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Journal articles on the topic "Polycentric Participatory Governance"
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Zhu, Ying. "Bottom-Up Dilemma." Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 48, no. 1 (December 29, 2022): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.52214/cjel.v48i1.10440.
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Global environmental governance reflects a bottom-up trend of polycentric, adaptive, and participatory decision-making processes. The legal regime for international investment, by contrast, has a top- down structure that requires consistent, stable, and predictable governance of foreign investment in host states. This difference in structure results in an emerging “bottom-up” dilemma where states face conflicting obligations regarding the distribution of governing authorities, the frequency of norm evolution, and the inclusiveness of decision-making. This paper analyzes three aspects of the bottom-up dilemma—governing actors, scales of governance, and modes of governance—as reflected in the investment arbitration case law. It then conducts an analysis of investment treaties to assess their effectiveness in solving the dilemma and makes proposals for future treaty reform and arbitration practice. In conclusion, the paper proposes to strike a balance between, on the one hand, the protection of foreign investors’ interests in a dynamic and complex governing process, and, on the other hand, the preservation of host states’ policy space to adopt a polycentric and bottom-up governance structure.
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Gaffney, Alfie Christopher Byron, and Darrick Evensen. "Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Learning from CITES CoP17." Global Environmental Politics 20, no. 1 (February 2020): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00537.
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The seventeenth Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) conference of the parties (CoP) exhibited a draconian opposition to any trade in ivory. A key component of this opposition was the intergovernmental regime’s consolidation of North–South power differentials through the increased presence and influence of Northern conservation-focused NGOs. Using the example of ivory, this Forum article unpacks this dynamic before advocating for more participatory, decentralized, and polycentric approaches to the global governance of endangered species trade at future CITES CoPs.
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Schröder, Nadine Jenny Shirin. "IWRM through WFD Implementation? Drivers for Integration in Polycentric Water Governance Systems." Water 11, no. 5 (May 22, 2019): 1063. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11051063.
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This paper uses an empirical approach to explore what motivates the adoption of integrated water resources management (IWRM). The study compares cases of local implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) from five German federal states representing various types of local policy addressees. Data were collected using policy analysis methods, including participatory observation and interviews with planners who had implemented WFD measures and conducted integration attempts of various types throughout the planning processes. The planning narratives on integration were analysed iteratively and its characteristics, drivers, and hampering factors were identified. It was found that policy addressees attempt integration due to the incentives for reaching their goals rather than according to their paradigms. Depending on the power relations, incentives result in the integration of different actors during different planning phases. The findings suggest that in order to strategically induce integration, it would be necessary to enhance the incentives based on a detailed knowledge of power relations. The WFD as a general regulatory framework was found not to be a driver for local integration, but the WFD did induce increased integrated management through setting goals.
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Bu, Qingxiu, and Chuanman You. "Transformative Digital Economy, Responsive Regulatory Innovation and Contingent Network Effects: The Anatomy of E-Commerce Law in China." European Business Law Review 31, Issue 4 (August 1, 2020): 725–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/eulr2020028.
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Digital economy in the past decades has witnessed an explosive growth momentum in China. Arguably, China has now become the leader in many fronts of global innovative digital economy. This paper fills the academic gap by explicating the evolution of one of the prime constituents of digital economy, the electronic commerce (E-commerce) sector, and its accompanying regulatory paradigm. It is opined that the explosive market development has instigated a new governance model in China. This model features innovative, participatory and collaborative regulatory approaches. It represents a polycentric paradigm facilitating technological, industrial and regulatory innovation. It is argued that such industrial and regulatory innovation casts profound implications not only cross-sectionally on many other digital economy industries within China, but also trans-nationally on global governance of innovation economy as evidenced in the ongoing clash between China and the US. Digital Economy, Electronic Commerce, Network Effects, New Governance, Coregulation Framework, Industrial Standards, Consumer Protection, Data Privacy, Blockchain Technology, Internet Court
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Miller, RL, H. Marsh, C. Benham, and M. Hamann. "Stakeholder engagement in the governance of marine migratory species: barriers and building blocks." Endangered Species Research 43 (September 3, 2020): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/esr01049.
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Meaningful stakeholder engagement is important to collaborative decision-making and to effective polycentric governance, particularly when managing cross-scale environmental issues like those involving marine migratory species. In this paper, we explore the barriers to, and opportunities for, stakeholder involvement in the governance of threats to marine migratory species in eastern Australia, using semi-structured qualitative interviews and a focus group, as an example of the generic problem of managing migratory species within a large range state with multiple jurisdictions. Respondents identified several barriers to, and opportunities for, improved stakeholder involvement in the governance of marine migratory species, corresponding to 4 main themes: decision-making processes, information sharing, institutional structures, and participation processes. Respondents indicated that the governance system protecting marine turtles, dugongs, humpback whales, and non-threatened migratory shorebirds in eastern Australia would benefit from the introduction of new information pathways, reformed institutional structures (including environmental legislation), and improved participatory pathways for non-government stakeholders. Such changes could help harmonise the process of managing these species, leading to more effective conservation management throughout their range.
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Martin, Juliette G. C., Anna Scolobig, JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer, Wei Liu, and Jörg Balsiger. "Catalyzing Innovation: Governance Enablers of Nature-Based Solutions." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 11, 2021): 1971. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041971.
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There is growing recognition that using the properties of nature through nature-based solutions (NBS) can help to provide viable and cost-effective solutions to a wide range of societal challenges, including disaster risk reduction (DRR). However, NBS realization depends critically on the governance framework that enables the NBS policy process. Drawing from three case studies in Nocera Inferiore (Italy), Munich (Germany), and Wolong (China), we identify key governance enablers—the contextual preconditions, policy processes, and institutions—that proved essential for NBS initiation, planning, design, and implementation. In the three cases, interviews confirm the success of the NBS measures and their benefits in terms not only of DRR but of multiple ecological and social–economic co-benefits. Results highlight critical governance enablers of NBS, including: polycentric governance (novel arrangements in the public administration that involved multiple institutional scales and/or sectors); co-design (innovative stakeholder participatory processes that influenced the final NBS); pro-NBS interest and coalition groups (organized pressure groups that advocated for an NBS); and financial incentives (financing community-based implementation and monitoring of NBS). Findings show that the transition to NBS can contribute to multiple global agendas, including DRR, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development.
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Riggs, Rebecca, James Langston, Chris Margules, Agni Boedhihartono, Han Lim, Dwi Sari, Yazid Sururi, and Jeffrey Sayer. "Governance Challenges in an Eastern Indonesian Forest Landscape." Sustainability 10, no. 1 (January 11, 2018): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10010169.
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Integrated approaches to natural resource management are often undermined by fundamental governance weaknesses. We studied governance of a forest landscape in East Lombok, Indonesia. Forest Management Units (Kesatuan Pengelolaan Hutan or KPH) are an institutional mechanism used in Indonesia for coordinating the management of competing sectors in forest landscapes, balancing the interests of government, business, and civil society. Previous reviews of KPHs indicate they are not delivering their potential benefits due to an uncertain legal mandate and inadequate resources. We utilized participatory methods with a broad range of stakeholders in East Lombok to examine how KPHs might improve institutional arrangements to better meet forest landscape goals. We find that KPHs are primarily limited by insufficient integration with other actors in the landscape. Thus, strengthened engagement with other institutions, as well as civil society, is required. Although new governance arrangements that allow for institutional collaboration and community engagement are needed in the long term, there are steps that the East Lombok KPH can take now. Coordinating institutional commitments and engaging civil society to reconcile power asymmetries and build consensus can help promote sustainable outcomes. Our study concludes that improved multi-level, polycentric governance arrangements between government, NGOs, the private sector, and civil society are required to achieve sustainable landscapes in Lombok. The lessons from Lombok can inform forest landscape governance improvements throughout Indonesia and the tropics.
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Morrow, Nathan, Nancy B. Mock, Andrea Gatto, Julia LeMense, and Margaret Hudson. "Protective Pathways: Connecting Environmental and Human Security at Local and Landscape Level with NLP and Geospatial Analysis of a Novel Database of 1500 Project Evaluations." Land 11, no. 1 (January 12, 2022): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11010123.
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Localized actionable evidence for addressing threats to the environment and human security lacks a comprehensive conceptual frame that incorporates challenges associated with active conflicts. Protective pathways linking previously disciplinarily-divided literatures on environmental security, human security and resilience in a coherent conceptual frame that identifies key relationships is used to analyze a novel, unstructured data set of Global Environment Fund (GEF) programmatic documents. Sub-national geospatial analysis of GEF documentation relating to projects in Africa finds 73% of districts with GEF land degradation projects were co-located with active conflict events. This study utilizes Natural Language Processing on a unique data set of 1500 GEF evaluations to identify text entities associated with conflict. Additional project case studies explore the sequence and relationships of environmental and human security concepts that lead to project success or failure. Differences between biodiversity and climate change projects are discussed but political crisis, poverty and disaster emerged as the most frequently extracted entities associated with conflict in environmental protection projects. Insecurity weakened institutions and fractured communities leading both directly and indirectly to conflict-related damage to environmental programming and desired outcomes. Simple causal explanations found to be inconsistent in previous large-scale statistical associations also inadequately describe dynamics and relationships found in the extracted text entities or case summaries. Emergent protective pathways that emphasized poverty and conflict reduction facilitated by institutional strengthening and inclusion present promising possibilities. Future research with innovative machine learning and other techniques of working with unstructured data may provide additional evidence for implementing actions that address climate change and environmental degradation while strengthening resilience and human security. Resilient, participatory and polycentric governance is key to foster this process.
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Joseph, Puthenkalam John. "Improving Decentralised Forest Governance Through Polycentric Systems: A Case Study of Kenya's Community Forest Management." Journal of Ecology & Natural Resources 5, no. 2 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.23880/jenr-16000232.
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Community-Based Forest Management is a tool for local participation in forest management. Community involvement and stakeholder participation became important components of development and natural resource management, prompting developing countries to undertake decentralisation reforms by the 1990s. The reforms aimed to encourage participatory development, local empowerment and poverty reduction, democratisation, and resource sustainability. Their performance has, however, been mixed. Decentralisation efforts have suffered in situations where powerful actors, through various strategies, have managed to retain control over natural resources, obstructing power transfers to the communities. This has resulted in Responsibilisation, which is the transfer of responsibility to local communities without the transfer of requisite power. Responsive, collaborative governance is crucial in efforts to avoid responsibilisation. This refers to governance that devolves responsibilities and powers together, providing the requisite capabilities and support, enabling appropriate management decisions and actions at the devolved levels. Polycentric governance is crucial towards this end. Participatory Forest Management, a modality of Community-Based Forest Management, has been practised in Kenya since the Forest Act of 2005. This paper looks at forest polycentric governance institutional structures with cross-level interactions and representation bodies at each level of forest governance for successful social and ecological outcomes. This paper's product is a proposed forest polycentric governance institutional structure for better social and ecological outcomes in Kenya, which can be generalised to broader cases.
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Sarkki, Simo, Lauri Rantala, and Timo P. Karjalainen. "Fit between Conservation Instruments and Local Social Systems: Cases of Co-management and Payments for Ecosystem Services." Change and Adaptation in Socio-Ecological Systems 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cass-2015-0007.
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AbstractWe draw on the concept of ‘fit’ to understand how co-management and Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) as governance instruments could better acknowledge local social complexities. Achieving ‘participatory fit’ requires well-designed and fair processes, which enhance local acceptance towards the implemented rules. Thus, such fit can contribute to establishing new institutions in conservation governance. However, previous literature on participation has had strong focus on properties of decision-making processes, which often neglects the question on how local realities effect on local people’s ability and willingness to participate in the work of governance instruments. We approach ‘participatory fit’ by identifying six properties of heterogeneous local social systems that governance instruments need to acknowledge to nurture balanced bottom-up participation: 1) economic resources and structures, 2) relationships to land, 3) level of education, 4) relationships between diverse actors, 5) divergent problem definitions, and 6) local identities. We discuss related sources of misfits and develop proposals on how conservation instruments could function as bridging organizations facilitating polycentric institutional structures that fit better to the social systems they are intended to govern. Such hybridization of governance could avoid pitfalls of considering one particular instrument (e.g. co-management or PES) as a panacea able to create win-win solutions.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Polycentric Participatory Governance"
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Stein, Christian. "Water Ties: Towards a Relational Understanding of Water Governance Networks in Tanzania and Ethiopia." Doctoral thesis, 2019. https://repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-201907101711.
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This interdisciplinary thesis studies the diverse multi-stakeholder networks that are constitutive of contemporary water governance. It examines collaborative governance networks from a relational perspective in two case study watersheds in Tanzania and Ethiopia. Collaborative and networked governance approaches are increasingly promoted to address complex water challenges, but relatively little is known about how the everyday collaborative relationships (i.e. collaboration practices) among the multiple actors involved in the development, management and use of water, shape contemporary water governance processes. In this thesis, I advance, based on intensive fieldwork data collection, a conceptual and methodological framework for studying collaboration networks pertaining to watershed management. I examine local collaborative governance networks in two watersheds, in Ethiopia and Tanzania, from a relational perspective, using complementary qualitative and quantitative social network research methods. The thesis explores the opportunities and limitations of such collaborative governance networks in their concrete functioning, thereby contributing to a more context-sensitive, and nuanced, understanding of the role of governance networks and collaborative governance approaches in the management of water and related resources.
Book chapters on the topic "Polycentric Participatory Governance"
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Bibri, Simon Elias. "Managing Urban Complexity: Project and Risk Management and Polycentric and Participatory Governance." In The Urban Book Series, 419–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73981-6_8.
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