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted by the United Nations in September 2015 are universally applicable in all 193 UN Member States and connect the big challenges of our time, such as hunger and poverty, climate change, health in an urbanised environment, sustainable energy, mobility, economic development and environmental degradation. Sustainability has the characteristics of a ‘wicked problem’, for which there are no one-size-fits-all solutions. This book tests the hypothesis that the implementation of sustainable development, and in particular the 2015 SDGs, requires tailor-made metagovernance or ‘governance of governance’. This is necessary to develop effective governance and high quality and inclusive public administration and to foster policy and institutional coherence to support implementing the SDGs. Based on the growing literature on governance and metagovernance, and taking into account the specificities of societal factors such as different values and traditions in different countries, the book presents a framework for the design and management of SDG implementation. It shows how hierarchical, network and market governance styles can be combined and how governance failure can be prevented or dealt with. The book presents an overview of fifty ‘shades of governance’ which differ for each governance style, and a sketch of a concrete method to apply sustainability metagovernance. Metagovernance for Sustainability is relevant to academic and practitioner fields across many disciplines and problem areas. It will be of particular interest to scholars, students and policy-makers studying Sustainable Development, Governance and Metagovernance, Public Management and Capacity Building.

Author : Eric Brousseau
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262300427
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflexive Governance for Global Public Goods written by Eric Brousseau and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development. Global public goods (GPGs)—the economic term for a broad range of goods and services that benefit everyone, including stable climate, public health, and economic security—pose notable governance challenges. At the national level, public goods are often provided by government, but at the global level there is no established state-like entity to take charge of their provision. The complex nature of many GPGs poses additional problems of coordination, knowledge generation and the formation of citizen preferences. This book considers traditional public economy theory of public goods provision as oversimplified, because it is state centered and fiscally focused. It develops a multidisciplinary look at the challenges of understanding and designing appropriate governance regimes for different types of goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development assistance. The chapter authors, all leading scholars in the field, explore the misalignment between existing GPG policies and actors' incentives and understandings. They analyze the complex impact of incentives, the involvement of stakeholders in collective decision making, and the specific coordination needed for the generation of knowledge. The book shows that governance of GPGs must be democratic, reflexive—emphasizing collective learning processes—and knowledge based in order to be effective.

Author : Kei Otsuki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136179488
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformative Sustainable Development written by Kei Otsuki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent debates about sustainable development have shifted their focus from fixing environmental problems in a technocratic and economic way to more fundamental changes in social-political processes and relations. In this context, participation is a genuinely transformative approach to sustainable development, yet the process by which participation leads to transformation is not sufficiently understood. This book considers how the act of participating in sustainable development projects can bring about social transformation that is considered to be fair and just by the participants and non-participants in a broader societal context. Drawing on ideas from social theory and applied anthropology, the book proposes a reflexivity-based framework to analyse participation as a type of social action underpinned by primary experience. Development projects have a transformative effect when participants are given the opportunity to reflect on their experience, share the reflection with others, and open new space for collective deliberation and change. The book applies this framework to assess community-based participatory projects in the Amazon, African slums and rural settlements, and disaster stricken areas in Japan. It also outlines potential institutions of governance to institutionalize the change by referring to current food governance, drawing out lessons with international relevance. This book will be of interest to students of sustainable development, environmental policy and development studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in these fields.

Author : William M. Lafferty
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845421701
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governance for Sustainable Development written by William M. Lafferty and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an original study of the challenge of implementing sustainable development in Western democracies. It highlights the obstacles which sustainable development presents for strategic governance and critically examines how these problems can best be overcome in a variety of different political contexts.