Search results for "Environmental governance"
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Social equity and marine protected areas: Perceptions of small-scale fishermen in the Mediterranean Sea
2020
Abstract Global conservation policy requires the scaling up of effectively and equitably managed networks of marine protected areas (MPAs). While progress has been made on spatial coverage, the fundamental aspects of effectiveness and equity are falling short. Past research has focused on management effectiveness in MPAs, but less attention has been given to social equity though it is an ethical imperative and instrumental to conservation. This study assessed the perceptions of SSF regarding recognitional, procedural and distributional dimensions of social equity using quantitative surveys in 11 MPAs across 6 countries on the Mediterranean Sea. To do so, we developed individual indicators f…
La vite ad alberello e il giardino pantesco. Dinamiche globali di patrimonializzazione culturale ed economia locale
2021
In questo breve contributo proverò a introdurre il ruolo e la simbologia dell'albero nella società pantesca contemporanea in una prospettiva antropologica. Sintetizzando alcune fasi della mia ricerca sul campo sull'isola di Pantelleria, ho tentato di comprendere le dinamiche che hanno portato ai riconoscimenti Unesco della pratica della vite ad alberello e dei muretti a secco, così come al riconoscimento del giardino pantesco, e le conseguenze da questi determinate nella vita socio-economica dell’isola di Pantelleria e nell’immaginario collettivo della comunità locale e dei vari soggetti implicati. Applicando varie metodologie di indagine (interviste, osservazione partecipante, consultazion…
Equity in REDD+: Varying logics in Tanzania
2015
Equity is frequently cited as one of the key design aspects of environmental governance regimes. In the context of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), a forest-based climate change mitigation instrument, the manner in which ‘equity’ is understood will be of critical importance for the impacts and acceptance of REDD + policies and initiatives. Whereas the concept has been extensively studied in the academic literature, references to equity in REDD + policy debates and documents are often vague, leaving room for various interpretations and modes of implementation. In our case study of the Tanzanian national REDD + policy domain, we provide a conceptual framewo…
Responsibility in uncertain times: an institutional perspective on precaution
2008
Precaution is a key issue in environmental governance. Variously defined, intensively debated and introduced in many regulations, its meaning, scope and application remain problematic. This article argues that the controversy on precaution is a matter of culturally patterned expectations concerning the production and use of knowledge and the related social positions and responsibilities. The way uncertainty and its role in the policy process are understood is crucial. For some precaution is a flawed concept, to be accommodated to the current expert-based cooperative scheme. For others it is a major innovation requiring a rearrangement of the latter. Precautionary policies may evolve in dif…
Compliance in Decentralized Environmental Governance
2005
Environmental policy, focusing on the control of pollution and on over-exploitation, easily overlooks the extensive range of interconnections between economic activities and natural systems. In this timely book, a number of specialists examine how crucial aspects of complex environmental problems and policy can be dealt with in decentralized governmental systems.
Stakeholders’ Attitudes about the Transplantations of the Mediterranean Seagrass Posidonia oceanica as a Habitat Restoration Measure after Anthropoge…
2021
Anthropogenic impacts on Posidonia oceanica meadows have led to a decline of this ecosystem throughout the Mediterranean. Transplantations have often been prescribed as a compensation measure to mitigate the impacts caused by coastal maritime works. Here a Q methodology approach was used to investigate the stakeholders’ attitudes in four case studies of P. oceanica transplants realized in Italian waters. Twenty-two respondents were asked to score 37 statements, and the resultant Q-sorting was analyzed via an inverse PCA using the KADE software. Four discourses, corresponding to the significant axes in the factorial analysis were identified: science and conservation (F1), oriented at a rigor…
Intention and practice in environmental governance : Integrated Landscape Approach & REDD
2018
Pro-Environmental Municipal Governance Developments in Latvia: Sustainability and Integration Principles in the Practice
2017
Pro-Environmental Municipal Development Governance in Latvia: Sustainability and Integrative Approaches Raimonds Ernsteins, Ivars Kudrenickis, Janis Kaulins, Anita Lontone-Ievina Environmental Science Department, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia E-mail: raimonds.ernsteins@lu.lv (corresponding author); Abstract (extended yet version). Studies being presented here have been done as initial part of wider research programme, aiming to investigate preconditions and all instruments set for environmental governance necessary developments within legally required societal (sustainable) development planning framework and municipal management practice studying governance content, process and stakeho…
Local hegemonies resisting a green shift and what to do about it: the introduction of a regional park in southern Norway
2017
In the Lister region in the southern part of Norway, attempts are currently being made to facilitate for a green shift. The paper discusses two different approaches towards such a challenge. The fi...
Sustainability Triple Bottom Line Management Enhancement for Municipal Level: Integrated Governance Environment Dimension
2015
To ensure sustainable development of a municipality, it is necessary to improve the potential for development of measures of environmental management balancing the economic, social and environmental dimensions. A lot of municipalities having successfully established goals and objectives, tend to sustainable management, evaluate the quality of local governance, including preparation of documents of the environmental policy and setting the administrative tasks and priorities related to assumptions of sustainable development, systemic evaluation, interdisciplinary approach, and implementation of governance as a comprehensive collaborative management. This review article describes the main comp…