Search results for "environmental governance"
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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…
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…
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…